“We could have stopped this, we could still do so… But for the most part, we in the west have actually given comfort to the aggressor.”

—  Margaret Thatcher

On Western non-intervention in Bosnia, as reported in 'Thatcher warns of "Holocaust" risk in Bosnia appeal' by Anthony Bevins and Stephen Goodwin in The Independent (17 December 1992)
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