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Originally Posted by Osem
Not sure what your point is about Rhodesia but I don't think the Catalans would want to go that way. It seems to me that their main aim is to be better off, not a basket case pariah economy cut off from the EU. If the UK supposedly can't survive outside the EU I doubt Catalonia can. If this is more of an emotive issue about their own national identity etc. however then I can see things getting nasty because they won't be thinking rationally.
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Britain, the Commonwealth and the United Nations all deemed Rhodesia's UDI illegal, and economic sanctions, the first in the UN's history, were imposed on the breakaway colony. Amid near-complete international isolation, Rhodesia continued as an unrecognised state with the assistance of South Africa and Portugal.