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From: Robert Tatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > What hath Milocevic wrought? Since taking power 12 years ago,
> > he's accomplished a great deal for his people. He's started
> > and lost four wars. He's overseen the total breakup of the
> > old Republic of the Southern Slavs, 'balkanized' into its
> > constituent components. He's seen Serbs expelled from those
> > breakaway states by the hundreds of thousands, seen thousands
> > more suffer from atrocities at the hands of vengeful non-Serbs
> > in retribution for the atrocities of Serb soldiers and militias.
> > He's given the remaining Serbs a land that's shrunken, shattered,
> > impoverished, emasculated, isolated, reviled; its infrastructure
> > destroyed; its fields and waters poisoned; its literati purged;
> > its role as a regional power minimized. He's fucked the Serbs.
> >
> > Could one man be this incompetent, all on his own? Was he
> > driven only by a greed for power, to transform himself from a
> > communist aparatchik into a suicidal nationalist? Or has he
> > achieved his goal: the denaturing of Serbia? Who does he work
> > for, really? Whose interests are served by turning the Balkans
> > into a swarm of microstates; by inserting Mujahadin activists
> > and NATO soldiers into Southeast Europe; by demonstrating that
> > Russia is defanged, impotent, irrelevant to European affairs?
> >
> > For two millennia, the former Yugoslavia was the fault line
> > between Western and Eastern Europe; for 3/4 of that time, the
> > knife-edge between Catholic & Orthodox Xianity; for 2/3 of that
> > time, the spear-point where Islam prods Xianity. Like Palestine
> > where the 3 continents of Europe, Asia and Africa converge, the
> > Balkans are deceptively complex - often a neglected backwater,
> > sometime the strategic bone of contention between multiple
> > forces. Events there are not just of local concern, they echo
> > and reverberate around the world. Players there become global
> > actors. Who fed Milocevic his script? Who directed the play?
> >
> > Milocevic, take a bow. You've played your part superbly.
> >
> I sense, as others have, a scheme to complete the work begun at
> Versailles in 1919--the concentration of each ethnic, linguistic,
> and/or cultural group in Europe into its own ministate. It was
> this notion of Wilson that provoked Clemenceau's famous *mot*,
> "What! Must every little language have its own country?"
>
> When finished, the map of Europe will be a patchwork bearing
> little resemblance to the national borders we've become used to:
> the "United Kingdom" will be splintered into separate English,
> Welsh, Scottish, and Northern Irish states; Northwest Spain and
> Southwest France will become an independent Basque state; Cata-
> lonia will be independent; Italy will be split into at least
> two new states, Padania in the north and a rump state approxi-
> mating the ancient Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in the south; the
> German-speaking South Tyrol may reunite with Austria. Belgium
> will divide into at least two new states, one Flemish (Dutch)
> speaking and one French. In Eastern Europe, in addition to the
> dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Hungarian-speaking regions of
> Romania (Transylvania), Slovakia, and Serbia (Vojvodina) will be
> merged with Hungary. Greater Albania will be reconstituted by
> adding Kosova and the parts of Macedonia and Greece that were
> stripped away in the 19th century. In Northern Europe, the Sami
> (Lapp) territories in the north of Finland, Sweden, and Norway
> will be at least autonomous, possibly independent. Karelia (the
> historic Finnish homeland, since 1940 part of Russia) will prob-
> ably be returned to Finland. Of Europe's multilingual states,
> only Switzerland will survive intact.
>
> Any comments?
You forgot the partition of Friesland [Frisian language zone] from
Holland and Germany; breaking Germany into its old North/Central
(Protestant) and South (Catholic) dialect areas; splitting Provence
from northern France, Galicia from Spain, Scandia from Sweden, the
North Caucasus hodge-podge from Russia; with Corsica and Sardinia
set adrift, er granted freedom too; and don't forget the Kurds.
And Circassians. Why, just considering the total fragmentation
of Russia into language areas should set cartographers salivating.
Hmmm, CoEvolution Quarterly / Whole Earth Review devoted an issue
to Euro.breakup some years back, but I can't locate that just now...
So. How much self-determination is enough? How much can you handle?
Who determines just what "self" is doing the self-determining? Is
the age of empires & nations past? Will a viable New World Order
consist of zillions of small, homogenous states, within regional
and global organizations? Will those statelets be organized as
cultural regions, bio-regions, virtual regions, industrial zones?
Will such statelets be truly self-determined, or will they be easy
pickings for Corporate States that aren't constrained by physical
boundaries? Are physical states themselves bound for extinction,
replaced by virtual states? How can/do/will humans organize into
groupings that do things impossible for individuals?
How much will the Reptilioids and Republicans let us get away with?
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