It just seems very transparent to me that they simply want to rule the Croatians. The Serbs want to rule Zagreb. The Croatians do not want to rule Belgrade. The Croatians are happy with the status quo. The Serbs are not as they are not ruling the Croatians.
What are you babbling about? We really don’t care about Zagreb and nor are we wanting to rule it. Croatians had no problem killing a few Serbs to achieve their goals so turn about isn’t fair play?
The Serbs got to rule Zagreb twice, but they scaled back their demands on Croatia to simply 2/3rds of Croatia in 1991, then to 1/3rd by 1992 since they were beaten back on several fronts. But when one speaks of Serbs one cannot count them as homogeneous in their views. The Belgrade Serbs already wrote off the Croatian Serbs by 1992, with Milosevic’s righthand man Borisav Jovic telling the Croatians that “those Serbs are your citizens, not ours. Crush them on wheels for all I care”. The Croatian Serbs were by and large isolated by 1994 and even more so in early 1995 when the Bosnian Serbs refused to help them out. It’s little wonder why they put up such a weak fight after the first day of Operation Storm and decided to make a run for it.