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While Milošević was, for many reasons, bad, what came after him was worse.

Few examples:

* Those who replaced him/his regime have implemented the Washington Consensus which gave the final blow to the already weakened economy (after ten years of Western sanctions, wars in the 90s and the 1999 NATO aggression).

* Serbia and Montenegro got separated, making Serbia a land-locked country.

* "Kosovo" was "recognized" by NATO (and its servants) in violation of UNSC Resolution 1244.

Otpor was a Western-made coup d'état crew which it later used in other places (Arab Spring, Georgia - or anywhere else where governments don't align with Western interests, to put it mildly). USAID, NED, IRI and NDI (to only name the known US backers) gave (at least) 41 million dollars to Otpor.

> the Montenegrin government is NOT at fault

Who gave management of the TLD to foreign interests? Montenegrin government.

Those poor Russians. They supposedly (first sentence in the article: "European security officials believe") must go to the space to intercept EU communications.

US does that much better (and easier) on the ground (e.g. by compromising software and hardware) and in the air (e.g. radio communications). And that is not in the category of belief. It is proven.

And, the EU does. not. care. (e.g. no sanctions, no economic or any other breakup). To the contrary: it happily crawls before its master (some would say "ally", ahahaha...).

I am talking about non-EU citizens who enter some of EU countries. No matter if they stay at the hotel or privately at relatives or friends they will be registered or must register at the police.

It is exactly the same in every EU country. Foreigners get registered or must register in person.

> committed

Committing.

> brutalizing their nearest neighbors

Following your logic: US and its NATO minions are brutalizing countries nowhere near them (Syria, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya - to name a few from the last 30 years), it had (still has?) prisons where Muslims were tortured and the world should have sanctioned it and its businesses and citizens with the harshest sanctions for that.

Tell me more about reputation slide.

> “ancient Caucasian Albanian temples.”

And Albanians in the Balkans claim they are indigenous people there...

(1) who pays for the party and (2) where does the power come from?

Other than that, sounds great!

US has done all that in the past 30 years. Multiple times (Iraq [twice], Serbia, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria - either directly or through proxies). All western (now NATO) countries have done that and a lot more for hundreds of years in their colonial past (and do it today, through proxies). Wealth of all of them (their "first million") came through "war, rape and pillaging". Thousands kilometers away from their countries.

US is founded on genocide and the subsequent landgrab. Natives have owned all the land, now they are in "reservates" (it's astounding, this use of an euphemism for such a major crime). According to US sources, there were between 4,5 and 5 million Natives, whereas today there are only 225.000. If this is not a genocide I don't know what is?

And the US (with its minions) has moral authority to judge someone? The US disregards international law (see "The Hague Invasion Act"), showing a middle finger to the world, while it pushes ICC to prosecute others.

Everything that the US preaches (democracy, human rights, free markets, freedom of expression...) is just a tool for subjugation of the disobedient. US only believe in their cold and naked interest, mostly money and power. Moral, ethics, signed papers, laws, norms... - all that does not matter. It is thier "rules based order" where they write the rules which they themselves don't follow. They are "exceptional". Yeah, right. That's why we see the Global majority turns against Global minority (US and its minions).

While supporting every dictator which serves its interests.

It is a sham. And the mask is off, for the whole world to see the true face.

Kudos to RR engineers, but when I read that this engine is "powered by 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)" and that it "is derived primarily from waste-based sustainable feedstocks such as used cooking oils" I am dissapointed. Maybe there is enough used cooking oil in the world to power all the jets (now and in the future) but it first needs to be gathered. And that is expensive. Which will lead to unused cooking oil to be used. And, in the end, it will raise food prices as that oil is needed for human food preparation.

Ukraine has been in a downfall since the breakup of the USSR. But the real troubles started after the Maidan coup in 2014. Corruption, economic downfall acceleration, and political instability are all the result of puppet governments the West has installed there. “Russian traitors” are not even remotely responsible for anything. As I wrote to the other commenter: The West (led by the US) has provoked this war between Russia and Ukraine - by breaking promises and propping up Ukraine to provoke Russia.

If “Poland has never been better” then why is there a shortage of medical personnel, why is the inflation almost 20%, why does the EU commission strangles Poland and keeps its billions? (to name a few) You personally may think Poland is in the club of equals, in the club of solidarity (NATO, EU) but you personally seem to have learned nothing from history. Prior to WWII the British had promised help to Poland if Germans attacked it. And what has happened? They have kept drinking their tea while German tanks have rolled over Poland. And who has liberated Poland? Those bloody Russians! Today, the US will not lift a finger if (God forbid, God forbid) Russians and Poles start a war.

