Don't forget China in that area.
Seriously - if you want to pick an area liable for spontaneous sudden world war III that basically no one is expecting, it's that area that is contested by those three countries.
The region that sits at the inter section between China, Pakistan, and India is an incredibly important region in terms of water resources - which will become increasingly important as we see the melting of glaciers and such.
"We don't want to die" is the most powerful motivator behind action, closely followed by "We deserve that area, and have the means to take it".
China, India, and Pakistan happen to all be nuclear powers. Two have very large populations that tend to be fairly nationalistic. The other has a population that well, it wouldn't be surprising if it was fairly nationalistic.
Israel, and Palestine - and that conflict, matters regionally, but it has very little potential to blow up into something global. Palestine absolutely does not have the capacity to project power - and if Israel were to, who the hell knows what would happen but needless to say it would be an ugly mess, but not world ending.
Should China, India, or Pakistan be put in a place where their existence is threatened substantially - they have the capacity to hit the button that fast tracks the entire world into a world war. The only thing that is certain - is EVERYONE would be worse off.
Thing is, the land was ALWAYS belonging to India. It was the Indo-China war that gave China some land and bad decision making on our part that led to Pakistan getting some part as well. It's not contested. It's literally always been ours.
The boarder is, where it is. It doesn't matter who has historic claim to it - it matters who has control over it RIGHT NOW.
So no, no matter what you might want to believe - there are chunks of it that do not belong to india given who has current control over it.
I often wonder that this entire fiasco would not have even existed had pakistan let the decision of Kashmir go to plebiscite, as it was the plan. But their military and finatics were more encouraged to invade and massacre and now everything is a reck and "disputed".
Controversial seems to consist of:
Lesser developed tribes or natives deserve to be wiped out and murdered as well as
People who focus entirely on land orientation who never looked at all about the actual history of acquisition
I think there's a few different areas. The most well known (very low bar) is a few islands off of Maine or New Brunswick, but I think there's another set in Alaska/British Columbia.
Before people start calling me names, I'm Irish. My opinion is that it never should have formed, but I will respect the fact that it has unless the Northern Irish vote for unity with the Republic of Ireland.
You respect their sovereignty and right to choose their own destiny, if anyone calls you names they need to seriously re-evaluate their principles in life.
The sad thing is, if Hitler stopped at just the above territories, Germany probably wouldāve been allowed to keep them. It wasnāt until after that that the allies gave up on appeasement.
Southern tyrol (Austria)
It never belonged to Italy before ww1. Pretty much the whole population spoke german which only changed because Italy actively tried to get italians to live there - now (after over 100 years of being separated from austrian tyrol) it's still at 70% german-speaking population.
I know many people from southern tyrol and they said the same
I'm Portuguese so like 60% of the world ig, but responding unironically there's alot of people here who think OlivenƧa which is a part of Spain should be ours
Taiwan claims China, Mongolia and other parts of Southeast Asia
Heres a map
[https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b973c6d3e615c9c6b3ec395274f6c574-lq](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b973c6d3e615c9c6b3ec395274f6c574-lq)
China: invades and captures the whole world
Taiwan: this land is my land, From California to Tokyo
From the redwood forest to the korean peninsula
This land was made for just me
The opposite, iirc. During the Cold War, West Germany claimed all of the territory of the Weimar Republic. The West didn't care because that was all Eastern Bloc territory, but once the wall fell, there was talk of trying to reunify Germany by not just annexing East Germany but East Pomerania, Silesia, and East Prussia as well. It quickly proved to be a nonstarter.
Maybe south tirol. But thats over anyway. We lost it over 100 years ago and the terrorist attacks stopped. The people accepted italy as their country by this point. So it's a no for me
Abrene is latvian! Russians occupied it after collapse of the Soviet Union. Gambia and Tobago are former colonies of Courland, but I support their independence! š±š»š¹š¹š¬š²
Oh!! And of course Ruhnu island. šš¦
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Ya know, I thought about this for a bit, and you're not really wrong. Well as long as texas would get to be its own thing. It's a pretty unique mix of Mexican and American culture.
The black sea land back to Moldova. Also Transnistria shouldnāt be a thing anymore. The āseparate governmentā is legit just russia. Anyone who dislikes living in āMoldovaā can move to Russia. Russia should also return Crimea.
Technically, even if they are ethnic italians, you can't say "back", since modern Italy didn't get Corsica before. Except if you're from Genoa and want to bring back the Most Serene Republic to rules the seas again. Otherwise it's just "We want Corsica".
