Does autonomy ever appease sepratists?

[Cashew]

Think about the Syrian kurds, they claim that they are just looking for autonomy, but that is obviously just a means to an end.

If anything a devolved Scottish parliament has only increased the sense of a Scottish identity, and made an independence referendum a lot more plausible.

I mean if Belarus, Ukraine has been part of the RSSR, there would have been no independence vote, the favor would burn itself out, and they would both be part of Russia today, worst case scenario would be to gerymander Ukraine.