• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    If you’re seriously interested in the subject, I think you’d do well to look into the Yugoslavian automotive industry and its subsequent collapse.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah, its too bad Balkan countries stopped producing cars after 1990 due to the sudden and mysterious lack of electricity, water, sewage and waste disposal. Then again, there’s barely any roads or highways in Southeastern Europe to drive them on anyway. And the ones that do exist are barely usable because of the violent radical gangs patrolling them.

      But hopefully one day the locals will be better off. Maybe even have basic utilities. Like North Koreans.

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          2 days ago

          Of course. Here’s hoping the ongoing war in the Balkans ends soon and peoples in the region can have peaceful relations. You know, like North and South Korea. Or Ukraine and Russia. Or Israel and Palestine.

          And if any of this doesn’t make sense, I suggest you look up the history of the Yugoslavian automotive industry before and after the fall of the SFRY. Then it’ll all fall into place. Unless you’re in the Balkans, in which case you wouldn’t be reading this because you don’t have access to the internet. Unironically.

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            2 days ago

            You know, like North and South Korea.

            We’ve been tantalizingly close to a break through in North / South tensions. Hopefully, the collapse of the Yoon government means reconciliations can continue.

            But one thing you don’t see is terror attacks along the border. That’s critical to a future reconciliation.

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              2 days ago

              No doubt, there is a clear and unmistakable trend toward demilitirazation and reducing nuclear tensions on the Korean Peninsula these past few years.

              The real issue is Serbia testing ICBMs and threatening Romania with nuclear warfare. Apparently the secret biological experiments the US has been conducting on Vucic are making him go crazy. Textbook example of a strategy of tension.

              Reality truly is stranger than fiction.

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                  1 day ago

                  They’ll be sending their first satellite into orbit soon. You’d think they’d need basic utilities to do that but no - its all held together by duct tape and wishful thinking.

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                    1 day ago

                    They’ll be sending their first satellite into orbit soon.

                    With the help of their neighbors in Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Montenegro, it seems. Amazing what Slavs can do when they’re united, rather than at each others’ throats.

                    You’d think they’d need basic utilities to do that

                    Okay, now repeat that in Korean.