You're welcome for reading. I found your post really interesting.

My wife was born in Czechoslovakia, but has Austrian citizenship now.

We have a wonderful life in Vienna. Two immigrants that found each other. :-)

I have friends and business contacts who are Serbs, Croats and/or Bosnians. All nice people.

Serbia is a touchy subject with my Serb friends and business contacts. I've been in Austria a long time, but I'm still American, and the Serbs know very well that it is because of America that they got bombed to smithereens and Kosovo is now a separate country.

Then when Russia joined the Ukrainian civil war and the US media talked (and still talks) about "the first war in Europe since WWII" and the Serbs are like, "Uh, where do you think Serbia is? Africa?"

I'm very anti-war. I wasn't as a young man in the US, but I expect that was due to the ubiquitous war propaganda you get growing up in the US.

Again, thanks for the good read and I'll pass on your "Hello" to your Slavic sister (aka my wife)!