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    • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      California and West Coast separatism is most strongly advocated by Russian agents seeking to weaken the US.

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        I’m not Russian at all and I want to separate because all I get from the federal union is taxation without representation. I’m tired of subsidizing failed religious extremists. It’s abundantly clear that there is no rule of law at the federal level, and I would sooner die than bend the knee to a king.

        Edit: and our homegrown Russian asset Jill Stein has never once mentioned balkanization. I just don’t believe your accusation, it doesn’t seem to be based in reality.

        • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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          As a Russian, honestly these are all sorts of shit with no practical difference for us.

          Except for Alaska, some people think it shouldn’t have been sold. And 0.7 mln total population is (far) less than Crimea.

          That aside, a confederacy (I guess some other word would be better) of the old US and some more autonomous things, like, for example, California, would possibly be a stabilizer.

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        Damn. That just made me realize that the most effective military strategy against the US is to pit us against ourselves.

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          No, you don’t get it, the US has so excelled in pitting others against each other to emerge as one victor, than it’s bringing the thing home. So you are going to weaken yourselves by making a quarreling mess of the old system, then it imploding and some nominally democratic and free new system taking over. Probably simultaneously trying to nuke half of the rest of the world.