Posted on 05/02/2022 8:05:35 AM PDT by bitt
Less than 25 years after American and NATO intervention ended a brutal war in the Balkans, one party to the conflict is swaggering and boasting over its new military hardware.
Serbia on Saturday publicly displayed a Chinese anti-aircraft missile system, according to The Associated Press.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said the missiles give Serbia a “powerful deterrent” against all threats.
“We will no longer allow [ourselves] to be a punching bag for anyone,” Vucic said after the display, according to the AP.
The wire service interpreted that comment as a reference to the 1999 bombardment of Serbia in 199 after ethnic cleansing was reported in Kosovo the previous year.
“I’m proud of the Serbian army, I’m proud of a great progress,” Vucic said at a news conference, according to the Voice of America.
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We got really good glimpses of the donkey cart crowd. You have to admit.
I'll look it up.
Thanks.
1999 bombardment of Serbia in 199 after ethnic cleansing bu muslim Albanians in Serbian uniforms was reported in Kosovo the previous year.
Serbs are right! Clinton bombed the wrong damn side!!!
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Deliberately. Set the stage for the rise of AQ and OBL.
That was a messed up situation.
Slovenia got the drop on Serbia’s army and, so, gained independence bloodlessly.
Croatia got into a rough and tumble war with Serbia to gain its independence.
Bosnia was a complete mess, and remains a mess, partitioned more or less three ways. But, at least shooting has stopped. Maybe someday in the future, somebody will be able to figure this out.
Montenegro and Macedonia played it cool, and gained their independence without bloodshed.
Then came Kosovo. Historically, a sacred place for Serbia (and all of Europe). You’d think Serbia could have bargained for recognition of the historical sites in return for peaceful independence. But, no, there was no bargaining. It was another g-damned war.
Some people have to be persuaded they don’t own territories because of past conquests and past treaties. Rather, as we put it in our Declaration of Independence, governments gain their just powers from the consent of the governed. Woodrow Wilson tried to get the Europeans at Versailles to accept self-determination, but that was too utopian at the time.
The day is coming when self-determination won’t be utopian at all, but the democracies will be so overwhelmingly powerful, we will just arrest those who try to rule over people.
Harbor Freight Anti-aircraft missles.. d;^D
What could go wrong?
William Jefferson Clinton, better known as the Sink Emperor, ordered a missile strike on a commuter train while trying to kill Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grdelica_train_bombing
Clinton also ordered the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade
The Serbs owe NATO and the democrat party a big fat kiss-my-@ss.
The Serbia/Kosovo war was about control of the strategic Trepca tin mine in Kosovo. Everything else was Kabuki theatre.
They are missiles.
The reason they are not classified as offensive is that they are surface-to-air missiles.
Calm down a bit.
Okay
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