Countries Bordering Serbia

Some day these countries would want to be a part of Serbia again? Or Serbia will rise to be an expansive imperialistic power? Either scenario seems doubtful. More likely would be Serbia getting absorbed either into a resurgent Turkish or Russian Empire, or perhaps something like a United States of Europe.

They were within the Soviet sphere of influence before... and... if Putin takes Western Ukraine there's only one country (Romania or Hungary take your pick) separating them... so why not? Likely? No. Possible? Yes. And more plausible than Serbia ever regaining control over any other country.

There are people who want Republika Srpska to be part of Serbia again and even want to wage war over it both Bosnia and Serbia are not part of NATO and if in war Serbia could be guarenteed by Russia (Putin) so they can get what they want.

And Serbia looks like Godzilla running away [to the left] after having most of its tail chopped off.

Well, Romania is one of the countries bordering Serbia.

Rorschach* ;)

HAHAHAH so true... they hate everyone who isn't them

Not everyone. Albanians and Bosniaks love the Turks. They converted to Islam and faithfully served them in many battles.

That "border" is only there temporary, it will be removed soon or later in the future. I can't tell if you are lying or not, i don't have any evidences that 'stealing' actually happened.

I'm not lying. Corrupt evil jerkoffs, maybe they were mad at me for being American and trying to go to the sovereign nation of Kosovo which they are impotent to exert any control over, or maybe they just saw my car and wanted it. I'd owned that car for 13 years; drove through dozens of countries with it and never had an issue. When I entered Serbia they looked at my papers, everything was fine. When I tried to leave, they decided my registration wasn't valid. They took me to some kangaroo court in Prokuplje, acting like they were doing me a big favor the whole time; the "judge" there decided that my legally owned and registered car was "undeclared goods." They marched me to an ATM, got as much money as they could out of me under threat of incarceration. It was a straight up shake down. No set fine basically just "how much you got?" And the cops from the border got kickbacks I'm sure. They couldn't afford a liter of gas on the way in. On the way back they stopped to buy food and booze.

I was told that if I could produce more documentation that the car was legally registered I'd get it and the money they stole from me back. I produced more documentation. But I got nothing. Part of it may have been my incompetent lawyers. Most of the ones I contacted didn't want to touch the case; probably they were smart enough to realize that nothing could be done in the face of this obvious corruption. But I fought it for a year and nothing happened. Pulled in every favor I could, nothing. They stole my car.

And before that.. Belgrade was boring. Most of the people I met were jerks. and they charged me an outrageous fee for driving in to the country even just for a week. Seems like if their plan was to confiscate the cars that you take in they might ease up on that. But I got gouged on the way in and the way out. One of the biggest mistakes I ever made. I should have turned around and just gone through Croatia.

mjnc: that's absurd. That mine has been out of commission since 1999. The estimated infusion of foreign capital to get it up and running again would probably cost less than the NATO missions to stop Milošević and his adventures in ethnic cleansing, and if that were the real reason for this it seems like that capital would have quickly been forthcoming after the conflict was over.

by far the biggest one, yes. But I was ripped off multiple other times there, encountered a lot of corruption, a lot of rude people (some nice ones), and overall didn't find much worth recommending a visit over. I had better experiences in literally every other European country I've been to, and can't really think of anything good to say about the place. There was a small place next to the McDonald's downtown in Nis that made good chicken sandwiches. That's all I got right now.

You're making it seem you are averse to a whole ethnic group

well... what should I say? Theoretically not all of them are jerks. But I've got little evidence to back up that statement. I do understand that anecdotal evidence isn't everything, though. Even if there's a lot of it.

I agree that there should be a standard across quizzes, but it could be language-specific. The decision to include Kosovo or not is purely political in the end, since, as you pointed out, the world map would be unrecognisable if we strictly followed who-controls-what criteria, and even then, what exactly constitutes "control" anyway? Is the pseudo-state of Northern Cyprus really autonomous, or is it a Turkish occupation? Are countries even fully in control of their own matters while being part of the EU, NATO etc.? So why can't different standards be applied to quizzes in different languages? The answers are completely different anyway, typing "Croatia" or "Hungary" on the Serbian quiz does nothing, so it makes sense that some arbitrary rules may be changed to cater to the separate "audience".

It is not opinion it is a fact. In the moment is sadly occupied territory.

Occupied by who?