Eastern block is only there because of the UIF. As long as uif exists the rest of the map only has a chance if they ally together. They did, and when UIF is gone so will the eastern block.
As I've said before, once the entire eastern bloc properly disbands I'll apologize for my mistrust, but I still do not see that really happening this round (closet to Eastern disbanding I see is them breaking into Coalition, Crusader Alliance, Apostles, and Cold Front, and even there I doubt you'd really ever wage war on eachother).
My main grudges with Dhirim has always been that you were moving troops out of it while asking for troops to defend it, you complaining about how United Democratic let greys get land in the Dhirim area, the random rules that weren't listed in the actual Dhirim threads that you only heard by mad gingerpussy pms, and that gingerpussy continuously used it to talk about how nice mercs are when truth be told you were allowed to trade with most groups if you only bothered asking first.
And United Democratic was not planning on taking your fief.