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Rancid small-state nationalism surges in Europe: Don Murray analysis.
CBC News website ^ | Sep 26, 2016 5:00 AM ET | Don Murray

Posted on 09/26/2016 7:35:09 AM PDT by jerod

Ah, there's nothing like a referendum or two to set the emotions swirling and stir up political havoc.

Add a nasty election to the mix, and you have a savoury stew of rancid, small-state nationalism along Europe's southern flank.

Let's start with the referendum vote in Republika Srpska, which took place on Sunday. This entity has a violent and sordid history. Officially it is part of Bosnia, and once it was part of Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia cracked apart into warring pieces in 1991. On Jan. 9, 1992 the self-declared Republika Srpska, made up almost entirely of Bosnian Serbs, asserted its "independence" from the fledgling state of Bosnia.

Three months later, under its leader Radovan Karadzic, Republika Srpska forces began a brutal war against the rest of Bosnia.

The Bosnian Serbs proclaimed it a sort of "holy struggle" against the largely Muslim population next door. The bloody centrepiece of the fighting was a murderous three-year siege of the capital, Sarajevo.

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Don Murray like most socialist liberals, detest people voting at booths to decide their own future. These small 'rancid' states have a right to determine their own future through voting and regardless of how painful that may be for Mr. Murray and the rest of the elitist socialist of this world. It's called democracy.

"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." --- Alexis de Tocqueville

1 posted on 09/26/2016 7:35:09 AM PDT by jerod
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To: jerod

“Rancid”

No bias here...

Every NON-SOCIALIS is a racist islmaphobic hater


2 posted on 09/26/2016 7:36:39 AM PDT by Mr. K (<a href="https://imgflip.com/i/1adpjl"><img src="https://i.imgflip.com/1adpjl.jpg" title="made at im)
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To: jerod

“Rancid”

Now why did someone have to put butter on it, then let it go rancid?


3 posted on 09/26/2016 7:40:55 AM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: Mr. K

His explanation of what happened in Bosnia was also wholly inaccurate...


4 posted on 09/26/2016 7:41:33 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: jerod

Way to link a bloody war 25 years ago to Hungary’s elections. *smh*


5 posted on 09/26/2016 7:44:29 AM PDT by dangus
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To: jerod

I wonder if he is bothered by nationalism in saudi arabia? Or other countries?


6 posted on 09/26/2016 7:45:49 AM PDT by BRL
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Go Serbs! Nasa Kruna


7 posted on 09/26/2016 7:46:47 AM PDT by reaganaut (I'm looking forward to Trump as President. I'm an Evangelical and I vote.)
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To: jerod
Photo of Don Murray
Don Murray

A well-travelled former CBC reporter and documentary maker, Don Murray is a freelance writer and translator based in London and Paris.

Perhaps when he visits the rancid parts of those countries, its diversity will show him exactly what he is supporting and he lives to tell the world what a lovely experience it was. Get out there amongst them Don instead of just prasing from afar.

8 posted on 09/26/2016 8:00:07 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: jerod
Photo of Don Murray
Don Murray

A well-travelled former CBC reporter and documentary maker, Don Murray is a freelance writer and translator based in London and Paris.

Perhaps when he visits the rancid parts of those countries, its diversity will show him exactly what he is supporting and he lives to tell the world what a lovely experience it was. Get out there amongst them Don instead of just praising from afar.

9 posted on 09/26/2016 8:00:44 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: jerod
Rancid!

Dial 999 if you really want the truth...

10 posted on 09/26/2016 8:00:50 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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Every patriotic movement around the world is RANCID.

....to Satan’s New World Order, one-world government team....It sure looks like global scenerio foretold in Biblical prophecy is being engineered the globalist conspirators in our time.


11 posted on 09/26/2016 8:03:56 AM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Huma Abedin + Hillary Clinton => Muslim Brotherhood asset, lesbian spy ring)
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To: jerod

CBC doesn’t like democracy. Quel supris!


12 posted on 09/26/2016 8:06:06 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and Silver are real money. Everything else is a derivative)
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To: oblomov

so going against the invaders, the enemy the traitorous government they are under is rancid. Conform or be cast out, the beatings will continue until moral improves


13 posted on 09/26/2016 8:40:36 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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....to Satan’s New World Order, one-world government team....It sure looks like global scenerio foretold in Biblical prophecy is being engineered the globalist conspirators in our time.

Lets stop using those words are start calling them what they really are, Imperialist. It is nothing short of world empire that is their goal.

14 posted on 09/26/2016 9:38:31 AM PDT by usurper (Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
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HAHAHAH You beat me to it!


15 posted on 09/26/2016 11:44:08 AM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (VMFA 235 '69-'72)
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To: Dr.Deth

Ahh I knew we’d see a reference to the Punk Band on this thread.


16 posted on 09/26/2016 11:47:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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