That’s my point–because they cut themselves off from the rest of the country electrically, it doesn’t matter what their status is: when that underfunded and unsupported network fails, people will die. It happens every time.
And, would disaster relief be much different? Maybe the asking as a sovereign nation would take longer and have to be approved by Congress (?), but I’ve never heard of a state or nation every paying back US aid. If this has happened, please educate me. Seriously.
That’s my point–because they cut themselves off from the rest of the country electrically, it doesn’t matter what their status is: when that underfunded and unsupported network fails, people will die. It happens every time.
And, would disaster relief be much different? Maybe the asking as a sovereign nation would take longer and have to be approved by Congress (?), but I’ve never heard of a state or nation every paying back US aid. If this has happened, please educate me. Seriously.