"Allways trust Muslim, all that he wants is to kill you. Newer trust West, they have sent a Muslim upon you"
Serbian saying...
I recall reading a novel many years ago (long before the break up of Yugoslavia) where there was a scene with two British diplomats were discussing the Balkans with a (pre-Revolution) Russian and American diplomats.
In the book (I can't recall the name of it), the British were talking about how various other countries in the world were demanding "spheres of influence in the Balkan region" and how they thought they could "satisfy all the interested parties" with a plan that they had developed, including a map where they had redrawn borders. The Russian & the American listened quietly to all of this until they finally asked the Russian what he thought of it. (The British assumed that the American would agree with them.)
The Russian responded, "Your solution is arrogant and insane. You will solve nothing in the region until you quit treating the Balkans as though it a box of chocolates that you have the right to pass around for your chosen political pets to be granted a piece of! It is not yours to take or to give, it is the lands that the people who live there, who've spilled there blood for the right to decide their own fate, not to have some failed politicans-turned-"diplomats" to decide for them. You don't know these people, we do. When they say, "Sloboda ili Smrt" (Freedom or Death), they mean it!" Finally the British looked to the American diplomat for reinforcement, and the American said to them, "The Russian is right. What you tried to do here to the people of the Balkans is what you tried to do to us in America years ago. That's why we had a damned Revolution! It really is amazing how a Cambridge education can knock all the common sense out of you -- did you really think that we would ever agree to this?" And the American & the Russian (who had looked at each other with intial suspicion) both walked out of the meeting together.
In fact, the only that is different from the book and today's real life, is that it is EU & UN bureaucrats "developing the plan" instead of just the British, and America has switched sides. What the Russian character said still is spot on.