I was enjoying my morning shot of Pomegranate juice when I saw something sad on Reuters.  There is secessionist talk again in Serbia.  The drums are beating in the distance. 

BELGRADE, Nov 19 (Reuters) – Serbia is warning the West ahead of a new round of talks on its breakaway Kosovo province that a declaration of independence by the Albanian majority would lead to new secessionist moves in the Balkans.

“If the independence of Kosovo is recognised, it would not be the final stage of the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, but the first stage of new disintegration and secession in the Balkans,” Serbia’s Kosovo minister, Slobodan Samardzic, said.

You see, I thought that the Balkans had already … Balkanized. I wonder what the Russians will do? Putin seems kind of frisky lately.

Ethnic identity is a kind of hallucinogen. Unrestrained self-medication leads to exaggerated claims of merit and delusions of manifest destiny.  When taken with a dose of religious or economic idealism, the patient may present with paroxysms of fascist ideation. 

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