This goes with something that someone in the US pointed out (I’ll speak from a US perspective from here). We often only vaguely remember our interactions with a country because we are a hyperpower, and it is one of many countries that we interact with on a massive scale. So when there is a bombing campaign like in Belgrade or arms are handed out to one side in a war, the average person in the US may quickly forget. The people in that country likely feel far different, since the US had such an enormous effect on them (bad or good). There are of course a few exceptions that stick out decades later as having scarred the American psyche like the Vietnam War, but those are exceptions to the rule.