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UnknownChad420@reddit

We chill, we experienced this stuff hundreds of times in our history, now the explotions will be bigger, but we will survive

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We waged our wars like gentlemen. Balkan wars in the 90s were conducted with great consideration for everyone else. No global drama, no oil prices skyrocketing, no cancelled international flights, no gas shortages across half the planet. Airlines kept flying, gas stations stayed open, and the rest of the world mostly just carried on with their day.

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-Gumballs-@reddit

🇸🇮not balkan

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Jovan_Konstantinovic@reddit (OP)

well that's for debate now, as i've heard Slovenia is overpopulated with balkan folks 😄

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-Gumballs-@reddit

Its not up for debate and you don’t get a say in it. Its Central European. Immigrants are just that. Immigrants. Go argue about kosovo.

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Jovan_Konstantinovic@reddit (OP)

dude you need to chill 😂

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SmartFlyNR1@reddit

The hell are you talking about femboy? 🇷🇸🏳️‍⚧️ Slovenia overrapopilated by what?? You're seriously so clueless 🤣

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Jovan_Konstantinovic@reddit (OP)

me femboy? are you serious, that's like well known joke for Slovenians 😂😂😂

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SmartFlyNR1@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/6mwggtz1taog1.png?width=1088&format=png&auto=webp&s=ac742fd7245ae29bdfae2eaa73d4645063ef566c Nice looking average Serbian 😂😂😂

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SmartFlyNR1@reddit

Nope it's not. It's a joke for Serbians. Never heard this thing in Slovenia, but I did for Serbia. Yeah you Serbians are femboys 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 But calm down, OG femboys are still Poles.

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Fat_Rocky0028@reddit

No, greece will come with us

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LordQuaz12@reddit

At this point, nobody cares. Unironically most young people here would not give a flying shit if we die tomorrow. I had a convo with a guy yesterday lamenting that if he dies he won't be able to play GTA6.

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Juldris@reddit

Hah, casual. *Still hopes to see Half-Life 3*

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Jovan_Konstantinovic@reddit (OP)

gta6 damn ![gif](giphy|GpyS1lJXJYupG)

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Significant-Yam9843@reddit

It s funny because there are a lot of memes right in Brazil explaining literally the same

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drovoseg@reddit

What are you afraid? You're too far from epicenter

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Desperate-Hour-5258@reddit

From Brazil itself? XD enougj internal issues to be afraid of without having USA one aircraft carrier away from you :D

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Dexter4L@reddit

same thing in ‘Murica

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Fatalaros@reddit

Bruh, what's this obsession with a nonexistent game. There's literally so many masterpieces out there to experience.

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LordQuaz12@reddit

It was more so a punch line to our conversation. My generation just dose not care about living right now.

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Fatalaros@reddit

Sure, I was speaking generally. I just find it weird how much brainrot GTA has gathered. I also love GTAs have played all of them, but they're not the best games ever. I find them great humour critical pieces of USA's evolving culture.

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mschuster91@reddit

Which is why it’s late, gotta find a way to make the current situation funny

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vbd71@reddit

I'm only waiting for Battlefield 7 and then the WW3 can happen.

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CallmeChapybara@reddit

Like for real. Can they postpone the ww for the next year atleast, please? That's all I ask😔

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outlanderfhf@reddit

Bro, we might play gta6 in a bunker, but fuck man we wont play TES6 fuuuuuuu

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Aluuvian@reddit

So you were talking with a "gentlemen and scholar". I share his sentiments..

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Citaku357@reddit

>Unironically most young people here would not give a flying shit if we die tomorrow. Can you really blame them?

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Loud-Comparison-9396@reddit

I mean it's GTA..

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Dj3nk4@reddit

Game Till Apocalypse? Yeah. Thats Balkan allright.🤓

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Fine-Ear-8103@reddit

If i flood the balkans with enough weed we’re alllllllllll staying home

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Kitchen-Complex5050@reddit

Totally wrong, we know prices will hit us hard when fuel goes up.

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Vegetable_Might_3359@reddit

Everything I heard from my mom and dad made me anti military. So yes I hope.

