Countries that Bordered the USSR

Those Soviets really needed their potassium...

Lol

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I think the Googlestan empire rules.

You forgot Firefoxstan! It's a very important country for the world (wide web)!

Duckduckgostan?

YES

Agreed

Or rather, correctly, as the spelling above is wrong.

Ukgbni doesn't have to be accepted for the United Kingdom, as the first two letters are already accepted for it.

they weren't before WWII, that's why he's confused

Momgolia sounds like a brand of women's hiking clothes.

What?

No they weren't

Wasn't Finland part of the Russian Empire and Mongolia part of Qing Dynasty China?

Good.

The Soviet Union disintegrated. The United States remained the world's only superpower. The US and its allies clearly won. Unless you are saying that the entire exercise was unproductive and wasteful which, if so, fair enough.

The different US states did use to think of themselves as separate sovereign entities, but joined together in a common federation of independent states, probably similar to how different member states of the EU feel today. But that's pretty ancient history, now. Slowly the USA moved closer to something like the UK, where the constituent entities were independent and "states" ("countries") in name only, power was increasingly concentrated at the federal level, and citizens of individual states began to think less of themselves as Virginians or New Yorkers and more as Americans. Until finally we got to the status quo of the day where, in the US, if you hold allegiance to your state or city higher than to your country this is usually seen as quaint or cute but unrealistic, and only kooks and dingbats like Ted Cruz openly talk about secession, and then are publicly ridiculed for it.

Yeah, even in our age of polarization, no one is talking about the breakup of the United States. The difference is that the Soviet Union was really a successor state to the Russian Empire, which was made of dozens of ethnicities with their own histories and geographic regions. The weakening of the Soviet Union in the late '80s was the perfect time for these nations to regain sovereignty and break free of Russian influence. In contrast, most parts of the US have the same acknowledged history, and while we are ethnically diverse, our diversity isn't based around geography or history.

Maybe in the far future, regional cultures in North America will become distinct enough for the US to break up, but I doubt it'll happen anytime this century.