Sorry, the conflation of Yugoslavia with "proxy war" was in error, you're totally correct. The link to great power conflict I had in mind there was the pressur

Sorry, the conflation of Yugoslavia with "proxy war" was in error, you're totally correct. The link to great power conflict I had in mind there was the pressure cooker effect of Tito's dictatorship, which suppressed the major conflicts of the region without solving them. But it's a rather different entity than wars with direct meddling, and I can't judge the counterfactual: would a lack of Communist dictatorship have caused an earlier and more peaceful dissolution, or simply hastened what happened anyway? It's a bad example and I shouldn't have used it; thank you.