>>Well, if dissolutions of Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were advertised as so good in the West, I'm not surprised that the idea "dissolution"=="good" took root where it wasn't expected.
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>Aye but Russia could lose all her satellites and STILL be left with the biggest country in the world. What would we be left with? It's already the case that nowhere in BRITAIN is more than c. 70 miles from the sea. It's only some 600 miles from tip to tail, and that includes Scotland. So, I'm not sure of the dimensions but England is only c 140 miles at its widest, and say 400 long.

At least you'd still have some coast left, to differ from Serbia :)