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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Neo Westphalian Europe Part 43: Republic of Ingria

The Republic of Ingria, also known as Ingermanland, is another region which great care will need to be taken with as it asserts its sovereignty. The region is currently Russia’s doorway to the Baltic Sea and it also contains a historically very important city for Russian history, St Petersburg.

Too long we have seen NATO forces try and support faux independence movements, in a cynical bid to force terrible oligarchs on these countries that then orient completely to the west. This western EU orientation takes the form of both their security and their trade arrangements. Again it will be important that these independence movements are truly for independence of these regions and good relations are kept between both east and west by these states.

It is of course assumed that with St Petersburg as the major city, in this new nation, a strong focus on good relations with Russia will continue. It will be important to have this new nation exist as a truly independent polity however, as in the wake of the European Union’s collapse it will be necessary to prevent any future conflict between the old foes of Sweden and Russia. An independent Ingria will act as a perfect buffer state between the two.

Ingria will be a multiethnic state as Russians make the majority of the population now. The indigenous Izhorians and Voles have a much reduced population, since the waves of colonisation have entered the area. There are also some Ingrian Finns who remain in this area. One way that this multi ethnic nation could be infused, with a new sense of shared identity, would be to reintroduce the Izhorian language as the national language. Within a generation or two Russian could be replaced by Izhorian, spoken by all Ingrians regardless of their ethnic background.

Such a restoration of rare languages has worked before, most notably in the case of Greek and Hebrew. Again this should not be interpreted as some attempt to de-Russify the region but simply as a way to create a deeper union in the nation. Maintaining balanced relations between Sweden and Russia will be this states most important role, to prevent the outbreak of any conflict.

The existence of this nation should also lay an end to the lie that the only forces seeking the devolution of power in Europe are part of some Russian plot, trying to weaken and dominate the continent. Russia itself will not be immune to the same forces that are currently pushing both sides of the Atlantic towards a future of smaller nation states. Again the current regime in Moscow should not see this as a threat, as long as no forces from the West try and use these moves to attempt regime change. As long as the Moscow government is allowed to play a role in the peaceful secession of these regions, and maintain great post secession ties with the new nations, it should be fine.

We saw a similar process during the break down of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States in its aftermath. A role in a wider CIS, and a shared part in the one belt one road scheme, should seek to calm any concerns Moscow may have. This will allow the greatest chance of peaceful secessions across the region and the current regime in Moscow being welcomed as a partner member in this new world structure, instead of being demonised as an enemy.

If Putin is smart he will push for these changes within his own borders himself. This will give him a much greater moral stand point from which to help champion a similar break up of the United States, into smaller countries. Having both the super states broken into smaller, safer, states will then ease the risk of them having conflict with each other and also remove the current nuclear threat which is building.

All of the territory that will form Ingria will come from former parts of Russia. The new Ingrian nation will be made up of the Slantsevsky, Luzhsky, Gatchinsky, Kingiseppsky, Kirovsky, Lomonosovsky, Tosnensky, Volosovsky and Vsevolozhsky Districts, currently a part of Leningrad Oblast in Russia. Added to this will be the Saint Petersburg metropolis, also currently a part of Russia. It is likely St Petersburg will be a highly autonomous almost city-state, as it is currently in the Russian Federation. However it will be in national union with the capital of Ingria, in Kirjasalo, instead of Moscow.

The Flag of Ingria is yet another in the Nordic cross family. It gets its colours from the colours of the Ingrian coat of arms, which the region acquired during the period of its Swedish occupation. Ingrian Finn nationalists adopted the flag during the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1919 they declared an independent Republic of North Ingria, in the Vsevolozhsky District, and this flag was the official flag of that nation. Later in 1920 the region was reabsorbed by neighbouring Russia. The modern nationalist movement once again uses this flag to represent all the Ingrian territory.

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Neo Westphalian Europe Part 42: Kingdom Of Sweden

Sweden will be one of the last of the remnant monarchies that exist on the continent, following the great geopolitical shake up that is looming. Sweden is another nation that has a number of territories it must cede back to neighbouring states, in the interests of a decentralised future. It will of course need to end the debate with neighbouring Denmark over the Skaneland issue. It will ease tensions with Norway by allowing an independent Jamtland to exist as a buffer between them. It also has a Sami minority in the north, which will have lands returned to them. 

This will leave a remaining Sweden made up of the Angermanland, Bohuslan, Dalarna, Dalsland, Gotland, Gastrikland, Halsingland, Harjedalen, Medelpad, Norrbotten, Narke, Oland, Ostergotland, Smaland, Sodermanland, Uppland, Varmland, Vastmanland, Vasterbotten and Vastergotland Provinces, currently part of Sweden.

The flag of Sweden is another in the Nordic Cross family of flags. It began like other flags of the region, with its cross in the centre of the flag as modelled after the Holy Roman Empire battle flag. It shifted its cross when the Danish flag had to move its cross, so it was not confused with the Knights of Malta flag. The colours of the flag come from the coat of arms of the Swedish monarch. This flag existed from the 1500’s. The Swedish East India Company also flew this early variant of the flag, when it became a sea faring force in later centuries.

The modern version of the flag began to take shape during the Swedish and Norwegian union of the 1800’s. The union flag was similar to the modern flag, with the union cross positioned in its canton. Finally the union cross was removed after the union with Norway had dissolved. This left the current flag being in use officially since 1905.

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Neo Westphalian Europe Part 41: Republic of Jamtland

The Republic of Jamtland was an independent nation in the early Middle Ages. It was operated as a peasant republic, giving it an affinity to the anarchic structures of government that we see growing in parts of Spain and the Middle East. It was eventually captured by the Norwegians and after that became embroiled in centuries of warfare, between Norway and Sweden, over ownership of the territory.

The region has its own language of Jamtlanidc, which also helps set it apart from its neighbours. In modern times a new Jamtland independence movement has sprung up, which considers itself somewhat an act of political theater. However it is easy to see this movement could very easily convert itself into an actual movement for independence again, with so much change across the continent in the aftermath of the EU’s collapse. It is highly likely that an affinity between this republic and similar anarchist republics in the Iberian Peninsula will exist as well. Therefore a fully independent Jamtland would be made out of the Jamtland Province currently a part of Sweden.

Two activists of the Jamtland movement created the flag of Jamtland in 1983. The three colours represent the blue sky and province of Jamtland, the snowy mountains and province of Harjedalen and the green woodland and province of Ragunda.

The seal is an old seal that Jamtland used in the Middle Ages, since its Norwegian time. Although granted to it by the Norwegian crown it does not represent any urge for renewed union with Norway. Although it is interesting that the current coat of arms, which depicts a moose representing Jamtland torn apart by a dog and a falcon representing the neighbouring nations, is replaced with this Norwegian symbol.

The flag has become very popular even among those who do not seek Jamtland independence but are proud of its heritage.

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