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My wife was watching a show I'm not that interested in, so I pulled a book off the shelf at random: Future Wars: The World's Most Dangerous Flashpoints by Col. Trevor N. Dupuy. (recommended to me by a much esteemed technothriller junkie from this very site who shall remain nameless to keep his peaceful reputation intact)

And the most interesting and inventive scenario in the entire book was one that played off the possibility of ethnic unrest in Romania. Basically, it uses the idea of a pseudo-Milosevic type leader coming to power on a platform that mixes ultra-nationalism with some ethnic surpremacy. And the one group that they believe they're better than are the ethnic Hungarians that live in the Transylvanian part of the country.

Long story short, they start treating the Hungarian minority like crap and the Hungarian government tells them to stop. The Romanians say that what they do in their own country is there own business so they can kindly take a hike, and after things go on too long and reach a certain point of...shall we say...pointed unpleasantness, the Hungarian army mobilizes and launches a 2 corps strong attack across the border into Romania to establish a peace that better suits the interests of it's own ethnic population in that country.

I could go into it more, as Col. Dupuy actually goes through the runup and a projected course for the war, but I thought I'd pitch it like this just to get everyone's gears turning.
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