We need more dodgy Balkan types on here imo. Especially if they are female, 5'6''-5-11", athletic, and of easy virtue.
pm me to see if you qualify.
Nations or tribes or whatever have often come into conflict over natural resources - access to rivers, ports, crop-yielding land, energy etc. - but the Balkans stands out as a region rooted in competition over ever-decreasing turnip production (turnips are a terribly soil-depleting crop). The Hapsburgs and the Ottoman Turks tried to calum things down by heavy subsidies of swedes, but the locals were having none of it. Even the Russians perennial interference in the area (with their spurious Orthodox-Slav love-fest) was usually accompanied by gratis distribution of turnips purloined bought from the Dneiper and Don river basins. Recently released memoranda by the Tsar's Okrahna (internal secret police) & the Russian Imperial General Staff's counter-intelligence arm shows they and the French knew full-well that Archduke Ferdinand was shot not for some grand political ideal, but because a rail shipment of Alsatian turnips, bought with Hapsburg gold, and bound for Sarajevo had been held-up at Trieste thanks to the incontinence of the Austrian Imperial customs official riding along who found himself indisposed at a critical moment at Trieste's customs office *sigh*; and, well, the rest is Flanders poppies, tremendous uprisings from the bottom, and Berlin air-lifts.
The unceasing difficulties in and around Israel are similar, in being caused by different Semitic opinions about the proper storage of early-harvested chick peas; religion and so forth are just rationalizations.
Why these truths evade the best and the brightest minds is beyond me. I love Edin btw, aber Mutter weinet sehr, hat ja nun kein Hänschen mehr! "Wünsch dir Glück!" Sagt ihr Blick, "Kehr' nur bald zurück!"
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