Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
>
>> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:47:05 -0800
>> > Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> >> > the efforts in the Balkans have been "utter failures" ?
>> >>
>> >> I'd hardly call any of the former Soviet-bloc stable.
>> >
>> > Please elaborate on this one!
>>
>> Considering the Balkans haven't ever particularly stabilized as far
>> as I can tell,
>
> Your impression is not very accurate. Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania
> are part of Nato and EU now. Croatia is doing well also. Serbia,
> Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina are recovering nicely. Albania also
> hasn't been in the news lately, which is a good thing :) Greece I don't
> even have to mention.
>
>> and Russia is aggressively trying to keep territory
>> acquired under soviet rule and reverting to it's Soviet-era ways, and
>> we all know how stable the Soviet Union was the first time around...
>
> What do you mean by aggressively? Haven't seen any Russian tanks around.
Not exactly seeing peace in Chechnya.
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