You do live in a bubble all your own.
The only "empire" is the Empire of Capital.
When the current struggles are over, if all goes well, these states will _sdtill_ belong to the Empire of Capital, but they will be _independent members. Their working people will probably but not certainly be better off. In any case, the workers of independent nation are in a better position to relate to international struggles as well as fight for their own immediate interests.
That is far from nothing, but it also is far from weakening _any_ empire in the present.
Carrol