Years ago I read some of his articles (I believe in Political Affairs), but I stopped following his work after his writings about war in Yugoslavia and Bosnia (1991–95). He adopted a narrative close to Serbian nationalist and Milošević-era sources, while showing little understanding of what was actually happening in Bosnia itself. For me, that was a decisive test. What bothered me most was not criticism of NATO, but the absence of serious engagement with local realities and with leftists in Serbia and Yugoslavia who opposed both nationalism and the war. Those voices were largely ignored. Since then, I have been very cautious with Marxist analyses that rely on distant, state-friendly sources while neglecting local left perspectives. We see a similar pattern today in discussions of the Ukraine–Russia war, where Ukrainian and Russian anti-war Marxists are often ignored, while a few “acceptable” voices close to the Kremlin are selectively amplified.
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