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  Russia is not going to get involved in anything in Serbia it’s the Balkans tensions happen there all the time. Difference between this and Ukraine is NATO is in Kosovo and Serbia was defeated by them last time they tried invading if NATO was in Ukraine Russia would not touch it because NATO would defeat Russia
context: Serbian here, let me explain. 
  Yesterday a huge chemical truck flipped over and dangerous chemicals got into a Nišava river in southern Serbia. This same water is used for drinking and other stuff.
  Government is using this to cover up real problems. Don’t worry, these “tensions” happen every few months
  Edit update: some reports say 51 person in hospital with symptoms of poisoning already >
  
  
  Don’t worry, these “tensions” happen every few months
  
  Every few months every single year ever since the Ottomans gtfo'ed 104 years ago.. >
  
  It's been an on and off thing since Kosovo was first being juggled around by East Rome, Bulgaria and Serbia starting in the 11th century. >
  
  The region has been at each other's throats since the Greeks and Romans fought the Gepids and Thracians, then the Dacians, then the Huns and the Ostrogoths, then the Slavic peoples migrated in, took on some local flavor and diverged into separate nationalities/ ethnic groups, and fought each other ever since. >
  
  Honestly the region just sounds super cursed. >
  
  Nothing that happens in the Balkans is worth the bones of a single Pomeranian Grenadier.
  
  Bismarck. >
  
  I was just thinking about him. Didn’t he sort of half-predict the next conflict would come about due to shenanigans in the Balkans, and advised his emperor to ignore all of it? >
  
  Pretty much. Bismarck knew how the game was played and Wilhelm 2 dismissing him was idiotic. >
  
  To be fair by the time the crisis occured Bismark had died so the Kaiser would have been on his own handling it regardless >
  
  To be even more fair, Bismarck had predicted it twice. The first time he said it would be some damn thing in the Balkans that would set everything off.  The second prediction was to Wilhelm himself the last time they spoke for how long he'd have after Bismarck died. He was off by 4 months. >
  
  The Serbian army is much smaller than it used to be and they've shown no signs of actually preparing for a war. It's all just smoke and there is absolutely nothing to be alarmed of >
  
  I mostly lean towards saying the same thing but I’m absolutely going to say that anyone commenting about how nothing is going to happen and making damn near guarantees on what is going to happen on reddit of all places should absolutely be disregarded. 
  Iamsosmart Redditors also scoffed and dismissed any suggestion the Taliban would retake Afghanistan not too long ago too. Anything could happen. >
  
  This won't turn into anything. >
  
  People said the exact same thing earlier this year when Putin started lining his tanks across the Russia-Ukraine border. >
  
  Russia has nuclear weapons and isn’t completely surrounded by NATO. It’s a bit different.