Message from @Tasunke_Witka
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And market economies would potentially help take power out of drug dealers and terrorists
The 2nd Gulf War was unwarranted. But the Sanctions against Iraq were the real crime to the Iraqi people ... the sanctions + the food Blockade.
Iraq's section of ISIS was largely made up of people from Saddams govt and members of the Iraqi Sunni political party
Syria if anything is the nation most amenable to reformation and Market Economies (under Assad)
Also, a lot of the reasons Yugoslavia failed after Tito was because of ethnic and religious tensions ... primarily Islam vs Christianity
Islam and Christianity are diametrically opposed ideologies and cannot exist with any real presence in the same Nation
The Turks forced the Bosnians and Albanians to be Muslim
Yep
And The Albanians were some of the most brutal people in the Ottoman Empire
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The Albanians were at the fringe of the Empire, perhaps the newest members ...
I could see the Ottomans treating the Albanians the most harshly to keep their holdings
What do u mean about Albanians being the most brutal?
Many notorious Ottoman generals were Albanian
Haha ... the Suzuku of the Muslims ...
Guess they wanted to become the Knight of One
The Albanian nation was actually created because the world community wanted it to exist after the Balkan wars
They thought Serbia and Greece would take it
Hmm.
Albania existed as part of Italy in 1938
Or as a vassal to Italy
Italy used it as a staging ground for part of their invasion into the rest of Yugoslavia
In 1941
I was friends with an Albanian
We use to make fun of him
Was he Christian or Muslim? I don't think it's an 100% Muslim nation.
It's not
"In the 2011 census the declared religious affiliation of the population was: 56.7% Muslims, 13.79% undeclared, 10.03% Catholics, 6.75% Orthodox believers, 5.49% other, 2.5% atheists, 2.09% Bektashis and 0.14% other Christians."
Bosnia is a similar story: 55% Muslim (Bosnacks) , 20% Orthodox (Serbs), 20% Catholic (Croats), 5% other
The top replies for that poll lol
Albania is way more Islam-dominated than Bosnia.
Due to Orthodox resistance
The Federation of BiH entity of it is literally a Catholic-Muslim alliance.
Wow top comments on that poll talking about 9/11 and USS Liberty
What is the result of refusing to pay your debt to the IMF
and other global debts?
It's bad bc it's enforced seizure by UN troops backed by US / UK soft power
Effective forfeiture of economic: natural resources
The penalties vary
But we could become the good guys on this