• hark@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    None of that has anything to do with breaking apart a country to make it weaker, which is entirely the point of the balkanization argument.

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      1 year ago

      No one wants to conquer Russia. No one has wanted to since Napoleon. Even Hitler’s dumb ass only invaded out of paranoia.

      Personally I want Russia balkanized because the only thing holding that mess of a state together is authoritarianism. I’d much rather see a whole lot more liberal democracies in place of a single Russian country.

      Same with China.

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        1 year ago

        There more than one way to conquer a land, it’s not just a matter of occupying it physically. According to you, they resort to authoritarianism because of culture. How would splitting up the country change that instead of simply making a bunch of smaller authoritarian governments? In fact, the situation would be worse because a bunch of smaller authoritarian governments bordering each other would be more likely to go to war. Of course, that’s an intended consequence of balkanization: the weakening of those countries.