He was considered a close ally of Slobodan Milosevic during the campaign in the early 1990s to drive non-Serbs from about a third of Croatian territory, but the two later quarrelled.
Babić je smatran bliskim saveznikom Slobodana Miloševića tokom kampanje proterivanja osoba nesrpske nacionalnosti sa oko jedne trećine teritorije Hrvatske početkom devedesetih godina, ali su se njih dvojica kasnije posvađali.