You should look at the Balkans in a slightly different light. Under Tito Yugoslavia was held together much like a steel band can hold together a compressed spring. As soon as Tito&#x27;s influence disappeared the spring reverted to its prior shape, and a lot of people decided to continue with their &#x27;unfinished business&#x27;, the feuds of many years past. There are other regions in the world for which such a description would be fairly accurate, Iraq under Saddam Hussain was another. Now both Sadam and Tito were not exactly nice people (to put it very nicely, both had the blood of numerous people on their hands) but they did manage to contain at least some local strife (with an iron fist and lots of casualties). Even today there is lots of animosity in the Balkans and Iraq is still embroiled in what can only be termed a civil war. A power vacuum is a dangerous thing.