[Marcus Marulus]

I don't want to enter into some flame war on the ex-Yugoslav wars either, but I am trying to address another issue.

Namely, there arose a whole school of "thought" which claims that Croatia was - from the very onset - supported in its struggle for independence by the "West" headed by America. This school of thought tends to confound Croatian with the general "western" point of view, as Gnist remarked. That is completely false. West - and USA in particular! - supported the preservation of Yugoslavia in the beginning. of the war, in 1991 and beginning 1992.

Reporting from the Western media was quite neutral at the time. It was only with the beginning of hostilities in Bosnia (spring-summer 1992) that the international media started to point specifically at Serbs as perpetrators.

At the same time, I don't deny that Serbs too suffered damages from Yugoslavia and Titoism (which were both supported by the West).