Friday, June 30, 2017

Neo Westphalian Europe Part 44: Sapmi Republic


The Sapmi Republic, also known as Lapland, is another republic that will be built around the core of an ethnic minority, with historic ties to a region. As with all of this post Globalist model, for a future world order, it is not being suggested here that any major ethnic cleansings take place. The purpose of this model is to attempt to restore stability and a general order of peace in most regions. Therefore some regions will have once belonged to minorities that have since drastically dwindled in numbers.

This may mean that they are underrepresented somewhat in any democratic states, which form around their lands, based purely on numbers. However using language as a binding project for these nation-building programs will be the best way forward. In some cases, where the minority has been displaced largely by a majority made up of a single culture, then bilingual nations like Quebec may be a possibility. In other nations, where there is a large mix of cultures, then a unitary Lingua Franca based on the historic minority will make the most sense.

In the case of the Sapmi Republic this will make the most sense. It will be inhabited by a diverse group of Sami, Norwegians, Swedes, Finns and Russians. For this reason restoring the Sami language, as the national language, would be the obvious way forward in forging this new nation. It is also likely that this will be a nation that experiments in a two-tiered legal system, as the ethnic minority Sami are still a highly nomadic people. They will thus require some enshrining of nomadic rights, within the new nations constitution.

The settler populations are more used to living an urban lifestyle, so they will require laws focused more around property ownership ideas. Finding a balance between these two forces will pave the way for other nations where there is a clash between nomadic needs and those of settled populations.

It is likely that some tweaking of the Sami’s territorial claims would make sense. Given that a greater break up of a centralised Russian state is inevitable, in this coming world order, it would make sense for the whole of the Kola Peninsula to become a part of this new nation. There is no real reason why an exclave of a Russian or Novgorodian state would need to exist there. This would be despite the fact that the Sami themselves do not have current claims to the southern parts of this peninsula. In exchange for this increased territorial gain in the east the western claims of the Sami, in Norway, could then be truncated to compensate.

Again it will be important not to let NATO stooges hijack such movements in some duplicitous scheme to gobble up new land, for some giant Trans Atlantic empire that is hostile to Russia. All these new nations, which may spring out of the current Russian Federation, should be encouraged to maintain brotherly ties with the regime in Moscow. They should not be used as any sort of leverage to threaten regime change in Moscow. Only the people of the rump state of Russia should have any say, as to what the make up of the Government in Russia looks like.

If Putin is smart he will realise that this future of decentralised polities is the future for a stable and strong world. Instead of attempting to create a new Soviet or Byzantine empire he would be wise to do the reverse and become a true supporter of anti Imperial and anti Colonial forces. In this way he will be able to advocate for the break up of the North American continent, from a strong position of having lead the way with his own secession movements.

A scaled down United States will end the threats facing the Moscow government and allow for the remaining nation of Russia to continue to trade with its surrounding nations, as a true member of a European community of independent, sovereign states. All of this should be viewed as a positive by the government in Moscow not as a threat. Umbrella trade deals like One Belt One Road, and mutual defence of a European wide Commonwealth of Independent States, could then be used to keep the new states as happy neighbours and would end the ridiculous and endless warmongering that has nearly destroyed our entire civilisation.

So with this in mind we can hypothesise a break down, of the overly large Russian Federation, not in terms of some Grand Chess Board attempt to destroy the Russian people but a genuine attempt at good will for all the ethnic groups across the region.

In the Sami case then it is clear the Kola Peninsula would make a sensible addition to this new nation. This would leave a new Sapmi Republic made up of the following territories. The Troms and Finnmark Counties, currently a part of Norway. The Lappland Province, currently a part of Sweden. The Sami Domicile Area located in the Lapland Region, currently a part of Finland. The historical border of the Laponia province can be used to determine this boundary. Lastly the Murmansk Oblast, which is currently a part of Russia, will be added to this new nation.


An initial flag of the Sami ethnic people was created and flown in 1977, during protests against a dam that would have disrupted Sami life in Norway. This protest flag was then adapted and adopted as the official flag of the Sami people and region, at the Nordic Sami Conference in 1986. The Red, Green, Yellow and Blue colours represent traditional dress colours of the various tribes of the Sami. A central circle, based on the circle that appears on Sami shaman’s drums, finishes the flag. Its half red half blue represents the cycle of the sun and moon.


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