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Turbineguy

(37,337 posts)
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 04:50 PM Jun 2022

Because starting one world war just isn't enough.....

Bosnian Serb leader prays for Trump's return, praises Putin

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bosnian-serb-leader-prays-for-trump-s-return-praises-putin/ar-AAYTjKp?ocid=af-avas

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The leader of Bosnia's Serbs said Sunday he hoped former U.S. President Donald Trump would return to power and that the Serbs would “wait for appropriate global circumstances” to reach for their goal of seceding from Bosnia, which he called an “unsustainable state.”

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Because starting one world war just isn't enough..... (Original Post) Turbineguy Jun 2022 OP
WTF? Didn't enough people die in the war during the 1990s? I read that well over 100,000 Ziggysmom Jun 2022 #1
Scary shit...but the Balkan situation has never really been resolved... Wounded Bear Jun 2022 #2

Ziggysmom

(3,407 posts)
1. WTF? Didn't enough people die in the war during the 1990s? I read that well over 100,000
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 05:01 PM
Jun 2022

people died before the US brokered the peace deal that finally ended the conflict.
Let's prevent another war and just sent tRumpy to go live with Dodik. Dodik is another genocide denier, like Putin, that the repugs just love.

Wounded Bear

(58,662 posts)
2. Scary shit...but the Balkan situation has never really been resolved...
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 05:07 PM
Jun 2022

Once again, ethinc differences that go back centuries but are only somewhat tempered for the time being.

Serbia came back into existence in the early 1900's and were, like many newly created ethno-centric states, expansionary and aggressive. After WWI, they were buried in the Yugo-slav frankenstein state.

In the 1990's Serbia emerged again, and like before there are significant Serbian minorities in neighboring states they would love to absorb going forward. That all calmed down a bit, but it is still there, bubbling under the surface.

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