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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars

140,000 people died in the war. 4,000,000 "displaced".

The NYTimes article mentions B-52's bombing Yugoslavia ...

In the Persian Gulf war, Kosovo, Afghanistan and the Iraq war, the lumbering jets, well-established as a symbol of death and destruction, demoralized enemy ground troops by first dropping tons of leaflets with messages like “flee and live, or stay and die,” then returning the next day with tons of explosives.



> 140,000 people died in the war.

OK, now you've gone off the deep end. Those 140,000 were killed by the various forces inside former Yugoslavia, in a number of campaigns of civil war and ethnic cleansing.

Per Wikipedia, somewhere about 500 civilians were killed in the NATO bombings, and about 1,000 belligerents. Those bombings effectively stopped the ethnic cleansing that'd been ongoing for almost a decade, and you're citing one case of saturation bombing of military forces as if it were at all comparable to Vietnam or WWII.



Pretty much every ethnic group in the region tried to cleanse every other group. Your source's casualty counts are wildly inflated - even the Serbians only claim ~1,000 killed in Operation Storm - so I'd imagine it's filled with other, more subtle bullshit as well.

If you believe NATO's the reason for ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, I've got a good condition used bridge in NYC to sell you.


I'm not trying to BS. Just reviewing the facts. I"m just citing something. I'm not sure what "Serbian" means in your context? The Yugoslav government? The minorities living in Croatia? The Christian majority living in under a radical minority Islamic Bosnian government?

I would encourage you to review exactly what Clinton did in the ethnic cleansing of Krajina. Did he hire contractors and mercanaries to help? Did he okay the invasion? Did he have USAF assist the Croat attack?

Sadly, all the answers appear to be "yes he did".

BS?

Please decide for yourself. A candid review of the available data is all I ask.




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