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Problems with organizing humanitarian intervention: Kosovo as a case | 143 comments (140 topical, 3 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: The EU as humanitarian intervention (none / 1)

I can see how that would have mattered in the 19th. and first half of the 20th. centuries, but now? What % of anyone's GDP is traded along the Danube or the highway, and aren't there many alternative routes?.. This sounds like Generals fighting the war before the last one.

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Tue Mar 10th, 2009 at 05:31:13 AM EST
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Re: The EU as humanitarian intervention (none / 1)

It's mountainous territory. Power and infrastructure moves through Serbia. The only way around is to get from Hungary to Romania and down to Bulgaria. The roads there are not optimal, however.

I'm just guessing. I don't know. Others have mentioned oil and gas pipelines which need to scoot up into Austria or empty into the Adriatic.

This still doesn't explain why Germany was so quick to recognize when all the other countries were warning them not to, including the USA.

by Upstate NY on Tue Mar 10th, 2009 at 11:00:31 AM EST
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