Austria-Yugoslavian military conflict in the 1990s.

It is difficult to imagine circumstances in which Austria would invade Yugoslavia. The Austrian-Slovenian political frontier had been debatable in the early 20th century, but after the Second World War saw a final territorial settlement in the Germanic-Romance-Slavic borderlands in the northernmost Adriatic, it was accepted. Barring a very unlikely Austrian irredentism, I see no prospect of Austria trying to make claims.

There was no small amount of Austrian concern at the possibility of conflict in neighbouring Slovenia. There seems, from what I know from reading press and other reports, a certain amount of Austrian sympathy for Slovenia. There were apparently even some few people joking about Slovenia becoming a state in the Austrian federation. These jokes were fundamentally unserious, though, simply because whatever historical community bound Austrians and Slovenes together, the two were separate nations. There was no prospect of an Austrian intervention in Slovenia against Yugoslav forces even in the event of an extended conflict. (Facilitated arms sales, now, was a different thing.)
 
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