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You should have seen the war in ex-Yugoslavia...

Many parallels with this current war. Describing the EU (and UN) as "shambolic" is not the word I'd use... :-/

Totally different. Yugoslavia was a deeply divided country held together by a strongman. When he died, if course it was gonna fall apart. No surprises there.

Vukovar was the parallel I was thinking of. And Osijek, and other towns.

Surrounded by invading Serbian forces (which taken over the assets of the 5th largest army in Europe), shelled mercilessly - the worst destruction since WW2. Then the defeat, and massacres - and mass rapes.

And an arms embargo on Croatia! Which effectively prevented any sort of defense.

Europe has conveniently forgotten...

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