[iaskwhy]

Kosovo seems a much better example although I don't understand why NATO was able to enter the war against the wishes of Russia. Maybe nothing major happened because Serbia was sort of a Russian puppet state instead of being Russia itself? Or the lack of interesting resources in Kosovo? I have some remembering to do.

By the way, while reading about Kosovo's history yesterday, I noticed how beautiful Pristina's National Public Library looked: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Biblotek...

[rangibaby]

It was in 1999, when Russian strength and morale (political, economic and military) was at it's nadir. Compare the two wars in Chechnya with the war in Georgia.

[ZanyProgrammer]

Unless you subscribe to an extreme pan Slavophilism, in which the Balkans are legally and morally Russian territory, then no, Russia had nothing to say in the Balkans.

[iaskwhy]

Not Russian territory but under Soviet (and then Russian) influence. No?

[zmb_]

No, pretty much the exact opposite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_split

[iaskwhy]

Ah, this is very interesting, thanks for the eye-opening link! It actually might explain my previous questions about Kosovo.

[ZanyProgrammer]

Sarajevo was also a beautiful city until the Orthodox Serbs destroyed it.