Serbia blames U.S. for crisis in Balkans »
Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 7 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsSerbia went back on the offensive over Kosovo's independence on Sunday by blaming the United States for a crisis in the Balkans while its ally Russia accused the Americans of destroying "world order".
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Radiofreeeuropa7 months, 2 weeks ago
I have to question the timing, I have heard from people in Kosovo that they knew this was inevitable, but prayed it would not happen in February, as all the mountain passages are impassable. Anyone with a reasonable historical eye see how policy that created instability in the middle east, is being repeated here? The cold war is simply mutated, not gone and both sides are playing Kosovo as a pawn.
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Francisca7 months, 2 weeks ago
I still don't know if Kosovo independence was the right thing RFE! (and depending with whom you speak all of them are right). The only thing I know is "Balkan Powder Keg" has always been the beginning of horrible wars (as everybody knows) and clashes. All of us are concerned: USA, Europe, Russia. We must be vigilant!
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canadianrancher577 months, 2 weeks ago
I may be wrong on this but why do so many of us who are not Americans feel that at times the U.S. has nothing better to do than destabilize the world. I have no problem promoting the idea of democracy or even independence of nations but at times we should stop and think before we endorse a policy which may have grave consequences. Your country gained it's independence from Britian by war and yet we gained ours by negotiation with out interference from other countries. I do pitty these people for as you say Radiofreeeuropa they are just pawns.
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Mdiar7 months, 2 weeks ago
Honest question. Why is it that when something happens in the world the United States seems to be blamed before anyone else? The EU also recognized the independence of Kosovo so why is everyone blaming the US for it entirely? Really, honest question lol! I know the US can be said to pull strings on various countries but I don't really think we control the EU! I don't mind the US taking blame I just want to see nations OTHER then the US blamed, or organizations, when they seem to be deserving of blame as well! Spread it around, ya know. Its not just the US pursuing policies to destabilize the world and if other places back it when it is the US pursuing the policy, why, I think they deserve some blame in the matter as well.
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cowboygrandpa7 months, 2 weeks ago
AntiNeoCon:
Well said. Short to the point and direct.
Hey Bush are ya listening?
You could learn something from these men and women posting here.
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ETproductions7 months, 2 weeks ago
Amen. I'm sure many of us were sickened by the Serbian ethnic cleansing. But the EU should have played the lead role in bringing an end to that. We have enough to fix right here in our own back yard.
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icono17 months, 2 weeks ago
The American politicians and multi-national corporations do like to 'tickle the devils axx' in the name of democracy and so called 'free trade'.
It would seem that Kosovo is being used as a trip wire for war between the 'regional powers' or a sacrificial pawn that can be traded for more 'international stability in the region' if 'events' prove to more toward a larger conflict within the region between the super powers.
Also, this is a nice little diversion from the 'national issues at hand' during the US presidential campaign season.
But on the other hand, it could be seen as a opportunistic move by the US and its allies because our collective attention is drawn to the inane behaviour and or rhetoric of our contending presidential candidates.
Either way...What a nasty problem to inherit upon taking the Oath Of Office; another 'civil war in the Balkans' with dire international implications.
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Radiofreeeuropa7 months, 2 weeks ago
For a little more insight into why Russia has some good cause for concern is missiles-
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/world/europe/...
One of the reasons Rice and the Bush administration have been pushing for this is an independent Kosovo, a member of the EU, will be home to more US missiles. I seem to remember the US was willing to play chicken with nukes to prevent just such a thing a few decades ago, feeling non-US missiles 70 miles off it's shore, (touted as defensive only as well)were a threat. Funny how our secretary of state can't seem to remember this.
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canadianrancher577 months, 2 weeks ago
Ivrowolves- I too am sick of the idea that we have to fight all the time, I do realize that at one time tribel people may of had to fight if food became short and they moved into another area that was inhabited by others but nowdays we have the intelligence to and ability to share resources so that nearly all could survived at a modest level except for one problem, that problem is greed. It is a flaw in human nature that seems impossible to correct and has been exploited since the begining of civilization. When people read the histories of great empires they very seldom run apon the true reason that they crumble, I am not well read on history but I do know that greed corrupts and eventually destroys most empires or even cililizations and yet we refuse to learn, so we are doomed to repeat the mistakes that have been made so many times before.
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cowboygrandpa7 months, 2 weeks ago
cr57:
Combine greed with a false notion of devine insruction and you have the Bush administration.
Convinced and blinded by greed. Two deadly mistakes.
God doesn't want man to war. Man seeks war to take what someone else has.
If you want the blueprints for destruction follow the Bush plan.
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canadianrancher577 months, 2 weeks ago
I sort of made a new years resolution not to bad mouth your President this year, but in your first comment you said that he should listen but this man is deaf when it comes to the people and has tunnel vision when it comes to war. Resolutions are made to be broken.
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Radiofreeeuropa7 months, 2 weeks ago
Support in the US for Bush policy is 17-19%. Don't hold back from fair observations. More people believe in leprechauns than GWB.
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Mdiar7 months, 2 weeks ago
Fair question, at least I think it is... how come its only the US seemingly being blamed for Kosovo? Didn't the EU also have something to do with that? Also a few other countries? Does the US pull the strings on all of them? I'd think the EU recognizing Kosovo would be just as major, even more so considering the geography, as the US. Ahhh well, its just the Cold War again.
