Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:

> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 
> > Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
> > 
> >> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:47:05 -0800
> >> > Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
> >> > 
> >> >> > the efforts in the Balkans have been "utter failures" ?
> >> >> 
> >> >> I'd hardly call any of the former Soviet-bloc stable.
> >> > 
> >> > Please elaborate on this one!
> >> 
> >> Considering the Balkans haven't ever particularly stabilized as far
> >> as I can tell,
> > 
> > Your impression is not very accurate. Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania
> > are part of Nato and EU now. Croatia is doing well also. Serbia,
> > Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina are recovering nicely. Albania
> > also hasn't been in the news lately, which is a good thing :)
> > Greece I don't even have to mention.
> > 
> >> and Russia is aggressively trying to keep territory
> >> acquired under soviet rule and reverting to it's Soviet-era ways,
> >> and we all know how stable the Soviet Union was the first time
> >> around...
> > 
> > What do you mean by aggressively? Haven't seen any Russian tanks
> > around.
> 
> Not exactly seeing peace in Chechnya.

I thought we were talking about the Balkan area ...

Regards,
Andrei
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