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To: The_Reader_David
It’s similar, but notice my long accumulation of details, all of which apply to both the U.S. intervention in Serbia and the Russian intervention in Georgia. A lot of those are different in the case of Chechenya — blessedly we don’t have a real analogue of Chechenya.

The other key differences are that we have not annexed any part of Serbia, and the Serbs did in fact massacre 8,000 Bosnians at Srebrenica. I don't think Clinton should have jumped in, but we were an honest broker, and we had no intention of annexing either a slice or all of Serbia. Given Putin's repeated encomiums to the Soviet Union, it's evident that he would have annexed Georgia if Bush hadn't sent Air Force resupply missions to Georgia as a tripwire force.

21 posted on 12/09/2014 9:43:29 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Oh, right, honest brokers: we cancelled military operations in favor of Muslim holidays, but bombed Serbia on Orthodox Pentecost, including bombing a bridge full of civilians on their way to Liturgy, then rebombing it when the village’s inhabitants came to help casualties from the first attack, killing among others the village priest. We spread breathless false stories about Pristina stadium being turned into a concentration camp and Ibrahim Rugova having been killed — stories debunked by AFP visting the empty stadium and calling on Rugova at his home.

But no, you’re right. There was a difference: Russia acted in its own national interests, Clinton acted on behalf of the Muslim terrorist KLA and European Union ambitions in the Balkans.


23 posted on 12/09/2014 10:07:40 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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