[Thanos]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

Thanos Thanos:

It's a part of the world where there literally are no good guys, just varying shades of evil depending on who's top dog at the moment. Anyone with any sense at all leaves them to their own devices and stays the hell out of there altogether.

All 3 sides were guilty of war crimes, even the peaceful muslims.

When things like that erupt it's actually kinder to let the hatred and violence run it's course until someone wins. Interfering with things like peacekeeping just prolongs the agony, and sets up more artificial boundaries that just leaves all sides pissed off and gives a later generation an excuse to someday start up the insanity all over again.

[martin14]

Thanos Thanos:

2Cdo 2Cdo:

Thanos Thanos:

It's a part of the world where there literally are no good guys, just varying shades of evil depending on who's top dog at the moment. Anyone with any sense at all leaves them to their own devices and stays the hell out of there altogether.

All 3 sides were guilty of war crimes, even the peaceful muslims.

When things like that erupt it's actually kinder to let the hatred and violence run it's course until someone wins. Interfering with things like peacekeeping just prolongs the agony, and sets up more artificial boundaries that just leaves all sides pissed off and gives a later generation an excuse to someday start up the insanity all over again.

This is the thing that so many Westerners just don't understand.

The fights in that region aren't 20 years old, or 70 years old, or 100 years old.

They are over a thousand years old.

[Thanos]

The whole area gave the Roman Empire headaches for four hundred years when the damned places were named Illyricum and Dacia. Nothing ever changes, except for the locals finding new ways to commit atrocities against each other.

[N_Fiddledog]

martin14 martin14:

More globalist utter tripe written by a stupid hack sitting in his Ottawa office, with portraits of all Trudeaus hanging over his shoulder, watching him.

There ya go...somebody got it.

This piece isn't really about Serbia or Bosnia, but yeah that idiocy has lots to scare people with.

Why is the Hungary referendum even included here? You'd have to read from the bottom to answer that and see what this piece is really about. (Reading from the bottom is a good policy with any CBC propaganda analysis.)

2 words towards the bottom will tell you what CBC writer Don Murray is really unhappy with.

"nasty nationalism"

Don does not like the fact the Globalist machinery of its EUSSR is letting it's first step to globalist control slip out of their fingers.

The Liberal puppet-masters favoring globalism are not happy and when they're not happy the CBC is not happy. And when they're not happy they'll find themselves a Don Murray to tell you about it.

[N_Fiddledog]

Here's the last paragraph for those of you who didn't read that far.

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Meanwhile, in Hungary …

Hungary's referendum poses other problems for Brussels. Its attempt to impose a common refugee policy, with quotas for each EU member states, was already in disarray. The vote, which will almost certainly be overwhelmingly against accepting any refugees in Hungary, will only complicate things further.

There are common themes linking the two referendums and the vote in Croatia. The first is the return in force of "nasty nationalism", one that defines nations and states by ethnic purity and furiously rejects outsiders.

The second, particularly in the case of the referendums, is the belief that Brussels is now so beset by crises that it can do little to stop or punish these "nasty initiatives".

The picture is not pretty. And the prospects for a brighter portrait of Europe are slim.

[ShepherdsDog]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Thanos Thanos:

In WW2 the Croatians ran a death camp so hellish that even the Nazis were shocked by it.

Nice to know the Nazis had the capacity to be shocked.

They commented about how brutal the Slavs were towards the Jews, especially the Poles.

[Thanos]

And the Croats towards the Serbs. The Nazis operated their camps with an assembly-line emotional indifference, with brutality applied at certain points in the procedure to maintain order and reduce the possibility of a revolt among the inmates. Very mechanical, nothing personal for the most part as the overall job was to process as many "units" as possible. The Croats were in it for the cruelty and the "fun" of it, and indulged themselves in every bit of violence possible, like something out of medieval painting of the torments of hell. Anyone interested should just Google "Jasenovac" for a couple of hours and take a tour through what the human brain is capable of doing when religious and cultural hatred becomes the only guide.

[BeaverFever]

Thanos Thanos:

The whole area gave the Roman Empire headaches for four hundred years when the damned places were named Illyricum and Dacia. Nothing ever changes, except for the locals finding new ways to commit atrocities against each other.

And before that, they were Thracians

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Thracians were regarded by other people as warlike, ferocious, and bloodthirsty.[27][28] They were seen as "barbarians" by ancient Greeks and Romans. Plato in his Republic considers them, along with the Scythians,[29] extravagant and high spirited and his Laws considers them war-like nations grouping them with Celts, Persians, Scythians, Iberians and Carthaginians.[30] Polybius wrote of Cotys's sober and gentle character being unlike that of most Thracians.[31] Tacitus in his Annals writes of them being wild, savage and impatient, disobedient even to their own kings.[32]

Polyaenus and Strabo write how the Thracians broke their pacts of truce with trickery.[33][34] The Thracians struck their weapons against each other before battle, in the Thracian manner, as Polyaneus testifies.[35] Diegylis was considered one of the most bloodthirsty chieftains by Diodorus Siculus. An Athenian club for lawless youths was named after the Triballi.[36]

According to ancient Roman sources, the Dii[37] were responsible for the worst[38] atrocities of the Peloponnesian War killing every living thing, including children and the dogs in Tanagra and Mycalessos.[37] Thracians would impale Roman heads on their spears and rhomphaias such as in the Kallinikos skirmish at 171 BC.[39] Herodotus writes that "they sell their children and let their maidens commerce with whatever men they please".[40]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracians