It's mighty easy for someone who lives in New Zeland to criticize someone who lives in the country in question. Tell me Garry were you there in Serbia? during the time?. I doubt it, have you ever been to Serbia?. Again I doubt it.
Amusing opinion from a guy from the country that actually did lethally attack Serbia to help a minority group steal some land... are you going to do the same if American Indians or Mexicans want some of the land they currently occupy to be a brand new independent country?
Why freedom and democracy for some like Albania but not South Ossetia or Abkhazia... why do Israelis have rights and Palestinians don't?
Why would it matter if I have ever been to Serbia... considering what you claim to do for a living have you been to Serbia and how many Serbs did you kill while you were there?
Papa wasn't saying the fact the Russians didn't act was his problem it was the problem the Russians feed them lie after lie, giving a country false hope is worse than being upfront about it.
So being supportive but ultimately unable to stop the EU and US murdering his fellow countrymen is a bigger crime than murdering his fellow countrymen and aiding them to steal territory to create a new criminal state as a new neighbour for him. OK. Then Russian politicians who promised help are guilty...
Your an awfully big hypocrite to sit there and call someone a "spoiled little brat" when you enjoy the benefits of the west and complain about what the west does none stop and never even lived in the country in question. The only spoiled brat here is you.
Enjoy the benefits of a western society... the privilege of watching allies murder and rape and kill so the richest 1% can get slightly richer, and people they invade and bomb get angrier... all in my name... if you lined up every American leader and opposition politician who took the US to war saying it was a good idea and every British politician who said the same... I would be happy to machine gun down the lot of them... not that it would make any difference now.
So before you go around calling people "spoiled brats" you giant hypocrite, answer me this question. When are you moving to Russia? when will you stop taking that western money? or are you just going to sit at your PC whine about the west but enjoy all the benefits the west offers.
Ahhh, if you don't love it then leave argument. What money is the west giving me... would really like to see that... honestly asking...
I get how you feel, you guys got backstabbed and you have morons here making excuses for the Russians, when the Russians back then made you this promise and that promise but did nothing and left you high and dry.
Yes... diddums... you just wrap yourself in denial and cuddle up to people like Madeline Allbright who is probably earning millions in some thinktank some where talking up the Russian and Chinese threat to the whole world... you get buddy buddy with the people who murdered Serbs because Serbs are bad and it was the right thing to do.
Garry is biased and they will defend the Russians, so I wouldn't concern yourself with their opinion.
Of course I am biased, but that does not make me wrong.
It was not Russia, who screw you out, it was you yourself. Before NATO agression on FRY, Russia sent modern air defense and other weapons on domestic prices or even for free, but it was Serbs, who resell all those goods to ME countries (mostly Egypt) on market prices and made good money from it. When Russia find this out, they stop giving you weapons for free as they themselves could sell it to ME.
And you can't really blame Serbia... I mean what idiot would think the EU and HATO would bomb a country in Europe... no part of Yugoslavia was in the EU and HATO is supposed to be a defensive organsation... no HATO country was attacked therefore HATO should never have been involved.
But obviously it is Russias fault.
And this is precisely what ticks me off
This topic is old and cold here, it's history, we moved on
Yes, HATO bombed you and now you are HATOs bitch... as clear as day.
But having some random Canadians, Australians or New Zealanders suddenly giving me lectures on my own history (that I happened to live through) really takes the cake in hypocrisy department
I saw it from a different perspective and I certainly don't see it your way. I saw the collapse of the country you came from and in the western media it was all blamed on Serbia. Serbia was actively targeted as the bad guy even though clearly there were other bad guys involved... the fact that the KLA admitted to attacks on Serbian police and Serbian Army units near Albanian majority villages with the intent and purpose to get them to inflict reprisal attacks on those villages to get those villages on side with the KLA told me who the bad guys were... I would not be surprised if the CIA or US special forces taught them to do that...
But obviously it was all Russias fault... or are you practising to join the EU... it is Russias fault... congrats you are now a full member...
This topic is old and cold here, it's history, we moved on
Interesting you say we... I suspect not all Serbs agree with your assessment of what happened and why.
A bit like western sanctions on Russia... the reasons mean nothing at all... they can pick anything to add more, and also create situations if they need to... the attack on Serbia was always going to happen it was only a matter of time.