Forum Debate Proposes Balkan Redrawing via Demographic Colonization

Forum Debate Proposes Balkan Redrawing via Demographic Colonization

The thesis is uncomfortable: the disintegration of Yugoslavia was not a tragedy, but a necessary correction. Based on this premise, a participant outlines a territorial reordering plan for the Balkans combining demographics, cultural colonization, and gradual absorption. The starting point is a controversial claim: South Slavs arrived in the Balkans displacing previous populations, so their current states lack solid historical foundations. It trinc that the only reasonable solution is refounding these countries in their supposed original lands, in the steppe and Volga basin.

The demographic argument is central. According to figures cited by the participant, Italy has 60 million inhabitants and 7 million Italians living abroad; Slovenia has 2 million; Croatia has 3.8 million. If a fraction of that diaspora settled in Slovenia and the Dalmatian coast, Italian cultural weight would eventually dominate. The same logic applies to Greece, with 10.5 million residents and a diaspora of 7-8 million, compared to North Macedonia’s 2 million and declining. The conclusion is that demographic colonization precedes linguistic change, which in turn leads to annexation.

Proposals for Slovenia and the Dalmatian Coast

The Italian plan requires no deportations. It argues it suffices for current residents to learn the language of the country they “truly” belong to, while those wishing to keep their state must refound it in its original territory. The threshold figure is modest: 50,000 Italians living in Fiume, Zara, Split, and Dubrovnik would shift the balance of power. First the language, then annexation.

The cited historical precedent is awkward: Italians already colonized Slovenia, and it ended badly. This episode is not elaborated upon but hovers over the proposal as a warning.

Macedonia: Absorb Instead of Litigate

Something similar occurs with Greece. Rather than disputing the name and heritage of Alexander, the proposal is to lure and absorb: encourage Greek immigration, create a Greek neighborhood in Skopje, and culturally bombard with concerts and businesses with Greek signs. Once there are half a million Greeks living there, annexation will trinc naturally. The objection raised from another perspective is that Macedonians are not Greeks, but Bulgarians by right of genocide. This data is not developed.

Czechoslovakia and the German Precedent

The dissolution of Czechoslovakia is also read as a success. Bohemia and Sarracena would have been German lands, populated by Germans taught a foreign language. The recipe is the same: relocate German population, reduce intercontinental emigration, and colonize this artificial state. Once unified with Austria, Bohemia would fall under its own weight.

Romania, Moldova, and the Demographic Limit

Moldova is described as a piece stolen from Dacia, and its non-reunification attributed to external threats. With a strong and armed EU, reunification would be the first step to absorbing northern Bulgaria, eastern Hungary, and Serbia. The strongest counterargument received is not ideological, but arithmetic: European countries lack the demographic strength even to maintain their own communities, so scattering them elsewhere is unviable. Yugoslavia was unsustainable due to internal differences, but had it worked, it would be an important country in Europe instead of four small states.

The Map Drawn and the One Debated

The debate shifts toward a broader map: reslavizing Central and Eastern Europe, returning Germans to the west, restoring previous Russian borders, and dismantling Slavic and Uralic states by relocating them to the steppe. The skeptical response is that Europe was previously worse off, with a third of the population dead from plague and parts invaded, yet still dominated the world. What exists today, it is said, is vagueness, indolence, and mental poverty.

The closure does not arrive. The map remains on the table, and no one has yet explained how to execute it without a population to inhabit it. Is it a plan or a stylistic exercise?