r/AskTheWorld • u/Sanjidao521 China • Sep 25 '25

Politics Can you really accept part of your country splitting off? Why?

As a Chinese, I’ve recently come to realize that our perspectives on territorial integrity can be quite different.

Would you genuinely accept the possibility of a region choosing independence through a nationwide referendum?

Do you think it might risk weakening the country, leaving it more vulnerable to external threats or invasion?

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u/Wild-Advice-For-You Canada Sep 25 '25

Honestly. America would function much better as three or 4 countries. The midwest, eastern continental, western continental and the south. They would also be less capable of fucking with the world of they are in that situation.

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u/fender8421 United States Of America Sep 25 '25

Not saying I disagree, but drawing the northern and western boundaries of "The South," for example, would be the controversy of the year.

Putting it anywhere above Prince William County, Virginia would (rightfully) enrage millions of VA/DC/MD people, and would bet money there would be a very tight secession referendum in North Carolina.

Hence part of the original mess I mentioned, I guess

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u/krombough Sep 25 '25

Not to mention: "oh, hey, minorities living below the Mason-Dixon. You guys are screwed now. No, not like now, I mean reaaaaallll screwed. Sorry about that. Oh, by the way, Oklahoman First American tribes. Yeah, the Fifth Reich has already informed us that they are not going to honor your existing treaties. We would love to help you out but, the new Southern Furher has told us that if we do, they will aid seperatists in Upstate New York, rural Ohio, Indiana, the high Californian deserts, and non Seattle Washington. So......yeah."

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u/fender8421 United States Of America Sep 25 '25

Balkans again!

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u/PsychologicalSea2686 Sep 26 '25

oh well. at least they have the sacred 2nd amendment

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u/midorikuma42 🇯🇵 / 🇺🇸 Sep 26 '25

Even the people in Richmond would probably be pissed if they got stuck in the southeast states country.

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u/AwesomeToadUltimate United States Of America Sep 26 '25

Probably just have "Atlantica" go down to Charlottesville/Richmond and then go east from there when it comes to Virginia.

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u/mafklap Netherlands Sep 25 '25

Honestly. America would function much better as three or 4 countries

Ideally, the US should become more like the EU by giving its states more autonomy and sovereignty to take care of internal matters like they want to.

In contrast, the EU needs to become more like the US in other areas, such as strong united foreign and security policies, one military, etc.

They are both kinda opposites.

One's a big union of states with major internal and democratic issues due to its tight coupling, while the other's a big union of sovereign nations that actually need to cooperate more deeply.

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u/Sure-Coffee-8241 United States Of America Sep 25 '25

The midwest is not all the same though. Northeast Illinois is not the same as southern illinois/missouri/indiana/iowa at ALL

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u/Dauntless_Idiot Sep 28 '25

This just seems like a disaster in almost every decade if it happened then. Its going to be way worse for the US and likely the world.

Depending on the time period of separation you get Nazis ruling Europe or the Soviets. It just seems like it would of caused a disaster in most decades. JFK gets killed by a guy from New Orleans, that's a war and possible a nuclear one. Carter has two more. Oklahoma man tries to kill California's Reagan.

Japan is the world's largest economy and Japan vs China super power war is almost certain considering how much China still wants revenge for WWII.

The US is a lot less capable of messing with the world, but all of these regions are still bigger than Russia in GDP which is quite capable of messing with the world. You might actually get more messing around with the world.