The Kosovo War in Retrospect

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How many remember about this and when it happened?


And what it was all about?


Most important, how many know that we still have 621 special operators there – down from a one-time high of 19,000?

A good overview is @ Kosovo War - Wikipedia

President Clinton got us into it, something the Dims won’t tell you. What is going to happen if President Trump decides it’s time to bring our troops home from there?

Two decades later, it is hard to imagine a U.S. president, and certainly a Democratic president, using this level of force for humanitarian purposes, particularly without authorization from the United Nations. Nor would there be cries from Europeans to act, as there were in 2011 when the British and French pushed for the intervention in Libya. But the Kosovo War raises interesting questions for candidates running for president: Should the United States and its NATO allies have acted 20 years ago to prevent what may have been another act of genocide committed by Milošević? Would they simply stand by today under similar circumstances given current attitudes toward military intervention?

There’s a lot more about it @ The Kosovo War in Retrospect - War on the Rocks

 

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How NATO bombed Serbs into submission and left toxic legacy behind

Another version of NATO’s intervention in the breaking-up Yugoslavia.

Two decades ago, NATO started its 78-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. RT America’s Alex Mihailovich revisits the Balkans to recall how the intervention happened and see the harm the people in the Balkans still suffer from.

The 1999 NATO operation was the culmination of Yugoslavia’s decade of bloody dissolution, which split the entire region along ethnic and religious lines. Mihailovich was there when the cruise missiles started hitting Novi Sad and other major cities. Touted as a surgical humanitarian intervention to stop the violence in Kosovo, in reality, Operation Allied Force killed more civilians than troops and devastated civilian infrastructure of the nation.



It had plenty of unintended consequences too, from hitting a civilian train, a marketplace and the Chinese Embassy, to polluting the land with depleted uranium. The toxic substance is used for armor-piercing munitions and is believed to be the cause of a spike of cancer cases today.

Story @ How NATO bombed Serbs into submission and left toxic legacy behind (DOCUMENTARY)

 

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Results of Kosovo war:

- A nest of Islamic terrorism is established
- A paradise for human organ traffickers
- By Russians opened eyes
- Beginning of the New Cold War