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Well; the Maidan insurgency was suicide for quite a few of the protesters. History is littered with insurgencies that won through losing. But as for Crimea vs. Kosovo; without international intervention the Kosovo situation would still have been explosive. Crimea was already mostly independent and had a referendum for more independence coming up already and showed no signs of destabilizing. Also; I'm not aware of dra…
Problems in Kosovo were not something new, certainly they didn't occur because of Milosevic. His government, same as any Serbian or Yugoslav government in last 100 years, wasn't capable of solving those problems. Different things were tried, from brute force, to deep integration and back again to the brute force. Communist government immediately after WWII even had plans for a wide Balkan federation with Albania as a…
In my mind the two are still categorically different, mainly due to the self-servingness and media contortions, but I agree that there's less factual differences than I thought before.