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JaThatOneGooner@reddit

“It wasn’t us this time, thank god.”

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cesam1ne@reddit

Death is what awaits us all. It is kinda impossible for a person to realize it will perish, but it doesn't change reality of it. In the same way, collectively we share this illusion that humanity will "live forever ". But it will perish..just a matter of how and when.

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trisul-108@reddit

Completely inaccurate, they would be complaining loudly about the prices at restaurants during WWIII and how the West is destroying everything.

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TrickAdorable9764@reddit

Extremely, I'm chilling like that right now while typing this, except with a beer.

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Many-Rooster-7905@reddit

I dont smoke, i dont drink coffee, i will die from kebab overdose tho

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Fluid_Intention_875@reddit

You mean ćevap, right ?

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Many-Rooster-7905@reddit

No, that became way too expenssive

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Cautious_Self6861@reddit

Not common at all. Romanians are whiny bitches who panic if an army car passes through their city

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AcanthocephalaOk8436@reddit

Sounds about right...This week they made a public anouncement that we received some military cars (I'm just a girl, don't know any other term :))) ) and people should not panic when they will see them on the streets because they are being transported to the bases that will receive them. Also, they cancelled the national testing of the alarm systems to not generate panic to the population...

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foodforkitties@reddit

Romanians are so sporty I imagine they are interested in living for a while longer.

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EfficiencySmall4951@reddit

Bro what, as someone who's been working in military hospitals I'll call bs

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Cautious_Self6861@reddit

It's not about you. It's about the normal population. Where were you when people were panicking about the september "draft" based on some videos of army cars from like months before that and the diaspora was posting about not coming here on holiday so they didn't get forcefully detained and drafted?

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EfficiencySmall4951@reddit

You'll have to elaborate on this. What 'draft' are you talking about my man?

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Cautious_Self6861@reddit

I'm not going back months of people posting online to find the ones where people were panicking. Just google it, idk what to tell you

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Jovan_Konstantinovic@reddit (OP)

wait really?

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Cautious_Self6861@reddit

Yes. The great and mighty men here have been shitting themselves on tiktok for years now about conspiracy theories that Ukraine has led us into war and they're going to be conscripted. There's been like 10 "conscriptions" until now and they still fall for every video of an army car they see online

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Jovan_Konstantinovic@reddit (OP)

that sounds like right-leaning, Russia-influenced propaganda, i think it's the same in every country.

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Cautious_Self6861@reddit

It is exactly that. It's just annoying how well it works here

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KimchiLlama@reddit

Why don’t Balkan people light their cigarettes when they smoke? I mean, it does seem healthier that way.

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Sixnigthmare@reddit

I'd say that's pretty damn accurate

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dante_55_@reddit

We aspire to reach Switzerland levels of ‘leave me the fuck out of this please and thank you’

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Plastic_Pinocchio@reddit

You mean “leave me the fuck out of this because I have all of your sketchy money”.

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Fiery_Flamingo@reddit

Sorry, you guys don’t have enough Nazi/warlord/dictator gold in your vaults.

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elbay@reddit

It’d get wasted away by corrupt politicians anyway. Classic Balkan moment.

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Pipirevka@reddit

yup lol

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person1549@reddit

I meam the reason why we are broke js because we spent centuries living in warzones while the west was industrialising and exploring the world. I think at this point we are just focused on trying to becone wealthier instead of taking part in this shitshow.

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ND7020@reddit

I mean Western Europe was more constantly at war than the Balkans during most of the Industrial Revolution

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person1549@reddit

True, but still they were independant states for centuries, we were constantly stuck under foreign thumb.

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ND7020@reddit

Well, let’s be frank about historical nuances. When Hungary rebelled in 1848 and was on the brink of independence, which general and troops marched in to save its domination by Austria?

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person1549@reddit

Russians?

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ND7020@reddit

The Croatians too - their intervention was key. To be fair though, Hungary was THEIR oppressor and overlord under the weird Hapsburg system.

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person1549@reddit

Yeah thats true. Danubian federation would be a goofy tho. It would probably fall apart, but it would be interesting to see.

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Finxjar@reddit

We did it out of spite.

