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Yugoslavia Calling
If the 'short twentieth century' began in Sarajevo, perhaps it ended in Bosnia too.

《The Baffler》记者 Lily Lynch 用一张遍布全球的外国志愿者关系网,重新拆解南斯拉夫战争的后遗症:1990 年代西方人道主义干涉设立的先例,如何被普京和特朗普捡走,变成侵略行动的包装纸;而最初在萨拉热窝山头并肩作战的圣战者和俄罗斯民族主义者,其逻辑内核竟与西方自由干涉主义惊人相似。结论只有一句:当心你所设立的先例。

The Yugoslav Wars never ended, they just entered into global circulation.——一位巴尔干朋友对 Lynch 说的话
Though Salafi jihadism is often depicted as a return to archaic barbarism, it too is thoroughly modern. After all, Bosnia's mujahideen weren't so unlike their contemporaries in the liberal internationalist bloc who argued for humanitarian intervention; frustrated by the limitations of the nation-state and its inability to stop or prevent genocide, they, too, were motivated by a cosmopolitan concern for a supranational identity—the ummah.
Decidedly antiliberal figures like Putin and Trump are now happy to cloak obvious acts of aggression in the rhetoric of humanitarianism, creating a funhouse mirror of the 1990s that reminds anyone willing to listen: beware the precedents you set.
If the 'short twentieth century' began in Sarajevo, perhaps it ended in Bosnia too.
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