Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Why Kosovo and Serbia are Fighting (Again)" video.

@CountScarlioni The Balkans is our (NATOs) backyard. In other parts of the world it's hard for us Europeans to actually intervene, we don't really have the capacity, unlike the US. But here we don't really have any other excuse then us being afraid of getting involved in that mess... The Balkans has been complicated since Roman times (honestly before that too, but the pre-roman complications isn't really relevant for us now in our current time), and I guess Europeans have learned to be a bit afraid of touching the region with a ten foot pole... Last time we did didn't exactly go all that well...
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@StoutProper Not really, I'm referring to the split of the Roman empire into a western Latin speaking and eastern Greek speaking part and everything that happened after that... The murder of the heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne (who was also someone who was against his fathers repression of minorities and democracy etc) is of course a part of that... But seriously we've been burned in the region for well over 2 000 years... Everything from Lydian pirates and Celts (and others) attacking the Greeks, to our time. The soldiers of European civilizations have been massacred in their tens of thousands in the Balkans for all of recorded history... The rugged terrain and its location between the Slavic speaking world, the Greek and Roman part of the Roman empire, the Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, the Catholic and Muslim world, and locals like the Albanians who have been there from ancient times... The Danube river... The region has just always been a nightmare to deal with for us... And for locals as well... The only sensible thing is to try to let each country be in peace with their own peoples and cultures and try to work on the ethnic tension, and maybe in 3-4 generations we can defuse the situation enough to make the region as semi-normal part of Europe... But just like us nordics it's always going to be populated by fiercely independence minded locals who will never kowtow to the major powers of Europe. It's going to be a slow processes to find solutions that works for everyone... And it will entail compromises that no one are happy with.
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@creepinasicrawl You're playing a game while they're building a engine, instead of the regular taking a premade engine and running with it (with just a few tweaks). (The whole Amazon/lumberjard thing was just about copyright and licensing and stuff, DC is still running on a custom engine).
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 @pc_suffering6941 101 countries of the world (or more then half) dissagree with you there... My own included.
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@OrthodoxSerb_ Blaming your chaos on the west isn't even close to covering it all. Yoguslavia was a doomed project from the start and shouldn't have existed.
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