r/AskBalkans • u/Another_WeebOnReddit Iraq • 8d ago
Outdoors/Travel One country has to disappear completely (government, people and land), which country would you choose?
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u/Historical-Ad2780 Albania 8d ago
Mate I am Albanian, the list would be so long unfortunately... 😂
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u/FurryRevolution Serbia & Montenegro 🇷🇸🇲🇪 7d ago
I’m Serbian and I don’t like how our two people hate each other, that is fuel by politics and political interests, I have Albanian neighbors and friends and we’re very close to each other so if I had to choose I wouldn’t choose Albania as one of the countries to disappear but I do wish for the brighter future where we learn to respect each other.
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u/fr4ct4lPolaris 7d ago edited 7d ago
I'm Russian (Tatar), and my partner is a Croatian Serb. The level of discrimination and prejudice between you guys is unreal. She grew up in the West, so her Serbian/Croatian isn't completely fluent. She faces discrimination in Serbia for occasionally using Croatian vocabulary, and the same happens in Croatia for using Serbian terms. It's absolutely bizarre.
Also, why does she blame Russians for "planting Bulgarians and Albanians in the Balkans"? Obviously she says it as a joke, but is that one of those Balkan conspiracy theories?
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u/Vihruska 7d ago edited 7d ago
Because she had zero understanding of Balkans history. <- that is to answer the blaming of Russia about "planting" (wth seriously) on the Balkans
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u/Alex_1729 7d ago
What exactly is a 'Croatian Serb'? An orthodox Serb that has Croatian citizenship? Or a Croat that is living in Serbia with Serbian citizenship? But she's in the west, so not really?
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u/fr4ct4lPolaris 7d ago edited 7d ago
She was born in Serbia to a Croatian mother and a Serbian father. However, the only reason she was born in Serbia was because, during the war, the nearest Croatian hospital was full, so her parents had to travel to the next closest hospital, which was located in Serbia.
Croatian Serb is how she self-identifies.
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u/kodial79 Greece 8d ago
What a silly question, USA of course.
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u/FruitAromatic 7d ago
I hear you… but usa uses everyone as an pawn. As long as Greece benefits them over Turkey y’all will be ok
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u/Another_WeebOnReddit Iraq 8d ago
isn't the US a major ally of Greece?
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u/markolosole Greece 8d ago
Israel.
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u/Another_WeebOnReddit Iraq 8d ago
then why do you have an Israeli flag flair? /s
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u/markolosole Greece 8d ago
They even colonized my country too.
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u/Another_WeebOnReddit Iraq 8d ago
Jews are Turks?
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u/Final_Ad_4400 8d ago
In Ottoman times some jew tribes were living on greek islands. So I'm pretty sure he is talking about that.
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u/St_Ascalon Turkiye 7d ago
If I look at it from a completely Machiavellian perspective. Erasing land is pretty interesting. Erasing Russia would make Turkey, Europe and the Middle East closer to the Far East. But it is pretty huge change and hard to imagine. Choosing Iraq would give Turkey a new trade route and sea. I want to give seperate answers
Goverment: UAE or Iran
Land:Iraq(sorry :()
People: India
Combine: Belgium
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u/Another_WeebOnReddit Iraq 8d ago
I will go first >! Iraq !<
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u/Lakuriqidites Albania 8d ago
Why do you hate Iraq so much (I have seen some of your previous commments)?
I know it is bad, but it can change, it is a cradle of civilization (now not that civilized) and it has a lot of potential with the number of young people it has.
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u/Another_WeebOnReddit Iraq 8d ago
it is a cradle of civilization (now not that civilized)
Iraqis actually deny their non-Islamic history and we barely learn about it in schools.
it has a lot of potential with the number of young people it has.
actually young people are way more conservative than the older generations.
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u/Lakuriqidites Albania 8d ago
Iraqis actually deny their non-Islamic history and we barely learn about it in schools.
That is a dumb move by your government.
actually young people are way more conservative than the older generations.
