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If Yugoslavia can break up, why can’t Spain?


2 posted on 10/05/2017 8:21:34 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
If Yugoslavia can break up, why can't Spain?

Because the globalist and banking interests that have turned a common market into a take-over of Europe want the more productive Catalonians and Basques to subsidize the less productive regions.

5 posted on 10/05/2017 8:25:02 AM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: dfwgator

Croats are mostly Roman Catholic.
Serbs are mostly Orthodox...


10 posted on 10/05/2017 8:46:13 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: dfwgator

people have the right to self governance


13 posted on 10/05/2017 8:55:26 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: dfwgator

Muslims, Eastern Orthodox, and Catholics have been murdering one another since the time of the Ottomans and the Habsburgs. There is no similar murderous ethnic hatred between Castillians vs. Catalans or Basques (in spite of a minority fringe of the ETA that most Basques oppose).


14 posted on 10/05/2017 8:57:07 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: dfwgator
If Yugoslavia can break up, why can’t Spain?

I think a Spanish breakup would have little consequence. One of the reasons for uniting a larger country is security. Nobody is about to invade Spain, on the far side of the Pyrenees. And, even a split-up Spain is strong enough to defend against African refugee invader influx across Gibraltar... if they choose to do so.

17 posted on 10/05/2017 9:12:43 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (White is the new Black.)
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To: dfwgator

Yugoslavia was an artificial state created at the Treaty of Versailles to encompass the Slavic peoples of the Balkans that had formerly been part of the Austro-Hungarian or Ottoman Empires. It was only held together by brute force, specifically the Tito Communist dictatorship for 40 years after World War II. When Communism collapsed, so did Yugoslavia. OTOH, Spain has been a unified nation for over 500 years, not unlike Britain, where minority nationalities like the Scots and the Welsh were subject to the dominant nationality in a geographic entity defined by bodies of water, and in Spain’s case, partially by a mountain range. Even Portugal fell under Spanish rule for periods of time.


19 posted on 10/05/2017 9:35:28 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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