your vision here is understandable if one takes the Marxist (as well as commonsensical) approach that in a war, it takes two to tango, so that there can’t be just one guilty side. I notice that this is the line taken at Leninino’s, I suppose by SWP as well. But if for a moment you disregard the question of ethnicity, ethnic war etc and observe Serbia strictly politically, as a Russian ally on the peninsula (the most important one next to Greece), you will see that from the Imperial perspective, it is paramount to crack Serbia and Serbia only. Then you will also see that Serbia’s defense wasn’t primarily defined in ethnic terms – even as in any other country on the planet, Serbia had its own ultranationalists – while all other republics defined their new political program as the process of establishing an ethnic identity.

it is for this reason that I am vehemently critical of Marxist discourse about ”human rights”, ”genocide”, ”ethnicity”, ”nationalism” and ”feminism” being applied in this instance to explain Yugoslavia. All that misses the point, because the politics of the players was more determined by the positions they wanted to strike in the new order of things, which Empire they would belong to, than by their alleged ”dispute” and ”disharmony” with Serbia. To put it bluntly, Slovenia went away because they wanted Austrian money, not because they are especially different from Serbs.

Including the Great Albania, Kretinoma, for this was awarded to Albanians in Hitler’s times, and the Kosovar Albanian very ethnogenesis is focused on the dream of having their big state – this is all I was trying to say before the Trotskyan Pollyannas jumped on me with allegations of racism, nationalism, misogyny, self-mutilating homophobia and all those other politically correct idioms. So that there is a fifity year continuity, the Albanian fight for independence never really stopped. You just didn’t see it behind the Berlin wall. But whoever has trouble making up their mind on this issue, I will ask them a logical question: have they ever heard of SERBIAN TERRORISM in the West – such a thing only exists in the movie PEACEMAKER by Spielberg. Maybe then they will think, gee, where did I pick that up about Serbian nationalism?