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What Europe Would Look Like if all the Separatists Won

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 23 2014, @09:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the drawing-between-the-lines dept.

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Voters in Scotland have turned down independence for now, but separatist movements continue across Europe, possibly threatening to dismantle Spain, France, and Belgium as well as the UK. The next milestone will be an independence vote on Nov. 9 in Catalonia, the region on the northeast coast of Spain which includes Barcelona; separatists are expected to win handily, but the vote is not binding on the Spanish government. Slate has a neat map showing what a completely redrawn Europe would look like, if accommodations were made for all movements that have joined a loose collective called European Free Alliance; a more complete but visually less satisfying map, including EFA holdouts such as Northern Ireland, appears in Wikipedia. The Washington Post has thumbnail descriptions of eight movements.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday September 23 2014, @03:52PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Tuesday September 23 2014, @03:52PM (#97198) Journal

    One of the reasons the US is a superpower is its large size, large population, and military-industrial complex that weaves through both red and blue states. Break up the US and you're basically inviting China to take over the world. I say that as a blue-stater who would really prefer not to share a passport with red-staters, but as awkward as things are, the alternative may well be worse.

    Yeah, that's why China is slowly steamrolling over all those tiny European nations, right?

    Oh wait...they aren't. Hell, China couldn't even invade Mexico; half the planet would take up arms against them if they tried. Maybe a hundred years ago that would have been true, but both halves of a divided US would still have enough allies to hold off that sort of invasion -- almost certainly including each other. And the military-industrial complex wouldn't vanish either. Lockheed Martin isn't going to just pack up and call it a day...

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