I had relatives involved in satellite imagery analysis at the time.
The Serbs are not any conservatives’ fight. The Putin and Serb apologists on FR can GFYSs.
Yes, a brother-in-law’s ex-wife was assasinated by them because she was a UN-NATO police/penal administrator.
Both sides had people committing war crimes, and the UN-NATO authorities made the effort to bring those of both sides to justice and stop both sides from making war upon each other. NATO certainly did not annex Serbian territory the way in which Russia has committed the same crime we prosecuted and punished the Third Reich officers of Germany.
Au contraire. Serbia is the last stronghold against US?SAUDI sponsored Islamic fundamentalism taking over in the Balkans. Take those blinders off there buddy.
The Serbs are not any conservatives’ fight
And neither is jumping in to help the Albanians. The outrages committed by the Albanians when Tito favored them and extended a measure of autonomy to Kosovo in order to suppress the Serbs, were duly reported by the NYT. I particularly direct your attention to the campaigns against Serbians directed by the police and militias which were dominated by Albanians. However, the Serbians, as stalwart as they are in the cause of the Christian West against Islam, their reaction to the Albanian terrorism was equal ... or on occasion worse than the acts perpetrated against them.
Why then take the side of the Albanians against the Serbs? Americans came into the Balkan ball game in the bottom of the 7th. This was after a multi-million dollar PR campaign masterminded by no less than Ruder and Finn (google that).
As far as Albania itself goes, I should think one might have a hard time taking a country seriously whose biggest industries are heroin and stolen cars, and who rave on about "The Greater Albania," which doubtless includes parts of the US. Talk to Interpol about Albania.
As far as being a "Serb apologist," so be it. They have a case. It's also true that we don't have a dog in their fight with the Albanians, or anyone else.
There are no angels in Balkan Wars. We picked a side. Consider that we
(a) we should have stayed out of it.
and (b)The side we picked doesn't automatically become the angels.
Far from it. Try and remember that we are dealing with the flotsam and jetsam of the Ottoman Empire. Muslim Bosnians used Muslim Albanians as their hitmen in a 400-year campaign of oppression against the Christian nations of Serbia and Montenegro, a campaign that did not end until 1913, which isn't that long ago.