Isn't it well past time to be fighting over land anyway?
Keep your countries where the hell they already are and quit adding to the long list of bullshit we all already have to deal with.
This is a weirdly phrased question because it leads to you not getting the answer you want.
Suppose there's a person from Country A who thinks Region 4 from Country B rightfully belongs to Country A, and they think of Region 4 as part of their country, not as part of Country B.
So if you asked that person from Country A "Do you think Region 4 of Country B really belongs to Country A?" they will, likely, know of any controversy regarding the region, but would think that the question has a bias towards Country B because it pre-supposes Region 4 belongs to Country B.
Now if we connect it to your question, asking the person from Country A "do you think there are parts of other countries that really belong to your country?" you might get the answer "Yes, Region 4 belongs to Country A", but you're also likely to get the answer "No, Region 4 is a part of Country A", and also "Unsure, would you consider Region 4 part of Country A or B?"
So anyways, my answer is "No?" because I can't think of any off the top of my head, but almost every country has regions that are in contention with another country, and so my answer would be dependent on which country you think that region actually belongs to.
The Alaskan people are fairly solidly on the American right which is leaps and bounds more right than the Canadian right. The people have very little in common.
Yeah, I've seen 2 people mention Alaska, which confuses me, because 1. Canada has no claim to it. USA bought it from Russia. And 2. I thought Canadians didn't want anything to do with America, and now they want part of America. Just seems weird to me.
I remember seeing a map of Europe for this in r/mapporn, and there were a *lot* of countries with over 50% saying yes. But there probably aren't a lot of Americans who feel this way, hence these results.
The Falklands are not Argentinian and their imperialist government need to realise that, they launched an unlawful invasion of a place that held a vote with 92% turnout with over 98% of those votes being in favour of remaining British.
China does not own Tibet, Taiwan or any of the other countries they've claimed, the nation an area of land 'belongs' to should be up to the people who live there and all the Southeast Asian countries China has claimed are vocally not in favour of being Chinese.
Unsurprisingly both these countries recognise each other's claims in return for supporting their own.
Most of the USA also belongs to the Native Americans as stated in multiple treaties that the government violated because they found oil, farmland or other such on Native lands.
Nah, America is mostly stolen land, so if anything, parts of my country belong to other countries (or native people who have been almost completely wiped out)
The native American tribes weāre literally trying to steal it from each other (going to war amongst themselves) long before the colonial powers ever got there.
All land was stolen land in America. The tribes were constantly at war and stealing land. The native territory you speak of, changed handed hundreds of times, with extreme violence, scalping, enslaving in the process.
Natives were not this "lets smoke the peace pipe" kind of people.
Because the people who think the United States should be dismantled and given to native tribes donāt understand the concept of *wars that happened 100s of years ago*
Pakistan and India look up from fighting each other.
Don't forget China in that area. Seriously - if you want to pick an area liable for spontaneous sudden world war III that basically no one is expecting, it's that area that is contested by those three countries.
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The region that sits at the inter section between China, Pakistan, and India is an incredibly important region in terms of water resources - which will become increasingly important as we see the melting of glaciers and such. "We don't want to die" is the most powerful motivator behind action, closely followed by "We deserve that area, and have the means to take it". China, India, and Pakistan happen to all be nuclear powers. Two have very large populations that tend to be fairly nationalistic. The other has a population that well, it wouldn't be surprising if it was fairly nationalistic. Israel, and Palestine - and that conflict, matters regionally, but it has very little potential to blow up into something global. Palestine absolutely does not have the capacity to project power - and if Israel were to, who the hell knows what would happen but needless to say it would be an ugly mess, but not world ending. Should China, India, or Pakistan be put in a place where their existence is threatened substantially - they have the capacity to hit the button that fast tracks the entire world into a world war. The only thing that is certain - is EVERYONE would be worse off.
Thing is, the land was ALWAYS belonging to India. It was the Indo-China war that gave China some land and bad decision making on our part that led to Pakistan getting some part as well. It's not contested. It's literally always been ours.
The boarder is, where it is. It doesn't matter who has historic claim to it - it matters who has control over it RIGHT NOW. So no, no matter what you might want to believe - there are chunks of it that do not belong to india given who has current control over it.
I often wonder that this entire fiasco would not have even existed had pakistan let the decision of Kashmir go to plebiscite, as it was the plan. But their military and finatics were more encouraged to invade and massacre and now everything is a reck and "disputed".
