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Ok Savior I will try to respond but honestly I am really tired of responding to these accusations by these Albanian posters simple because they are not even a bit objective.
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As far as I know, Sunnyside isn't Albanian.
But why would it be relevant either way if his arguments have merit? This is an anonymous forum. For all you know, I'm Albanian too.
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Why did not Milosevic let NATO troops? Simple, because Serbia is a sovereign country and they did not want other military troops on their soil because they knew once they let them in it will be tough and will take a long time to get them out.
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Do you understand how this might make outsiders think he had something to hide?
If he really was hiding crimes, how would we know the difference?
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Serbia was hoping Russia will interfere if it comes to bombing. At this time Russia did not do anything so Milosevic played a wrong card and lost. He did not really have an option here and he wrongly thought he did.
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Yeah, some Serbains on here are still making that mistake...thinking that Russia loves them or something. Its almost sad.
Russia cares about Russia. They are not going to put themselves at risk for anyone.
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If you take a look at Bondsteel, the American base in Kosovo you will understand that US from day one wanted to have presence in former Yugoslavia. Serbians denied and payed dearly.
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Serbians could have simply allowed inspectors in and removed any pretext for war. The US's hands would have been tied.
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NATO lied about tanks, or if you want to call it a mistake, but they also lied about the number of people (Albanians) that were on the moved.
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Lies are deliberate. Mistakes are not. I have seen no evidence that they deliberately misled anyone.
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Numbers were in the ballpark of half a million and it was called the biggest ethnic cleansing operation after Hitler.
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The Serbians could have chosen to let in inspectors and remove all doubt as to what the real numbers were. They chose not to do that. So we were forced to estimate.
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They needed public support and this was a well orchestarted plan which only Milosevic did not see at that time. They were going to bomb Serbia no matter what and just needed reason.
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Even if that were true, Milosevic could have removed that reason. He had the initiative. He could have preempted the bombing campaign entirely by simply cooperating.
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Milosevic specifically asked for Russians peace troops to come in and see what is going on. He only trusted them, but NATO would not have a part of it.
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We were unwilling to take the Russians' word for it. As I said, Russia cares about Russia. We didn't consider them neutral.