We Serbs are not butthurt. At the beginning of the nineties we didn’t understand why our former allies in two wars (US, GB, France) had stood by those who were on the German side in those two wars (Croats, Muslims, Albanians). Heck, in WWII, the Serbs have saved lives of the US pilots whose planes were shot down by the Germans, only to be bombed by their ancestors - twice in one decade [0]. But then, after some time, we have realized that all accusations are in over 90% of cases baseless and pure propaganda - and that the West is lying, cheating, deceiving us all the time. It was, again, a projection: The West has accused us (the Serbs) of expulsion, war crimes and genocide while their peons (Croats have expelled almost 200.000 Serbs in 1995 [1], Albanians have killed Serbs and have burned our churches and monasteries in 2004 [2]) have done that to us - with impunity and with the West behind them. The kangaroo court in the Hague has sentenced Serbs to over 1.000 years while everyone who has killed the Serbs was free to go.

Your other arguments I have answered in my other comments.

Aw, yes, one more thing: Are you really happy that Polish soldiers are protecting Albanians in Kosovo while they do this [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Halyard

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Storm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_unrest_in_Kosovo

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OstopJI9pck

You keep throwing around the same mantra (“Russians literally invaded”, “Russians are solely responsible for this war”) while my fingertips are blue from typing walls of text, arguing with facts (from Western sources). Again: The West (led by the US) has provoked this war between Russia and Ukraine - by breaking promises and propping up Ukraine to provoke Russia.

Contrary to your argument, that quote is still relevant today. Perfect example is the recent sabotage of NorthStream 1 and 2. Because it is still down Germany has to keep its mouth shut (while it loses its competitive advantage due to cheap energy from Russia), it keeps Russia out of Europe (mainly energy, but commodities, as well) and it keeps the US still in Europe (EUnuchs must buy natural gas from the US).

The US and the rest of the West uses Ukrainians as cheap/disposable peons in a war against Russia. Even before February 24th, Ukrainians have lost their country to western interests. Today, Zelensky (who is not a Slav) sells the last bits and pieces to Americans for pennies on the dollar.

They have done the same in the nineties to former Yugoslavia. Almost all of us are Slavs, we mostly speak the same language, many of us have the same surnames. But, through "divide and conquer" the West (led by the US) has unleashed bloody wars. As the Serbs are the biggest group in former Yugoslavia the West has used todays Croats (Roman-Catholics) and Boshniaks (Muslims) as their peons to fight us. They cynically apply the same tactic today, using Ukrainians and Poles to fight Russians - but always for western interests.

Keep in mind: Slavs are the biggest ethnic group in Europe (over 300 million). Our languages are very similar, our worldview as well as our mentality. If we'd be together in some kind of confederation, the West would have a very strong competition. And an obstacle on the way to cheap resources (humans, commodities).

You must read about Heartland Theory [0] which was summarized by its author as follows: "Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island commands the world."

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_Hi...

ADDEDENDUM: I forgot this, highly relevant for the previously said, quote regarding the NATO (you wrote "strong military alliance like NATO"). NATO's first Secretary General has said that the NATO was created to "keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." [1]

[1] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_137930.htm

Your comment is a classical projection, so often seen in the West.

The US has invaded a neighboring country Mexico (Mexican–American War (1846–48)) and has stolen its territory (California). The US is a country that is founded on the genocide of the Natives and the subsequent landgrab. Today, the US sees the whole World as its backyard and uses a Hitler-esque construct of "exceptional nation" as an excuse to go into wars - directly or through proxies - against everyone. Including nuclear powers. By forcefully installing an US puppet government ("Fck the EU'' phone call), building a huge military force in eight years and intending to use that force to expell millions of Russians, the US has provoked Russia leaving it no other choice but to start a conflict in its literal backyard.

So, what you accuse Russia of is a projection as the US and the rest of the West have done all that in the Americas, Africa, Asia. With impunity.

And the West did* promise to Russia not to expand eastwards. German "Der Spiegel" has published an article [0] about it on 2022-02-18 but it is behind a paywall and all references to it are scrubbed by Google. There is an article about it at RT (Russia Today) but to you it is most probably just "propaganda" even if it quotes "Der Spiegel". There is also a book tellingly called "Not One Inch" [2].

