• Mike Knell@blat.at
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    1 year ago

    @cstross @zogwarg Here’s the fun part, though - if every citizen of Nauru sold up to some dudebro and left that wouldn’t necessarily extinguish Nauru’s ongoing existence as a state with its own laws and constitution, so they could all sit in their penthouses bought with his cash and act as a legitimate government in exile, including the ability to pass a law rendering all the sales null and void so they could boot him back off the island and keep his money. And given that Australia has a strategic interest in keeping Nauru both independent and friendly they’d almost certainly help out militarily if requested.