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Something that left an impression on me recently with that bademp video was that Serbia never actually attacked Bosnia, it was a splinter group in Bosnia of Serbs who created an indie state called 'The republic of serbs' who then went on to attack Bosnia - granted they did get all of there funding from Serbia proper, and Serbia isnt absolved of guilt of being associated with it, but its important to understand the ROS wasnt taking orders from Serbia on military actions but acting autonomously.
I will also say that the Serbian government where literally debating on how to cover up the fact they where trying to commit a genocide, I dont think any serious ML will disavow Bosnia given the facts of the matter in an honest reading of it - but it is clear what the root cause of everything was in my opinion, and that is nationalism, its clear from learning about Tito that he was sincere and correct in his beliefs of a united Yugoslav, and his rise to power and the changes he implemented did benefit Yugoslavia greatly, it is just sad that nationalism dismantled it, but it was a given while being isolated in Western Europe as a more soviet aligned state.
Things I will remain critical of the NATO side of this however - they used depleted uranium shells while bombing Bosnia, this is leading to inflated cancer rates even in modern day in Bosnia - secondly the indiscriminate bombing lead to mass-poverty, famine, orphanage of Bosnian's even, they hit a unreleated Chinese embassy and such and killed tons of uninvolved people. The response is like it is in Iran, they dont care to try and prevent innocent casualities, they will bomb a school if they have to.
The root cause of it is not nationalism. It's economic troubles and loss of allies. Yugoslavia had an insane amount of debt, and they had too much liberalization of the market. Playing the middle ground between the two global powers was not a good strategy in the long run. They also actually had a cult of personality (not saying it's necessarily a bad thing in our case, it had its use), and of course it all crashed after the personality was not there anymore, unlike the USSR (referring to Lenin/Stalin), Cuba (Castro), etc. Nationalism just came out and offered it self as the main "solution". Now I'm getting into whataboutism but I really highly doubt anything like this would have happened if Yugoslavia did not completely economically collapse in the late 80s, as there would not be that level of dissatisfaction and the need for an alternative solution would also not come out, as painfully as this at least. Basically Yugoslavia probably needed a cultural revolution, but Tito was not that guy lol