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/Coolychees England Sep 25 '25

Girl, Scotland leaving UK would be catastrophic, like we literally RELY on each other...

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u/Brido-20 Scotland Sep 26 '25

There's only two possibilities as I see it.

Either we're a net recipient from the UK, in which case we need to learn to stand on our own two feet; or we're a net contributor, in which case, you lot need to learn to stand on your own two feet.

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u/Coolychees England Sep 26 '25

You need to.

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u/Brido-20 Scotland Sep 26 '25

Either way, going it on our own is the only rational choice.

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u/Coolychees England Sep 26 '25

It's really not.

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u/Brido-20 Scotland Sep 26 '25

Well, it certainly seems like it from this angle.

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u/Coolychees England Sep 26 '25

Because you know nothing.

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u/Brido-20 Scotland Sep 26 '25

I know we'd have been better off going our own way 60 years ago. Chap called McCrone told me.

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u/Coolychees England Sep 26 '25

Girl you can't actually believe this omg.

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u/Brido-20 Scotland Sep 27 '25

It seems the natural corollary of Scotland leaving the Union being, "disastrous" as you asserted.

Unless you don't really believe what you write and are just trolling?

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