“They’ve been at each others throats longer than there has been a United States.”
Yes. Nothing new for Europe. They’ve been having these bloody ethnic wars for centuries; Serbs vs Croats, Romanians vs Hungarians, Greek vs Turks, and more. It’s a long bloody history where every nationality has a grievance against someone.
I remember years ago seeing video coming out Chechnya, 1989, or '94, I dunno , hardly matters but here's this raging firefight going on with Russian BMPs running around with squads of Russians on them, RPG rounds are whizzing about, mortar rounds are coming in and here's people waiting for the bus. They're going to work or shopping, there's people driving around in battered old cars like it's another day in the neighborhood and there's a raging fire fight going on. These people are nuts.