Ethnic tensions can't explain everything,Belgium shouldn't be a country but it is because the Dutch,French and Germans are happy

If they become unhappy because they are poor because of bad menagment they're gonna blame it on each other

> Ethnic tensions can't explain everything,Belgium shouldn't be a country but it is because the Dutch,French and Germans are happy
@hqjsdbsnwa Not a good example.Belgiums history was more stabile.

Religious tension,well try to explain US to me then,if religious tensions can cause a civil war,why is US a country?

Belgium wasnt undet ottoman rule for 500 years for a start

> Religious tension,well try to explain US to me then,if religious tensions can cause a civil war,why is US a country?
@hqjsdbsnwa bc unites states is much more irreligious

Belgium was under foreign rule for most of their history and there is nothing uniting its nationalities

Wasn't always

Atheism in US is new,for most of its history it wasn't

For the part where atheism didnt exist in the US population was 99% christian

Most of Yugoslavia's pop was Christian

A vast vas majority

A few Bosniaks and Albanians but mostly Serbs,Croats and Slovenes

> Most of Yugoslavia's pop was Christian
@hqjsdbsnwa with larger muslim communities.There was also a clear split between catholics and orthodoxs

There is a clear split between American denominations

Not in the same way

Go ask a Mormon,Jehovahs Witness,and a Baptist what they think of each other

Also, same thing happened in ex soviet countries.The moment union collapsed ethnic conflicts begin.

Not as bad

Chechnya is the only place with an actual war that is comparable

Lol no.Look at armenian azeri war in the 91.They are killing each other again

Not as bad as here

It was like 30k dead

Also, a few fun graphs

GDP/C means nothing if a big part of the GDP is spent on an arms race

Civilian deaths:

1,264 Armenian civilians (including citizens of Armenia)[35]

167–763 Azerbaijani civilians killed on one day in 1992 by the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh's forces.[43] Total number is unknown.

Civilians missing:

400 according to Karabakh State Commission[40]

749 according to Azerbaijani State Commission[40]

Civilians displaced:

724,000 Azerbaijanis[44] from Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding areas

300,000–500,000 Armenians[44] from Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhichevan


""""Not as bad"""""
You cant compare how bad war is

> GDP/C means nothing if a big part of the GDP is spent on an arms race
@hqjsdbsnwa USSR was forced to spent a large ammount on arms.If it didnt it would get invaded

30K dead I think vs 100K,and comparable amounts of those who were displaced,no not even comparable

Nah, you cant compare human suffering

Cuba got all of its money from USSR so its a shitty example

No it isnt

Can we do this later?I dont have time rn for another pointless debate.

Why did it collapse into povery after the fall of Soviet union?

If it didn't get everything from that union

Yep

Yep

Austria privatized in the 90s and its still fine

Here it was a mess

Yeah look up the economy of Austria its in the wikipedia page

Switzerland sells Central bank shares and its fine too

Yep