Why haven't the Balkan states managed to unify and create a stronger nation, and have it remain stable for so long like France, Italy, or Germany?
They share a common-ish history and culture, and have language differences more similar to HochDeutsch and BayernischDeutsch rather than English and France, so why haven't they been able to unify?
The closest time this ever happened was, of course, Yugoslavia, but when Tito died the whole thing broke apart
Why are the Balkans so at each other's throats, Veeky Forums?
Michael Morgan
They did and they failed. A unified Turkestan would make more sense.
Lincoln Garcia
not really Because Balkanrapebabies are 80IQ subhumans and we should have genocided them
Jackson Brooks
>and have language differences more similar to HochDeutsch and BayernischDeutsch rather than English and France >two different slavic languages, greek, albanian, a romance language, and a finno-ugric one.
Also >three different alphabets >three religions >hundreds of years of territorial conflict >Yugoslavia ended with a genocide Gee OP, I'm stumped. It has the potential of being such an organic union of states.
Landon Taylor
Not really. We, romanians, like the serbs, even if they don't like us back.
Isaac Martin
>Hungary >Balkan
Charles Watson
>Greece >Balkan
Lucas Bennett
Greece is THE Balkan state. There is no other country so quinteseentially Balkan.
Kevin James
>retards make fantasy unions to soothe their map autism
ah yes, Veeky Forums
Jack Rogers
>Southern Slavic languages, Romanian and Greek are similar. Not at all. >They share a common-ish history and culture To a very limited extent. Maybe at face value. Still their national interests and identities often clash and there is a long history of war in the area.
I think what you want to say is why Yugoslavia or a Slavic federation isn't a thing. That's not the Balkans though.
Parker Nelson
Please delete this thread and go to /int/ and then /balk/.
Leo Stewart
>They share a common-ish culture That common culture includes of culture of tribalism. It is a region full of regions divided into regions where folklore praises highwaymen, rebels and outlaws as being heroes. There's something about the Balkan mentality that makes him reject building larger states. Not everyone is interested in being part of a larger community. This has been true for the region since ancient times, starting with the quarrels between Greek city-states or the conflicts of Illyrian tribes.
Julian Baker
I would just like to mention how I'm always losing my sides in /balk/ generals as most of the threads end up in a big flame war between countries
James Flores
When it's not a flame war on an international level, it'll literally just turn into an intranational flame war between the different regions. It can go even further from that, you can see coastal Dalmatians and hinterland Dalmatians slinging insults at each other. The divisions are endless. There are two villages on an island near my city. These two villages are 10 minutes of driving apart, but the locals act as if they're two completely different peoples and will tell you what the "others" are like. There are stereotypes for each village, like girls from a certain village all have big tits, people from XY tiny island are all cheap, etc. We're talking about places with a population of 500 to 1500 people each.
Carson Taylor
>They share a common-ish history Are you kidding me? >and culture, Whaaat? >and have language differences more similar to HochDeutsch and BayernischDeutsch rather than English and France Fucking kek
Isaiah Wright
Bulgaria and Yugoslavia and Albania should have united in the 1960s so the break up in 1990s would have been even more hella epic.
Grayson Lee
Its Mediterranean Whenever I hear Balkan I think of Serbs
Jonathan Ortiz
Greece is culturally closer to Serbia than it is to Italy or Spain. Greece is where Orthodox Slavs inherited a lot of their culture from. Don't let your worldview be shaped by memes.
Ryan Mitchell
>mfw my greeknigger friends in nyc used to make fun of me for being from "undeveloped" Croatia and acted like Greece was civilized and Scandinavia tier before 2008 constantly bragging about how they were in the EU since 1980
Isaac Rogers
>I think of Well you're a retard, who cares who you think of. The entire Balkan "culture" (Orthodoxy, low IQ mountain people, ethnic squabbles, Turk occupation heritage) was created by Greeks.
