DDD
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The country that I call "Dardania" is in fact this:
Who Recognized Kosova? The Kosovar people thank you - Who Recognized Kosovo and Who Recognizes Kosovo
The countries in blue on the map represent countries that have recognized our independence declared in 2008, the ones in gray have not still, and the ones in yellow are considering it. It takes 2/3's of UN countries to recognize a countries independence so as we would be an independent UN member. As you can see it there we are at 101 now.
Another 28 to go and we will be with the UN. I think there are 5 countries in EU that have not yet recognized us. So generally we are getting there.
But, technically Dardania and Albania are the same people divided by force from Serbs during 1878 while the Ottoman Empire was retreating (we thought they would protect us but underestimated Russia). We have endured several atrocities, genocides, looting, re-arrangements of wealth, forced dislocations, and assimilation attempts from Serbs since then during: 1912, 1945, and the one you saw in 1999.
Now here is the deal. We are small and surrounded by foes (like Israel). Our foes are relentless with their unfriendly propaganda that you may observe in RT. The attitudes are generally polarized and favoring the Serbian interpretation in extreme bias (this after all we went through).
Though we have NATO troops stationed here to guarantee peace and we are basically untouchable by that much, we have had other countries guaranteeing peace even before. We had Austria, Deutchland, Britain during the 1900's, but then they went to war with one another (tearing the guarantees with that).
NATO troops may not always be here for it is costing them to be here, and sooner or later there may be other pressing priorities that may drive the troops away from here. You never know what may happen in the future. Out of all possibilities lets just take for instance something of a third origin. Whatever, lets say the weather and how it is expected that it too may cause future wars:
http://www.debatepolitics.com/envir...agw-consensus-come-end-26.html#post1062141195
When other trouble may arise there is the risk of NATO troops attending other crisis and there may be a repeated drama from Serbs yet again. This may be the case especially since as you may see in RT they have highly polarized views about everything related to Dardania (e.g., Serbs are victims, we are terrorists, you are oppressors helping us terrorists, NATO is the third Reich, Our presidents are like Hitler, etc).
Albania is a NATO member. The simplest solution to counter the negative attitudes before it spills into another drama would be for Dardania and Albania to unite. United we would have a chance against such prejudice and attitudes from Serbs and Russians, and all those, but with only 2 million people and very limited resources the situation is bleak. As it is we are highly reliant on you, and this may be costing you, and who knows what tomorrow would demand of you, for your interests instead of being here. This while united we could be of great help with you as a NATO member on our future endeavors together. Possibly liberating other countries like you did here.
The thing is also that those 101 countries recognized and blessed Dardania as an independent country (not Albania). I think there is this feeling that there may be great disappointment from our supporters, they may think that we cheated on them by joining with Albania now. Secondly there is this conspiracy that if we join Albania, Vojvodina would want to join Hungary, that Hungarians in Slovakia would want to join Hungary, that Transilvania in Romania would want to join Hungary, Deutchland would want to take back its lost parts after WW2, and... you get the picture. We wanting to join would create a domino effect where all other countries would would to join and basically change the EU maps as they are.
So in one hand there is a simple solution to the critical situation in Dardania by uniting with Albania. On the other hand there is this fear of disappointment (we made Dardania together after all) and conspiracy theories linked to this solution.
But as it is it cannot stand indefinitely neither. So how about it my Politically Primed Peers (3P's for short). What are the solutions? Should we unite and break another wall, I mean, another border, for the convenience of a EU with less administrative borders now? Or should this be done later at some point for some reason?
Who Recognized Kosova? The Kosovar people thank you - Who Recognized Kosovo and Who Recognizes Kosovo
The countries in blue on the map represent countries that have recognized our independence declared in 2008, the ones in gray have not still, and the ones in yellow are considering it. It takes 2/3's of UN countries to recognize a countries independence so as we would be an independent UN member. As you can see it there we are at 101 now.
Another 28 to go and we will be with the UN. I think there are 5 countries in EU that have not yet recognized us. So generally we are getting there.
But, technically Dardania and Albania are the same people divided by force from Serbs during 1878 while the Ottoman Empire was retreating (we thought they would protect us but underestimated Russia). We have endured several atrocities, genocides, looting, re-arrangements of wealth, forced dislocations, and assimilation attempts from Serbs since then during: 1912, 1945, and the one you saw in 1999.
Now here is the deal. We are small and surrounded by foes (like Israel). Our foes are relentless with their unfriendly propaganda that you may observe in RT. The attitudes are generally polarized and favoring the Serbian interpretation in extreme bias (this after all we went through).
Though we have NATO troops stationed here to guarantee peace and we are basically untouchable by that much, we have had other countries guaranteeing peace even before. We had Austria, Deutchland, Britain during the 1900's, but then they went to war with one another (tearing the guarantees with that).
NATO troops may not always be here for it is costing them to be here, and sooner or later there may be other pressing priorities that may drive the troops away from here. You never know what may happen in the future. Out of all possibilities lets just take for instance something of a third origin. Whatever, lets say the weather and how it is expected that it too may cause future wars:
http://www.debatepolitics.com/envir...agw-consensus-come-end-26.html#post1062141195
When other trouble may arise there is the risk of NATO troops attending other crisis and there may be a repeated drama from Serbs yet again. This may be the case especially since as you may see in RT they have highly polarized views about everything related to Dardania (e.g., Serbs are victims, we are terrorists, you are oppressors helping us terrorists, NATO is the third Reich, Our presidents are like Hitler, etc).
Albania is a NATO member. The simplest solution to counter the negative attitudes before it spills into another drama would be for Dardania and Albania to unite. United we would have a chance against such prejudice and attitudes from Serbs and Russians, and all those, but with only 2 million people and very limited resources the situation is bleak. As it is we are highly reliant on you, and this may be costing you, and who knows what tomorrow would demand of you, for your interests instead of being here. This while united we could be of great help with you as a NATO member on our future endeavors together. Possibly liberating other countries like you did here.
The thing is also that those 101 countries recognized and blessed Dardania as an independent country (not Albania). I think there is this feeling that there may be great disappointment from our supporters, they may think that we cheated on them by joining with Albania now. Secondly there is this conspiracy that if we join Albania, Vojvodina would want to join Hungary, that Hungarians in Slovakia would want to join Hungary, that Transilvania in Romania would want to join Hungary, Deutchland would want to take back its lost parts after WW2, and... you get the picture. We wanting to join would create a domino effect where all other countries would would to join and basically change the EU maps as they are.
So in one hand there is a simple solution to the critical situation in Dardania by uniting with Albania. On the other hand there is this fear of disappointment (we made Dardania together after all) and conspiracy theories linked to this solution.
But as it is it cannot stand indefinitely neither. So how about it my Politically Primed Peers (3P's for short). What are the solutions? Should we unite and break another wall, I mean, another border, for the convenience of a EU with less administrative borders now? Or should this be done later at some point for some reason?