Here’s what you get when you nurture national grievances as a means of reaching political consensus: a bunch of semi-fascist youth busting up your city when geopolitics doesn’t go your way.

The Serbian youth attacked the American and Slovenian embassies, harassed the car bearing the Brazilian ambassador as he was leaving Serbian government buildings, and heaved stones and firecrackers at police and anyone with a camera.

Charming.

Ultra-nationalist radical Tomislav Nikolic won the first round of Serbia’s presidential elections. If he wins the whole thing, this is nothing short of Serbia voting to rehabilitate the legacy of Milosevic.

Be prepared to hear commentary on how the West’s unreasonable policy over Kosovo has brought the hardliners to power in Serbia. That’s nonsense. This is the result of Serbia never having been compelled to come to terms with its most recent history, either through decisive military defeat or through a proper criminalization of its actions through the farcical ICTY.