US Territories that should be States

[HillGoose]

all of them + Taiwan and Israel

Eventually the entire Western Hemisphere and much of Africa and Oceania too.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

all of them + Taiwan and Israel

Eventually the entire Western Hemisphere and much of Africa and Oceania too.

“My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.”

Beautiful

[Sirius_]

Stuart, there are two unwritten rules here that I'm just going write for you since seeing you break them pains me.

1. You don't argue with Olawakandi
2. You don't argue with Hillgoose

[Continential]

Staurt, there are two unwritten rules here that I'm just going write for you since seeing you break them pains me.

1. You don't argue with Olawakandi
2. You don't argue with Hillgoose

We have a religion cult on olawakandi

[Former President tack50]

all of them + Taiwan and Israel

Joke: 1 China Policy / 1 State solution
Broke: 2 Chinas / 2 State solution
Woke: 0 Chinas & 0 State solution; admit the PRC*, Taiwan, Israel and Palestine as US states

*: After kicking out Xi

[Calthrina950]

None of these, and none should be U.S. territories either

Are you suggesting the United States should grant all of its remaining territories their independence? At the very least, I'd imagine American Samoa would want to merge with the country of Samoa.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Samoa is also pretty culturally different from Guam + Northern Marianas, in addition to being very far away, so it wouldn't make sense to have them in the same state.

The smart thing to do would be to create a state from Guam + Northern Marianas + the Pacific Island states that are in free association with the U.S. (Marshall Islands, Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia), but the ship has probably sailed on that as the islands would probably prefer to be independent countries rather than a small part of the U.S. It would also give the U.S. a permanent foothold in Asia - Palau is only a few hundred miles off the coast of the Philippines, and many of the Islands are due south of Japan - but this shouldn't be entered into lightly, as it would have numerous geopolitical implications, both good and bad.

[Badger]

None of these, and none should be U.S. territories either

None of them want independence

[Badger]

Stuart, there are two unwritten rules here that I'm just going write for you since seeing you break them pains me.

1. You don't argue with Olawakandi
2. You don't argue with Hillgoose

Translation, you put both on ignore.

[Fight for Trump]

None of these, and none should be U.S. territories either

None of them want independence

Even if they did, it's not like that ever mattered to the Yankee government.

[Samof94]

How would the language issue affect Puerto Rico???

[Former Crackhead Mike Lindell]

If the U.S. don't lay claim, peacefully and with consent, to these small island nations, China will. The clock is ticking. The island nations who don't become Chinese overseas bases will be wrecked by climate change. The British are collapsing, and her overseas territories will crumble soon after the Queen dies. Pitcairn to New Zealand. Bermuda to Canada. Northern Ireland to Ireland. Scotland to itself. If the Argentinians have it in them, they'll take another stab in the South Atlantic, though that may well be the last holdout of British Empirical ego

[Continential]

Stuart, there are two unwritten rules here that I'm just going write for you since seeing you break them pains me.

1. You don't argue with Olawakandi
2. You don't argue with Hillgoose

Translation, you put both on ignore.

Translation: You are a potential Authoritarian NUT poster

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Adding more tiny states probably worsens the democratic deficit of the US Senate in the long term (although in the short to medium term it could theoretically add more "balance" while partisan politics was dominated on the mainland by the urban-rural divide).

As a foreigner, I might end up being glad to see it anyway because disproportionate representation for island territories would probably lead to greater prioritisation of climate change.