@2legged@mastodon.ie Personally I've always felt that countries that don't accept secession by regional majority should not call themselves democratic. (And countries that siege regions in revolt for reasons boiling down to spite aren't much better.) For this reason I've always felt a bit uneasy with rhetoric circling around stuff like Finland as part of [Sweden, Russian Empire, EU], American Confederation etc. If the choice of belonging is made by polity together, it's at best a tyranny of majority.