Posted on 02/23/2008 10:09:12 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Wrong. We can not back down now and lose face to Russia. Shall we pull out of Iraq and let al Qaeda win there too.
It looks like the USA will have to come to the rescue again. Europeans are seemingly worthless for fighting wars.
President Bush is smart enough to realize that we can not back down from our confrontation with Russia. The Soviet Empire must not be allowed to rise again.
This goes way beyond Kosovo and Serbia. It is our best chance to isolate Russia and keep Adolph Putin from revitalizing the Soviet Reich.
Spineless EU, and guess who gets to clean up the mess?
As predicted in Revelations.
The US needs Croatia over an agreement between Iran and Serbia
http://www.nacional.hr/en/articles/view/29168/
The EU and UN pack their graft and flee. There’s a shocker.
Those are mainly civilian staff. The same as the U.S withdrew staff from Serbia. The multi-national military forces still remain stationed along the border. Serbia has no military power to take on what is stationed in Kosovo at the moment.
A little confusion from the article: So EU forces have withdrawn from nothern Kosovo and Serbian irregulars are in charge, but KFOR is still at the actual border between Kosovo and Serbia and not letting Serbs through th checkpoints. Is that correct?
BS
The only thing that will stop this scenario is the Serbs completely backing down. They will not to that, they feel they are right and that their nation is being unfairly broken up. They are even given more gravitas in that Putin has publicly come out in support of the Serbian position.
what bothers me is the lack of reporting on this issue in the major media outlets - it bothers me, but it does not surprise me.
Please provide links, documentation or any verifiable evidence.
I find it highly unusual (and unlikely) that a fundamentalist Islamic government would engage in a security agreement with an Orthodox Christian nation that has a long history as being an enemy of Islam and is currently in a dispute with one Muslim 'state' (Kosovo) and was recently at war with another(Bosnia).
The only thing that will stop this scenario is the Serbs completely backing down. They will not to that, they feel they are right and that their nation is being unfairly broken up. They are even given more gravitas in that Putin has publicly come out in support of the Serbian position.
what bothers me is the lack of reporting on this issue in the major media outlets - it bothers me, but it does not surprise me."
The wild card in all of this is the Russians. If they make it clear that they would turn off the gas to Europe and let it freeze this winter, NATO's response might be delayed. If the Russians are more demonstrative and start causing trouble in the Baltics, for instance, NATO and the EU might be deterred, etc. If it is the Serbs alone, then Serbia hasn't got a chance.
Too late. Condi and the ClintonHoldoverStateDepartment have already got us involved.
20/20 hindsight is that Bush shoud have fired the holdovers and withdrawn from KFOR on day one.
“But Mr Ivanovic, is sceptical. “In case of real clashes KFOR will first protect themselves and then come to count the causalities.”
Talk about handwriting on the wall. There is no way the Serbs are going to turn over at the very least northern Kosovo with what 120,000 Serbs in that region. They’ve been through the 78 day NATO bombing campaign so they know exactly the worst they might POSSIBLY expect. But there are major differences between 99 and today. Right now we’re engaged on two other fronts and there is constant sceaming to bring the troops home and I don’t think our NATO allies are all that excited about Kosovo once real bullets start flying. Also, in 99 Russia was in absolute tatters owing the IMF something on the order of $200 billion with an economy on life support spiraling downward and no help in sight. Several years ago Russia paid off those external debts and now is running a huge trade surplus with $1 bln per day coming in from crude sales alone. Russia is slowly isolating Europe from an energy viewpoint so that’s another reason the Euro’s will think long and hard before any serious engagement.
There’s no doubt this is going to boil over, the only question is at this point how important is an independent Kosovo to the US?
While I hardly think Serbia constitutes the restablishment of the Soviet Empire...in any event, if Russia decides to go all in with Serbia, do you think Bush isn’t going to back down? Of course he is.
how is it predicted in revelations...
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