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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:31:49 EST
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- From: Henry Kucera <HENRY@BROWNVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: More books and films
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- The reluctance of the Europeans to intervene militarily in the former
- Yugoslavia seems to be based on a general fear of a messy Balkan war. The
- Germans are aware, I am sure, that Nazi Germany had 30 divisions in Yugoslavia
- in WW2 and did not accomplish all that much (but a lot of killing went on).
- That is not to say that the reluctance is necessarily justified under present
- circumstances. However, I would like to know more about the rumors (?), for
- example, that the Greeks (a NATO country) are sympathizing with the Serbs (for
- complex reason of Balkan politics, e.g. vis-a-vis Turkey), that Romanian
- volunteers are fighting in the Serbian Army, etc. All these may be just
- rumors, but there seem to be real dangers. Moreover, the role of the Russian
- generals in a larger Balkan War should not be dismissed lightly.
- On the other hand, there are of course opposite dangers, namely that the
- relative neglect of the Yugoslav situation may yet lead to worse
- consequences (in addition to the humanitarian tragedies), such as a Kosovo
- massacre.
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- Humanly it seems simple but militarily it is probably very tricky.
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- Henry Kucera (just a layman's opinion)
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