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Re:Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout by notahacker on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @07:41AM (#46600216)
The UK doesn't cease to exist though, it just shrinks. Plus the USSR fragmenting and Russia (as the main constituent part, the nuclear power and the country the independent republics were happy to acknowledge as the continuation of the USSR) becoming the successor state is pretty well-established precedent for what happens when states fragment, whose legitimacy Russia probably doesn't want to contest too strongly...

General disruption in the UK would help the Iranian government a little, but I managed to click on one of the accounts before it was suspended, and its most popular tweets received very interaction (and were pretty banal statements of independence support indistinguishable from stuff thousands of completely normal Scottish people posted) I assume their attempts to seed wilder rumours were low effort and had very little success.

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Re:Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout by philbo on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @07:49AM (#46600280)
Russia was allowed to inherit the USSR seat on 3 conditions:

- It took on all the sovereign debt from the newly independent nations.

- It relinquished nukes that were left behind in Ukraine.

- The United Nations collectively agreed to it.

I don't think any of those things would happen in the UK's case. But of course it doesn't matter what you or I think. It only matters what _Iran_ thinks will happen if Scotland gains independence.

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Re:Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout by SideburnsOfDoom on Saturday January 17, 2026 @08:07AM (#46657769)
>The UK doesn't cease to exist though, it just shrinks.

Or as some wags have put it, when Northern Ireland unifies with the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland joins the EU as an independent state, the UK becomes the "Former United Kingdom of Wales and England" (1), or "FUK-Wangland" for short.

See FYROM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Macedonia#Naming_dispute

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