>>>>The solution is to emulate Miloshevich again, as in other things. Whenever he'd lose a war, he'd bail himself out by starting another.
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>>>One difference is we have only lost one war. Milosevic lost a bunch of them. And every time he did, Yugoslavia got smaller. It was a bad idea in the first place to combine people with ethnic hatred for each other. Like Iraq.
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>>The ethnic hatred wasn't there - it was mostly forgotten, at least in my generation. We've all had friends all over the country. It's when the politicians in grab for power started rousing the local version of rednecks and bible thumpers that it was reinvented.
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>>And that's the real danger - the once civilized country can be pushed into any sort of barbarism by sheer propaganda.
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>What about the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia? Are you saying that was a myth?

Did I say so? Read what I said. Maybe I should have added "The ethnic hatred wasn't there in the beginning". Wasn't enough of it to make friends turn on friends and force marriages to split (which actually didn't happen - they couples ran to the more tolerant side).

The people DID NOT WANT TO FIGHT EACH OTHER. Not until they were pushed into it. Then they had to, and when the blood fell, it was all replayed again. I've heard stories of how the push was done, but don't want to spread such ideas anywhere.