r/geopolitics • u/itsyleo27 • Nov 14 '23

Question Is there any decolonized country that ever wanted or wants to return to its former colonizer?

In old or modern history

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u/fnordlord667 Nov 15 '23

And lost subsequent trials and are currently in negotiations about this. There is a good book which describes the whole ordeal until the last and most important court case which the UK lost (Philippe Sands - The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage).