As we can see population over the entire balkans region is declining, our young people do not want to make kids anymore, there is also the brain drain meaning that our educated people are leaving our countries. Furthermore, we are in huge debts and there are foreign investors buying properties, infrastructure, visas and even citizenships in some cases. There are also tourists coming who are supposed to bring in money but they dont since most of our vacation sites are owned by foreigners as well and the tax goes to pay our debts. So, we are losing our demography, money, educated people, population, our lands, properties and infrastructure, autonomy, culture and opportunities to ever get better since our ability of investing alsoecreases with those ive mentioned above. Serbia, Greece, Croatia, Bosnia all have decreasing populations and what is worse is that those who remain in the country are the worse ones than those who move out of the country. Turkey has its population increasing overall but its turkic population is decreasing and kurdish and especially arabic population is rising there.

Now, how the hell are we going to solve this?

First of all, we have to ban our youth from getting out of the country and foreign investment. We must also take back our properties most probably by using force. It is apparent that we will not be able to buy them back so it leaves only one choice. We also have to go very harsh against organized crime and prevent rich people from exploiting the country and thats it. Then start again and dont do the mistakes you had done before.

So, why can we not do those? The first reason is that we would need a very authoritarian regime in order to do those reforms since there will be many people and countries opposing them. But if we do that, we will be blamed for being fascists, authoritarian, anti-democratic, dictatorships etc etc. If you try destroying organized crime effectively, you will be blamed for being too harsh on your citizens. If you try preventing your youth from leaving the country, you will be blamed for oppressing them and taking away their freedom. If you try taking away properties owned by foriegn citizens and companies, you will be accused for not obeying international agreements and thievery. If we try preventing them from selling us their products and ban their companies, they will literally attack us since it would lose them too much money or accuse us of becoming communists. As you can see, the system of the modern world is preventing us from solving these problems. This is exacly how imperialism works. They will want you to have liberalism in your country so that they can do whatever they want in your country. They can take away your educated people, they can literally buy your country, they can intervene with politics in your country. Now you might be asking, those rich western countries have the same system as well so why arent they the ones being exploited but us? Thats because when those countries became capitalist through the rise of the bourgeoise of their countries, there were a lot of land to be colonoized in the world. Now, all of those lands are occuppied so we dont have anywhere else left for us to colonize. A capitalist economy has to colonize and exploit other countries to get rich. In order for a capitalist country to be successful. However, all of those job sectors are occuppie already. So, cant we just produce our own products and use them? No because we cannot produce anything as efficiently and at a lower cost them western states.

As you can see, we are trapped. We cannot build strong corps and even if we could, we dont have the money to do so. We are dependent on them in every way. They are selling us their products, own our properties and infrastructures and take huge amounts of money out of our countries every year since they get the money we are paying in our respective countries. If we ever try going against this system, we will be accused of crimes, sanctions will be imposed on us and we will be excommunicated from the civilized world. Then there is only one choice left. Thats becoming dictatorship socialist states. Imagine yugoslavia, could the west buy property there? No. Could anyone exploit their educated people? No. Could the west pull them into immense amounts of debt and then collect their taxes, bully them into obeying their system? again, NO. In the end, we will either go against the west or we will become 3rd world ghost countries.

The Ottomans prevented this a little bit but now that we are divided, they can pull this off a lot more easily but thats a story for another time.