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Originally Posted by Locobot
My understanding is that the Serbian-Croatian conflict didn't really take off until Germany decided to recognize Serbia as a soverign nation.
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Actually, Germany recognized Croatia, not Serbia. This isn't a real surprise, given their historic ties. Besides, Croatia is part of the Western Christian world, a small fact that actually matters quite a lot.
Just a question to illustrate that last assertion: what would be more interesting/emotional, a disaster killing hundreds of people in Germany, or that same disaster in Africa/Asia/Russia? I'm willing to bet most Westerners would find the German disaster more interesting than the other ones, if only because they feel some sort of relation to the victims. At least, that's a theory I once read about.
