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I think that gets at a key difference between the USA(and Austria-Hungary) on the one hand, and to my knowledge India and Brazil on the other- multiple imperial cores. Texas, California, New York City have massive distorting effects on their neighbors to the point of being, basically, imperial core regions that happen to be politically subordinated to a larger structure. I’m not saying that the USA is about to break up, I’m saying that the apparent lack of that structure in India and Brazil makes it very unlikely that they would break up, because you’ll notice Texit is popular(and it’s exactly the kind of popular outside Overton window idea that the motte sometimes likes to use as examples of elite dissonance, even if there’s good reasons the elite like it less than the commons) in, well, Texas- one of those subordinated imperial core regions.
I dunno, could be wrong about the internal structures of India and Brazil, but I don’t think I’m wrong in pointing to the structures involved in the breakup of Yugoslavia and Austria-Hungary.
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