yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Are US Military Bases and Embassies American Soil?


less than 1m read
·Nov 7, 2024

Military bases and embassies, contrary to popular opinion, don't count as American soil; though, they're close. The country hosting the base agrees that her laws don't apply within the base, but the base is still on her land. That she owns. Because it's hers. In her country.

This is called extraterritoriality, and it isn't unique to the United States, but it's notable with her because of its frequency, and in one case, (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba), contention. The short version of this story is: Cuba used to be a U.S. territory, (taken after the Spanish-American War with Puerto Rico, and Guam, and Spain's pride).

Cuba eventually went her own way, but the U.S. naval base, in Guantanamo Bay, stayed where it was and the U.S. paid to rent the land. But then, revolución, and disagreement between Cuba and the U.S. over the rent, leading to the current awkward situation: where the U.S. says to Cuba, "Thank you for renting us this land!" and Cuba says, "We didn't rent you that land." and the U.S. says, "Here's our rent payment!" and Cuba says, "We don't accept that. Please leave?" and the U.S. says, "Thank you for renting us this land!"

More Articles

View All
The truly irregular verbs | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy
Hello Garans, welcome to the last and strangest part of the irregular verb: the truly irregular. Yes, friends, here I have compiled all the weirdest, all the wooliest, all the eeriest and spookiest forms of verbs that don’t otherwise fall into other categ…
Common and proper nouns | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy
Hello, Garans! I’d like to bring up the idea of the difference between a common and a proper noun. The difference between a common and a proper noun is simply the difference between something with a name and a more generic version of that thing. I’ll giv…
Mind-Blowing Magic Magnets - Smarter Every Day 153
Hey, it’s me Destin. Welcome back to SmarterEveryDay. You might not know this, but every single hydraulic pump in every car you’ve probably ever been in has a little bitty magnet in it to catch shavings so that the mechanism doesn’t foul up. Now, I know t…
Writing a quadratic function from a graph | Algebra 1 (TX TEKS) | Khan Academy
We’re told here’s the graph of a quadratic function f. All right, write the equation that defines f in standard form. So pause this video, have a go at this before we do this together. All right, now let’s work on this together. So before we even get to …
Australia's Housing Crisis is Insane.
So we open the bidding, ladies and gentlemen, at 1,100,000. I’ve never seen a situation in housing like we’re seeing today. Australia’s housing crisis will likely get worse before it gets better. A system where it’s arguably easier to buy your second hous…
How To Unmask The Narcissist's Double Life | STOICISM
Have you ever felt like someone could see right through you, tapping into your deepest fears and desires, and manipulating them to their own advantage? Imagine living in a world where your very emotions are the plaything of a master illusionist, someone w…