Like it or not Boroda, the evidence that Capitalism works and competition is good surrounds you.
Simply look at the nations that used those methods and compare them to the nations/countries that used or were FORCED to use Communism and little if any competition.
East Gemany vs West Germany? North Korea vs South Korea? Mainland China vs Taiwan and Hong Kong?
You can't deny that evidence.
I didn't twist your words, either. Go back and look again.
Several times I asked you to clarify whether you were speaking ONLY of 1999/Kosovo or the entire Bosnian slaughter starting in 1992. Remember this?
"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"?"
I think you have deliberately sidetracked this part of the discussion.
Anyway, the point is that the airstrikes were generated by the LATEST slaughter in a long line of slaughtering. "Only 300 casualties" was 300 too many when added to the 159,000 before that. The Serbs just didn't realize that it was "the straw that broke the camel's back. (Don't start with the "illegal airstrike" stuff;
I already agreed with you on that in case you didn't notice.)
There's nothing wrong with your "peasants" (quaint, archaic term; rather a negative connotation isn't it?) They know how to work. It's just that their work has been of no help in improving their lifestyle. Why work hard if there's no gain over working little? Your political/economic system screwed your agriculture, not your farmers.
They're not going to work hard until they see that there will be something in it for them if they do. Human nature; something Communism failed to take into account.
Once again, whether you choose to admit it or not, Russia has received huge amounts of aid from the USA over the years.
Once again, is this what an enemy would do? No, it isn't. Your paranoia probably won't let you admit it, however.
The Chechen war... first the important part:
Please tell me what is Russia's legitimate claim to rule Chechnya? Is it by right of conquest?
I repeat: "Under Nicolas I there was continual fighting in an attempt to bring them into the Empire, right? About 1859 Alexander II finally had the situation under "control"?
So Russia's "right" to Chechnya stems from the involuntary conquest of the Chechens in the second half of the 1800's?
The Chechens rebelled again and again, didn't they? Chechen insurrections were recorded again in 1862-1863, in 1877, in 1905, 1917-1925, in 1929-1936 and again in 1940-1951?
It doesn't sound like Russia ever fully conquered the Caucasus; now it's in "rebellion" again."
This history of continual fighting with only brief pauses that goes back to the early 1800's is Russia's justification for their current actions in Chechnya?
Please answer.
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Let's see... Soviet weapons have showed up in nearly every conflict around the world. Did the Soviet Union/Russia directly supply them to every single entity that used them in combat anywhere?
I asked for documentation. You tell me they found Stingers and uniforms in Chechnya. That isn't documentation that the US government directly supplied Chechen rebels.
Let's see... did Afganistan get a bunch of Stingers and US uniforms a few years back? Yes, indeed. Do the Chechens and Afganis share the same feelings about Russia? Oh, possibly. Could the Stingers have come from Afganistan? Most certainly. Does the US have any influence over Afganistan? Well, they're harboring Bin Laden and telling us to go p*ss up a rope when we ask about him.
Anyone can have ANY book printed in the US. All it takes is money. Free Press, remember? Sort of like Pravda and Isvestia used to be.
They didn't slaughter Chechens, and left this problem for future.If the history I'm starting to read is correct, Russian didn't slaughter the Chechens because the Chechens pretty much fought you Russians to a standstill every time you
tried to slaughter them. Like right now, for instance. It certainly doesn't appear to be for lack of TRYING to slaughter them.
BTW, I think the American Indian did get very bad treatment from the beginning. The Spanish, English and French didn't treat them very well, although the French were undoubtedly the best of the three.
The US government that came after that didn't treat them very well either. I'm looking forward to some of the pending court cases with great interest. I think the Indians are going to win some major ones; good for them. It's overdue.
Don't worry, Boroda, you ARE paranoid..even without guys like B52 around. The only thing the US wants from Russia is for you guys to get a stable political system, a workable economy and to join in the progress of the rest of the world. We are NOT your enemy.
Dresden?
Russia's General Antonov made a specific request at Yalta for the Allied air forces to destroy transportation and communication facilities in the general area. I don't believe it was a direct request to hit Dresden, however.
When this request filtered down to the targeting agencies in Bomber Command and 8th AF, the planners determined that strikes on Dresden would, in part, fulfill this request from the Soviet Union. (I think the Leipzig area got targeted as well.. will have to check.)
Going from memory here, but I believe the February 1945 raids were the only time Dresden was targeted. Apparently, Dresden had NOT been on the targeting list until this request was received from the Soviet Union at the Yalta Conference.
