Trent Shipley wrote:
>
> (...) Second, realigning the borders of sovereign
> states to correspond to areas of national presence
> invariably results in bloody destabilazation of
> entire regions. Witness sorting out the Balkans.
> Liberation from Austria Hungary and Ottoman colonial
> rule *caused* the First World war. (...)
>
Not exactly. The Ottoman empire was collapsing, but
Austria was expanding into the "abandoned" areas.
Remember that one of the motives of WWI was
"the anexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina by A-H"...
[BTW, when I studied this historical datum back
in the 70s I could never imagine how famous
this weird region would become 20 years later :-)]
Alberto Monteiro the nit-picker
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