You make no sense. You do realise France fought a brutal war against Algeria when they wanted to become an independent state, along the lines of self-determination due to them being a seperate linguistic, ethnic, culture identities along with being on another continent... And then France doesnt support any independence movements from Corsica, and labels the 'freedom' fighters as terrorists just like in Ukraine.
Your example of New Caledonia is so irrelevant it's laughable. A fucking island on the other side of the planet that France has no real benefit of owning and you think that France is being some kind of savior by allowing an island that couldn't exist by itself to be an independent nation (IF they wanted to)?
France has the second biggest maritime boundaries in the world which represent an incredible geostrategic and economic opportunity. That's all thanks to the "fucking islands on the other side of the planet", because even a tiny fucking island has an enormous EEZ. You insult people without knowing, that's a shame but not surprising. France isn't "supporting" the independance movement, it's recognizing the
right of the inhabitants of New Caledonia to self-determination. That's totally different.
And what about Corsica, Breton? Looks like you do not want to recognize their right to self-determination that much, since they even created radical organizations and betake to the acts of terrorism ?
Every people has a right to self-determination. In the case of Brittany and Corsica it wouldn't be democratic to make a referendum because an insignificant part of the population wants it. However if an increasing number of people started struggling for this, the French people would probably do as the English did with Scotland.
And what about Corsica, Breton? Looks like you do not want to recognize their right to self-determination that much, since they even created radical organizations and betake to the acts of terrorism ?
For a Frenchman, the idea that Corsica could be anything else than French is laughable, especially since Napoleon himself was Corsican. As for Brittany, this makes no sense. We couldn't imagine our country without Cosmao-Kerjulien, Kerguelen, Anne de Bretagne queen of France. But of course every people has a right to self determination, and if they want their independance, we might consider it. The problem is that there is no
Breton people anymore. The overwhelming majority of
Bretons don't speak Breton, which has almost disappeared. Therefore it's not possible to compare those regions to New Caledonia, which was/is a colony, and certainly not to the eastern regions of Ukraine, in which most of the population don't speak the national language and where an important part of the population has taken arms against the government.
Algeria and Caledonia are overseas colonies. Crimea isn't.
Algeria was a French territory divided into
départements just like the rest of the French territory. From the point of view of the French government, and the French supportive of this government, Algeria was part of the metropolis. It wasn't a colony. It had been a French territory for more than 100 years. Crimea however, was gifted to Ukraine not so long ago, and moreover they had an important autonomy. In both cases some people thought that this was their territory because they owned it since a few decades but never asked the opinion of the inhabitants.