TheLastHero [he/him]

maybe the real therapy was the potions we distilled along the way

they exploit vulnerable individuals and perpetuate violence

so do the police lol

They did do that and were right to but to me that’s not “balkanization”, it was a federal union with a shared foreign policy and economic/political infrastructure.

When I hear balkanization I think of like the collapse of Yugoslavia or the USSR in 1991 for that matter, which was just miserable for everyone involved except the nationalist mafiosos like Yeltsin

how would breaking it up help anything? So you can have multiple parochial states in endless territorial conflicts instead of one encompassing the entire nation? So half the people remain enslaved by reactionaries while the rest are liberated? No way, its one for all and all for one, the revolution is incomplete otherwise. The Bolsheviks didn’t shatter the Russian Empire, they fought and fought hard to create the USSR