Boroda, I'm misinformed? You grew up in a country that made misinforming its own populace an artform. You guys wrote the book on a "Free Press" too I bet.
So you are going to post with a straight face that from 1992, when the Bosnian Serbs, assisted by the Federal Army of Serbia, attempted to carve out their own separate Serbian republic within Bosnia-Herzegovina, until the Dayton Accord in November 1995
there were only a total of "around 300 casualties"?If that's what you are saying, it's ludicrous. It's simply unbelievable that you would even try to slide a whopper that big past everyone.
For a guy that doesn't want to discuss Human Rights, I'm amazed you even mentioned Chechnya.
UN sent troops to Bosnia? Go back and READ what I wrote. It ABSOLUTELY WAS A UN DECISION to send a multi-national force to Bosnia. It did that in UN Security Council Resolution 1031, December 15, 1995.
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Authorizes the Member States acting through or in cooperation with the organization referred to in Annex 1-A of the Peace Agreement to establish a multinational implementation force (IFOR) under unified command and control in order to fulfil the role specified in Annex 1-A and Annex 2 of the Peace Agreement;Do a little research please.
I agree that the UN did not specifically authorize the
airstrikes in '99. I think it was wrong to do it without the authorization too. You'll have to look to the Commander-In-Chief at the time to see who authorized that screw-up.
However, that does NOT change the fact that the people of the US opposed sending troops to the region and the House of Representatives initially voted against funding the troop deployment. Clinton did it anyway and Congress fell into line to support the troops, once it was clear Clinton was sending them anyway.
You made the claim the US was eager to get into this mess, which is just more typical revisionist BullSh*t.
Further, Bush and Rumsfeld talk about pulling troops out now and who screams? Not the people of the US; they're in favor of the withdrawal. It's our European Allies making all the noise against it.
Now to your preposterous WW2 bombing claims.
Unlike the Soviet system, our crewmembers didn't (and don't) have to spy on each other and they don't have to hide anything. There's no "political officers" in our forces.
In fact, one reason why we are pretty successful in the air is that our "crew concept" insures that EVERYONE knows what's going on a mission. It's always been that way, even in WW2.
My father-in-law attended the full crew mission briefs before launch. If there were targets in the area that weren't supposed to be hit, EVERYONE was briefed. Why? Because in combat you never know who's going to have to do what job. Sometimes Engineer/Gunners had to fill in for injured pilots. Late in the war, they didn't even use Bombardiers for the most part. They substitued enlisted "toggleers" to drop when the lead ship dropped.
I'll give you and example. When they hit Cologne, my father-in-law specifically remembers being briefed "not to hit the Cathedral". They told EVERYONE that.
Now, based on a Soviet Ace (bet he flew more missions and for a longer period than any US Ace, too, didn't he?
Your ego is in sore need of anything that floats to hold it up, isn't it?) that supposedly talked to ONE B-17 crewmember you're going to tell me we didn't bomb any factories that had US investors?
LOL. If we failed to hit a factory it's because we MISSED! Give me an example of a factory that was important to the war effort that we didn't try to hit that had US investors. Until you can do that, it's just more of your revisionist BS.
Between the US and the British I'll wager there were d*mn few factories we missed completely.
Dresden: You didn't do any research, did you? The ARGONAUT Conferences of January-February 1945 at Yalta; Army General Antonov, Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff started the Dresden ball rolling. Check it out.
Yes, Russia is able to destroy the world.
You've successfully destroyed your own country. You d*mn near destroyed the USSR satellite nations. You wasted the lives of an entire generation since WW2 in your own country and the satellites with an economic system that was never suited to or compatible with basic human nature. It hasn't worked anywhere.
Now your political and economic instability has resulted in yet another true threat to World Peace and Security. The proof of it is in your lightly veiled threats in this and other threads. I'm guessing you are pretty typical of those longing for the "good old days" when nations trembled in your shadow.
The silly idea that the US would use nukes first is given the lie by one simple fact:
Russia simply has NOTHING the US would go to war to get. We can trade for anything we need; since the time of our first President, Washington, COMMERCE has been the goal of the US. Not conquest... COMMERCE. (Yes, throughout the years we've goofed a few times.)
You have nothing we want that we can't buy from you or some other country. Why would we fight for anything?
In 1999 we Heavily Subsidised or outright GAVE Russia the following foodstuffs:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/n100329.pdf "The Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service administered and negotiated agreements under these programs.1 Under the title I agreement...
the United States provided about 1.8 million metric tons of various commodities that were sold to the Russian government on concessional loan terms.The section 416(b) program agreement, also signed in December 1998 and amended in
March 1999,
provided 1.7 million metric tons of wheat to the Russian government on a donation basis. A Food For Progress agreement was added in February 1999 that
shifted 80,000 metric tons of two commodities(non-fat dry milk and pork) from the Public Law 480 title I sales program to the donation program and also donated 15,000 metric tons of seeds.All of the commodities were to be sold to raise funds for the Russian Pension Fund and six designated agricultural projects, except for 411,400 metric tons of wheat, which were to be donated to Russian social institutions to feed the most needy.
In addition, the Foreign Agricultural Service selected five private voluntary organizations to distribute about
97,000 tons of various donated ready-to-eat commodities throughout Russia under the Food For Progress and section 416(b) programs.
A summary of the tonnage, U.S. cost, and value of the proceeds expected to be generated by the sale of commodities distributed under these programs is presented in table 2."
All in all, in 1999, the US gave or sold Russia commodities worth $1,106.5 (millions) and received from Russia $355.5 (millions) in return. In short, a three quarters of a billion dollar gift of foodstuffs.
That's just ONE area in which we
TRIED to help.
Does this sound like something an ENEMY does?
Get rid of the paranoia. It's one of your country's big obstacles to success.
..and we WANT you to succeed.
Good Luck.
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Dnil, I doubt he'll ever be convinced that the US isn't the "Great Satan".
I'm just not going to let some of these BS claims go unchallenged.
