The US is turning into the Balkans in the 90s.

Back then, US played a vital role in what happened in Balkans in the 90s and many Americans justified the bombings as necessary 'for the protection of minorities'. The Kosovo war was probably a miniature rehearsal of what might happen in US. Just yesterday I was talking with some random guy and he was telling me how awful Trump is for the minorities and how he must be stopped. I was astonished by the way he phrased it, and he was just an average guy without much interest in other politics. And we are talking about Europe, not even Canada.

The best model for us to follow is how other minorities in similar situations have reacted in the past such as Kurds, ethnic minorities within Europe, jews, Afrikaners etc.

I'm not sure these are good models for various reasons.

The Kurds were used by the Turks during the Armenian Genocide with the promise that they would be recognized within the new Turkish state as equal. When they discovered that that was an empty promise, they started a long chain of revolts that so far have led to nothing because there are no other local populations to support them. Things would have been different if they weren't savages who had no sense of humanity and chose an equally ruthless ally.

Ethnic minorities within Europe? That probably means the Catalans. Their most recent effort for independence was brutally suppressed by the police. Imagine if that happened in Belarus. But it happened in Spain, so noone cares.

Jews are a different case, and even if they aren't likeable, they did what others wouldn't do. For example, how many wealthy Europeans would fund a movement? At the same time, would they migrate to their new state without the events of WWII?

Afrikaners suffered through the horror of the Boers wars and the British war crimes were never punished or at least recognized. Then they came under fire for insisting on segragation and now they are the target of racial hatred with little support from anyone. Their situation is dire and will probably have to leave their country sooner or later.