Federations are tricky to keep together. I witnessed the unraveling of Czechoslovakia as a teen and I was happy that it didn't end up in bloodshed, unlike Yugos

Federations are tricky to keep together. I witnessed the unraveling of Czechoslovakia as a teen and I was happy that it didn't end up in bloodshed, unlike Yugoslavia. There, guys of my age were spending their early youth killing other guys of my age speaking a mutually comprehensible language. Don't push it, let it come naturally, if it does. Both CS and YU were built in a top-down fashion, without explicit consent of the nations involved, and this proved fatal eventually. Don't repeat the same mistake again.