you were talking about american intervention in the yugoslav wars. but yes, i agree, the serbs only really cared about territory. they were fine if that territory was filled with albanians/croats/bosnians/etc. they cried "territorial integrity" for kosovo, while claiming serb-majority areas of other parts of ex-yugoslavia.   that isn't even what happened, nigger. henry kissinger explained this back in 1994.   _7t7qnl8 secondly, flattening kiev would have increased ukrainian resistance, western support, and gotten a lot of civilians killed. it would have been a monumental strategic blunder for russia to hold kiev. russia only wanted to pressure zelenskike into agreeing to neutrality. which almost happened. but boris johnson basically told zelensky that if he signed anything we would cut ukraine off. they'd be completely on their own.
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