If the US split into ten different countries, grouped by similar states in the same locations, each with their own government, you would consider this to ultimately be a net
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Difficult call.
Geopolitical fragmentation invites involvement from other powers. Proxy war!
More experimentation is welcomed. But would the countries be that different? Even the EU with its 27 different member countries with distinct languages ans histories is pretty boring.
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The compromise would be that the federal government remains but controls some resources and uses those resources to act as some kind of minimal balancer, incentivizing states to cooperate with each other rather than fight.
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The Balkanization of the US without a centralized military / EU esque structure leaves each constitute country incredibly vulnerable to China / Russia power projection
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Good iff there's free trade & migration between the countries (like the EU minus regulations); bad otherwise
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We can effectively achieve the same by just weakening federal gov and allowing states to have more responsibility. But I don't want to go through customs to go to Texas particularly.
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If the same thing happened to China and Russia, then good.
If only the US, then bad.
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