Indeed, Chavez has established a direct and authoritarian relationship with the people and has redistributed state funds amongst the poor in order to secure their support and win legitimacy for his regime.
In short, Milosevic has reason to believe that -- by obscuring the continuing, directrelationship between Serb policy and the Bosnian Serbs' malevolent activities -- further progress can be made toward his goal of establishing a "greater Serbia" even as he seeks relief from international sanctions against Belgrade and protection of Serbia proper from Western military strikes, should they occur.