... for themselves, of course. Now that someone else refuses to rubberstamp what is handed down to them, independent spirit is suddenly a problem. Oh, irony...

The same is actually playing out inside Belgium now. The reason Wallonia can do this is because the separatists (thinly disguised facists) now in charge of Flanders pushed for the treaty powers to be removed from the federal level down to the states. And now that it turns out that sword cuts both ways, the toys are flying out of the pram.