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You could secede from a nuclear power. Most sane people tend to not want to use them in/near their territory. So it's not enough to have military power, you ne

You could secede from a nuclear power. Most sane people tend to not want to use them in/near their territory. So it's not enough to have military power, you need also the political will to use it. I get the sense India exists because the British were fatigued after WWII. There just wasn't the will to try to hold on to something they didn't feel like they had the moral right to anymore.

jrockway 3y ago
That's a very good example. In my mind I was thinking about the Falklands ("the empire strikes back" magazine cover floats ominously), but yeah. Britain could have nuked India if they wanted to. Civil wars are weird.