I have some pretty specific criteria for this question:
"Sovereign states" may include city-states, but not provinces or cities within larger states.
By "unilaterally" I mean that the decision is made by the sovereign state alone, without the formal consent of the excised territory. So, secession, liberation, or amicable parting by treaty don't count.
"Voluntarily" means, ideally, that the excision isn't happening during a war or under the threat of war.
And by "territory" I mean an area within the sovereign state's official geographical borders, not colonies or protectorates or conquered/occupied areas.
With all these constraints on the question, I strongly suspect that the answer to this question is "no," but I want to confirm this, and I'm finding this hard to do using search engines because I don't even know the right word for the kind of event I'm imagining; "excise" is just the closest I can think of.
I'm just in the mood for that sort of thing idk
Information regarding islands and Alaska is a little bit lacking and I apologize.
What do you fellas think?
Our relatively recent micronational project of Sovereign was formed as a means of connecting people, exercising creativity, and revitalizing prior micronation projects into a singular, updated, evolving system. Sovereign has come to truly respect the values and interests within many small-nations displayed on Reddit, Discord, and so on. Our nations are formed in the hope of something greater, be it to one day truly stand on the world stage or to connect with the seemingly innate human aspects of creation, liberty, etc.
To lose such aspects and to be stripped of ones nation seems like a colossal failure of the very conception that allowed us to create our projects in the first place. The idea that our creations may be challenged and absorbed as simple political fodder is nearly nightmarish in thought, turning intricate and compelling projects into faceless clones meant to propel another’s agenda. The Council of Resolute Voices and other institutions of Sovereign find themselves increasingly contemplative of this situation as our project grows and sharpens in detail especially in light of recent seemingly ‘subversive’ documentation secured.
As of now, the Sovereign will continue its neutral standing as means to further understand Arkovian stances in as charitable a way as possible while also maintaining other micronational interests in hopes to end tensions without capitulating, surrendering, or losing the ultimately key aspects that all moved us to begin this great journey.
- Dictated, Signed, and Honored by the Council of Voices and the Honor Guard.
I have created an excel table with two dependent drop-down list that creates a result in the third column of the table. I have included pictures to show y'all what I'm working on. I would like to add two columns before my dependent drop-down list to include names and dates. These names and dates will be manually typed (will not have a drop-down list). I am hoping to be able to have the name and date, shown in cell A2 and B2, included in my coaching recommendation (shown in cell E2). So, the final result in the cell E2 would be:
John Doe
7/1/19
Coaching 7-1
So cells C2 and D2 code for the result in E2, I would like A2 and B2 to be included exactly as they are typed in the result shown in E2. Is there any way I could do this? My code to create the coaching result is already very long and I would prefer to not have to redo this in a different way. But if necessary I will have too. Thanks for any help or advise you can offer.
https://imgur.com/gallery/xMAptlv
Edit: I believe it will have something to do with the CONCAT function
Would the US have still declared war on Japan?
The US had levied sanctions and embargoes on Imperial Japan due to their aggression in China. But it would have been very difficult to gather political support for a war if the the US hadn't been directly attacked.
The American public was opposed to the idea of a foreign war even when British, French, and Dutch homelands were under threat (and in the case of the latter two, completely occupied). So the probability that the American public would have been willing to go to war over British, French, and Dutch colonies is very slim.
For the Japanese, this scenario would have solved their resource problems without being faced with the huge task of confronting the American industrial juggernaut in a war. The Japanese could have taken the abundant resources of French Indochina, Siam, British Malaya, Singapore, Burma, Borneo, and The Dutch East Indies. All while bypassing American held Philippines and Pacific territories.
From what I've been researching about this era, there were many terrors across the occupied territories and it seems majority of the people who originally occupied the land were pressed under cruel and barbaric conditions. But they don't really outline what was their reasons behind the horrific treatment. If someone could help out, that'd be great.
