And Wesley almost got us into WWIII with the Russians.
And bombing the Chinese (old maps my ass), didn’t help.
Serbia was our ally through both world wars. And Yugoslavia was practically an American client state within the Warsaw Pact during the cold war. Our aid to them was covert and directed by the CIA, but only to Israel received a bigger aid package each year than Yugoslavia.
Hey Veterans, drypowder says you carpet-bombed Serbians with precision-guided munitions!
In February 1916, Serbia is overrun by a combined Austro-Hungarian /Bulgarian army and the Serbian army withdraws to Corfu via Albania only returning to fight in the last 30 days of the war, in Macedonia. US soldiers under General Pershing enter WW1 in April 1917, battling Germans in Belgium and France. Good thing your doughboy great-grandfathers had the help of staunch allies for those 30 days, on a separate battlefront!
Germanys General List and his allied Hungarian and Italian armies steamroll Yugoslavia, including Serbia, in first half of April 1941 (maybe 12 days of campaigning total, kinda like your Thunder Run to Baghdad). America enters WW2 7 months later, after Japans surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Your grandfather GIs from our Greatest Generation owe a debt of gratitude to their contemporary staunch allies, who couldnt stop the German war machine from obtaining critical Romanian oil!
Welcome to the world of pinko propaganda.
Recall George Washington, who admonished his contemporary Americans: The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
His warning is especially true for our relations with the Russian Federation and their mini-me, Serbia.