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Originally posted by Yelof
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.
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Eh, not quite. The Croats and Slovenes were concerned about Italy's territorial ambitions during WW1, and wanted to form a kingdom with Serbia. And from what I've read lately, all the parties involved in the formation of Yugoslavia seemed more than willing to participate at the time.
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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.
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No doubt that Milosevic hastened its downfall, but do you really think Yugoslavia would have withstood the fall of communism? I have to say no.
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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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[uppity]We had no cavemen in OUR family![/uppity]
