After 20 years, the two countries remain enemies. And the superpowers seem to want them to stay that way.
For centuries, small countries have relied on bigger ones to protect them. The trick was to avoid becoming too much of a pawn in the greater game of the superpowers.
Spanned by mountains that run more than 550 kilometers (342 miles) and bounded by the Adriatic Sea, the Western Balkan region is a case in point. The Greeks, Romans, Slavs, Ottomans, and Austro-Hungarians all used it as a gateway to expand empires, moving populations and redrawing borders in the process. A patchwork of small states might band together to form a buffer for a while before falling apart. They’d find protectors in each of these civilizations—after being conquered.
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