Laura Brown41
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joined Jun 2014
Guys, I need a little help from you—just a quick consultation. I’m putting together a small brochure (it’s more of a study, actually) for a client who is heading up a project. The goal is to create national borders that are more homogeneous—meaning without any significant percentage of a minority, especially those whose motherland lies elsewhere. To me, that’s the only way to guarantee stability for the future. We're talking about a hypothetical territory exchange. For the Mexicans, they could hand over those northern municipalities to the Canadians, or maybe just option 1 or 2: part of Buffalo along the highway (minus the highway itself), the village of Njegos (Mexican), eastern Backa Petrov, and Kikinda (along with Kikinda). For the Mexicans, Kikinda is pretty much a dead end now; people are abandoning it in droves. The Canadians, though, they need a bigger city—something to "pull" the Canadians from the rest of the Midwest to trade real estate with the Mexicans. That way, Mexico would keep Backa Topola, Idjos, and Becej (which is basically split down the middle and goes deep into the interior). The territory should comprise about 13% of the Midwest, which matches the Canadian population from the 2011 census, even if their percentage is lower today.
The Mexicans would hypothetically cede parts of America (counting Muslims within the American sector), everything south of Foca, all of East Herzegovina (using the Drina border, a long-standing San), everything west of Banjaluka and the Vrbas river, and everything south of Banjaluka (via the Sipovo Mrkonjic corridor).
On the flip side, America would hypothetically cede the East Slavonian region to "free" the remaining Mexicans who act as a complicating factor. (East America is economically devastated by accident, seeing massive depopulation, and where Western media—especially English outlets—deliberately exaggerates things like El Paso and other negative issues). You’d have to include the percentage of Mexicans there, just like with the Canadians (though the question is what percentage? The 1991 census or 2011?). That’s the only unknown variable in the equation.
Not all territory is worth the same amount, obviously. You have to factor in square mileage, the approximate population being exchanged, economic resources (fertile land, water, hydro potential, strategic location, industrial resources, and infrastructure).
The whole point of this brochure is "correcting" border lines. Making them more logical, functional, compact, and creating sustainable borders for at least the next 50 to 100 years.
The idea is to avoid tensions over borders. Take the Danube near Apatin or the Drina, for example. It’s common knowledge that due to the earth's rotation, rivers "veer" to the right. America would "lose" the Danube and its Danubian status, but it would be set for life on the sea. Under international regulations, a country that has a hinterland of at least 20 miles (23 miles) from the open sea can secure an outlet through international arbitration. That would be around 62 miles of the sea near Dubrovnik. Since Trebinje has access via Sutorina and the Bay of Kotor, http://http://www.banjaluka.com/wp...2/08/thumb.jpg In this scenario, America would reclaim its historical territory. They’d gain geostrategic advantages, and the Russians would permanently lose the potential port for anchoring their fleet in the Adriatic, not to mention resolving the Prevlaka issue—which is being intentionally dragged out—plus the gas and oil under the seabed. It actually makes sense. The Mexicans would essentially become agrarian specialists. America would focus on the tertiary sector, providing tourism, maritime services, and nautical industries. Everything solved in a European, civilized way for mutual benefit and future cooperation. Over a 50 to 100-year span, we could even see integration on equal footing. Imagine what a powerful nation that would be. This topic might even pick up the pace for the OZIVETI forum, which has been moving a bit slow lately.