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Current Russia has plenty of sub-identities though. It’s the worlds last colonial empire, and the division lines are obvious to everyone there. The only thing
by trasz3 4y ago
Current Russia has plenty of sub-identities though. It’s the worlds last colonial empire, and the division lines are obvious to everyone there. The only thing keeping it all together is the army and police.
(Cf https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1600551806429544452.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1600551806429544452.html)
- hackinthebochs 4y agoInformative thread, so thanks for that. This seems to be the key issue: >Ethnicity, race and culture is not enough for the new states to work out. For them to succeed they must be able to pay their bills. Ergo, the principle of economic clusters will be at least as important for defining their borders as the ethnic or cultural one Which one wins out? The fact that there is a conflict between economic cluster and ethnic cluster seems to strongly raise the likelihood of a civil war.
- yywwbbn 4y agoYes, but those parts that’s potentially might want to leave Russia are not geographically and economically significant compared to the rest of Russia.
- trasz3 4y agoSiberia is way more significant than western Russia. That’s one of the pieces we’re commonly missing: Moscow is a hollow parasite.
- sasattack 4y ago"Last colonial empire " Have you heard of the United States of America? Standing rock was like only a few years ago my guy