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=== Yugoslav Wars ===
=== Yugoslav Wars ===
In the 1980s, the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] was undergoing economics crises and disparities between its constituent republics. In Kosovo particularly, antisocialists sabotaged power plants and prevented miners from working.<ref name=Tika>{{safesubst:Web citation|author=Jared Israel, Petar Makara &Tika Janković|title=Kosovo Before 1989 - Nightmare with the Best Intentions|url=http://tenc.net/interviews/tika.htm|date=2000-03-06|accessdate=2020-04-14}}</ref> Croatia and Slovenia accounted for half of federal tax revenues even though they were only 30% of the SFRY’s population. They openly resented these obligations and revolted with the goal of obtaining Western European support. Both Croatia and Slovenia held multiparty elections on independence, but the Socialist Party of Serbia was interested in preserving the federation, receiving 65% of the vote. Serbia considered using force to prevent the secessions, but the Statesian ruling class strongly discouraged this.<ref name=MonthlyReview>{{safesubst:Citation|author=Edward Herman & David Peterson|title=The Dismantling of Yugoslavia (Part I)|url=https://monthlyreview.org/?p=2404|journal=The Monthly Review|volume=59|issue=05|date=2007-10-01|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708151424/http://monthlyreview.org/2007/10/01/the-dismantling-of-yugoslavia|archivedate=2014-07-08}}</ref> Early on in the 1990s, the [[Bourgeois media|corporate media]] in Croatia,<ref>{{safesubst:Citation|author=Michael Parenti|chapter=5|title=To Kill a Nation: the Attack on Yugoslavia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qWbGftW07WoC|location=New York|publisher=Verso|year=2000|page=47|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qWbGftW07WoC&pg=PA47|ISBN=1-85984-366-2}}</ref> Slovenia,<ref>{{safesubst:Web citation|author=Sylvia Poggioli|title=Scouts Without Compasses|url=https://fair.org/?p=1229|date=1994-05-01|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812221624/https://fair.org/extra/scouts-without-compasses|archivedate=2019-08-12}}</ref> and the Anglosphere<ref>{{safesubst:Web citation|author=Olga Kavran|title=Cold War Lives On in Yugoslavia Reporting|url=https://fair.org/?p=1200|date=1991-11-01|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019180525/https://fair.org/extra/cold-war-lives-on-in-yugoslavia-reporting|archivedate=2019-10-19}}</ref> all portrayed the war against Yugoslavia as a struggle against [[communism]]. By April 1992, the only republics left in Yugoslavia were those of Montenegro and Serbia.
In the 1980s, the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] was undergoing economics crises and disparities between its constituent republics. In Kosovo particularly, antisocialists sabotaged power plants and prevented miners from working.<ref name=Tika>{{safesubst:Web citation|author=Jared Israel, Petar Makara &Tika Janković|title=Kosovo Before 1989 - Nightmare with the Best Intentions|url=http://tenc.net/interviews/tika.htm|date=2000-03-06|accessdate=2020-04-14}}</ref> Croatia and Slovenia accounted for half of federal tax revenues even though they were only 30% of the SFRY’s population. They openly resented these obligations and revolted with the goal of obtaining Western European support. Both Croatia and Slovenia held multiparty elections on independence, but the Socialist Party of Serbia was interested in preserving the federation, receiving 65% of the vote. Serbia considered using force to prevent the secessions, but the Statesian ruling class strongly discouraged this.<ref name=MonthlyReview>{{safesubst:Citation|author=Edward Herman & David Peterson|title=The Dismantling of Yugoslavia (Part I)|url=https://monthlyreview.org/?p=2404|journal=The Monthly Review|volume=59|issue=05|date=2007-10-01|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708151424/http://monthlyreview.org/2007/10/01/the-dismantling-of-yugoslavia|archivedate=2014-07-08}}</ref> Early on in the 1990s, the [[Bourgeois media|corporate media]] in Croatia,<ref>{{safesubst:Citation|author=Michael Parenti|chapter=5|title=To Kill a Nation: the Attack on Yugoslavia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qWbGftW07WoC|location=New York|publisher=Verso|year=2000|page=47|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qWbGftW07WoC&pg=PA47|ISBN=1-85984-366-2}}</ref> Slovenia,<ref>{{safesubst:Web citation|author=Sylvia Poggioli|title=Scouts Without Compasses|url=https://fair.org/?p=1229|date=1994-05-01|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812221624/https://fair.org/extra/scouts-without-compasses|archivedate=2019-08-12}}</ref> and the Anglosphere<ref>{{safesubst:Web citation|author=Olga Kavran|title=Cold War Lives On in Yugoslavia Reporting|url=https://fair.org/?p=1200|date=1991-11-01|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019180525/https://fair.org/extra/cold-war-lives-on-in-yugoslavia-reporting|archivedate=2019-10-19}}</ref> all portrayed the war against Yugoslavia as a struggle against [[communism]]. By late 1992, the only republics left in Yugoslavia were those of Montenegro and Serbia.


