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Rearranging Europe:

21 July, 2009 (06:47) | AH, UK, austria-hungary, dutch, europe, exclave_enclaves, france, french, geography, germany, history, indonesia, iran, iraq, islam, israel, language, lebanon, linguistics, malaysia, maps, middle_east, montenegro, netherlands, orthodox-christian, pakistan, philippines, religion, russia, scotland, serbia, singapore, spain, spanish, thailand, turkey | By: jrittenhouse

From the Coming Anarchy site: projected maps of Europe in the future and the former Yugoslav areas, along with their tag on microstates.  Personally, I strongly doubt some of this; France has been doing a thorough stomp of its minority groups (linguistics-wise, especially) for the last 100+ years to Make Everyone Parisian, and the Bosniak [...]

Another oil war:

10 August, 2008 (17:19) | 2008_elections, GOP, Georgia - Caucasus, USA, bush, energy, europe, exclave_enclaves, geography, idiots, military, montenegro, natural-gas, oil, politics, russia, sep_reality, serbia, soviets, turkey | By: jrittenhouse

I’d pay attention to the Georgia / Russia if I were you guys.   There’s more than you think at stake.

You know he’s hurting for troops if he’s doing this:

26 September, 2006 (12:14) | montenegro, rumsfeld | By: jrittenhouse

Rumsfeld is in Montenegro today to see if he can get troops out of them for Iraq or Afghanistan. According to Wikipedia, Montenegro has only about 700,000 people, and about 2,600 troops. Math: the USA has just shy of 300 million people. A little less than 2 million people in the military anywhere, and around [...]