On Friday, September 23, 2022 at 4:16:18 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
On Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 6:28:38 AM UTC, stoney wrote:
On Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 11:00:04 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
The reaction from the West was no surprise. German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck called this decision "a wrong step." Breaking up Yugoslavia is normal, Serbia is normal, Iraq, Libya is normal, but Ukraine — impossible. This is "different."
The West has different okays for these broken up countries for their own objectives. But no okay for Ukraine. This goes to show how US and its allies are working for their own objectives and not allowed by others.
Yugoslavia was broken up because of its ethnic problems.
Do other European nations also have ethnic problems?
To the extent that residents of the Ukrainian regions are willing to fight on the Russian
side and willing to vote themselves into part of Russia, it is also obvious that Ukraine
also has its share of ethnic problems.
"At the session of the UN Security Council, I spoke about the similarities between the war
in Yugoslavia and the one happening now in Ukraine. Although almost 30 years have
passed since the war in Yugoslavia, similar effects of external influence can be seen in
Ukraine and should not be ignored.
...
The West supplied Croats and Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina with vast quantities
of weapons, even during an embargo, which was a direct violation of international law.
However, that was not all. Western private military companies trained the Croatian and
Muslim armies but also commanded operations, for example, the operations of ethnic
cleansing of Serbs from Croatia called “Flash” and “Storm.”
Advisers from Croatia instructed Ukraine several times on how to cleanse the Russian
population using the same recipe.
...
It is also necessary to mention Kosovo and Metohija, the southern Serbian province that
seceded after the bombing of Serbia in 1999. NATO launched aggression against Serbia,
without the approval of the UN Security Council, under the pretext of preventing violations
of the human rights of Kosovo Albanians. However, the Kosovar Albanians had autonomy
guaranteed by the constitution, the right to use their language and culture, schools with the
Albanian language and guaranteed participation in the republic’s authorities.
Unfortunately, a similar arrangement was taken off the table for the Russian-speaking
population in Ukraine. Still, NATO did not decide to bomb Kiev because of it but instead
encouraged them in the violation of all human rights and violence against their own
population.
The double standards applied by the West are visible here. The parallels are that the West
was a critical actor in the Yugoslav conflict and the Ukrainian conflict, where it directly
participated in the battle with the help of a hybrid way of warfare."
https://asiatimes.com/2022/09/how-war-in-ukraine-resembles-past-conflict-in-yugoslavia/
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