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Bovver7 months, 2 weeks ago
It's obvious the U.S. is to blame for the current crisis. The U.S. has been using every means at it's disposal (including military) to dismember Serbia for many years now. As I've pointed out before it has nothing to do with independence for Kosovo but the creation of another U.S. client state which will be run by an crime cartel actively working to advance the worst aspects of Islam and Albanian imperialism via terrorism, drug peddling and ethnic cleansing.
Obviously the Serbs are justified hating the U.S. and the Russians will not simply cower as a centuries old ally is dismembered and their influence in the region undercut.
The notion that international law can be ignored when ever it suits America's desire to expand it's influence and that the boarders of other ancient nations should be redrawn to suit some Machiavellian desire to dominate will result in more suffering for Americans as well as the Balkans.
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Mdiar7 months, 2 weeks ago
But my point is ITS NOT JUST THE US (emphasis, not shouting). Not only the US acknowledged this independence! Where is the blame for the EU? Tell me! The EU acknowledged it as well. So did other entities. Does the US pull all these nations/organizations strings? Do they? Does the US basically already control all of these nations or organizations and no one has told me? Please, tell me where the blame for the EU is. Its not some puppet state that the US controls and it needs to get its fair share of the blame as well. I'm not denying US blame I'm just saying that the EU deserves some as well as the US and so do other nations that are acknowledging this false independence!
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tchef7 months, 2 weeks ago
If I remember correctly wasn't it the Serbs who where doing most of the killing in Kosovo last time? Didn't the rest of the world have to come in and stop it? Isn't that why Slovadan Milosavic (pardon spelling) was tried at the Hague?
I could be wrong. On the independence issue I really don't know what to think. More and more it really seems like the whole world is unraveling.
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Bovver7 months, 2 weeks ago
Mdiar, it should be noted that the EU and NATO are divided on the issue. Unlike the U.S. the various nations of Europa can make a case that what happens in the Balkans effects them although more often then not such a case is a poor justification for dismembering Serbia. Also, one should keep in mind that NATO and the EU are globalist institutions opposed to self national determination and some members are fully willing to see the creation of US puppet states. So you are right that the neo-con EU members deserve to be condemned. Germany's stance on Kosovo has resulted in the end of Russia's ending oil shipments.
Yet, the fact remains that the US is the chief proponent of dismembering Serbia and it was US efforts that resulted in the earlier war against Serbia. It is apparent that without the active effort of the US in the region the current crisis wouldn't exist.
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Mdiar7 months, 2 weeks ago
I can go along with that. I'm not trying to deny anything that the United States did in Kosovo, just trying to say the blame needs to be spread to more then just the US. I can go along with blaming the member states of the EU who agree with it as opposed to the EU itself.
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rwrnae7 months, 2 weeks ago
One more case of the US sticking it's nose in where it doesn't belong. Russia will not take this sitting down.
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tanglang7 months, 2 weeks ago
I have yet to see any mention of the KLA in any of the posts about this. Lets not forget who they are and wht group they have close ties with. That being said, this region of the world has been in conflict for thousands of years. I don't know why anyone would think that it would change now. Can you say WWI and WWII?
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SFCGuyW7 months, 2 weeks ago
As a world power the USA is in position to openly support such actions as Kosovo indep. -&- does so to counter Russian influence, which is usually detrimental to USA interest. Besides the USA - England, most of the EU & Australia have also supported Kosovo indep. Historically, Kosovo was an indep. nation until conquered by stronger nations. With the breakup of Yugoslavia, Kosovo is the last area to achieve renewed indep. Hopefully Serbia & Russia will have the common sense not to renew war in that region of the world - a war that would still leave Kosovo indep., but cost thousands of lives.
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canadianrancher577 months, 2 weeks ago
GridCords- Cuba did have a revolution to gain their independence and freedom to govern themselves, it was not supported by the U.S.
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Bovver7 months, 2 weeks ago
tanglang,
I've written a lot about the murderous thugs in the KLA ( see my posts in for a bunch of reverences http://news.propeller.com/story/2008/02/21/one-... ) That the region has had a long history of warfare does not justify the US doing everything it can to provoke further suffering.
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Bovver7 months, 2 weeks ago
SFCGuyW,
You're a moron. Kososvo was never an independent nation and it won't be one now so why don't you read the links of posted in the thread cited above and learn something about the situation. In reality Europa is divided on Kosovo and the matter simply wouldn't be an issue if the US hadn't been working to destroy Serbia for many years.
You're notion that because the US is a world power it's justified to dismember any nation anywhere in the world is typical of the wort of boundless arrogance and hubris that rightly makes Americans so hated. Russia has been allies with the Serbs long before your country existed and the notion that it's in America's interests to oppose Russia simply proves you're a mongering dolt or that you're too stupid to notice that the CCCP no longer exists.
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Bovver7 months, 2 weeks ago
GridCords,
Spouting bromides as you've done doesn't compensate for your total lack of knowledge about this subject. Of course I expect witless cheerleaders for Dubya to think that freedom has anything to do with the present situation. Dismembering someone else's nation to create a puppet state run by drug dealers and Muslim terrorists is not promoting freedom. The arm-chair politician comment would be more effective if you could actually demonstrate that you know anything at all about the topic at hand rather then showcasing your ignorance.
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PainGoddess7 months, 2 weeks ago
Its the case of a little country that has nothing to offer in the way of natural resources, vacation land etc. Most of the time the US will not do a lot to help them out. Think of the countries that have resources and the countries that don't and you can undrstand why. They may be a strategic ally ie. a base of operations but not much else. Russia hates losing out to anyone especially the US. They are not our friends and they are not allies.
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