Alexrpt — Merkel scrambles to Serbia and Albania trying to make the “dead man walking” EU larger

Chancellor Angela Merkel is touring the Balkans and trying to speed up the EU entry of both Serbia and Albania in order to stop Russian influence in the region and strengthen Germany's grip a region they destroyed in the 1990's.

What could go wrong?

Countries still want to join this clown show run by sadists? Actually, the bottom line reason is that a lot people want to bail on these basket cases and emigrate to greener pastures. Which is a big reason that  rightist parties that are nationalist anti-immigrant are doing so well in the core. Sort of like leaving the farm of the big city, or maybe leaving a collapsing structure for relative safety.

Red Pill Times
Merkel scrambles to Serbia and Albania trying to make the “dead man walking” EU larger

Alexrpt

Kristina Rus — CANVAS and Right Sector trail in the murder of Nemtsov

Broadening and deepening the plot.

Fort Russ
CANVAS and Right Sector trail in the murder of Nemtsov

Kristina Rus

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Joachin Flores — Will Serbia Turn to the East? The Real Significance of Putin’s Visit

What the post doesn't mention is that Serbia is not only Slavic rather than Euopean but also Orthodox rather than Catholic-Protestant. The old national and regional rivalries are arising anew as the post WWII and Cold War order breaks down. And again, Germany is a lynchpin.

Oriental Review
Will Serbia Turn to the East? The Real Significance of Putin’s VisitJoachin Flores

The Tragedy Accelerates, Worldwide

Commentary by Roger Erickson

Strauss-Kahn hired to advise Serbia

"Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been retained by Serbia's Socialist government to advise the prime minister and finance minister on managing the country's debt as it seeks to join the EU, officials in Belgrade said Friday."
                                          ...
"International Monetary Fund experts believe [Serbia] needs to introduce severe budget cuts, including public administration costs and pensions."

By this point, we have to call it a global tragicomedy. Very dark humor indeed.

A bevy of financial dominatrix's seduce the whole world into a climactic act of ritual submission? And the public pays for it?

Can't we at least restrict this to a financial red light district, for consenting adults only? 

Bring back Glass-Steagall ... and add much more?