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It's pretty comical to compare your tourist visit to Albania last year against a Special Air Service operation during a civil war 23 years ago.
by EForEndeavour 6y ago
It's pretty comical to compare your tourist visit to Albania last year against a Special Air Service operation during a civil war 23 years ago.
- C19is20 6y agoI was in Albania and Kosovo in '99. Been back since, can't wait to go again. Op's observations still hold true. For info, back then, the 17km (sounds easy) from airport to Tirana was a bunker nightmare. A real coup would have not let even the SAS pass quite so easily. However, SAS? I bet they had each bunker mapped.
- aunty_helen 6y agomm I get what you mean, but it was more like: Today Albania is a great country to explore and you'd be missing out if you were in the region and skipped over it. Another thing is their reputation within Europe is... well to put it as one Albanian said to me laughingly: "They're scared of us. They think we're all gangsters" Most people don't know a lot about the country so if they just read the article or go from what they have heard a European say, they might have an impression that doesn't truly represent it.
- zokier 6y ago> Another thing is their reputation within Europe is... well to put it as one Albanian said to me laughingly: "They're scared of us. They think we're all gangsters" As an fellow European, I think most people around here would just lump it together with the rest of Balkans; so nothing personal against Albania specifically :) And having couple of (internal-ish) wars does tend to leave memory, especially if they happen on your back yard (from global viewpoint)
- danlugo92 6y agoHe did say "obviously theres no civil war at the moment". Why do you feel the need to argue bro? On albanian geopolitics nonetheless, go drink a beer or something.