“The precedent was really set in Kosovo where Clinton backed the breaking off a piece of Serbia.”
BS! No western country annexed Kosovo or even had any troops there prior to their secession vote.
The majority Muslims wanted out of ‘greater Serbia’ like Bosnia, Croatia, etc. but the Serbs wouldn’t let them so they voted to secede from Serbia. Western intervention was in support of Kosovo’s secession. It was not to annex it.
In 1999 there was no such thing as greater Serbia, just Serbia. And Kosovo was a province of it. it was recognized as being a Serbian province for decades.