Comments by "0x777" (@0x777) on "'Russia will be free!': Kremlin critic given 25 years prison for treason" video.

  1. If a country would fall apart if not kept together by brutal force, maybe it should.
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  2.  @Scar626  I don't "feel" that, it's the logical conclusion. If you have to waste an undue amount of resources to keep a country from falling apart, it's already too late anyway. The more you waste on trying to keep it together, the worse the fallout gets when it finally happens and the lower the chance to have amiable cooperation between the countries that form. For reference, see the fate of Austria-Hungary.
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  3.  @Scar626  You'll still find that most former British colonies have fairly good relations with their former "ruler", from Canada to Australia, at least if they didn't try to force them to stay. Like, say, Northern Ireland. Empires in the past had one key advantage over those that try to uphold something like this today: The idea of a "nation", and "national heritage" is fairly young. That whole thing only became a reality around 200 years ago. Before that, a "nation" was considered a bunch of people who happen to have the same tradition, but this had little, if anything, to do with what we today understand when we consider a "nation", i.e. a sovereign, self-administered country. That concept is really new, actually. This is why large empires could exist in the past. The people didn't consider themselves a self-governing body. Russia will eventually have to choose whether it wants to be a union of independent countries that may even have a formal unifying "emperor" as their figurehead, much like a lot of the British former empire still has the British King as their formal head of state (even though he has little, if any, say in politics), or whether it wants to break apart into squabbling and bickering countries like Austria-Hungary did after WW1. An enforced union simply has no lasting future.
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  4. The whataboutism is pretty strong in the Russian bots today. Whataboutism. The last resort of someone who cannot justify his crimes with anything but "But someone else did it too!"
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