Actually, secession ALWAYS works - unless there is a tyrant in power!
Within the last 15 years, we have literally seen secession break out WORLDWIDE - and we have supported it EVERYWHERE!
Did you not support the secession of West Germany from the Soviet Empire? How about the Czech Republic? Poland? Or for that matter, each and every state of the former Soviet Union?
Maybe you did not support, for that matter, the idea of 13 British colonies from Britain in, say, about 1776?
I think all those secession movements were good ideas. I think though, the countries in the Soviet orbit were separate countries to begin with, and wanted their independence.
I guess it’s hard for me to think about the states of the United States wanting to be independent countries.