Posted on 05/23/2006 6:33:04 PM PDT by blam
Serbia's navy left high and dry by the vote for independence
By David Rennie, Europe Correspondent
(Filed: 24/05/2006)
Serbia is about to join the select club of former naval powers.
Officers, who remember the heyday of the old Yugoslav navy - it boasted nearly 80 warships - are weighing their options following Sunday's independence referendum in Serbia's sister republic of Montenegro.
The Yes vote means Serbia will lose its sea ports and naval bases.
Gen Radosav Martinovic, a military adviser to the government of Montenegro, said that the Serbian navy would be lucky to end up with some patrol craft on the Danube.
The general invited Serbia's most capable admirals and officers to stay on and help build a new Montenegrin fleet. The offer may not be that attractive, however, as the new-born nation is planning a coastguard-style force, based on fast patrol boats, plus a three-masted, 180-foot sail training ship, the Jadran.
The Montenegrin authorities have started auctioning off some of the most picturesque bases on the Adriatic to tourist developers.
Other nations, from Ethiopia to the Austro-Hungarian empire, have lost coastlines and waved goodbye to their navies. Bolivia, defying the trend, still maintains a "navy" of river boats and a clutch of admirals, despite losing its coastline to Chile in 1884.
Logical analysis is as alien to your mental proceses as it is to his.
Nevermind.
Replace "Serbia" with "Iraq" and you're a regular Michael Moore. You're either pro-America or anti-America. And you seem dangerously close to the latter.
IN MY BOOK ANY FOOL WHO BACKS ANYTHING CLINTON DID IS A TRAITOR!! And, that would be guess who... buddy??? You approve clinton's actions don't ya??
You've gone off the deep end on so many levels. Where did I ever say I was a supporter of Clinton's? And who, exactly, am I supposed to be betraying?
In any event, supporting an enemy of the United States' simply becase the American President is bad is utterly dishonorable.
By the way, I actually killed some commies in Korea many many years ago..
That's laudatory. But service to your country doesn't give you -- or Mr. Kerry -- a free pass to turn against it.
And you're Cindy Sheehan in drag.
While I agree that we had no business bombing Yugoslavia, I really don't think that you are making a whole lot of sense. :)
Buddy , you got some gall comparing me to that joke kerry. I actually think you are an IDIOT!
See my previous comment to the fake Israeli above, "Erik#3"...
You say that exactly one post after comparing me to Bill Clinton? Why am I wasting my time with you people?
You have to ignore him. He's not too intelligent, especially when it comes to Balkan affairs.
And you sit there and expect us to think you are A CONSERVATIVE!! What are you on???
Move on, US PEOPLE here don't need any faux conservative CLINTON supporters!!
Get lost, mussie apologist.
Oh the horror of it all, the absolute horror!
Memo to Serbia: you can't afford a navy. You are an economic basket case. Think of the upside.
You're really too sad, because in the interests of short-sighted political expediency, you've quite forgotten what it is to love your country. I hope I never feel that way about my country.
I served for over 30 years in the Israeli Defence Forces. I served good governments and I served bad governments, and I was ordered to carry out policies I agreed with and I was ordered to carry out policies I disagreed with, but I never forgot who I was or what side I was on. Somehow you've fallen astray.
And you sit there and expect us to think you are A CONSERVATIVE!!
I am as conservative as they come. But I put my God and my country before the rest.
Muzzie apologist? Call me a UTACHI the other night. For a guy that thinks ever Croatian should be shot on sight, Croatian woman burning tires to dupe the world is good enough for him. I got 10 yrs you have 23. You ever hear a combat vet bragging about killing? And not just tonight's post.
I agree there's treason in the picture, but that's about the only thing we're likely to agree on here...
I think I'm noticing that. Thanks for the support.
When it comes to killin commies, I think it was a highlight of my career... sounds like you feel sorry for the RED Chinese butchers!
Well , well.. bosnian mussies give bin laden passport and you love 'em... FIGURES!!
The irony of you accusing people of harboring Communist sympathies all the while supporting Communist Party boss Slobodan Milosevic is vaguely amusing.
I'm starting to feel sorry for you. The highlight of my career was a small part in that Berlin wall coming down.
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