Balkanize
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To [fracture] and waste something important, like a country, with something totally [unimportant], like [ethnic] differences.
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Divide (a region or body) into smaller mutually hostile states or groups.
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To split something (usually a state) apart, on a usually ethnic basis. This verb first appeared in the 1990s during the War in Bosnia, led by [Croats], Serbs and Bosnians, which caused the demise of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ([SFRY]). It is nowadays again popular with [Kosovar] Albanians trying to rip off a part of Serbia -Kosovo (15% of Serbian territory, imagine the US without Texas)- for themselves.
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The action of adding [meat] to every [possible] [dish].
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