The debate over independence is intensifying, as campaigning for elections in December starts.
It also serves Moscow's interest by not stimulating unrest over independence now.
It was easy to argue - though it wasn't true - that the march of history must trample over national independence.
Even the debate over independence is harming the Scottish economy, he said, because international companies are "nervous" about investing.
You choose security over independence, to put it as boiled down as possible.
For the first time in America's short history, the nation didn't go to war with a foreign power over independence, foreign provocation, or global politics.
Laton wasn't a violence-tinged argument over resources or independence, he was after people, individuals.
Also at issue in the election was both party's policies over independence for Bermuda.
But writing again to Warren, Adams tried to explain the concern and hesitation over independence.
The quarrel over European independence in cold-war strategy is now obsolete.