Hot take: the UK is a lot like the collapse of the USSR. Devolution sparks dominant ethnicity nationalism for not having their own national institution. Then that, in turn, spurring more peripheral nationalism.
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The USSR could have survived the Baltics.
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I think the comparison is a good one. These are two 19th-century imperial powers in the process of long-term break-up. Intriguingly, both are also on the fringes of Europe, have historically tended to look away from Europe and are therefore equivocal about their European status.
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