@4Kunas A 19-year-old Croat man told police that two men attacked him, leaving him with minor injuries. Police arrested the suspects, US citizens aged 22 and 23, at Dubrovnik Airport. Authorities gave no further details or alleged motive.
We all wonder what these “Americans” look like.
@VojislavPo78253@BSoderqvist29 I’m neither, and colonization is very much what many Serbs did outside of Serbia.
Granted, a true, successful, federal (non-communist) Yugoslavia of equals might actually have been possible were it not for the Turks.
But here we are; that ship has long sailed.
@Hadriancro That Croatian has Persian loanwords, perhaps even including the word Hrvat itself, does not imply that Croats have distant Persian origins.
@__0xhorror__@jensenjeans Boredom is awful, and for personal reasons I know this better than most, but I can assure you that, experienced as something continuous rather than fleeting, you would rather have:
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10/10 boredom than pain.
@magnifico88666@curtis_yarvin The implied question is “how do we fix this mess,” not “what would we do if we had already captured all state institutions entirely."
@thealthype@2026Ratman@witte_sergei Imagine Saddam uncensored on Western TV before Desert Storm.
He doesn't say Kuwait's illegitimate royals waged economic war on 🇮🇶 and stole oil and land.
He says Iraq needs sea access and 🇰🇼 is a fake country carved from Ottoman Basra.
One might conclude he really means it.
@thealthype@2026Ratman@witte_sergei Then again, perhaps regaling Western audiences with tales of Yaroslav the Wise was really the best way to make us think twice.
@thealthype@2026Ratman@witte_sergei Taken at face value, his behavior does make it more likely that irredentism, rather than NATO, was the underlying motivation for invading Ukraine, despite undoubtedly real Russian anxieties about the alliance's eastward expansion.
@thealthype@2026Ratman@witte_sergei Putin had a unique chance to explain the invasion to Western audiences. He opened with a long-winded account of why Ukraine’s lands are Russian. Rather than leading with a more persuasive NATO-expansion narrative, he spent the majority of his time on irredentism.