Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by alephnerd on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:42PM (#43211716)

UNPROFOR was primarily lead by French, Swedish, and Canadian military leadership. KFOR and IFOR was largely German and Italian.

Most of the blood, sweat, and tears of the UN and NATO intervention in Yugoslavia was European militaries like the Dutch, British, French, and Swedish.

The Clinton admin primarily provided air support and diplomatic cover, but most boots on the ground were European (and Canadian).

Lots of people forget that the UN was in Yugoslavia before the NATO intervention happened.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by selimthegrim on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:20PM (#43212388)

The EC monitors were first. UNPROFOR was there for Croatia initially. The Lisbon agreement in Bosnia in 1992 was supposed to have things like European judges on the constitutional court, which is something that people forget when they complain about Dayton. The national militaries famously had partiality to different sides of the conflict - French and Dutch vs Swedish and British.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by alephnerd on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:38PM (#43212642)

Yep, yet nonetheless, it was an European initiative that helped solidify "Pan-Europeanism" as a doable initiative (it was also during the early stages of the EC turned EU).

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