>>The end result is that instead of one moderately developed, independent and generally successful country, now there are six or seven mostly unviable ones, or at least nothing to envy them for...

I refreshed my memory about the way the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia broke up. I will not insult you with a trite precis, but I see the common themes of unemployment/hopelessness (with the cheerful IMF gnomes providing their usual contribution,) mob hysterical conversion of ordinary neighbors into demons needing to be cleansed and psychopaths creating mob action for idle hands. As Thomas says, at a *minimum* there needs to be a capable acceptable government whenever organization falls or is brought down, otherwise the modern experience is that the psychopaths step in.

What do you think is the solution for the problem you describe? What chance that the Republic can reassemble into a coherent entity with more scale? If not possible, then what is the solution and what are the idle youths doing today?