Cold War Update

On Thursday, television political analyst, Stephen Colbert, provided an update on the status of the cold war, including an outline of the latest piece in the breakup of the map of old Yugoslavia.

Not in this clip, but at the beginning of the program, Colbert questioned whether the independence of Kosovo was a plot by "Big Atlas" to get us all to buy new world maps...

Kosovo Independence - New Flag

Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on February 17. At the same time they unveiled their new offical flag: a gold map of Kosovo on a blue field beneath six white stars.

According to The Balkan Travellers, the new flag is "reminiscent of the European flag... The colours are said to represent Kosovo’s aspirations towards Europe and the EU, while the stars symbolise the ethnic communities that inhabit the province – the Albanian majority and the five minorities: Roma Egyptians and Ashkali, collectively known as RAE; Bosniak; Gorani; Turk; and the largest one – the Serbs."

Good luck to the Kosovars and their new country, however, when it comes to flag design, they may already be off to a bad start, as they have violated Rule 2 of Josh Parson's Rules of Flag Design, "Do not put a map of your country on your flag".