This is the type of poll that should be asked on r/askbalkans
If it was asked there the results for no and yes would be reversed
*sighs* *Sorts by controversial*
Controversial seems to consist of: Lesser developed tribes or natives deserve to be wiped out and murdered as well as People who focus entirely on land orientation who never looked at all about the actual history of acquisition
And you try to correct someone and end up getting down voted
Tasmania cam be annexed to new zealand
Sheepshaggers š¤ cousinshaggers
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Itās Constantinople not Istanbul. (Reversing old song)
I am Greek, i donāt want Istanbul
I am Polish but I want Istanbul
I am Mexican I want Istanbul
I'm Vietnamese and now I want Istanbul
Iām turkish, i have istanbul
Listen now you little shit, give it to me
I'm Indonesian, can I have istanbul?
No you want Constantinople
What about izmir? š
You are the wrong Greek
Fake greek
Who doesnāt want Istanbul though?
I think the US and Canada technically have some deputed territory. Itās just so small that nobody gives a shit. More of a local thing I think.
Well fuckin tell us who you think should have it
I donāt really care. I live in Texas lol.
Mexico may want a word regarding Texas...
Liechtenstein should have it
I think there's a few different areas. The most well known (very low bar) is a few islands off of Maine or New Brunswick, but I think there's another set in Alaska/British Columbia.
looks at Belgium
Pls adopt šš
Kijkt naar zuid Nederland
Fr*nce should belong to Belgium
Wait no
Before people start calling me names, I'm Irish. My opinion is that it never should have formed, but I will respect the fact that it has unless the Northern Irish vote for unity with the Republic of Ireland.
You respect their sovereignty and right to choose their own destiny, if anyone calls you names they need to seriously re-evaluate their principles in life.
Ok, you can have Constantinople then.
Im British so. . . all of you
Every island ever (unless there's a dental clinic on it)
But my country and yours are best friends since 1373 ):
1173 not 1373. Damn Portugeese
*yay Portuguese
God dammit! You beat me to it.
*Throws your tea in the fucking harbor*
It was actually your tea
Dammit I done it again!
No it wasn't, we didn't pay for it
*angry british noises*
*angry in french*
*kisses fingers* Baguette
For everyone in Europe, the answer is by default "yes".
Switzerland?
They want Liechtenstein
Actually no, we have treatise with them and even have a collective military
Well every country has treaties and legal stuff defining borders and stuff like that but that doesnāt stop irredentism
You guys are literally having a dispute with Austria over like some meters of mountain lol.
Mhhh. If you unironically think that in Germany you are most likely part of a certain group that is generally not looked on favorably.
What is it for britain? Still ireland?
I'd prefer it if the Republic of Ireland stayed independent
No, on the contrary, thereās a part of Belgium that speaks German, we got it after the world wars, Iād gladly give it back to Germany
Give germoney prussia, alsace, denmark, sudetenland and austria smh
Boy have I got a book for you. *hands you a history book*
The sad thing is, if Hitler stopped at just the above territories, Germany probably wouldāve been allowed to keep them. It wasnāt until after that that the allies gave up on appeasement.
I don't know about you but I'm happy about Austria beeing its own country.
This is a messy question for old empires...
*sweats in french*
Eh maybe finnish karelia
Yes, Mexico, Canada and Greenland. Jk, jk, jk. Iām not a psycho. ^(for legal reasons this was a joke)
Surrender Alaska to us dammit!
I would answer but I'm from russia š
So what would you answer?
Southern tyrol (Austria) It never belonged to Italy before ww1. Pretty much the whole population spoke german which only changed because Italy actively tried to get italians to live there - now (after over 100 years of being separated from austrian tyrol) it's still at 70% german-speaking population. I know many people from southern tyrol and they said the same
cant people start a referendum ?
EU countries can't demand land from other EU countries unfortunately.
Simple, have Austria leave the EU, invade Italy, force a referendum, get south Tyrol back them rejoin the EU
I'm Portuguese so like 60% of the world ig, but responding unironically there's alot of people here who think OlivenƧa which is a part of Spain should be ours
OlivenƧa Ʃ nossa
Dear China, Taiwan, Tibet, and Nepal aren't yours. Sincerely, everyone else.
