Frank Rycyk
Jefferson City
Dear Editor:
I appreciate recent comments in these pages concerning Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico presents a very interesting situation. Its citizens are citizens of the United States. It is not a state in the Union.
Puerto Rico has gone back and forth concerning statehood. Some want it to become a state. Some do not. Some in Puerto Rico have even proposed separating the territory from the U.S.
What would happen if Puerto Rico successfully became an independent nation-state? Would they seek alliances with other countries? Cuba? Russia? China?
I doubt that many people in the U.S. would appreciate a Chinese military base on Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rican independence seems to be unlikely. Look what happened during the Civil War.
It would be good to ask ourselves, however, would it be a more peaceful world with more or fewer nation-states. I lean toward fewer.