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Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> What hath Milocevic wrought? Since taking power 12 years ago,
> he's accomplished a great deal for his people. He's started
> and lost four wars. He's overseen the total breakup of the
> old Republic of the Southern Slavs, 'balkanized' into its
> constituent components. He's seen Serbs expelled from those
> breakaway states by the hundreds of thousands, seen thousands
> more suffer from atrocities at the hands of vengeful non-Serbs
> in retribution for the atrocities of Serb soldiers and militias.
> He's given the remaining Serbs a land that's shrunken, shattered,
> impoverished, emasculated, isolated, reviled; its infrastructure
> destroyed; its fields and waters poisoned; its literati purged;
> its role as a regional power minimized. He's fucked the Serbs.
>
> Could one man be this incompetent, all on his own? Was he
> driven only by a greed for power, to transform himself from a
> communist aparatchik into a suicidal nationalist? Or has he
> achieved his goal: the denaturing of Serbia? Who does he work
> for, really? Whose interests are served by turning the Balkans
> into a swarm of microstates; by inserting Mujahadin activists
> and NATO soldiers into Southeast Europe; by demonstrating that
> Russia is defanged, impotent, irrelevant to European affairs?
>
> For two millennia, the former Yugoslavia was the fault line
> between Western and Eastern Europe; for 3/4 of that time, the
> knife-edge between Catholic & Orthodox Xianity; for 2/3 of that
> time, the spear-point where Islam prods Xianity. Like Palestine
> where the 3 continents of Europe, Asia and Africa converge, the
> Balkans are deceptively complex - often a neglected backwater,
> sometime the strategic bone of contention between multiple
> forces. Events there are not just of local concern, they echo
> and reverberate around the world. Players there become global
> actors. Who fed Milocevic his script? Who directed the play?
>
> Milocevic, take a bow. You've played your part superbly.
>
I sense, as others have, a scheme to complete the work begun at Versailles in
1919--the concentration of each ethnic, linguistic, and/or cultural group in
Europe into its own ministate. It was this notion of Wilson that provoked
Clemenceau's famous *mot*, "What! Must every little language have its own
country?"
When finished, the map of Europe will be a patchwork bearing little
resemblance to the national borders we've become used to: the "United Kingdom"
will be splintered into separate English, Welsh, Scottish, and Northern Irish
states; Northwest Spain and Southwest France will become an independent Basque
state; Catalonia will be independent; Italy will be split into at least two
new states, Padania in the north and a rump state approximating the ancient
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in the south; the German-speaking South Tyrol may
reunite with Austria. Belgium will divide into at least two new states, one
Flemish (Dutch) speaking and one French. In Eastern Europe, in addition to the
dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Hungarian-speaking regions of Romania
(Transylvania), Slovakia, and Serbia (Vojvodina) will be merged with Hungary.
Greater Albania will be reconstituted by adding Kosova and the parts of
Macedonia and Greece that were stripped away in the 19th century. In Northern
Europe, the Sami (Lapp) territories in the north of Finland, Sweden, and
Norway will be at least autonomous, possibly independent. Karelia (the
historic Finnish homeland, since 1940 part of Russia) will probably be
returned to Finland. Of Europe's multilingual states, only Switzerland will
survive intact.
Any comments?
Bob
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