"Bosnia didn’t collapse because people were evil. It collapsed because people were convinced the other side was."
. . . "But Bosnia’s collapse wasn’t ancient history.
"It wasn’t a medieval tribal feud.
"It wasn’t inevitable.
"It was a functional, modern, educated society that disintegrated in less than two years — not because of poverty, not because of famine, not because of foreign invasion — but because its political factions became so polarized that neighbors stopped seeing each other as citizens and started seeing each other as enemies.
"The warning for America is brutally simple:
"Bosnia didn’t fall apart because it was Balkan.
"It fell apart because it was polarized.
"That’s the part nobody wants to talk about.
"What actually happened in Bosnia — factually, historically
"Before the war:
• Bosnia had intermarriage.
• Mixed towns.
• Shared businesses.
• Shared schools.
• Shared military service.
"Sarajevo was called “the Jerusalem of Europe” because Muslims, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians lived together peacefully for generations.
"Then politics hardened.
"Parties radicalized.
"Each group began to believe the others were existential threats." . . . Read more...
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