Firstly, it is dangerous to hold any of the warring parties involved in the dissolution of Yugoslavia, namely the Serbs and Montenegrins, Croats, and Bosniaks, higher than the others. Each tried to maintain the territorial integrity of their ethnic homelands whilst expanding into those of others. By the same token, the villanisation was not applied equally: Serbia received the lion's share. This of course ignored the fact that Kosovo was a Serb territory until the Albanians, who sided with the Third Reich, were allowed to settle their during the war and ethnically cleanse its Serbian inhabitants. Incidentally, the Albanians seem to be expanding not only at the expense of the Serbs but of the Macdeonians as well, and in spite of UN decisions to the contrary, there is a Greater Albania in the works here.

Secondly, while there are some weak parallels with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is also based more on nationalism than religion, the conflict in Bosnia had little to do with global jihad, even if jihadists came to the aid of their co-religionists.

Thirdly, neither the UN nor the EU wants national self-determination in the Balkans, rather they want to force these disparate peoples to co-exist peacefully in an artificial state that like Iraq, only a strongman could hold together. If the Kosovar Albanians are allowed to join Albania, why can't Greater Germany be resuscitated? The EU wants Balkanisation, they just want to make it work peacefully; however, countless examples from Baghdad to Sarajevo to Poland to Tibet to Africa demonstrate that without national self-determination, there can be no unity, peace or prosperity.