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Re:Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices... by mcphage on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:51AM (#35423538)
> two of the more plausible candidates for the beginning of this whole thing are [...] the American invasion of Serbia

Are we talking about 1999?

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Re:Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices... by 5040 on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:01AM (#35423704)
Yeah. Those initial airstrikes really freaked Russia out. Relations were never the same after them. NATO's first military attack really shook them.
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Re:Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices... by mcphage on Monday April 03, 2023 @11:26AM (#35425336)
> Relations were never the same after them.

There have been... a lot of momentous geopolitical events since 1999.

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Re:Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices... by simonh on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:20AM (#35436633)
They were shaken so much they decided to bomb and shell the living crap out over every square inch of Chechnya to get it out of their system. I'm sure blowing up some of their own apartment buildings that September helped them de-stress. I'm sorry, but the Russian government isn't a bunch of children. They're not that easily rattled.

That was long after the whole mess in Bosnia, so it's not like we hadn't seen a horrible bloody genocidal conflict that the US and European countries intervened in before.

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Re:Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices... by Iwan-Zotow on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:01AM (#35423689)
yes, 1999
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