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This is a typical piece of propaganda BS, loaded with fabrications and author's opinions / interpretations. No factual information.

Fiction:
>>The Serbian mistake of 1918, when the victorious kingdom gambled on [establishing] Yugoslavia, rather than consolidating a compact state of Serbia, continues to haunt Belgrade.<<

Fact:
November 1918
"A National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs met in Zagreb and called for the unification of all the South Slavs in the Habsburg lands. The Croatian Sabor merged with this National Council. Fearful of Italy, the National Council then pledged allegiance to Serbia. In this manner a unified Yugoslav state came into existence before the formal peace talks began."

Fiction:
>>Kosovo was the launching pad for the crazed nationalism engineered by Milosevic<<

Fact:
Gazimestan - June 28, 1989 -- Excerpts from SM's speech:

..." Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

The crisis that hit Yugoslavia has brought about national divisions, but also social, cultural, religious and many other less important ones. Among all these divisions, nationalist ones have shown themselves to be the most dramatic. Resolving them will make it easier to remove other divisions and mitigate the consequences they have created.

For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations. The threat is that the question of one nation being endangered by the others can be posed one day -- and this can then start a wave of suspicions, accusations, and intolerance, a wave that invariably grows and is difficult to stop. This threat has been hanging like a sword over our heads all the time. Internal and external enemies of multi-national communities are aware of this and therefore they organize their activity against multinational societies mostly by fomenting national conflicts."...

So this is how the crazed nationalst Serb leader ignited the fuse, eh? LOL

Fiction:
>>Serbia, ever quick to denounce ethnic Albanian "terrorism" in Kosovo, has scarcely begun to confront the crimes it committed on a vast scale in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s.

A video of Serbs killing Muslims at Srebrenica, shown in June, provoked a shock here. That was salutary. It was also a terrible indictment of the degree of Serbian ignorance ...<<

Fact:
The "video" shows execution of 6 men. Not sure what exactly was it supposed to prove, but it most certainly doesn't prove the alleged massacre of thousands of civilians in Srebrenica.

Fiction:
>>One of Serbia's many fictions is that the Yugoslav Army never fought in Bosnia and the campaign there had nothing to do with Belgrade. Nonsense, of course, but Serbia remains ambivalent about reality.<<

Fact:
The author's confusion (or his intent to confuse and mislead semi-informed readers) is again obvious. JNA (Yugoslav Army) pulled out from Bosnia when the "International Community" recognized B&H as a state.