I adore Croatia. \u00a0I have a good friend there, and he never shuts up about how beautiful it is there. \u00a0Cro Cop is my favorite MMA guy. \u00a0My smallest pistol is a Croatian-made Springfield Arms imported XD-S 9 (3.3) and I adore it, too.<\/p>\n
One of my favorite stories about Croatia, related to me by my friend Marko, concerns the butt of many\u00a0Croatian jokes, the country of Slovenia. \u00a0Slovenia shares a border with Croatia. \u00a0Slovenia is regarded as backward by Croatians, a small country abhorred by other small countries as a kind of tawdry Exit 93 before you get to wherever you’re going.<\/p>\n
Marko said that some time ago, tensions between Slovenia and Croatia were high, perhaps concerning NATO membership, EU \/ Euro concerns, who knows? \u00a0The Slovenian\u00a0military was assembled along the border of Croatia, and began maneuvering ostentatiously, driving armored vehicles this way and that in front of the cameras of both nations. \u00a0The Croatian populace, particularly those along the northern border, wanted the government to respond, and yet the government was loath to escalate a situation high negatives and virtually no positives. \u00a0As a Nash equilibrium problem, you would figure the Slovenians would just go home. \u00a0But the pressure mounted, and so the government of Croatia, with a highly trained, combat proven military force at sea, on the ground and in the air — sent the fire department.<\/p>\n
Fire trucks from border towns went to border crossings and ostentatiously unrolled their hoses and soaked\u00a0random shrubbery for the cameras of both countries, and the Slovenians packed it in.<\/p>\n
That bit of creative genius makes the following bit of news<\/a> just that much more disappointing:<\/p>\n Riot police had to stand aside after being overwhelmed by the numbers, most of whom had passed through Serbia from the Hungarian border.<\/p>\n Yesterday, the Croatian government said it would allow all migrants free passage through the country and strongly criticised the Hungarian government for closing their border. However, Croatia\u2019s Interior Minister has now admitted they \u201ccannot receive any more people\u201d as authorities struggle to cope with the huge influx.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That’s right, Croatia got up on their high horse about Hungary’s bborder closure, and declared that anybody who wanted could march right through Croatia. \u00a0Twenty-four hours later, they’re closing the border. \u00a0Of all the places in that bent-up corner of the world, I would have expected Croatia to man up and defend their borders. \u00a0Slovakia, I understand, has ZERO mosques. \u00a0I guess we’ll see hos that work out.<\/p>\n A country needs a border, a border needs defense, and defense requires a plan, practice, and stout hearts. \u00a0I can even sympathize a little with those blind souls who do not see this as an existential struggle \u00a0I understand why they do not feel the need to defend anything \u00a0Either they do not value what we have, or they do not feel it is threatened, so I understand their shortcoming. \u00a0But I will not forgive those who see the threat and shrink from saying what needs to be said — that we must do what needs to be done. \u00a0As long as all these borders go undefended, so long as hordes feel empowered, entitled, welcome to simply swarm over the meager “defenses” offered, this problem will just get worse. \u00a0it’s not as though the source is getting any better, and it is certainly NOT confined to Syrians.<\/p>\n Western Civilization is losing the fight of its life. \u00a0One necessary step among others is to actively defend threatened borders. \u00a0This is an invasion, and those besieged are within their rights to defend their borders with the force of arms. \u00a0I didn’t say “kill them all”, I said defend your borders. \u00a0That should not be controversial.<\/p>\n I adore Croatia. \u00a0I have a good friend there, and he never shuts up about how beautiful it is there. \u00a0Cro Cop is my favorite MMA guy. \u00a0My smallest pistol is a Croatian-made Springfield Arms imported XD-S 9 (3.3) and I adore it, too.<\/p>\n One of my favorite stories about Croatia, related to me by my friend Marko, concerns the butt of many\u00a0Croatian jokes, the country of Slovenia. \u00a0Slovenia shares a border with Croatia. \u00a0Slovenia is regarded as backward by Croatians, a small country abhorred by other small countries as a kind of tawdry Exit 93 before you get to wherever you’re going.<\/p>\n Marko said that some time ago, tensions between Slovenia and Croatia were high, perhaps concerning NATO membership, EU \/ Euro concerns, who knows? \u00a0The Slovenian\u00a0military … Continue reading