Re: Can Europe Learn the Lessons of Yugoslavia?
In fact the issue of Tito being a Croat means peanuts, but it does make a point to show how futile and useless are these 'balkanic' hostilities. I don't expect someone like Zvaci to understand this, but I am sure that Zvonomir will.
The perspective of a benelux-like association would have made much sense from a geo-political point of view, while not interfering in the normal evolution of the national ethnic identities and sovereignties.
If the pride of Croatian nationalists is that this never happened and that they will soon join "the West", the E.U., while Serbia will remain outside for the moment, then they should be prepared to accept the reality that this implies: the loss of their national sovereignty to a gang of useless bureaucrats who know nothing about Croatia, the Balkan region, nor do the care about it.
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