But it is different with the Ukrainian war, not the least because Russia is a nuclear
power. The Yugoslav wars, remaining of a limited regional outreach in spite of the
unfortunate NATO intervention in 1999, did not look as a threat to the rest of Europe
or the world. In this sense, they cannot be compared to the threatening and explosive
expanse of the Ukrainian war in 2022. But in many of their structural and functional
features, they look much alike, especially to the local populations. They both
immediately produced nation-building (a quick overnight process), violence at all
levels, reciprocal nationalisms (nationalisms are only happy together), identitarianisms, militarisation, and masculinisation. In that respect they are comparable, except for the scale.
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