Yugoslavia's warning to America

[Balog]

https://20committee.com/2015/03/02/yugoslavias-warning-to-america/

Interesting parallels.

[TommyGunn]

 
Time to buy more ammo & MREs.......again.


I am becoming convinced that neither political party wants to deal with the National debt.  To the dems,  everything is peachy, move along, nothing to see here....to the repubs, it's ......hey, do they even consider it an issue anymore?   All I get is crickets......

[lee n. field]

Time to buy more ammo & MREs.......again.


I am becoming convinced that neither political party wants to deal with the National debt.  To the dems,  everything is peachy, move along, nothing to see here....to the repubs, it's ......hey, do they even consider it an issue anymore?   All I get is crickets......

From the article, this:

In response, the Communist Party ordered Sergej Krajgher, a party stalwart from Slovenia, to see what had to be done to repair the country’s mounting socio-economic mess.

After two years of study, Krajgher’s commission in 1983 released its report, which correctly assessed that Yugoslavia needed to get its economic house in order to avoid financial, and then political, collapse. Specifically, Krajgher recommended the sell-off of unprofitable state enterprises, allowing more market forces to work, and above all comprehensive fiscal reform to get Yugoslavia off the drug of foreign loans. This was all excellent advice.

Its effect, however, was zero. The report was ignored, and Communist officials never made any effort to seriously implement any of Krajgher’s solid recommendations.

reminded me of the Reagan's Grace Commission.

[makattak]

From the article, this:

reminded me of the Reagan's Grace Commission.

Or even Simpson-Bowles.

[bedlamite]

Or even Simpson-Bowles.

Which was also mentioned in the article.

[never_retreat]

What are they going to do send us more of their crappy cars?

[Scout26]

I think Balog was referring to the Yugoslavian Civil War.  Picture Sarajevo writ large.

[HeroHog]

What are they going to do send us more of their crappy cars?

Ah yes, the Yugo, A poor version of a design Fiat abandoned!

[AJ Dual]

Eh...

I get the points being made, but there's too much apples and oranges. Way more people, way more land, way more resources and geographical distances larger on orders of magnitude.

Despite what's going on, the U.S. looked a lot worse off and crazier back around '68, or the Great Depression or even the Civil War for that matter.  "Never say never" and all that of course, but even when I feel worried I realize just how damn far we have to fall before we even get into the 2nd much less 3rd world multi-faction civil war failed-state territory.

And of course, we collapse Yugoslavia style, the whole world is going to be an absolute basket case.

[Mannlicher]

The situation in Yugoslavia during the time it broke up, was nothing at all like what is happening in
America today.  There are no lessons to be learned here.

[Balog]

Eh...

I get the points being made, but there's too much apples and oranges. Way more people, way more land, way more resources and geographical distances larger on orders of magnitude.

America is and always has been uniquely situated in terms of geography and resources and etc. There are of course no exact direct parallels. Doesn't mean there aren't lessons to be learned and applied from the Wehrmahr Republic and Argentina and Yugoslavia and etc etc etc.

[Balog]

The situation in Yugoslavia during the time it broke up, was nothing at all like what is happening in
America today.  There are no lessons to be learned here.

Honestly curious, do you have any personal connection of experience with the situation in Yugoslavia at the time?