[SHWI] What if the West stayed out of Yugoslavia? Define "out."

[rfmcdonald]

Inspired by certain web-Chomskyite critiques of Western policy in Yugoslavia, I speculated on soc.history.what-if as to the likely consequences of Western non-intervention in the breakup of Yugoslavia. Non-intervention, I defined in the broadest sense possible, i.e. no recognition of Slovenia. It turns out that this non-intervention was never very likely, not given how close Yugoslavia was to western Europe. Surprise, surprise.