DBWI: Jugoslavian troops do not pass from Trieste in 1991.

[MusuMankata]

20 years ago, in this same day, the peace deal between the Republic of Italy Jugoslavia was signed

It was the end of a blood war, started with the pretext of Jugoslavian troops breaking Trieste's inhabitants closing of their city, and the sacking of Trieste. That day, the Parliament, with the approval of the Senate and ratification by Cossiga, declared war to Jugoslavia, sending Italy directly into the fray of the Balkan Wars for a short while.

Today, in Trieste, we celebrate the men an women that have died as result of those soldiers' actions. As I assisted to the celebrations, I asked myself.

What if the Jugoslavian troops had respected the refusal of Trieste's inhabitants to let them pass until the Italian Government had convinced them to do so, or if they had violated the refusal but let the citizens of Trieste untouched?

(OOC: This was based on a crisis that almost happened in 1991, if you are asking. Howevr, if the scenario still sounds too unrealistic, feel free to stone me to death and move this to ASB)

 

[MusuMankata]

(OOC: Oh, c'mon! )

 

[Perfidious Albion]

OOC: You've basically just explained almost everything about the history of the alternate-world in your first post. This leaves very little for other people to actually do. Not many people care much about merely operating within the alternate world of a DBWI; speaking for at least myself, the fun of it is creating that alternate world collaboratively, and if the OP has already done that then there's not much point participating.

 

[MusuMankata]

OOC: You've basically just explained almost everything about the history of the alternate-world in your first post. This leaves very little for other people to actually do. Not many people care much about merely operating within the alternate world of a DBWI; speaking for at least myself, the fun of it is creating that alternate world collaboratively, and if the OP has already done that then there's not much point participating.

(OOC: Oh. Thanks, I will keep that in mind next time.)

 

[Queeney]

OOC: Basically what Perfidious Albion said. Better stay a bit ambiguous, instead of explaing everything yourself from the beginning.

 

[lukedalton]

OOC: You've basically just explained almost everything about the history of the alternate-world in your first post. This leaves very little for other people to actually do. Not many people care much about merely operating within the alternate world of a DBWI; speaking for at least myself, the fun of it is creating that alternate world collaboratively, and if the OP has already done that then there's not much point participating.

OOC: I agree with you, but let's try to salvage somethig

IC: well yes, we had our little short victorious war, thanks to the stupidity of the yugoslavian (or i must say serbian) command.
Honestly what do they think, when they entered the territory of a NATO member, that they all was gonna be A-Ok? A month of air warfare had them rethink about it.
The problem is that the Italo-yugoslavian conflict basically opened the door for the Balkan wars, the various civil/ethnic conflict in the former soviet bloc, Greece and middle east or as they are collectevily called in a more PC manner, the 'Post-soviet troubles' aka the series of nationalistic conflict that wrecked the former communist country and the balkan in general for half a decades.
I know that's a little provincial way of thinking, but IMHO without that incident and the following war the civil war in the former yugoslavia will be contained and the actual map of Europe and Middle East will not resemble something out of the 19th century nationalist dream.

 

[theg*ddam*hoi2fan]

Well, Italy benefited nicely from the whole thing - through economic and military treaties with the nations that broke away, they've built what amounts to an informal empire in the Balkans. Serbia, of course, still loathes them...