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Yugoslavia was a whole different kettle of fish, it was carved out of the Austro-Hungarian empire at the end of WW1 as a reward for the Serbs by the allies without asking any of the nationalities that ended up in it. And it did work for a long time, it didn't have to fall apart, it seems quite likely the Miliosivitch provoked it's collapse to further his own and Serbian aims.
Nationalism exists, but most of Europe is post-nationalist in character, the people here in Portugal tell jokes about the Spanish, but beyond that and football they mostly couldn't care less and any sort of conflict is near unthinkable.
To me, human sociciety has been a journey of the expansion of the US to include THEM that began with your family of cavemen sitting around the camp fire and will one day hopefully end with the world and the Nation State was a stopping point on the way but not the be all end all
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