For awhile, anyway.
I suspect Russia will have something to say on the topic before the week is over.
I just know hearing this will make your day.
:-)
I have come to believe that this type of activity is no mistaken or wrong headed rather is is a deliberate act against the best interests of the west. And dare I say Russia?
Man up, Putin. Send in the troops. Do the right thing.
Dark clouds on the horizon.
Pray for the Serbs of Kosovo. They’ll need it.
Sometimes I just shake my head at the USA foreign policy.
A study by Austro/Hungarian Peter Kukulj,of Kosovo, showed in 1871.
64% Serbs. 32% Albanians with 10,000 Roma.
Further Austrian statistics in 1899.
47.80% Albanians. 43.7% Serbs. 8% others.
Today figures of the Serb population in Kosovo, are between only 7% and at most 10%.
The United Nations is useless. If it's moguls cannot see ethnic cleansing, then it is as useless as the old League of Nations. Time for it to go.
So the Kurds have no state. The “Palestinians” have no state (thank goodness). But the Albanians get TWO states??? Shocking that the United States would put its imprimatur on such utter madness.
I know how and why clinton got us on the wrong side of this tragedy, what I don’t understand is why President Bush stayed there.
"In the near future Abkhazia will appeal to the Russian parliament and the UN Security Council with a request to recognise its independence."
SOUTH OSSETIAN PRESIDENT EDUARD KOKOITY
"South Ossetia will in the near future appeal to... the UN with a request to recognise our independence."
Georgia and Russia, among other countries, how about Spain? will feel the boomerang effect of this one.
5.56mm
The thing is that any Canadian observer of Nato, could have the exact contradiction of it's actions. First, under the Clinton regime and likely the esteemed Hillary (Oh, Bill do it). This was claimed was the impetus to intervene in Kosovo.
Next, the general consensus of support for the Canadian involvement in Afghanistan. I might remark now that after intial support of the Liberal party's Nato support, some naysayers are now at work. The Canadian press has been splendid in support for the Canadians in Afghanistan.
It was bought out by veterans in Canada, that it was the Serbs who fought Nazi power. Here is how the media handled the deliberate bombing of Serb civilians. Switch to affable and urbane Lloyd Robertson- CTV. He said a Canadian bomber had been ordered to drop four bombs on military targets. He said the crew dropped three bombs. They were not sure about the target for the fourth bomb- quoth Lloyd.
Lloyd then said they radioed back to base and lawyers were consulted. Lloyd had a splendid smile on his face. Quoth he:
They did not drop the bomb.
One is caught between two fires here. Support for the armed forces and personel who face "their's not to reason why,their's but to do or die" and the cause itself.
You are forgetting Albania. Kosovo isn’t the first. Turkey also has a geographical part in Europe.