I concur... Osama bin-Laden stated the reason he turned against the US was all of the bases we had established during Operation: Desert Sheild and Desert Storm... And the fact we had to stay in theater to enforce the UN resolutions that had been made against Iraq.
The biggest reason why Yugoslavia broke apart was that they didn't have a 'strongman' to keep the socalist system with the strong arm government keeping demogogaues from popping up to play on the old ethnic hatreds to cause the different ethnic and religious groups to hate each other again.
The Soviets might be willing to help keep Yugoslavia as a socialist nation, but they'd have strings that would have kept Yugoslavia from helping their neighbors fight off the Warsaw Pact nations wanting them to send more of their best troops to the Far Eastern Front.
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