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On March 24, 1999, the U.S. bombed Kosovo. Putin has been planning his payback ever since.
Slate ^ | 21 March 2014 | Masha Gessen

Posted on 03/23/2014 7:30:20 PM PDT by Lorianne

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1 posted on 03/23/2014 7:30:20 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

You just may be spot on! I always why Clinton was so quick to start dropping bombs on the civilians of Belgrade..


2 posted on 03/23/2014 7:39:31 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Lorianne

Most interesting - the long-term origins of this conflict.


3 posted on 03/23/2014 7:41:52 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: Lorianne

This author is the woman that admitted that homosexual marriage was instituted to destroy heterosexual marriage. Look it up.


4 posted on 03/23/2014 7:42:57 PM PDT by struggle
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So? What does it have to do with Kosovo?


5 posted on 03/23/2014 7:43:42 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lorianne
From the article:

This time Putin mentioned Kosovo. Indeed, in his speech to parliament on Tuesday, he made it very clear that by annexing Crimea he had avenged Russia for what had happened with Kosovo.

“It was our Western partners who created the precedent; they did it themselves, with their own hands, as it were, in a situation that was totally analogous to the Crimean situation, by recognizing Kosovo's secession from Serbia as legitimate,” said Putin. And then, as he cited American statements on Kosovo, he got more and more worked up until he said, “They wrote it themselves. They spread this all over the world. They screwed everybody—and now they are outraged!” (The Kremlin's official translators, who are forever civilizing the Russian president's speech, translated this sentence as “They wrote this, disseminated it all over the world, had everyone agree, and now they are outraged!” The expression Putin used, however, was “vsekh nagnuli,” street slang for having had nonconsensual anal sex with everybody, rather than for having everybody agree.)

6 posted on 03/23/2014 7:45:47 PM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: Lorianne

Madeleine Albright came from a Jewish family and in WW2 they fled the Nazis —they sheltered in a Serb town that she later bombed to smithereens, as Clinton’s Secretary of State.


7 posted on 03/23/2014 7:48:09 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Lorianne

I’m afraid this is all too obvious.

Clinton fought that war on the wrong side, helping Albanian illegal immigrants and invaders steal Kosovo from the Serbs—who, it was noted at the time, were the Russians’ “little brothers.”

It was against our interest, but it was even more against Russia’s interest.

That led to Russia’s assault on Georgia, and now—among other causes—to this.


8 posted on 03/23/2014 8:02:00 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I hope one day to see Serb tanks roll back into Pristina.


9 posted on 03/23/2014 8:02:48 PM PDT by dfwgator
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And that numbskull, Wesley Clark almost got us into WW III.


10 posted on 03/23/2014 8:04:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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“It was our Western partners who created the precedent; they did it themselves, with their own hands, as it were, in a situation that was totally analogous to the Crimean situation, by recognizing Kosovo's secession from Serbia as legitimate,” said Putin.

Have to admit, I've been waiting for that one. Because the parallel is exact...and Clinton's pretext even more scurrilous than Putin's own.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

Ukraine now gets to play Serbia and, along with the U.S., pay for another of Clinton's foreign policy sins.

11 posted on 03/23/2014 8:04:06 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media -- IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Lorianne

I’m amazed that Slate would publish this.


12 posted on 03/23/2014 8:08:36 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: dfwgator
Yes, and the same Wesley Clark so famous at the Davidian Compound.
13 posted on 03/23/2014 8:08:57 PM PDT by NY Attitude (Make love not war but be prepared for either.)
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To: sheik yerbouty

The cold war ended with President Reagan. It started up again with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.


14 posted on 03/23/2014 8:12:30 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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The same Bill Clinton that negotiated that ridiculous Budapest Memorandum that now has us in this situation in Ukraine.


15 posted on 03/23/2014 8:13:17 PM PDT by dfwgator
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15 years later Clinton’s treachery lives on. After Obama is gone, I wonder how many years his treachery will endure.


16 posted on 03/23/2014 8:16:32 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: gaijin

No good deed goes unpunished.


17 posted on 03/23/2014 8:19:41 PM PDT by sport
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To: Enterprise

Way into the next century.


18 posted on 03/23/2014 8:21:43 PM PDT by sport
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100%

"I'm not going to start the third world war for you," General Sir Mike Jackson, commander of the international KFOR peacekeeping force, is reported to have told Gen. Clark when he refused to accept an order to send assault troops to prevent Russian troops from taking over the airfield of Kosovo's provincial capital. The Times of London reported on 23 May 2001 in an article titled, "Kosovo clash of allied generals."

19 posted on 03/23/2014 8:22:47 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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I hope NATO doesn’t start bombing Russian ethnic communities in Ukraine, to help their Ukrainian fascist client state brothers.


20 posted on 03/23/2014 8:22:52 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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