Croatia. That was the second war Serbia started. And Kosovo was the third war Milosevic started. I remember going through Kosovo and seeing nearly all the roofs blown off of the houses. His troops would enter the empty homes, (the Kosovars had fled, remember) turn on the gas, and then toss a grenade in to them. The roofs flew off. Probably over half the homes I saw were like that. As you recall, he lost that war, too, like the others. Then, his own people overthrew him; he was indisputably a bad leader. He was like Putin, too. He’d been a commie, then when that viciousness racket ended he needed a new gig to justify his power. Again, like Putin, he wrapped himself in ultra-nationalism and ethnic chauvinism. I imagine you remember all of that, though. He had his cheerleaders too. But in the end, his own hubris brought him down.
Hey, do you remember how the Serbs were beaten in the war they started in Slovenia?
Yugoslavia fell apart because of greed, arrogance and sectarianism on the part of all its leaders. It was the first multiethnic federation in Europe to fall apart because no one would take responsibility for its future.
We see the same thing happening in Ukraine today. No one is taking responsibility for the fate of the country. And the regime has there has only underlined its own illegitimacy by shedding Ukrainian blood. This was not instigated from Russia. This was initiated from the hands of the Kiev authorities themselves.