watershed 1992 and the final collapse the soviet union
watershed 2.a around 1995 when the east discovers there isnt going to be help and a free ride to take more money from Which sets up today and russia still being cranky about everything.
not going to disagree .. but i will say that everything comes in varying shades of gray ..
The Balkans while orthodox and somewhat culturally and i will sue that word loosely to russians.. isnt
Blakans are shaped by Bulgars, Turks, Hungarians, Austrians, Italians, croat, bosniak, serbian ,montenegrin and Greek Culture more than Russian and that is why i believe there is a misconception to people that slav is slav.. it isnt.
Sure Malsovic is going to play every card he can to be and stay in power and even win the 9 millionth balkan war. Yugoslavia was traditionally in the soviet camp to large degree, but this doesnt make them russian anymore than being greek makes you russian cause your orthodox
problem is the west, and for good reason was done with it. this wasnt 1910 anymore and having this stain on european soil just wasnt palatable.
I will also say that they didn't want the Americans there either
they just were happy going about killing each other for the 9 millionth time for slivers of land and some internal belief that they are the righteous in doing so. I believe it had to end, and the balkans are better off because it was forced to end in a way that let the peoples make up their own path
watershed 2.a around 1995 when the east discovers there isnt going to be help and a free ride to take more money from Which sets up today and russia still being cranky about everything.
Russia is Yugoslavia (well, Serbia's) historic and ethnic ally, being Orthodox Slavs. Yes, the Stalinist/Titoist split marred relations between them, but there was a sense that the Balkans were Russia's sphere of interest. When NATO simply barged ahead without consulting the Russians, it made things pretty clear where the Russians, a former superpower, stand - and it wasn't pleasant.
I think a more important one was the First Chechen War. The Russian army had been once the terror of the battlefield, now it couldn't handle some pissant little separatist bunch. That became the motivation to improve its power and solve the Chechen issue at all costs, including the rise of Vladimir Putin to power.
not going to disagree .. but i will say that everything comes in varying shades of gray ..
The Balkans while orthodox and somewhat culturally and i will sue that word loosely to russians.. isnt
Blakans are shaped by Bulgars, Turks, Hungarians, Austrians, Italians, croat, bosniak, serbian ,montenegrin and Greek Culture more than Russian and that is why i believe there is a misconception to people that slav is slav.. it isnt.
Sure Malsovic is going to play every card he can to be and stay in power and even win the 9 millionth balkan war. Yugoslavia was traditionally in the soviet camp to large degree, but this doesnt make them russian anymore than being greek makes you russian cause your orthodox
problem is the west, and for good reason was done with it. this wasnt 1910 anymore and having this stain on european soil just wasnt palatable.
I will also say that they didn't want the Americans there either
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