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Good grief! Why should any country exist -- especially a multiethnic country. One of Wilson's worst ideas was national (ethnic) self-determination. Awkward as the Austro-Hungarian, French, British and Russian (and Soviet) Empires were, they at least provided some possibility of different nationalities working out their differences in some constitutional form. Today, it appears we have to sort ourselves into monoethnic provinces (like Scotland and Wales) and then reunite them in some international body (EU). Europe may actually work out, given time. Norwegian independence from Sweden worked out quite well, and I expect England, Scotland, and Wales, and even Ireland to become real but autonomous chums, after hundreds of years of union or conquest. What is critical is that no country receive aid or support or federation membership if it discriminates against any nationality or other categories of people. If Kosovo becomes autonomous, Serbian property and people must be protected against the majority's discrimination. The reward is acceptance into EU on reasonable terms. There is no reason for autonomous monoethnic provinces to combine within the greater international federation. We should look toward inviting Serbia and Autonomous Kosovo) and Albania into Europe when they learn how to behave like civilized people and have made a little money. The same goes for Cornwall and Britanny. |