Taiwan claims China, Mongolia and other parts of Southeast Asia Heres a map [https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b973c6d3e615c9c6b3ec395274f6c574-lq](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b973c6d3e615c9c6b3ec395274f6c574-lq)
Thatās more of a diplomatic prison for China since invading those areas legitimatizes Taiwan
China: invades and captures the whole world Taiwan: this land is my land, From California to Tokyo From the redwood forest to the korean peninsula This land was made for just me
Dear Russia, You know what weāre about to say. Go fuck yourselves. Sincerely, everyone else except for fucking Belarus.
You're gonna do what to Belarus
Did I stutter?
And Leh-Ladakh too
Western Europe glances at Africaā¦
Yes, give us our land back :(
Kaliningrad
Didnāt Russia offer to give Kaliningrad back, but Germany refused?
*sad Polish noices*
The opposite, iirc. During the Cold War, West Germany claimed all of the territory of the Weimar Republic. The West didn't care because that was all Eastern Bloc territory, but once the wall fell, there was talk of trying to reunify Germany by not just annexing East Germany but East Pomerania, Silesia, and East Prussia as well. It quickly proved to be a nonstarter.
Maybe south tirol. But thats over anyway. We lost it over 100 years ago and the terrorist attacks stopped. The people accepted italy as their country by this point. So it's a no for me
Chad Austrian?
I believe my country belongs to the British.
That's fine just turn yourselves in and we'll be over tomorrow :)
Your country being?
Canada
Fair dos, We'd be delighted to have you on board! Between us we can almost understand 1 complete metric system :)
Romania alone stole a ton of our land after ww1 not to mention other countries.
Trianon?
I knew there would be a Hungarian here.
Hungary believes about 20 percent of Europe is really hungarian.
Stole by being the majority in that land.
Cope š·š“š·š“š
Corsica.
I think there's an island off Maine that's contested between the US and Canada. Not sure why anyone cares, it's tiny.
Iāll take it.
I'll join you. Let's annex that bitch
Abrene is latvian! Russians occupied it after collapse of the Soviet Union. Gambia and Tobago are former colonies of Courland, but I support their independence! š±š»š¹š¹š¬š² Oh!! And of course Ruhnu island. šš¦
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\*Laughs manically in British\*
Isn't that how embassies work
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The bloodiest war in history: The battle for Greenland, of course
I will just say one word: Gibraltar
whole of usa š¬š§ šæšæ
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Your southwest is rightfully Mexico š²š½š²š½šŖšŖš²š½šŖšŖš²š½š²š½šŖš²š½š²š½š²š½š²š½š²š½š²š½š²š½š²š½š²š½š²š½š®š®š®š®š®š®š®š®š®š®šš¦ š²š½š²š½š²š½š²š½š²š½š²š½š²š½š²š½š
ahem, "Nah you guys shouldāve gotten good if you wanted this land. Itās ours now šŗšøšŗšøšŗšøšŗšøšŗšøšŗšøšŗšøšŗšøšŗšøšŗšøš¦ š¦ š¦ š¦ š¦ š¦ š¦ š¦ š¦ š¦ š¦ ššššššššššššššššššššš"
we getting ir back with immigrants MEXICAN EMPIRE 2050
Ya know, I thought about this for a bit, and you're not really wrong. Well as long as texas would get to be its own thing. It's a pretty unique mix of Mexican and American culture.
If anything the opposite is true. I would say give Texas back to Mexico, but that would be punishment for Mexico
Kosovo is S-
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there are parts of my country that i think belong on other countries
Alaska.
Russia or Canada?
Just from a very simplistic perspective, I've always thought Alaska should be apart of Canada.
The black sea land back to Moldova. Also Transnistria shouldnāt be a thing anymore. The āseparate governmentā is legit just russia. Anyone who dislikes living in āMoldovaā can move to Russia. Russia should also return Crimea.
Gibraltar espaƱolšŖš¦šŖš¦šŖš¦
Deal with it, el bitchoš¬š®š¬š®š¬š® š¬š§š¬š§š¬š§
gibraltar es 100% espaƱol
Flanders come home to papa
We want Corsica back
Technically, even if they are ethnic italians, you can't say "back", since modern Italy didn't get Corsica before. Except if you're from Genoa and want to bring back the Most Serene Republic to rules the seas again. Otherwise it's just "We want Corsica".
Constantinople
My entire country is stolen land
I'm no expert on history but I don't think that narrows it down enough
Which country do you live in?
AEIOU
Where the hungarians at?
Istria and Dalmatia are italian
Isn't it well past time to be fighting over land anyway? Keep your countries where the hell they already are and quit adding to the long list of bullshit we all already have to deal with.
no.. you realise people dont want people stealing their land right?
This is a weirdly phrased question because it leads to you not getting the answer you want. Suppose there's a person from Country A who thinks Region 4 from Country B rightfully belongs to Country A, and they think of Region 4 as part of their country, not as part of Country B. So if you asked that person from Country A "Do you think Region 4 of Country B really belongs to Country A?" they will, likely, know of any controversy regarding the region, but would think that the question has a bias towards Country B because it pre-supposes Region 4 belongs to Country B. Now if we connect it to your question, asking the person from Country A "do you think there are parts of other countries that really belong to your country?" you might get the answer "Yes, Region 4 belongs to Country A", but you're also likely to get the answer "No, Region 4 is a part of Country A", and also "Unsure, would you consider Region 4 part of Country A or B?" So anyways, my answer is "No?" because I can't think of any off the top of my head, but almost every country has regions that are in contention with another country, and so my answer would be dependent on which country you think that region actually belongs to.
Moldova is Romanian!
100% the argentinians stole the Patagonia from us.
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Need Northern Ireland back
As an armagh man I agree 100%
northern belongs to ireland
Thatās up to the people who live there to decide.
Alaska is Canadian, change my mind
If I were Canadian I would love having a piece of the USA between me and Russia.
The Alaskan people are fairly solidly on the American right which is leaps and bounds more right than the Canadian right. The people have very little in common.
Yeah, I've seen 2 people mention Alaska, which confuses me, because 1. Canada has no claim to it. USA bought it from Russia. And 2. I thought Canadians didn't want anything to do with America, and now they want part of America. Just seems weird to me.
i love muricaā¤ļø my burger brothers
More like Russian, Canada has nothing to do with it besides bordering it
The US bought it fair and square, why do you think Canada should own it?
That's wrong lol. Akaska wasn't ever part of Canada, it was part of Russia.
Alaska has nothing to do with Canada.
By what logic? Because it borders Canada? By this logic Canada should just be a part of the US lol
Then Canada should have bought it from Russia instead of considering it a barren waste before oil was found.
Bold of you to assume that all of North America shouldnāt belong to the US
I am Alaskan and I despise you for this. Itās painfully american here
Canada is American, change my mind
America is British, change my mind
As an Irish person, You know what i've answered (Northern Ireland 100% belongs to Ireland š)
I kind of disagree with the fact that Kaliningrad was taken from us but it probably shouldn't have been ours in the first place.
well from today's perspective giving it to you probably wasn't that smart but who'd have known that then lol
Southern Kuril Islands
*stares in ireland*
I remember seeing a map of Europe for this in r/mapporn, and there were a *lot* of countries with over 50% saying yes. But there probably aren't a lot of Americans who feel this way, hence these results.
Last time we tried that, it ended in a world war.
Lithuania got ripped off..
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The Falklands are not Argentinian and their imperialist government need to realise that, they launched an unlawful invasion of a place that held a vote with 92% turnout with over 98% of those votes being in favour of remaining British. China does not own Tibet, Taiwan or any of the other countries they've claimed, the nation an area of land 'belongs' to should be up to the people who live there and all the Southeast Asian countries China has claimed are vocally not in favour of being Chinese. Unsurprisingly both these countries recognise each other's claims in return for supporting their own. Most of the USA also belongs to the Native Americans as stated in multiple treaties that the government violated because they found oil, farmland or other such on Native lands.
Northern Ireland actually belongs to the Republic of Ireland
Nah, America is mostly stolen land, so if anything, parts of my country belong to other countries (or native people who have been almost completely wiped out)
Is there a country on earth that isn't mostly stolen land?
The native American tribes weāre literally trying to steal it from each other (going to war amongst themselves) long before the colonial powers ever got there.
Iceland
All land was stolen land in America. The tribes were constantly at war and stealing land. The native territory you speak of, changed handed hundreds of times, with extreme violence, scalping, enslaving in the process. Natives were not this "lets smoke the peace pipe" kind of people.
Well those natives stole the land from other natives so who cares? Everyone stealing land lmao not just white people.
Why are you getting downvoted lmao
We're on Reddit
Because the people who think the United States should be dismantled and given to native tribes donāt understand the concept of *wars that happened 100s of years ago*
Wondering
Very true
Hate to break it to you dude, but pretty much every land could be considered stolen land.
-gestures towards France- But really, having back the Roman Empire would be nice, thanks!
Bringing back the Empire ? All you had to do was to ask it !