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<strong>Filibuster Cartoon</strong>
<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="http://www.filibustercartoons.com/archive.php?id=20070205" target="_blank">Nesting Dolls</a> (click to view)
<strong>Date: </strong> February 05, 2007

As I mentioned on the blog, the United Nations has formally come out with a plan for dealing with the disputed Serbian province of Kosovo- namely independence. The Security Council, in turn, is expected to ratify the plan, making Kosovo the world\'s newest sovereign country. <br> <br>That part of the world just keeps subdividing further and further and further. Maybe someday there\'ll be a North and South Kosovo or something...

[hoshie]

J.J., this is a great toon! You have drawn the angst i've been feeling about Kosovo's future.

However, there is one tiny error. After the stacking doll for socialist Yugoslavia opens, a doll for the Serbia-Montenegro state union ("federation" in the toon) pops out. This is incorrect. From 1992 to 2003, the republics of Serbia and Montenegro formed a "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" (FRY). Until the last two years, the FRY was, for all intents and purposes, cut off from the rest of the world due to the Yugoslav wars and not recognized by the US and UN (I think Canada too) for the same reason.

In any case, I understand why the toon says what it does. For anyone not versed in US foreign policy, the topic is confusing with shades of BS thrown in for good measure.

[Psudo]

Great comic. And thank you for the forum & blog buttons, too! 3 bookmarks just became 1.

[JJ]

hoshie wrote:

J.J., this is a great toon! You have drawn the angst i've been feeling about Kosovo's future.

However, there is one tiny error. After the stacking doll for socialist Yugoslavia opens, a doll for the Serbia-Montenegro state union ("federation" in the toon) pops out. This is incorrect. From 1992 to 2003, the republics of Serbia and Montenegro formed a "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" (FRY). Until the last two years, the FRY was, for all intents and purposes, cut off from the rest of the world due to the Yugoslav wars and not recognized by the US and UN (I think Canada too) for the same reason.

In any case, I understand why the toon says what it does. For anyone not versed in US foreign policy, the topic is confusing with shades of BS thrown in for good measure.

I don't entirely follow. My point was just to show how the S/M federation was the smaller, successor state to the larger Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia that existed under Tito.

[Clogeroo]

Europe has changed many times in the last thousand years.


Europe 1300


Europe 1600


Europe 1900


Europe 2000

[Calbeck]

I'm waiting for the inevitable subdivision into city blocks.

[Rhoffman]

Great comic J.J., and great post Clogeroo!

I'll definitely be checking that website out later on.

[hoshie]

JJ wrote:

hoshie wrote:

J.J., this is a great toon! You have drawn the angst i've been feeling about Kosovo's future.

However, there is one tiny error. After the stacking doll for socialist Yugoslavia opens, a doll for the Serbia-Montenegro state union ("federation" in the toon) pops out. This is incorrect. From 1992 to 2003, the republics of Serbia and Montenegro formed a "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" (FRY). Until the last two years, the FRY was, for all intents and purposes, cut off from the rest of the world due to the Yugoslav wars and not recognized by the US and UN (I think Canada too) for the same reason.

In any case, I understand why the toon says what it does. For anyone not versed in US foreign policy, the topic is confusing with shades of BS thrown in for good measure.

I don't entirely follow. My point was just to show how the S/M federation was the smaller, successor state to the larger Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia that existed under Tito.

Simply put, by 1992, the republics in Tito's Yugoslavia were leaving at a rapid pace. After everyone else had left, Serbia and Montenegro decided to keep Yugoslavia going until 2003, when the union took effect. This was done because everyone (The Yugoslav Gov't and the EU) was fearful at the time that the Balkans would blow up again if Montenegro became independent.

[Dryhad]

The next subdivision will probably be Bosnia and Herzegovina into, um, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I mean, really. When you've got a country who's name is actually "Country A and Country B" you've got at least suspect that Country A and Country B will some day separate.

[fire_i]

Newfoundland and Labrador?

[Psudo]

<The Critic>
I can no longer be silent on this issue. Independence for Newfoundland!
</The Critic>