Yugoslav Civil War

[Hawker]

Does anybody here have an example of how the US helped start it?

[LSD]

Who's to say they did?

[mia wallace]

i'm not quite sure... althou i suppose i should be. i'll check if you like.
as much as i can remember i was told americans were the only ones who stood up for croatia, the rest of world was on the side of the serbs <_<

so...
thank you americans :D

[Hawker]

I heard a lot of rumors.They say that the US started that war because they were running low on cheap labor for the coporation,so they took advantage of the growing tension between the Yugoslav state&#39;s.The US set up puppets,trained terrorists,etc. Because they knew that after the war the economy of the new nations would be devestated and would have to sell their factories to foreign companies to pay off their national debt,thus producing cheap slavic labor.I&#39;m not suprised if the US did start the war for the coporation,it&#39;s always been it&#39;s fashion to do so.

[dissident]

I think the issue is that the US did nothing to stop the wars as they believed that they "did not have a dog in this fight" (to use their phrase). THey thought it was a European problem, initially at least. Clinton later desired a quick and easy solution to the problem- in the form of sanctions and airstrikes. ALso, they initially negotiated with Milosevic in full knowledge of his war crimes, and later aided Croatia in ethnically cleansing serbs. It is only when Milosevic turned his sights to Kosovo that they went crazy- as Kosovo threatened their strategic interests.

[mia wallace]

all it sais in my history book bout this war and america is that they recognized croatia as a indepandent country in April 7th 1992.

[Morpheus]

The US did help start it. See Noam Chomsky&#39;s book "The New Humanitarian Imperialism." There&#39;s also some stuff on it in his latest book, "Hegemony or Survival."

[Ijon_Tichy]

None of the great powers emerge with much, or any, credit, from the wars of Yugoslav secession.

It&#39;s been argued that if Germany and the Vatican had not immediately recognised Slovenia and Croatia as independent states when they voted to secede in 1991, that would have stopped the situation spiralling out of control in 1991.

The major crime of the US was in supporting an IMF austerity plan in the early 1990s which forced a major crisis in the Yugo economy, with consequent sudden drop in living standards and social and political crisis.

I&#39;d avoid the kind of conspiracy theories alluded to in this thread, though.