Re:'People dance on tables': welcome to Belgrade's kafana pu...
by thriftwy on Friday November 24, 2023 @02:44AM
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Being "military defenseless" is not very important if your claim on the land suddenly recognized by UN states. These states can supply their own manpower.
A Serb or a Russian is just a single ordinary human being. You can oppress them ethnically exactly in the same fashion as you would oppress a small stateless minority.
In short, where you expected to get a bloodless happy independence, you would get a civil war half of the time, and you can blame yourself or your foreign coercers. This is contrary to the rosy picture the USA liked to paint when it plunges countries into civil wars.
The Yugoslav debt crisis was very real, as are the differing birth rates between Serbs and Albanians. The rest is an unsourced set of claims designed to create a retroactive justification for the appalling behavior of the Serbian communist league against not only other ethnicities, but Serbian civil society.
The side with the capitol, the federal presidency, the JNA equipment, and the largest population is not a collective victim. The victims are the everyday people forced into an artificially heightened conflict.
I would really recommend reading Yugoslavia, Death of a nation. Nobody comes off as an innocent because it sticks to the mutually agreed upon facts, the empirical records, the cabinet meetings, the internal planning documents, and so on.
You really discredit your own cause by telling stories about a monolithic other which inexplicably conspired against you despite being militarily nearly defenseless. Preventative war remains a war crime because it is, categorically, used by bigger nations to rationalize attacking smaller ones.