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LostEndimion@reddit

I would say they had war with proclamation and firework. We had more gray "normal" war

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RossMxx@reddit

Very true.

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foodforkitties@reddit

Or embrace being broke and have a nap in the sun. The richer we get the more problems we’ll have to deal with.

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Cute_Yesterday_2288@reddit

So hey guys,I found that weed roll yesterday

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Excellent-Cap-7931@reddit

Bro Imma be real I stopped caring a long while ago, if we die, we die, it is what it is.

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OldJimCallowaytr@reddit

But well, we gonna play FNAF while making sure non of them have chance to say "you work for enemy so I will invade you"

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OhCanadeh@reddit

At least I won't have to go back to work. I think about it all the time tbh.

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Austerlitz2310@reddit

![gif](giphy|jfzvC4r5b8JTlqx3H9|downsized)

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klitoriskiller@reddit

Me as a austrian, i aprove

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Own_Information3154@reddit

My war C-PTSD acting normal during crysis, but an absolute wrach during peaceful times

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fireswalkwithme@reddit

Yea i think we are tired from this shit! Finally people are enjoying their lives a little bit. So yea we would sit this one out. Have a cigarette and espresso.

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DosadnoMiJeBrate@reddit

Wrong choice of music, no Đani no party.

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Devel93@reddit

We released a satirical song on radio making fun of the west while they were bombing us, it went viral 🤣 https://youtu.be/2Zk5ex6aKKg?si=rA6SxI25SuLvhyzl

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StrawberryChoco0@reddit

We (Balkans) survived so many wars that atp, we ain't even surprised, like we are constantly at war, what are we even talking about...?

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VVazira@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/gzjkb6vx6tng1.jpeg?width=568&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3a45dde6a87539e6ea501879a13180e90733c80 At this point everything just feels like a bad joke. Idgaf, we're strong💪😎🔥

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Parking-Ad3087@reddit

This is an exaggeration, we don't flip out like this, this is way too much of a reaction for any Balkan nation. We give even less of a fuck.

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Queasy-Park1119@reddit

Very accurate. East Europeans like conflict and will continue fabricating lies just to have it.

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Barbak86@reddit

Yeah, we will be sitting this one out.

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Safe-Razzmatazz3982@reddit

![gif](giphy|QsyPRpG6WVR6SYfBVw|downsized) Pub? Konoba? Kafana?

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Smooth_Passenger9291@reddit

Well I could agree with this one with you.

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Kaminazuma@reddit

Bro after the first bomb you’d be at each other throat 🤣🤣

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Barbak86@reddit

Nah. If so, the Banjska Monastery incident would have turned to an outright Serb insurrection, but it didn't. Serbia abandoned them because they aren't interested in a new conflict.

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Jovan_Konstantinovic@reddit (OP)

btw those were drug trafficking criminals and thugs I'm actually pissed they're not in jail or 6 feet under, especially their leader.

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Barbak86@reddit

I know who they are/were. But that doesn't really matter if you want to start an insurgency. The fact that they failed at the first hours of their insurgency, I'm quite convinced that Serbia let them rot there in order to weaken them/ knock their power away, and that Serbia doesn't really want to start a war (proxy or direct war) in/with Kosovo. That was an ideal chance to start an outright insurgency, at least in north Kosovo, and change the status quo, but they didn't. So I'm quite confident that we wouldn't be in each other's throat like my Albanian brother is suggesting.

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Jovan_Konstantinovic@reddit (OP)

of course, 0% chance of any military conflict

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Smooth_Passenger9291@reddit

People like you are guilty of all wars.

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eternalflame_of_life@reddit

So true

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ACrazyGreekFromPast@reddit

Just taking my coffee right now

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Third_Rate_Duelist_@reddit

The fighting is away from us, right?

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TheNihilistGeek@reddit

Turkey has a border to Iran. Cyprus is a target for Iran. If Cyprus joins then Greece joins. Turkey is pissy Greece is expanding their anti-AA facilities to cover their eastern islands and Bulgaria. Might try to do something stupid. It is quite near the Balkans.