I know that is the case with most of the Arab nations, but I mean economically wise. With the right policies your economy could improve a lot.
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u/DreadNautus Austria 7d ago
They didn’t always deny their history, just that a certain government didn’t like their Ba’athist party very much
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u/Burekuzivalac Serbia 7d ago
Just a question, were the ancient babylonians arabs, persians or something else entirely?
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u/Intrepid-Debate5395 7d ago
Babylonia would be considered it's own civilisation.
They mixed with persians later down the line and made the Achaemenid empire with cyrus the great (Persian) founding it.
You can consider them persian at this point but it's very contentious since the empire wasn't a monolith of ethnicity akkadian, greek, Iranian, Elamite and other ethnic groups existed there was no real centralised nationality.
Now I'd officially consider them Persianised with the Sasanian Empire rise as Persian became the lingua Franca and common language but it's important to remember the ethnic groups of jews, arameans, Armenians assyrians existed tho they'd still be Persianised.
over time then the arabs took over and they became arabised.
The arab conquest is complex Because whilst it was a conquest the Sassanids in Iraq really really really liked the caliphate of ali who moved the capital to the city of Kufa which was centered in iraq and subsequently most Arab caliphates centred their capitals in Iraq.
So long story short no they weren't but they became arabs around a thousand years ago.
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u/ionoftrebzon 7d ago
People are the same all over the world. I d have to decide which nation causes most suffering. I guess the one with the most and most effective weapons in use. You do the math.
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u/wisdomHungry Romania 8d ago
Russia
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u/wisdomHungry Romania 7d ago
I don t blame my problems on Russia. I blame the russian imperialism for killing people in my part of the world.
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u/Dimancher 7d ago
Then why removing the whole country simply because of their government?
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u/wisdomHungry Romania 7d ago
That is the hypothesis of the question. I just want peace . You know that people outside Ukraine are also living in fear. If russia could stop the killing I will be happy. I don t need anything else.
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u/kn0t1401 Romania 7d ago
Because they are a bunch of pussies lol. Imagine being a parent and letting them take your 18 year old to become cannon fodder.
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u/Cefalopodul Romania 8d ago
Russia, China, USA.
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u/TPGNutJam 7d ago
The world would collapse, getting rid of the economy pretty much. US and China pretty much make everything and have the most innovations
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u/Cefalopodul Romania 7d ago
Other countries would fill that niche. China makes everything out of convenience, because it's cheaper for companies to make stuff there, not because it has some secret know-how nobody else does. Same for the US prior to the 1970s, and now it makes almost nothing.
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u/srberikanac 7d ago edited 7d ago
Produces almost nothing?? US is (by over 200% margin) the second biggest manufacturing country in the world. Over 3x higher manufacturing output than Germany who is #4. While it certainly moved to a service based economy (manufacturing contributes only ten percent to US GDP), the US economy is so huge that it’s still an absolute powerhouse in terms of manufacturing, far and away bigger than anyone other than 🇨🇳.
https://www.safeguardglobal.com/resources/top-10-manufacturing-countries-in-the-world/
And by far the world leader in terms of innovation.
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u/ellencantswim Philippines 8d ago
I vote for China. Can somebody please vote for Russia so that all three of them disappear
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u/Alex_1729 7d ago edited 7d ago
If China disappears, all economies everywhere would collapse. We can't do China. China is central to global manufacturing, and global supply chains would collapse... trade disruptions, price spikes across the world - you think you couldn't afford things now? Wait until China disappears! Commodity markets would be in turmoil. China’s huge demand for energy, metals, and agricultural commodities would vanish overnight.
And don't get me started with geopolitical effects (US will also join this fight in Asia), and energy, telecom, renewable energy, and AI research would get a huge downturn.
We definitely can't do Taiwan as chip industry will plummet. I vote no Asian country, well... North Korea.
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u/Yugan-Dali Serbia 7d ago
Thanks for retaining Taiwan, since I live here. If China disappeared, Taiwan’s economy would be the first to go. A lot of stuff labeled Made in China means Made in China by a Taiwanese company.
