Posted on 10/08/2022 9:01:34 PM PDT by Cathi
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic revealed on Saturday that American and British leaders, including President Bill Clinton, urged Hungary to invade Serbia by land in 1999. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who told Vucic of the request, refused.
In a televised address, Vucic said that the US and UK wanted Hungarian forces to push south into Serbia in order to split the Yugoslav military between the front in Kosovo and a new front with Hungary.
“Clinton and the British asked [Orban] to attack Serbia from the north so that they could extend our forces from Kosovo and Metohija to Vojvodina,” he explained. Orban, who at the time was one year into his first term in office, refused, and with the help of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, pushed back against the “pressure from the White House.”
Orban told Vucic of the request during a recent meeting and allowed him to speak about it publicly, the Serbian leader said.
NATO launched a bombing campaign in 1999 against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which by that time was made up of just Serbia and Montenegro. In waging the air war, NATO sided with ethnic Albanian separatists, who were fighting with the Serbs for the independence of Kosovo, a province of Serbia.
Hungary had joined NATO earlier that year, but did not participate in the campaign.
According to Vucic, Orban then traveled to the UK for talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair and former PM Margaret Thatcher. Greeting him at the door of Downing Street, Thatcher told Orban “it bothers me a lot that you refused to attack Serbia, that's why more British soldiers will die,” Vucic said.
Ultimately, no British troops died during the campaign. Hostilities ceased in June 1999 with the signing of the Kumanovo Agreement, after which NATO troops moved into Kosovo, where they remain to this day. The bombing campaign marked the first time that the US-led alliance used military force without the approval of the UN Security Council, and is still regarded by much of the world as illegitimate.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/oct/7/democrats-want-us-troops-out-of-saudi-arabia-after/
A group of Democratic lawmakers wants the U.S. military out of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates following an announcement from OPEC that it would cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day.
...this week introduced the “Strained Partnership Act” that mandated the removal of all U.S. troops from both countries along with missile defenses such as the Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD).
“Saudi Arabia and the UAE’s drastic cut in oil production, despite President Biden’s overtures to both countries in recent months, is a hostile act against the United States and a clear signal that they have chosen to side with Russia in its war against Ukraine,”
Saudis have to go under the bus for defying Chancellor Cadaver. The ‘sovereignty’ of Yemen will suddenly inundate the compliant press. So predictable.
I think I may have come up with a way to verify stories such as this. Episodic television
All that is needed is to find the nationality of the villians in the TV show in that time period. Hollywood or British in 1997-2000. If all of a sudden there are a lot of Serbian bad guys, I guarantee the story is accurate.
Same old, same old. The big powers try to keep the locals pissed off at each other so they can be played forever. This would have kept the balkans on a low simmer (occasionally overboiling when needed) for the next generation.
Hungary wisely avoided that trap.
For once, Thatcher was wrong. British soldiers would certainly have died if NATO had invaded Serbia though.
On the other hand, it might have stopped James Blunt releasing all that sh*t music before it happened....
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