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Academic_Yard_2659@reddit

Yeah, we seriously don't care. Because there's nothing we can do about it. What can an average balkan do? Throw cigarettes and coffee at the nukes that will eradicate him and his whole country?

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KaradjordjevaJeSushi@reddit

Very true. Can we just chill for one WW, and not be in a hotspot again, thank you!

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Responsible_1421@reddit

Bukvalno Just for once to not been included

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Niks_Triks@reddit

If there exists a universe where there wasn't a war in the Balkans for more than 30 years, I really congratulate them.

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Barbak86@reddit

Well 1945-1990...

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TheNihilistGeek@reddit

Cyprus, 1973

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ZexGr@reddit

kako Bajaga kaze svakih 50 leta, samo sto vreme brze ide nego 90tih...

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Prod_Meteor@reddit

Better show them serving tourists. That's what they do.

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the_space_cdt@reddit

Came here to say "They're having one without us? Finally!", and coming here, and seeing that every other comment is basically that, it's proof that no matter how much they try to devide us we shall always be united. In out hatred for them. Carry on boys and girls, ghosts and ghouls. Go fucking drink your coffee, smoke your smokes the world may be killing itself but we have bigger issues, like how the fuck do I survive on my fucking 300€ salary.

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Weary-Class-9353@reddit

![gif](giphy|82x12u9eTykFly6qfd) ❤️

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Educational_Dream837@reddit

Selo gori, baba se ceslja..

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Time-Promise-9047@reddit

Se merecían un descanso por todas las guerras que parecieron a través de la historia. Saludos desde Argentina (acá no hay riesgo de guerra directa a mediano plzo)

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rrrhp@reddit

The coffee and cigarette is accurate but you need to depict 2 additional coffees over a two hour period in the middle of the work day

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Efficient-Culture644@reddit

Switzerland has always been in that mode.

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Putrid-Banana-7428@reddit

I would play this one in italian style. Stay in defense and keep my self-made rakia, olive oil, fresh bread and white cheese always by my side. No enemy can shoot you down. He will be drunk and miss!

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RossMxx@reddit

Let's keep it that way.

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Independent_Depth248@reddit

Noon, I'm buying my emergence supplies, generator water filters, medicine, water bottles and much much more. I also think the supply chain will die so stock on gashti и chorapi !!

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WasiX23@reddit

Let the big countries fight, if we stay together in the Ballans we can survive all together and build something like the united states of balkan

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ali45gh@reddit

Well there is an orthodox Christian prophecy after the war all orthodox country and all slava country will forme one big kingdom this sounds similar to avengers secret wars aka battleworld

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WasiX23@reddit

Or Yugoslavia

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ali45gh@reddit

Why not

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WasiX23@reddit

I didn't speak against that 😬

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ali45gh@reddit

No i meant to say that's not a bad idea

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Big-Waltz5204@reddit

I think it's kinda arrogant to assume that in case of WW3 and breakdown of intenational order there wouldn't be any shit in Balkans. Lot of people would love to re-draw borders to their liking. I mean is there any country that doesn't have territorial disputes or ambitions.

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neuralek@reddit

No, they're saying we're used to the trauma and the (obvious) explosion in the back doesn't bother us. I mean this happened already like 16 years ago, it's factual.

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Barbak86@reddit

16? What happened in 2010? Was I so high that I didn't even register it?

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neuralek@reddit

Omg, I am officially old... 26 years ago.

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Barbak86@reddit

Almost 27 amigo, almost 27...

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Infinite_Self_5782@reddit

my home country literally just got out of a war, i'd be pretty pissed if we got tangled up in this mess again

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Barbak86@reddit

Yeah 27 years ago, that's not "just got out of a war". It's the media and the national agenda that's keeping us on our toes and giving us the feeling like the war ended 3 years ago...

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Infinite_Self_5782@reddit

that's not even half a lifetime. most people i know here happen to be of the age range that would remember the war, it's pretty recent in that regard

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Barbak86@reddit

Yeah, it's still in living memory but it's not as recent as it feels. It's like the year 1971 to when the Second World War ended. We are just being bombed by the media, so we continue to be on high alert in order to not start asking questions that are actually important, like how come Albania will join the EU in 2 to 4 years, and we are 10-15 years behind them....

