>Well, in that case the Corporate system has a lot to answer for in regards to Yugoslavia. While it may have been a NATO sponsored action supposedly aimed at compelling the Serbian dominated Yugoslav federation

While everything else you wrote is correct - I just have to fix this one. The "Serbian-run" or "Serbian dominated" syntagm became ubiquitous during the Croatian and Bosnian war, because the Slovenes and Croats left the federation, and then of course the Serbs had the majority in the remainder.

But, before that, i.e. until 1991, Yugoslavia was a neatly balanced federation. Since Serbia had about 50% of population (and about 66% of these are Serbs - plus some of Serbs living in other states), and the permanent fear of Slovenia and Croatia that Serbia may outvote them or generally be the boss, the 1974 Constitution made sure that Serbia never gets a majority. Two autonomous provinces (Vojvodina, and Kosovo & Metohija) were formally within Serbia, but had equal vote in the federation, gave the chief of Presidency when it was their turn etc. The federation didn't have a president, it had an 8-member Presidency (6 states plus two provinces). At the time of breakup, its chief was a Croat; commander in chief was a Croat, at least three of the last five prime ministers were from Croatia, Slovenia or Bosnia; chief of state security and police was from Slovenia, etc etc. Actually, one of points on which Milosevic has built his popularity in the beginning was the promise to dismantle these shackles of Serbia's legs, which was easy to use because they did provide for a number of funny paradoxes - for one, Serbia proper (without provinces) couldn't make any decisions about itself without consent of its provinces, while the provinces didn't require any amen from Serbia.

Of course, instead of fixing just the paradoxes, he set forth to push his own agenda, i.e. power, power, and then more power.

> to accept an internationally brokered peace accord meant to resolve civil conflict in Kosovo, in reality I think it did nothing more than kill innocents.

It did - it kept Milosevic in power for one year more than he would last otherwise. One year of peace was required to get him down, and he was just running out of available wars.