Zachary Nelson
This is italian-tier rivalry >muh people from X city are thieves and whores, don't trust them
Landon Hill
Their coastal towns are Italy/Spain tier comfy though, but then again maybe its just on tourist areas
Owen Murphy
>comfy >tourism Leave. This is not what we're discussing and nobody cares for your /int/ memery, I can smell your britishness all the way here.
Elijah Wood
Well, that's because you're retarded
James Lewis
>I know nothing of the region and think everyone is just the same lol why don't they unite
Ian Lewis
>The Balkans
Honestly lads we should just fence the entirety of the Balkans in and treat it like the Zone.
Caleb Taylor
It would be possible if the Austrians had gassed all the Serbs in WWI
Asher Morris
they should be unified under an Ottoman banner
Joshua Parker
>It would be possible if the Austrians had gassed all the Croatians in WWI fixd*
Adrian Robinson
We have enough problems and babysitting genocidal tribals should not be added to that list.
James Rogers
>Why haven't the Balkan states managed to unify and create a stronger nation
Serbia had the mandate to unite the Balkans into a greater Serbia, but they failed - repeatedly. Croatians are cowardly bootlickers, and Greeks are just lazy. The only way to salvage this place is to make it a Russian province one day.
Jayden Gomez
We like you too.
t. Serb
Hunter Turner
>Russian province one day. Kill yourself. The only so many of my fellow countrymen love Russia is because they never had the chance to invade us. t. Serb
Jayden Robinson
>a Serb who doesn't wish he were Russian Good on you.
Nicholas Cooper
We don't have a left or right wing. All of our political parties are centrist. The only difference is "Russia or EU". And i fucking hate the mindless drones of both sides. Both of them are terminally naive. Both the ones who believe in "Russian friendship" and the ones who imagine the EU as a magical godmother from Cinderella that's going to wave a wand and double their paycheck. Our forefathers went to war for freedom 100 years ago, and now pro EU parties hold 90% of the vote (who all suck Russian cock as well, tho at various levels), while i've heard people unironically proclaim they want to be a province of Russia. Now they give up our freedom willingly.
Jordan Bell
That has to be incredibly frustrating. How many nations have sought political freedom and never achieved it while your countrymen want to place their necks under Putin or Merkel's boots? Jesus Christ that's disgusting and I feel bad for you, user.
Juan Brooks
Literally, our president went on official visits to both Merkel and Putin one week before the election. It's disgusting. He has the support of both, and that's why he's winning. The pro EU opposition has no chance, because they have to work with the pro Russian opposition and in the end the result would be the same. Funny, a leftist criticizing the opposition said it straight "i hear my fellow opposition politicians get on tv and talk about how they'd be better at EU integrations than the current government, and when i hear them say this i want to jump out the window"
Alexander Perez
Funny thing is main reason we conquered them so easily is because Balkanlars fought each other lol.
Only good fight given to us were the Arnauts all the others was like fighting embryos lol
Zachary Fisher
He probably wishes he was a Slovenian instead :^)
Daily reminder that Slovenians are the high elves of the slav race
Adrian Campbell
No, kill yourself stablekeeper. I dislike both Russia and the EU.
Alexander Moore
:^) if i kill myself you subhumans wont have anyone to look up to.
I need to live to inspire the lesser races
Kevin Hill
>sucked the cock of their overlords for a 1000 years >hugher race
David Ross
Austrians are Slovenians. The difference is only cultural not genetic.
Adolf Hitler was an ethnic Venetian-modern Slovenian
Michael Martinez
>das rite we wuz hitler n shiet
Bentley Lewis
This thread has been Balkanized
Cooper Torres
This. My hometown has ~25k people and there are literally countless groups we divide each other in. Your street, the playground you played on, your team, the place where you went to party, the schools you went to, the hobbies you do,... Of course they are not really intense groups, but it shows. Stuff like your hometown, region and municipality, now that is the real deal.
>being a Nemškutar Fuck off.
Camden Evans
So that faggot that started a war and lost was a Slovenian? I don't see what is there to be proud off.
Wyatt Wilson
Claiming Hitler won't get you much respect on this board