I thought it was a fairly obvious shot at the west. You state that what a country is doing within its own borders is wrong (in your opinion) and then you bomb them over a period of several months till they meet your demands. Now they have to suck up to you to not become isolated and ignored.
Gary my friend, and trust me when I say that you seem to have ‘me’ all wrong with regards to NATO involvement in the former YU.
But what makes you think for a second that NATO and Europe in general would tolerate the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the middle of the Balkans?
No one has to “suck up” to America, but becoming belligerent to the point of utter madness is not gonna do any Serb any good in the long run.
I am not suggesting such weapons should be used to start anything. Just that they are cheap enough and would make NATO think twice about interfering in the business of others.
So will you ensure that some crackpot wouldn’t use such things?
The political climate is unstable as it is in Serbia and indeed the entire former Yugoslav republics. The military balance is also fluid.
And who would stop Albania from procuring such weapons? And if Albania get’s them in response to Serb’s getting them who would stop Greece and then Turkey from getting them, and so on and so on.
No no no, such talk is counter-productive.
Despite all of the reverse ethinic cleansing going on after the serb army and police withdrew I don’t remember any KLA going up on charges… do you?
Very true. NATO and the U.S to be more specific was playing an agenda there that had nothing to do with the plight of the average Albanian in Kosovo.
And by all means they should spend money on thier people, but what is the point if at some time in the future the KLA could decide it wants more land or more of a say.. complete independance perhaps?
Sensible Serbs see Kosovo as already having achieved some factor of independence. Sad but true.
But I don’t think the KLA has the pull in Washington or the military capacity to encroach much further into Serbia proper.
FYROM though is another matter. It is weak militarily, economically and politically and doesn’t seem to have the stomach for a fight to defend itself, something which we are sure the Serbs aren’t like.
Then perhaps the US and NATO should start listening to all instead of one sided bullying. Perhaps if the so called axis of evil states were treated fairly they wouldn’t take such desperate measures.
Agreed.
Scud missiles are relatively cheap and an effective enough deterent for the near future. They don’t need to be armed with anything more than a HE warhead. If they could make their own missiles I am sure they could use them as effectively as Iraq did. These days I am sure they could improve on the CEP to make cities and even airfields targets. Doesn’t need to hit london, but hitting nearby NATO airbases that might be used offensively against them would be useful… and very affordable. A few Tochkas and Islander-Es would be quite useful too. What can the west say about it, as long as there are no WMDs they have plenty of ballistic missiles themselves. Having short and medium range ballistic missiles is not ilegal afterall.
The Balkans already has one ‘conflict’ where the combatants are armed to the teeth. 10 years of wars don’t warm Balkanites (be they Serb, Bulgaria, Croatian, Greek etc) to such things are procuring SCUD missiles to target whatever.
Sorry Gary but no one is saying they need to suck up. Simply that Serbia needs to focus on it’s economy and the welfare of it’s citizens.
Remember there has already been 1 World War that started in the Balkans.
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