[Olog-hai]

The war in Bosnia was a violation of promises made to Russia by George H.W. Bush (IIRC) to wit that there would be no NATO or other western incursions into former Soviet Bloc territory. Of course, this was part of the European Union’s push into that area, since after the Cold War the leadership of NATO was basically handed to them, and Clinton to a great degree was “leading from behind” (actually following).

And since Putin believes that the collapse of the USSR was the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the previous century, he has been working feverishly to rebuild the USSR in his own image.

[lodi90]

The war in Bosnia was a violation of promises made to Russia by George H.W. Bush (IIRC) to wit that there would be no NATO or other western incursions into former Soviet Bloc territory.

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Yugoslavia was not Soviet Bloc. It was not in the Warsaw Pact and officially non aligned. Serbia got hammered by the west for backing those Bosnian Serb dirt bags.

[dfwgator]

And since Putin believes that the collapse of the USSR was the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the previous century

To me that's not a statement that he necessarily agreed with the USSR....what he lamented was the loss of Russian prestige and power.

Hitler also lamented the loss of German prestige after WWI, but that didn't mean he wanted to restore the Kaiser.