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Comment by torginus

4 days ago

Are you from the region? Yugoslavia has been a far richer and developed country than any of its successor states for a long time, and I hardly think most locals would see the cost of human lives and untold destruction the war brought to settle some incomprehensible ethnic conflict as a good trade.

> incomprehensible ethnic conflict

It's about grudges held since hundreds of years. Blood feuds are still a thing in the region.