Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.
The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.
Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.
Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political side to them.
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going to be forever chaos. It's time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law.
One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
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