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80 years after the creation of Yugoslavia I would say the war of the nineties was still 95% caused by internal problems and not by some recent external involvement, after all it means that 3 generations had lived there to figure it out to make it work.

No, I simply don't agree with you. 95% of what happened in former Yugoslavia was caused by internal problems. Yugoslavia was not a Panama or Vietnam.

Let me guess the Serbian nationalism was just a reaction of the "foreign" interference. Oh Boy, you should really wear a tin foil hat so that those western foreigners can't read your mind... What Garrick said sounds far more sensible than your version of events. The politicians failed first...

ok, for the antf*ckers (hairsplitters) ;): if you replace Slavs/Slavic by Germanic people/Germanic.

If you replace the word Slavic by Germanic it sounds a bit dark and outdated to be honest. Slavic union wouldn't work as Yugoslavia didn't work, because the biggest one is the most hated one.

lame excuse for bad behaviour... guess what Hitler was not a German but Austrian! Oh Napoleon was a Corsican not French...

Of course that's the dilemma for Europe, is this another precedent for another annexation of Russia? In which case they continue this expansive behaviour, which destabilizes more countries in the Russian orbit.

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I don't like tu-quoque argumentation, because it's justifying misbehaviour by reflecting on others rather addressing the misbehaviour in front of you. Wrong is wrong and it is never right. I don't defend the American policy if it does not apply to basic international law. If the US is...

Yeah... right it's some evil scheme of the west to play Ukraine apart. However I think they had some real misconceptions on how Russia would react if Ukraine would sign an EU treaty. They simply didn't expect that Russia would invade Ukraine, that it would recognize basic international law you...

Simply buying time and see what Poroshenko had to offer, that's all in other words opportunistic meeting. Putin didn't like the offer so fighting is continuing. The UN can do nothing, because every proposal that could de-escalate the situation would be vetoed by Russia as a member of the...

Well, a year ago I would have thought Russia is not that stupid, but Ukraine is a different story because it is not a small insignificant country that you can invade or lets say defeat just like that. And that's why this is a very dangerous move of Russia. You can start a war, but you can't plan...

Worst than Carter isn't possible, because Carter was a one term president. For now Bush junior in the recent history was the worst the, one who invaded in Iraq, the rest is poorly managed fallout by Obama. Well, this already going for a while like this, but it becomes for Russia more and more...

Finally they will, but it will take some patience and effort before this will happen. Corruption is the big problem in Ukraine and as long as that is not solved it will not be allowed to join the EU. The EU will not make the same mistake again like it did with other countries.

Ok, that sounds worse especially the 200 air-raids, but if you considering the sizes of the two islands and the effort that was made to literally get rid of the island I think Heligoland was still quite something. Well the people had to leave, the plan was to blow the whole thing up which they...

Worse than Heligoland?:thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heligoland#World_War_II , even after the war they didn't manage to blast it away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heligoland#Explosion

Crete was part of Greece wasn't it. No help from the Brits and Australians? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crete Yetos, this discussion is quite off-topic don't you think?

Well, laugh while you can, but Russia is going down now and you are not realizing it yet. Putin is going to hell with his foreign, underhand adventures, because his little incompetent friends in eastern Ukraine have ****** up big time five days ago. He can't cover that up. In other words...

well, I am using paypal, why using expensive credit cards after all, they should integrate the European paying systems (like ideal in NL) more so that we don't rely on some weird payment system from the US. Christiaan

The harbours for fluid gas are already built, we don't need the Russian gas if we don't want to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LNG_terminals