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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis

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To: Real Man who wrote (10079)8/10/2008 8:08:20 AM
From: RockyBalboa  Read Replies (2) of 71454
 
It´s difficult to decide which side to support. It does not remind me on bosnia; but it has much more in common with the secession of the Katanga province in Kongo (a nationalist movement sought the separation from a likewise nonseasoned totalitarian country which just gained independence from Belgié). On a side note also back then the USA played a small role in supporting the secession and in the subsequent removal and assassination of Patrice Lumumba, then president of Kongo.

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However, the successful secession of bosnia has set a precedent in Europe that now country borders can be redrawn; this was not the case for the last 50-some years.

All over Europe there are many "boiling pots" which just need a little more heat to go bonkers:
Basks still look to separate their land from Spain; Italy must return the non-italian parts which they illegally occupied after the world war; germany might insist on having german areas (including Kaliningrad, a russian exclave) returned; last but not least, Belgium could see a separation of the dutch "vlaams" and the french part. Separations do work; the artificial country of Czechoslovakia has been dissolved into its relatively stable parts after the communist regime expired.

In Western Europe the relative "complacency" ensured that no further explosions take place but in the eastern parts with little experience with democracy (and a a result, totalitarian regimes) and also, a lot of food fighting, poverty and religious motives, public unrest is somewhat expressed more openly...
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