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Patrick:
The shit? Generations-long ethnic tensions between Kosovar Albanians and Serbs. The fan? Kosovo just declared independence from Serbia. The splatter? Serbia, backed by a few select other countries, refuses to recognize Kosovo's sovereignty.

I'll be taking bets on who fires the first shot. Collections will occur after it happens and I've gotten the FUCK out of Albania.

KvP:
Might open the floodgates of ethnic minorities staking out enclaves. Apparently some ethnic Hungarian ministers in Romania have started making noise. Who knows, the Kurds could even get in on the self-determination action. It's a problematic precedent.

But a number of big players (notably Russia) are against the independence. We'll have to see how it plays out. But if there is bloodshed, and there undoubtedly will be in some capacity, it probably won't be official civil war ala Milosevic so much as local score-settling and blood feuding. That shit spreads in refugee situations like an ear infection in a daycare center.

Ozymandias:
Goddamnit, Balkans.

imapiratearg:
Because we're human.

Ozymandias:
Someone tell me why Serbia wants Kosovo so badly. Because, reading the Wikipedia article, I can't fathom why. It'd be like if Texas left the union. Just let them go, man.

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