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Kosovo seems a much better example although I don't understand why NATO was able to enter the war against the wishes of Russia. Maybe nothing major happened bec

by iaskwhy 13y ago

Kosovo seems a much better example although I don't understand why NATO was able to enter the war against the wishes of Russia. Maybe nothing major happened because Serbia was sort of a Russian puppet state instead of being Russia itself? Or the lack of interesting resources in Kosovo? I have some remembering to do. By the way, while reading about Kosovo's history yesterday, I noticed how beautiful Pristina's National Public Library looked: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Bibloteka_Komb%C3%ABtare_e_Kosov%C3%ABs.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Biblotek...

ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
Unless you subscribe to an extreme pan Slavophilism, in which the Balkans are legally and morally Russian territory, then no, Russia had nothing to say in the Balkans.
- iaskwhy 13y ago
  Not Russian territory but under Soviet (and then Russian) influence. No?
  - zmb_ 13y ago
    No, pretty much the exact opposite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_split https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_split
    - iaskwhy 13y ago
      Ah, this is very interesting, thanks for the eye-opening link! It actually might explain my previous questions about Kosovo.
ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
Sarajevo was also a beautiful city until the Orthodox Serbs destroyed it.
rangibaby 13y ago
It was in 1999, when Russian strength and morale (political, economic and military) was at it's nadir. Compare the two wars in Chechnya with the war in Georgia.