[Tipllub]

After recognizing the breakaway republics in the former Yugoslavia the west’s protests of outrage will ring hollow to the Russkies

[dfwgator]

After recognizing the breakaway republics in the former Yugoslavia the west’s protests of outrage will ring hollow to the Russkies

And that was where the end of the Cold War was bungled. We had no business there.

[sockmonkey]

*** After recognizing the breakaway republics in the former Yugoslavia the west’s protests of outrage will ring hollow to the Russkies***

Putin just signed the document recignizing the DPR/LPR’s Independence at the end of his speech.

[ought-six]

“After recognizing the breakaway republics in the former Yugoslavia the west’s protests of outrage will ring hollow to the Russkies.”

The difference is that Yugoslavia as a country had already dissolved. Yugoslavia disintegrated quite quickly. Tito kept Yugoslavia together, but when he died in 1980 the regional bickering started in earnest, such that Yugoslavia, as a country, eventually became ungovernable. The last sense of any kind of unity was the 1984 Winter Olympics, and that was fragile.