yeah, the serbs are dirty on the bulgarians though because they were more duplicitous, the battle of Kaimakchalan is a point of resentment for Serbs against Bulgarians

the word Strategy comes from turkish, and the Ottoman Empire was a massively tricky, intrigue filled history of mischief and murder... put it this way, the bulgarians considered their annexation to be enslavement, as do the rest of the southern slavs... main street name in most cities in that part of the world means "liberation", oslobodenie (liberation, freedom from slavery), nezavisimost (independence)

but yeah, there is definitely something else going on

just as there is crime families, there is families of saints, and they are dark groups, as in, part of being a saint is humility, and even, you can be part of one of these families and not even know it because the branch you are on got infected by some tyrannical sumbitch who severed from the main branch

it's a funny thing, and it always seems like the bad guys are more organised but the good guys are actually more numerous and distributed