Why wasn't Weasley Clark indicted for war crimes?
“The brave Ukrainian resistance cannot be maintained indefinitely in the absence of food, water and replenishment of ammunition, so the clock is ticking. Meanwhile, a substantial number of Russian forces are being freed up to move north, reinforcing Russian efforts to encircle and annihilate Ukrainian forces holding back the main Russian effort in Donbas.
The implications of the battle of Mariupol for both Russia and Ukraine are operationally significant, and for Ukraine the battle and 100,000 innocent lives hang in the balance.
Russia is sending a message to the West.
Russia is also sending a message to Ukraine and the West: whatever the problems in the north around Kyiv, Russia will use the means necessary, and suffer the losses required, to attain its objectives in Ukraine. A city of 400,000 has been deliberately erased through heavy and indiscriminate use of firepower and total disregard of international law and humanitarian conventions.
“ -usatoday.com
His former Presidential campaign’s press secretary was
Mary Jacoby—Glenn Simpson’s wife. By the way of the Rose
Law firm as an intern—Hillary’s former employer.
I hope Durham performs well next month.
DoD are not the police. Impaling your forces in “police actions” is criminal.
This is a 23 year old article that time has proven wrong.
1) Wesley Clark was fired because he was recklessly confronting the Russians and others outside the scope of his orders. He also had a reputation as a jackass, so nobody felt like speaking up for him to the Secretary of Defense.
2) We have, subsequent to this article, shown quite a willingness to accept casualties. Many soldiers I have served with are either in the ground or suffered the wounds to prove that.
I don’t get it’s relavance to Ukraine.
“I’m not going to start Third World War for you,” Jackson told Clark
Mon 2 Aug 1999 10.11 EDT
Nato supreme commander General Wesley Clark is not being allowed to fade away quietly. Days after the Clinton administration relieved him of his command two months early, Newsweek is reporting that the victor of Kosovo was blocked from sending paratroopers to Pristina airport to pre-empt an unexpected Russian advance.
Lieutenant-general Sir Michael Jackson overruled General Clark because the British commander did not want to spark a clash with the Russians.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/aug/02/balkans3
Thank you Sir Michael Jackson
America’s Benevolent Bombing of Serbia
by Jim Bovard | Aug 20, 2019
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/americas-benevolent-bombing-of-serbia/
‘Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton commenced bombing Serbia in the name of human rights, justice, and ethnic tolerance. Approximately 1,500 Serb civilians were killed by NATO bombing in one of the biggest sham morality plays of the modern era. As British professor Philip Hammond recently noted, the 78-day bombing campaign “was not a purely military operation: NATO also destroyed what it called ‘dual-use’ targets, such as factories, city bridges, and even the main television building in downtown Belgrade, in an attempt to terrorise the country into surrender.”
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‘Clinton remains a hero in Kosovo, and there is an 11-foot statue of him standing in the capitol, Pristina, on Bill Clinton Boulevard. A commentator in the United Kingdom’s Guardian newspaper noted that the statue showed Clinton “with a left hand raised, a typical gesture of a leader greeting the masses. In his right hand he is holding documents engraved with the date when NATO started the bombardment of Serbia, 24 March 1999.” ‘
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Why wasn't Weasley Clark indicted for war crimes?