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I repeat, whipping up ethnic hatred is easy and quick, it doesn't need much precedent. By assuming that it needs long-running precedent, you are also implicitly excusing those who whip up hatred.

On the other hand Romanian situation in Serbia has NOTHING to do with Romania not having Schengen...

Why would it have to? This is politics, where horse-trading and blackmail are the norm. You use the influences you have to get what you want. (And Romanian President Băsescu is a populist who found nothing beneath him in his domestic power struggles, so it entirely fits his style.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sat Mar 3rd, 2012 at 09:32:22 AM EST
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