tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post1010307604248962612..comments2023-06-14T09:10:27.097-04:00Comments on Gray Falcon: The Kosovo War, Ten Years OnCubuCokohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14128683147101484237noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-75845784790688408142009-07-14T21:24:40.800-04:002009-07-14T21:24:40.800-04:00Except the ICJ refused to hear Serbia's suit a...Except the ICJ refused to hear Serbia's suit against NATO, and is only asking the ICJ for a "non-binding advisory opinion" on the forcible separation of Kosovo. The NATO court (ICTY) actually profited from Milosevic's death by claiming he would have been convicted anyway (though they had zero evidence against him), and the Imperial machine rolled on. Until it ran out of steam on its own, that is.CubuCokohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128683147101484237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-46203932175796465522009-07-14T19:13:37.981-04:002009-07-14T19:13:37.981-04:00It no longer makes any differance Milosevic destro...It no longer makes any differance Milosevic destroyed NATO in their own court . Serbia has to only showup and claim their victory in the ICJ court .eric siversonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149464434270332205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-24705132214286943072009-04-03T16:23:00.000-04:002009-04-03T16:23:00.000-04:00First rate summary of the recent history in the re...First rate summary of the recent history in the region, with an eye to wider politics.<BR/><BR/>Bravo!CAPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09861096695503969576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-18249557619105388992009-03-28T13:28:00.000-04:002009-03-28T13:28:00.000-04:00I am tempted to say there isn't (a genuine search ...I am tempted to say there isn't (a genuine search for truth), if only because they find it desirable to believe in the current fiction (of themselves as righteous victims and Serbs as their persecutors), and nothing compels them to change that belief. Mind you, there could be efforts I'm not aware of.<BR/><BR/>I do have Muslim, Croat and Albanian friends. By mutual understanding, we steer clear of Balkans politics, dissecting American politics instead. Seems to work pretty well.CubuCokohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128683147101484237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-1288941484865671542009-03-28T08:39:00.000-04:002009-03-28T08:39:00.000-04:00Greyfalcon, I have been following your columns her...Greyfalcon, I have been following your columns here and on antiwar.com for years and have learned a lot about the true nature of the Balkan conflicts. One thing I have wanted to ask you though was what (if any) your relations are (or were) with Croats, Muslims, and Albanians back when you lived in the former Yugoslavia and when you moved to the US? Have you ever had any concrete dialogue with any of them or have any contacted you about your columns or views? I ask because I see these online "arguments" on blogs and youtube comments section in regards to the Balkans and it all degenerates into sniping and accusations from each side. Is there a genuine search for historical truth from the Croatian, Muslim and Albanian side at all?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15472387616572830515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-52388248007959699742009-03-26T22:44:00.000-04:002009-03-26T22:44:00.000-04:00All right! Great minds think alike hehe. Excellent...All right! Great minds think alike hehe. Excellent appearance on the radio, btw. Actually, I hadn't heard that interview before posting my last comment, and it was interesting that you touched on that theme. This is slightly off topic, but speaking of films where there are Albanian criminals, I recently recalled seeing that film where Pierce Brosnan plays a wealthy collector of paintings. There was a group of Albanians unsuccessfully trying to steal a painting from a museum, something which he later manages to achieve himself. That movie came out in the late 90s (before 1999 though!)I am not trying to stir up ethnic hatred here.<BR/>Have you been following the events in Belgrade this week? I found several new videos posted on youtube of interviews with John Laughland and Ljubodrag Duci Simonovic on "Pitanja i Otgovori".Suvorovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12478802923961398964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-74368792011688339302009-03-26T12:11:00.000-04:002009-03-26T12:11:00.000-04:00Suvorov, believe it or not, I've been thinking alo...Suvorov, believe it or not, I've been thinking along the same lines for a while, just haven't got around to posting anything. The Serbo-Russian relationship is far more complex than the whole "traditional allies" drivel served up by the Western media in order to present Belgrade as a client of Moscow, and the Serbs as "Russians Lite."CubuCokohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128683147101484237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-9306876793676859252009-03-26T03:34:00.000-04:002009-03-26T03:34:00.000-04:00One of the problems is that Serbia and Russia have...One of the problems is that Serbia and Russia haven't been "in synch" with each other ever since WWI. They emerged with radically different regimes after that war, and as a result USSR was among those who put Tito in power, thus practically abetting the weak-Serbia-strong-Yugoslavia doctrine. Then after the Cold War while Yugoslavia (Serbia really) was still resisting, Russia embraced the West. And finally now that "democrats" are expelled from the Kremlin, Serbia is governed by Boris II. I am cautiously optimistic though that the ultimate result of 2008 elections in Serbia will be the same as the result of 1996 elections in Russia, where Boris I held on to his power only as a result of massive manipulation and fraud.Suvorovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12478802923961398964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-49440940973682162442009-03-25T13:23:00.000-04:002009-03-25T13:23:00.000-04:00Very well said, thanks.Very well said, thanks.CubuCokohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128683147101484237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-15378031296740989542009-03-25T01:40:00.000-04:002009-03-25T01:40:00.000-04:00Imagine. Four years later, the US could not have l...Imagine. Four years later, the US could not have launched the same operation. It's a case of really unfortunate timing and, as GF implies, an unwitting precursor and model of the Iraq War by way of propaganda.<BR/><BR/>In the end it was the lies that sank the USA. Lies about war rationales, lies about what is important in their leaders, lies about how economies work.<BR/><BR/>Even stranger, they believed these lies they told. And the only way to make these lies work in any fashion was to hurt people. To wag the dog to get what they wanted.<BR/><BR/>To summarize the last decade: Surreal. Baffling. Infuriating. And to summarize the coming decade: Consequences.Mark Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18258689353256383213noreply@blogger.com