A real lazy day. Woke up 7:00 and just fell back into sleep for 2 hours. A really god choice. I needed to sleep. Goes to school and can't find the damn room we are supposed to be in. So after some time I arrive a couple of minutes late. That's right, LATE. And if that weren't enough, it also was a guest speaker talking about the conflict in Northern Ireland.
More or less a forgotten conflict since on year back as it does political progress (and being pushed away by Obama, Israel-Palestine, India and so on). It also worth noting it is one of the most western countries in Europe and still in a conflict that draws parallels to the Balkans, Israel-Palestine and most of the Middle-East actually (everything we label as east). That is another conflict that it is very tempting to just say "nuke them". Were it appears unsolvable and no hope for reconciliation as they show in this strip (it is in Swedish so I'm sorry).
There is only one solution to these feuds. Something so tragic and so devastating for both sides caused by either a third party or by nature (often military domination doesn't work). Romeo and Juliet are a good example if I remember correctly (didn't the families reconcile after the death?). More historical one is Sweden's loss of Finland to Russia (that's serious, 1/2 of the country just gone). Of course this is more when there is just one person to blame (in this case Gustav IV Adolf) for a really bad strategy against the VERY big Russian Empire and the VERY big French Empire.
More accurate is probably the Danish-Swedish feud. We of course made the last move by stealing Norway from them and leaving them alone against the Germans (twice actually). But everything we did would probably have caused the Russians to react and the Danish where busy with the expanding German Empire. That makes 2 third parties taking away concern about your long-time enemy.
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