With Canada, Britain, France, Portugal, Spain and Australia all recognizing the “state” of Palestine , President Donald Trump has the chance to strike a complementary blow for other oppressed nationalities yearning for their own states, too.
When Trump takes the dais at the General Assembly Tuesday, he can pick up where UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer left off and announce that the United States is recognizing Scotland as an independent nation.
After all, the English brutally conquered the Scots, suppressing their language and culture for centuries.
Trump can even note that his mother fled Scotland as a refugee, so he understands the need for an independent Scottish nation.
Won’t Canada’s Mark Carney rejoice when Trump recognizes Quebec as a separate, sovereign state? Surely those