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Not everyone would have been happy with the breakup of the United States in the 1860's had it happened. But many would have been.
Post Tito, and pre Yugoslavian military conflict was much US/NATO/IMF interference aimed at the breakup of Yugoslavia.
How nice of them.
Right, because Serbia and Russia were the only big "stakeholders" in Yugoslavia.
This report examines the roles played by Western International Financial Institutions (IFIs), intelligence agencies, militaries and strategic interests in the break up of the Yugoslav Republic.
Analysis
Background
The Yugoslav wars occurred between 1991 and 2001, and involved several conflicts leading to the breakup of Yugoslavia. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was created at the end of World War II, and consisted of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Kosovo.
Setting the Stage
A Political and Economic Crisis
In 1980, longtime dictator of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito died, leading to a leadership crisis.
By 1982, the Yugoslav debt had grown to 20 billion dollars, so the US Ambassador in Belgrade, Lawrence Eagleburger, created a group of individuals known as the “Friends of Yugoslavia” who organized a set of “rescue loans” by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.[1] However, that same year, the IMF and World Bank had created a new loan agreement, entitled Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), which gave the IFIs total control over a country’s economic and even many political decisions. The effect of the SAPs was that they “wreaked economic and political havoc… The economic crisis threatened political stability … it also threatened to aggravate simmering ethnic tensions.”[2]
Breaking Yugoslavia - Geopoliticalmonitor.com
Seems like an incomplete story, unless you would provide references that they also had something to do with the actual ethnic cleansing?