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Specialist_Elk140@reddit

It seems fair though, they've already dealt with enough wars at this point.

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ali45gh@reddit

Don't worry guys there won't be any war as long as erdogan is in power

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ali45gh@reddit

The world is already fuck up hook up culture. Rasism. Lgbtq. Abortion.porn prostitution and the wokeness mindset plus gender surgery .translate etc I think a reset would be beneficial and let's not forget all these Hollywood pedo along with Diddy and eptein also social media and dating apps would be fine wich is good

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Tenchi_Muyo1@reddit

It's a boomer's war and for the first time in history young people (gen Z) are not willing to die for them

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No_Round3780@reddit

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Successful_Sun_6283@reddit

You and other non-NATO and non-ME countries

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g0ranV@reddit

i‘d need to shave some beard of for such a nice moustache, otherwise pretty accurate

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andreysc7@reddit

Homestly i wouldn’t fire a single shot towards anyone from the balkans …

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Ivan66Ivan@reddit

I would greatly appreciate if they warn us a couple of days in advance in case they plan to use nuclear bombs so I can stop going to work and instead spend my last days in nature, preferably somewhere by the sea

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Aemaru@reddit

I don't know about WW3, but a few bombs in Athens would help bring the rents down at least.

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N0M4D223@reddit

Same shit, different day

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matildamagenta@reddit

People worried in case of ww3 there will be a breakdown of society and they will lose access to education, healthcare and infrastructure. We never had those to begin with.

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Jovan_Konstantinovic@reddit (OP)

i like this 🙂, so i generated that meme https://preview.redd.it/ieh9x3x9bpng1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20adb16c621b933116bd2fd1c6862185601e8100

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matildamagenta@reddit

Lol therein lies the genius of our politicians They knew instead of trying to make things better for us, they just needed to wait till things becone shitty everywhere :)

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Super-Albatross-7134@reddit

Yep 🇬🇷 Frape my Malaka and one Rajka for my friend 🇷🇸

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foodforkitties@reddit

Same except hand-rolled cigarette and iced coffee for the southern block

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Apart-Persimmon-38@reddit

And we’d say something like: Fucking Monday again…

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backhand_english@reddit

Can the world just fuck off and give us a break this time? Just.... Fuck off... Fuck USA, fuck Russia, fuck China, fuck Israel, fuck Iran, fuck EU, fuck everyone. Leave us alone. I want to raise my kids, go fishing, plant my produce, feed my chickens and not worry about fucking bombs again. Fuck

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bravo_six@reddit

As far as I'm concerned, the whole world can go to shit. As long as I can have box of cigarettes, some food and assurance that my family members are not gonna die horrible deaths, I don't give a fuck anymore.

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Renandstimpyslog@reddit

It's not WW3 yet. It probably won't escalate any further, I guess. Also, we have no control over anything at this point so I will not lose any sleep. My sentiments would probably be different if I lived in Adana, though.

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Xalter0@reddit

Nah have to live for gta6 and half life 3

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KataraMan@reddit

Another catastrophe? Ok, sure, whatever.. Where's my coffee?

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betacarotentoo@reddit

Not very accurate, I don't smoke.

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ThingCandid9553@reddit

As long as it’s not some white countries getting glassed and it’s just some brown countries, then idgaf. https://preview.redd.it/s8btqnn51png1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea8ce4738748062a4007562c0dcd6352616bec41

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Successful-Singer-27@reddit

Yes we don't give a fk :)

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ZinbaluPrime@reddit

If WW3 was economically feasible we're dead either way, no matter the outcome, so we enjoy our last seconds with what we have at hand.

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astronaute1337@reddit

I’m in Dubai right now, pretty accurate 😂

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Helium116@reddit

Just drink your rakia or kompot and chill. Nothing new under the sun

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HumanMan00@reddit

We hope to ignore this and notnhave wars for at least a hundred years yes. How realistic that is will depend on the powers that be and our owm idiots who think they cam play the big game (historically to the detriment of our people).

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