Does this post fly in the face of logic?

[Ban my account ffs!]

Diplomatic relations are not only nation to nation.  Minnesota's governors have made trips all over the world, meeting with foreign officials and business leaders to discuss trade and economic partnerships between Minnesota and those nations.  Jesse Ventura went to Cuba and met Fidel Castro to try and sell Minnesota farm products to the country.  

So the whole argument is moot...

But anyway..

the Vatican City is an internationally recognized nation, though a very small one, and it is considered an ally, thus we have official relations with them.

That's just how it works.  If the leaders of the Red Lake band of Chippewa Indians decided to call our end of the treaties due, and in our failure to pay (of course we wouldn't), they could break off and form their own, sovereign nation completely separate from the United States.

Would we have diplomatic relations with them?  You can bet your butt.  How would it look to all other Native Americans in the country if we were to try and punish them for trying to uphold the treaties that our government signed and never made good on?

Of course right now things are fine because the state government appropriates a lot of money to the reservation (though it has no responsibility to) and fills at least some of the gaps that the federal government has left behind.

But yeah, anyway.. what were we talking about again?