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To: Reverend Wright
For example, Milosevic was “Hitler” because of forced deportations, and NATO bombed Serbia.
The Republika Srpska army had a concentration camp for non-Serbs/Orthodox at Omarska. It wasn't just ethnic cleansing. However, the West ignored, downplayed, and ended up facilitating equal crimes by Croats including the ethnic cleansing of Krajina. This is especially repugnant, since in World War 2, the Croats had been allies of the Nazis and the Ustaše in Croatia committed their own genocide against Serbs, Jews, and Romany including having some of the worst concentration camps not run by Germans.

On the other hand, there have been 200,000 Armenians forcibly deported out of Nagorno-Karabakh. No USA fuss, and almost no media coverage, even though it is an order of magnitude larger than what was done in Serbia.
Welcome to realpolitik. The Armenians were stupid enough not to settle in the 1990s for a territorial and population exchange, after winning a war with the help of Russia. In the intervening two decades, Azerbaijan used its oil wealth and made useful allies, while the Armenians reached out to Iran. They choose very poorly. Azerbaijan's existance as an independent Azeri nation is a threat to Iran, but they turned this into their benefit by working with the US and Israel. They also reached out to China. Sure Armenians had a relationship with France and Azerbaijan with Turkey, but these NATO countries cancel each other out.

31 posted on 06/16/2024 3:22:15 AM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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To: rmlew

” However, the West ignored, downplayed, and ended up facilitating equal crimes by Croats including the ethnic cleansing of Krajina. This is especially repugnant, since in World War 2, the Croats had been allies of the Nazis and the Ustaše in Croatia committed their own genocide...”


Well as you said : “Welcome to Realpolitik”.


33 posted on 06/16/2024 3:36:18 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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