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Happened in Dutch Caribbean controlled Airspace

TIL Europe still has some presence in the Americas. Thought all of that was gone with the Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was about preventing colonial powers from enacting NEW efforts to reach into the Americas, not about getting rid of previous control.

"The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects FOR FUTURE COLONIZATION by any European powers." (emphasis mine)

https://usinfo.org/PUBS/LivingDoc_e/monroe.htm

France's longest land border is the one it shares with Brazil.
Yeah, you can visit the EU by… sailing a ways Northeast(ish) from Maine, until you’re just south of (a part of) Canada. And by going to the Caribbean. And South America.

Mostly France and the Netherlands.

Ty this is great
So the same people he threatened to take greenland from?
I'm unsure if you're making a joke that flies over my head, but no Greenland is Danish, not Dutch.
That'd be the Danish.
That's why i asked, i glanced through wiki first. Thanks.

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