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Re:'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's undersea cable... by pavlov on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:04AM (#43268404)
Unfortunately Russia didn’t balkanize in 1990. The largest Soviet republic became the Russian Federation and kept its borders.

The world today would be a much safer place if 1990 Russia had split into about six independent states, each comparable to Kazakhstan or Ukraine. Hopefully that will eventually happen when Putin is gone. Imperial Russia should cease to exist like imperial Austria did. It has been a great source of misery throughout the centuries.

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Re:'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's undersea cable... by throwaway48476 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:09AM (#43268474)
The republics that gained independence broke free from the Russian empire. Several wars also broke out as a result including transnistria, Georgia and Chechnya.
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