>>90123247Was colonized by the Ottoman Empire for a long time, leaving behind ruined poorfag shit holes with backwards education. Individual groups became obsessed with forming their own ethnic states, but when the Ottoman Empire collapsed they all realized everyone else was planning the same thing and they backstabber each other in a vicious race to grab each other's land. When WW2 happened, some of them joined the Nazi's for the promise of taking more territory from their neighbors, then the whole region became a communist toilet through the cold war.
Think of it like brothers fighting over a shared pool of toys, but one brother consistently makes the dumbest fucking choices and steadily makes shit worse for everyone, and now their national identities are built on never forgiving one another for 100 year old slights
