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What steps would make the USA turn into a Balkanised set of Nation-states? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Purely asking this for some fiction writing

Balkanised has become slang for "region formerly in a federation or union that has split into many small independent nations after the fall of said Union. Like happened in the Balkan region with the fall of USSR"

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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, was more of a slow and gradual "we're leaving or else!" for member states in their case, except for a few which had a bit of a cold war, partially cause USSR had spread itself too thin and knew it couldn't hold them if a hot war broke out.