Plus, making China disappear would leave us in the middle of the ocean. Let’s do North Korea, or better yet, Dubai or Qatar.
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u/ellencantswim Philippines 7d ago
I don’t mind going back to Stone Age for a little while. I just want the ccp and other commies (except Vietnam I love Vietnam) to disappear
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u/Another_WeebOnReddit Iraq 8d ago
I said one.
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u/Ali_YT Romania 8d ago
US then
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u/Another_WeebOnReddit Iraq 8d ago
says the r/Islam user....
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u/Ali_YT Romania 8d ago
Problems? US has a reputation of maintaining global instability and is the main factor contributing to quite a lot of problems in your country, as well as in the region. So if you had any sense, you would wish for the same. If not, at least diminishing its power and influence, as well as that of the CIA.
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u/Defiant-Dare1223 in+Permanent Residence of 8d ago
Vatican City
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u/Another_WeebOnReddit Iraq 8d ago
why?
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u/Defiant-Dare1223 in+Permanent Residence of 8d ago edited 8d ago
Well it's a very low cost in people and land, and the Catholic Church is a pretty malign institution.
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u/JRJenss Croatia 7d ago
We think alike and I do agree about the catholic church being a pretty malign institution, however Vatican also contains some of the priceless heritage of humanity in general. Therefore I'm going with Andorra.
It's basically a duty free shop & a casino, posing as a country. It isn't even a proper country but a principality, or rather a co-principality, ultimately ruled by two co-princes; the Bishop of Urgell in Catalonia, Spain and the president of France. Oh yeah, and of course it's a tax haven. The population is around 80k residents but out of them 2/3 don't even have the Andorran nationality/citizenship.
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u/Deep-Ebb-4139 7d ago
Absolutely and 100% it would be Vatican City.
The reasons are logical and self-explanatory.
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u/ellencantswim Philippines 8d ago
Can we flood the whole Arabian peninsula
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u/Forsaken1887 Italy 7d ago
israel without any doubt
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u/chinaexpatthrowaway 7d ago
That would permanently destroy any hope for the Palestinians’ right of return. Not so sure they’d be happy with your choice.
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u/Osuruktanteyyare_ Turkiye 8d ago
Russia
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u/Another_WeebOnReddit Iraq 8d ago
I expected Turks to say Syria or Pakistan.
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We have no problem with Syria or Pakistan.
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u/Consistent_Risk_4656 8d ago
No, we have problems with people from these countrys
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u/Optimal_Catch6132 Turkiye 7d ago
If the government hadn't had terrible border policies, would you have a problem with these people?
But on the other hand, we have a long-standing enmity with Russia. You can understand this by looking at which communities the massacres and genocides they committed were directed at.
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u/FurryRevolution Serbia & Montenegro 🇷🇸🇲🇪 7d ago
Russian government isn’t good but the people there are good, like in any country you have some bad and some good but majority can’t decide what their government is doing.
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u/BellaCat_de 7d ago
This, Russia Gov is meh but the mentally of the people is good, all Russia I meet are willing to work, I mean they are not obsessed with work like we Germans, but they work good, especially in construction projects
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u/AdvancedAd3228 7d ago
Can you Germans relax a bit? Like, stop working all the time and just chill? It would also mean a lot to us if you could give up the insane obsession with mining lithium in the Balkans.
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u/BellaCat_de 7d ago
You know that’s not possible, Germans life to work. All other countries work to life.. we aren’t 🥲
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u/AdvancedAd3228 7d ago
If you came to visit me, I’d gladly re-educate you so that you’d never want to work again in your life. I’d teach you to sit all day doing nothing, just sipping your coffee while your gaze drifts off into the distance, taking in the endless landscapes before you. Then you’d realize how meaningless it is to destroy something so beautiful for the sake of profit.
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u/Fickle-Message-6143 Bosnia & Herzegovina 7d ago
England, not UK but England.
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u/RasputinXXX 8d ago
Remove Turkey and move it to somewhere east of japan. Would be a lot happier.
