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  • I don't know of a political movement yet, but I would guess the following:

    • Without Russia, the new St. Petersburg country could engage with more trade with the EU instead. The region is one of the more advanced parts of Russia, so they may figure that they could do better trading within the EU customs union than being frozen out.
    • While a lot of resource wealth goes into Moscow and St. Petersburg from some parts of Russia, there are a lot of other areas that rely on massive Russian subsidies to maintain their standards of living. If resource wealth gets cut off, St. Petersburg may not want to subsidize these backwater areas.
    • The Wagner Group is located in St. Petersburg. It is possible that a future civil war between the Wagner Group and the Russian government may lead to the Wagner Group wanting independence from Russia to keep its pseudo colonial riches.
  • It would likely be the end of Russia as a country.

    The conquering of St. Petersburg was central to the modern formation of the Russian identity. After that, the lands were made integral to Russia. A post-Soviet Russia would never allow such a key part of the country to break away.

    A post-Russian Eurasia would likely see at least four independent countries; potentially more. The eastern part of Russia would likely fall into China's sphere of influence immediately without much resistance from the rest of the world.

  • Yeah, but depending on the industry, that can be ok.

    Some fields have companies that will hire and fire en masse based on projects that start and stop. At that point, they aren't just paying you to show up to work, they're also paying you to leave.

  • Tags without communities would upend how Lemmy works. You would need instance based moderation instead of community moderation in order for that to work. You would also run into problems if a post is tagged with multiple tags, since that could mean a different sets of mod rules applied to the same post.