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It's alright. Just when the Euro's retake it: stay out.
We have over a quarter of a million Surinamese here.. effectively more then those that life there. It's a cesspit that can be cleared up (at least the coastal plains can.. when it comes to the jungle: either prepare well or stay out). Suriname like Indonesia can provide us with raw materials and tropical products and they can be helped with building up their own economies and societies. And.. another nice thing: a Dutchman would no longer need to travel to some far away island in the Pacific to find a tropical haven. He could go to Suriname where he can speak Dutch and (after some time) still find the comforts of home. Suriname like South Africa, the Antilles and Indonesia is what the Dutch call a verwantschapsland (a nation to which we have (cultural/historical) ties).
Yes. A military intervention should be carried out by a joint European force.
Hmm we won't be conquering Indonesia. It would be better to offer them a good deal: Dutch businesses will invest massively in Indonesia and build it up, rooting out tropical diseases, cleaning up the place big time and in turn they only have to allow the King or Queen as their ceremonial head of state(not that they will see her very often) by joining the Commonwealth. Dutch Indonesians and Indo-Dutch will also invest en masse and return to the Islands. And Dutch could be given on schools as a primary foreign language while Dutch children can study Bahasa or Malay in school and be given the opportunity to study in let's say Batavia or Soerabaja before returning to the Netherlands whereas an Indonesian can do the same in let's say Delft or Leiden. The Netherlands could be made very popular there as the old generation is long buried and the Netherlands could be a partner state and a social-economic roll model.
But Dutch and Papiamento will be the language spoken. English could be used in the same manner as English is being used here: as a primary foreign language.
So my personal advise to any rich yanks that want to settle on those islands: get out of your villa, sign up for an integration course and start learning Dutch and Papiamento.
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