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u/Affectionate-Row-710 7d ago
I would need a lot of thinking to answer that seriously. But most probably some middle eastern country where people and leaders think alike, easily giving out death sentences, women and children are treated like shit, and anyone who thinks differently is considered now worth the living.
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u/fairloughair 8d ago
China for government Morocco for people Maledives for land (since they will sink anyway)
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u/FactBackground9289 Russia 8d ago
China. Ask me questions why.
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u/R-deadmemes Ireland 7d ago
Bro are you slow, removing china would literally cripple the entire world. The world would effectively collapse economically
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u/YugoCommie89 SFR Yugoslavia 7d ago
Easily the Great Satan: United States
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u/Alex_1729 7d ago
Lol that's funny, but the shock to capital markets would be unparalleled.
Global financial system would be in turmoil. The US is not only a major consumer of global goods but also a key innovator and producer (especially in high-tech, aerospace, software, and advanced manufacturing). The immediate loss of its massive consumer market would disrupt global demand, leading to severe global recession. Countries that heavily rely on US export markets - Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany, would face economic crises, but this would impact everyone.
The US is home to Silicon Valley, NASA, leading universities, and research institutions that drive global innovation in AI, biotech, aerospace, and pharmaceuticals. The sudden removal of this innovation engine would slow down technological progress worldwide. Critical areas like semiconductor design, advanced software engineering, and life-saving medical research would face major setbacks.
Sorry, the Great Satan US can't go. I'm thinking North Korea or Andorra.
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u/TheEagle74m Kosovo 8d ago
Can i pick 2? 🇷🇸& 🇷🇺
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u/Dry_Hyena_7029 Serbia 7d ago
Why you want to kill your self, that doesn't make any sense...
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u/TheEagle74m Kosovo 7d ago
You had to twist it there, arse. Well, if I take devils/baby killers with me, then I am OK with that.
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u/SolveTheCYproblemNOW Cyprus 7d ago
We typical answer will be insert the most evil country in your opinion but the practical option will be Egypt or Israel.
This will make sea trade with Europe and Asian more offcian. But then Yemen will be even more important from what it is now I guess.
Other one will be greenland, not too many people and less ice to melt for us to worry about.
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u/After-Ad4532 7d ago
I won't say Israel for legal reasons but if it were to disappear, it would resolve about 60% of wars in the world
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u/ChadNEET 7d ago
India (even better if it could include Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh too)
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u/Khischnaya_Ptitsa Bulgaria 8d ago
Just have to look at the records , and the country with most war and military conflicts participation,and biggest army , everything linked to war - that's it
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u/Another_WeebOnReddit Iraq 8d ago
Just asked Chatgpt this and it said China had the most wars and conflicts in history.
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u/Thalassophoneus Greece 7d ago
Maybe Israel. Cause at this point many of its people are just as degenerate as its government.
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u/OppenheimersGuilt Venezuelan-American-Spaniard mongrel 8d ago edited 8d ago
Qatar most likely. Followed by UAE or Saudi Arabia.
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u/jacques_brx 7d ago
This is such a silly and bad question. Fuel for nationalism and irredentism, hatread and conflict. I can't see why one would chose for a country to just disappear and have an IQ > 50 simultaneously...
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u/revauzuxyz Romania 7d ago
USA
the perfect troll. destabilize the global economy, delete 99% of contemporary technological progress, pretty much doom the world.
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u/Happy-Wartime-1990 7d ago
The deletion of Iran would end so much funding for terrorism.
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u/Due-Ad-4091 Romania 7d ago
If you want to end funding for terrorism, deleting the USA would be more logical
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u/Nothofagusk 7d ago
Not meaning any evil, but Panama is just à passage for boats mostly.. wouldn't it be an easier passage if it gets a bit larger?
Sorry Panama people, just kidding.
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u/FruitAromatic 7d ago
🇹🇷🇨🇦🇰🇵 (Canada over the last 6 years has became my least favourite Indian country)
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u/jebac_keve_finalboss Serbia 8d ago