Happened in Dutch Caribbean controlled Airspace

TIL Europe still has some presence in the Americas. Thought all of that was gone with the Monroe Doctrine

dentemple 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The Monroe Doctrine was about preventing colonial powers from enacting NEW efforts to reach into the Americas, not about getting rid of previous control.

"The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects FOR FUTURE COLONIZATION by any European powers." (emphasis mine)

https://usinfo.org/PUBS/LivingDoc_e/monroe.htm

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Scarblac a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

France's longest land border is the one it shares with Brazil.

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brnt a day ago | parent | prev [-]

You may find this interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_territories_of_members...

	▲	phantasmish a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, you can visit the EU by… sailing a ways Northeast(ish) from Maine, until you’re just south of (a part of) Canada. And by going to the Caribbean. And South America. Mostly France and the Netherlands.
	▲	nabakin 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Ty this is great
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tosapple 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So the same people he threatened to take greenland from?

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joha4270 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm unsure if you're making a joke that flies over my head, but no Greenland is Danish, not Dutch.

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jeroenhd 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That'd be the Danish.

	▲	tosapple 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's why i asked, i glanced through wiki first. Thanks.