Just use your key

There are many subreddits that serve the same purpose as well. They either become their own space with slight differences between their respective communities and rules, or one grows much larger and eventually eats up the other. This is normal, give it time. The advantage that the seperation brings is that if any one instance does a reddit and is no longer usable there can always be another to replace it.

This is like saying it’s bad for reddit to have too many subreddits. It’s not.

There have been a few before

As in, you expect Russia to fullfill their original goal and completely capture Ukraine? That seems laughably delusional.