Comments on: Taking Back Kosovo by Steve Hurford

By: Thanos

Thanos — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:21:21 +0000

NATO will not fight over Kosovo. NATO can’t even round up enough troops to be deployed to Afghanistan. The Europeans and Canadians are constantly quarreling with the Americans, who are putting enormous pressure on them to send more troops to that country. The Americans don’t want to send more of their own soldiers to Afghanistan, for the simple reason that they don’t have them. They have no strategic reserve. In military terms, NATO itself is in a state of collapse

The American military is broken. In fact, it so desperate that it is accepting (remember it has a volunteer military) high school dropouts, people with criminal records and illegal aliens into its ranks. The illegal aliens are promised American citizenship if they join. In normal circumstances none of the aforementioned groups would be accepted into its military.

The situation in Iraq is so bad for the American military that they have resorted to paying their enemies, the Sunni insurgents, $10 a day not to attack their soldiers. That, in and of itself, is astonishing.

So for all of you who think that Serbia has no chance, militarily speaking, against NATO and America think again. The American public will not tolerate another war nor would the European public. When the body bags start coming back to America and the other NATO countries, the you-know-what will hit the fan.

The only viable military option for the West is air power. Nuclear weapons are out of the question. At any rate, the American air force and NATO would be very reluctant to go up against the Serbian air defense system. In the 1999 air war they lost quite a few aircraft, anywhere from 40 to 100, plus at least 6 troop carrying helicopters in which scores of soldiers were killed. These helicopters were sent in to rescue downed pilots and airmen.

the Serbs acquire Russian weapons such as the highly effective S300 or even the more advanced S400 air defense systems, any American or NATO aircraft attacking Serbia would be on a suicide mission. An airplane has less than a 10% chance of surviving an attack by these high altitude long range air defense systems. They would be shot down before they even reached Serbia or before they did any damage. For those of you who doubt that, do the research.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:41:29 +0000

As far as I know Serbs were the only nation who delivered their sitting president (crook or not-crook) to the foreign prison, knowing full well that he’d be found guilty no matter what. Serbs were bombed into the stone age on account of Albanian agitprop - nobody bats an eye. If Otto von Bismark was ever right, he’s right about the source of future conflicts. The geopolitical quagmire is so cleverly disorganized that any party can resort to an armed struggle against any other party at any time. Was that the “the PEACE” NATO was trying to secure? Or was that the instability which, by definition secures only future conflicts, sales or arms and ammunition, finds willing recruits for future wars highly motivated and ready. When it smell like it, feels like, looks like it, you call it - what it is. In a famous dialogue between Henry II (partially French himself) the English monarch and his frequent opponent’s (Louis) son the new French King Philip the dialogue went something like this although all eyewitnesses are dead:
Henry II: I came to offer you peace….
Phillip: Piss on your peace. You neither have the power to wage a war not maintain a steady peace….
Such was the youthful impertinence, but accurate and concise. Henry II’s eldest son Richard the Lionheart (Coeur de Leon) was the next ruler of England with roots on both the continent and the islands.
I brought up the English and the French since their hostilities started rather early (about 9th century AD, if I am not mistaken) and only officially ended at Waterloo. To this day the French and the English can’t see eye to eye. Why would the Serbs be forced to cohabitate with the terrorist Arnauts who were on a clear path usurp the Serbian government for over 50 years.
I absolutely agree with Tim above that the time just about perfect for another military conflict in Europe - and this time in the Balkans.

By: Tapestry

Tapestry — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:36:39 +0000

Many have underestimated Russia’a military abilities in the past - Napoleon, Hitler, Hirohito. Now the EU is inheriting the mantle of outside powers that ‘misunderestimate’ Russia.

The EU is premised on a world view that economic success guarantees peace. The problem is that the EU is not bringing economic success, and it has no fallback position if war does threaten. Russia will exploit these weaknesses ruthlessly.

By: tim

tim — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:20:15 +0000

No, Kosovo is not lost. , and repeating that it is, that the Serbs should just give up, is not going to make it so, or this fantastical idea of Kosovo independence any closer to reality.

No, Serb future does not lie with the EU. Eu that has bombed, demonised, and humiliated Serbs. Further humiliation is what the Serbs will receive from the EU in the future if they give up now.

Serbs branded as war criminals in Kosovo. By what proof? What does the war crimes tribunal have to say on this? Still looking for proof, it has to be there? Like the WMD in IRAQ?

Serbs should march all the displaced persons into Kosovo right now, straight through to all the Serb enclaves. Is the UN, EU, USA going to stop this mass of humanity with bullets?