[Tax Government]

Those separate parts are called ‘states’. If we return to greater independence of states and less top-down federal control, so much the better.

[jospehm20]

Kind of what I thought when I saw this. It would be good to see the states have more power and the feds a lot less.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

I agree but I think the Russian analyst was thinking more along the lines of regions perhaps akin to North East / Dixie / mid West / Cascadia - West.

[SteamShovel]

If we return to greater independence of states and less top-down federal control, so much the better

I agree that less "top down control" is desireable. But....

Separate states without a Federal Union means we are easy pickins to foreign aggressors like Russia.

We need to preserve the Union for strategic reasons.