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I believe that after Irish independence, the IRA was focused on the counties in the North, which remained in the UK.

Scotland would go lock, stock and barrel.

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I heard on the BBC livestream that Independent Scotland would have to reapply to the EU, and the current EU countries wouldn't fast track the application because they don't want to encourage breakups.

It turns out that applies to NATO, too. And would the current government actually want to be in NATO? So I guess Scots independence isn't really in the US interest.

There's a lot of romantic interest attached to the idea of history being made, but a lot of history has been made in our lifetime, and when it actually happens a lot of the time we don't actually notice.