If anyone still had any doubt about who all this anti-EU talk about sovereignty serves.

https://lemmy.world/post/39820359

Russia should go first. Freedom for the people of Bashkortostan!
It’s not even a joke, it’s what a lot of people want. Moscow can straight up fuck off, why it’s still one country is beyond me.

why it’s still one country is beyond me.

They have forbidden NGOs to prevent the West from strengthening those aspirations.

The maie reason RSFSR didn’t disintegrate further after USSR collapsed was that they had a dictatorship-like anti-secession government. And then along came Putin.