I can see taht at certain points inteh past the Us would ahve prefered a rather unstable balkans.. well mroe liek .. nto completely stable... but given all th history it is a logn stretch to see a continuous policy ehing..

My bet: mostly cockup with some localize in time and space malice which is probably very difficult to discern.. becasue there have been some really major cockups.. and the US was ot alone on that...add Russia and the UE to the group.

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