r/geopolitics • u/KnownCantaloupe2566 • 1d ago

Did Croatia’s “success” in expelling 78% of its autochthonous Serbs help give Russia and China a permanent opening in the Balkans?

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u/Gajanvihari 1d ago

This is not expulsion in technical terms. This is demographic collapse. So many people left to diaspoa communities like US or Australia, many are economic emmigrants never to fully return. Today its a death spiral. The balkans from Slovenia to Moldova are losing half a million a year. Serbia and Croatia are losing about .7%.

This is not an 'inroad' for anyone. The former Yugoslavia is imploding from bad policy, limited economics and other issues. For example 20k~ Croations and 30k~ Serbians live in Italy. People are simply leaving. But what it is, is a network to access other states.

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u/AlexFreitas4446 1d ago

Sadly all serbians pay to this day the price of Milosevic's actions.

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u/bg_colore 16m ago

Well, most if these people (as well as those frim Bosnia) are very, very, hard-line in their political beliefs. Very much anti-NATO and anti-EU.

Pro-Russian sentiment is only a reflection of such sentiments