With Western support, the antisocialist Party of Democratic Action illegally seized power in Bosnia and unconstitutionally seceded it from the SFRY in 1992. The party’s goal was to create an [[Islamism|Islamist]] régime, even though most of the other Muslims shared no interest in this.<ref>{{safesubst:Web citation|author=Francisco Gil-White|title=What really happened in Bosnia?|url=http://www.hirhome.com/yugo/ihralija3.htm|date=2005-08-19|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123153931/http://www.hirhome.com/yugo/ihralija3.htm|archivedate=2016-01-23}}</ref> Despite its own links to the [[Axis]] and its low tolerance for nonconforming Muslims, the Party of Democratic Action also accused the Serbian Presidencies of Islamophobia and likened them to the [[Third Reich]], although a former the then Bosnian Serb leader presented elaborate evidence contradicting these claims.<ref name=KaradzicInterview>{{safesubst:Web citation|author=Andy Wilcoxson|coauthors=Radovan Karadžić|title=Interview with Radovan Karadzic|url=http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/documents/Karadzic_Interview_06142020_Public.pdf|date=2020-06-14|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627064535/http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/documents/Karadzic_Interview_06142020_Public.pdf|archivedate=2020-06-27}}</ref> In 1993, the Statesian ruling class sabotaged a series of peace efforts between 1993 and the Dayton accords of 1995; encouraged the Bosnian antisocialists to reject any settling until their military position had improved; helped arm and train the Islamist and Croatian antisocialists to shift the balance of forces on the ground; and finally settled at Dayton with an agreement imposed upon the warring factions.<ref name=MonthlyReview/><ref name="KaradzicInterview" /> Lieutenant Colonel John E. Sray, while still misbelieving that the Serbian Presidency ‘certainly aggravated the conflict with his nationalistic bombast’, freely conceded that,
With Western support, the antisocialist Party of Democratic Action illegally seized power in Bosnia and unconstitutionally seceded it from the SFRY in 1992. The party’s goal was to create an [[Islamism|Islamist]] régime, even though most of the other Muslims shared no interest in this.<ref>{{safesubst:Web citation|author=Francisco Gil-White|title=What really happened in Bosnia?|url=http://www.hirhome.com/yugo/ihralija3.htm|date=2005-08-19|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123153931/http://www.hirhome.com/yugo/ihralija3.htm|archivedate=2016-01-23}}</ref> Despite its own links to the [[Axis]] and its low tolerance for nonconforming Muslims, the Party of Democratic Action also accused the Serbian Presidencies of Islamophobia and likened them to the [[Third Reich]], although a former the then Bosnian Serb leader presented elaborate evidence contradicting these claims.<ref name=KaradzicInterview>{{safesubst:Web citation|author=Andy Wilcoxson|coauthors=Radovan Karadžić|title=Interview with Radovan Karadzic|url=http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/documents/Karadzic_Interview_06142020_Public.pdf|date=2020-06-14|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627064535/http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/documents/Karadzic_Interview_06142020_Public.pdf|archivedate=2020-06-27}}</ref> In 1993, the Statesian ruling class sabotaged a series of peace efforts between 1993 and the Dayton accords of 1995; encouraged the Bosnian antisocialists to reject any settling until their military position had improved; helped arm and train the Islamist and Croatian antisocialists to shift the balance of forces on the ground; and finally settled at Dayton with an agreement imposed upon the warring factions.<ref name=MonthlyReview/><ref name="KaradzicInterview" /> Lieutenant Colonel John E. Sray, while still misbelieving that the Serbian Presidency ‘certainly aggravated the conflict with his nationalistic bombast’, freely conceded that,
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