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Originally Posted by haku
I am absolutely not convinced that the ever going balkanization of the former Yugoslavia has been a positive process for example. Was it really worth it to disintegrate a country in aways smaller pieces (not to mention kill thousands of people) only to end up all together again in the EU 10 to 20 years later? I very much doubt it. If Yugoslavia had remained one, the whole country would have most probably joined the EU by now, and would people's lives be any worse than they are now in independant countries, most probably not, they'd most likely be better actually.
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Oi. I think you're wrong there. Yugoslavia in it's former Belgrade-centralized loan-ladden state would never be able to exist for more than it did. It was a pressure cooker just waiting to erupt. Also I think you're underestimating the deep rooted hate between Serbians & Croatians (both notorious for their fanatical nationalism).
I think Russia's been pretty consistent with how it's treating both Kosovo and Ossetia. It's against both. You have to understand though that Kosovo had a lot of political privileges even inside the former Yugoslavia - it's not just a region with an Albanian majority, like Ossetians in Ossetia. It's been an autonomous Albanian region for 50 years - with some political establishment separated from other socialist Republics of Ex Yugoslavia. Ossetia was just a region swallowed up by the huge USSR. Back then no one even talked about Ossetia as an entity. That only came after the collapse of the Warshaw pact.