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Discontent seems (to me) implicit in foreign rule though, the degree just being a matter of with what and for how much the local population is being bought off.

• complex_exp 4y ago
  Russia. All the asian russians are very much treated as second class citizens, from the top (deciding where to draft mobiks from) to the bottom (a much worse case of what americans today would call police brutality / bias). We have to see if it survives though.
  • int_19h 4y ago
    The problem is that Russia has succeeded in settling many of its colonized territories such that natives are minorities in most of their titular region. Consider Buryatia for a prominent example - Buryats have been used as Russian shock troops in Ukraine since 2015 (Debaltsevo), yet population of the republic is only 44% Buryat but 53% Russian. On top of that, much of the native population is culturally Russified. Tuva and ethnic republics of the Caucasus are where the natives have majorities that mostly retain their separate cultural and ethnic identity, so if something does fall apart, I would expect it to happen there.
• somenameforme 4y ago
  I'd say that discontent is implicit in any sort of rule. The smallest of villages will have discontent, and at extremes may even splinter - a collapse of an "empire" on the micro scale. It's all a matter of how discontent people become. Basically I'm arguing a tautology: when people become discontent enough to fight against their rulers, they will do so.