You may argue that breaking promises and agreements doesn't matter, but as we can see in Ukraine it leads to death and destruction.

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/nato-osterweiterung-aktenfund...

[1] https://www.rt.com/news/549921-nato-expansion-russia-documen...

[2] https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300268034/not-one-inch/

> Re-rise of Russian aggression in NATO sphere of interest and the rise of China are really last 10 years or so.

(1) USA has illegaly bombed and subsequent occupied Afghanistan, Iraq, part of Serbia ("Kosovo"), part of Syria - countries which are so far from the US, most US citizens wouldn't be able to find them on a map.

(2) Ukraine, on the other hand, is at Russian doorstep. Both are Slavs, most of them are Christian-Orthodox and many have family ties with each other. And NATO is expanding towards Russia even thou Western politicians have promised to not expand it "an inch towards East".

(3) US has risen after WWII. Now China, Russia, Iran, India... are rising. Why is that a problem? Or, maybe, you think that the US must remain the Hegemon while the Rest serves as a resource to be plundered and enslaved.

Re (3): Such comments always tickle my curiosity and my thirst for knowledge. So, which books, courses, codebases do you recommend for both beginners and us with beginner's mind that would help us design and build databases which are the opposite of what you describe?

> They butchered a guy with no consequences.

They are an ally, according to US policy (petrodollar etc.). On the other side, US is going against every other ruler who is not aligned with its interests for much less. Double standards. Which is why no one (outside of the western bubble) buys fairy tales the US pushes through its political system, diplomacy and media.

"Top-level statements" in C# is a double edge sword: In a long run it will help make C# a bit more approachable to an absolute beginner to programming by reducing "noise" and cognitive load but right now it tends to confuse the beginner due to countless tutorials, SO answers, books, courses being written using using, namespace, class, Main structure.

Which makes the feature kind of pointless. Especially since all teaching materials (and those who have used them for teaching) were saying to just ignore the rest for now and concentrate on

  Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");

which is, as it's written, confusing to a beginner anyway ("What is Console?") until he learns about classes, after which both namespace and using get clear(er).

But not an ordinary welfare queen. People on a welfare can dream of a yacht, a masion, a private jet or young women as partners.

Last census in former Yugoslavia, shows that 581.663 Serbs have lived in the Federal Republic Croatia [0]. Thus, Serbs have not ”invaded" Croatia. How could they have, if they had lived on the land forever that, thru perverse inner-Yugoslav border drawing by Tito’s communist, became a part of a federal unit called Croatia inside post-WWII Yugoslavia.

(ASIDE: It is ironic that since independence in 1991 Croats are very anti-communist but always refer to borders drawn by… communists! And you do, too: “retain former borders”)

Yes, while Croats have worked towards secession from Yugoslavia in 1990/1991, Serbs on parts of territory of that federal unit took guns. I am not denying it. But why? Are they some wild or crazy people, willing to kill and be killed? Or were they afraid that Croats were preparing to continue doing what they couldn’t finish in 1945, for example in the Concentration camp Jasenovac [1]? Look at the photographs of killed people in that WIkipedia entry. See that knife that Croats have used to kill the Serbs faster (you've called it “Srbosjek”/”Serbcutter” and have made it for faster throat-slitting).

Were Serbs afraid for no reason? Were they just imagining a Croatian boogeyman? After all, Franjo Tuđman, the Croatian President at that time, was a communist and partisan. It turns out, there is an audio from a meeting of the Croatian leadership prior to Operation Storm [2]. In that audio Tuđman can be heard saying “da nanesemo takve udarce da Srbi praktično nestanu” or in English “to inflict such blows that the Serbs practically disappear” [3]. I could name (if you want) many other examples in the 1990-1995 timeframe that show the Serbs were afraid for a reason.

You personally are an example for what I write about the whole time, as well. You have admitted your family were actually Christian-Orthodox Serbs (“My family used to be Orthodox and now my side is Catholic.”) and now you are a Roman-Catholic Croat that defends everything Croatian. Even here and now we can observe Croatian ethno-genesis before our own eyes, which lasts for hundreds of years: How Serbs turn into Croats and why that causes problems, both to those that take the new Croatian identity but also for those who remain Serbs. Those who remain Serbs are witnesses which, by their sheer existence (sometimes words) remind those that have turned their backs to their forebears to become something else that is, by design, anti-Serbian.

It is thus not surprising that all key people in the first Croatian state (1941-1945; see my other comment) were all Serbs a few generations earlier (Ante Pavelić, Ljubo Miloš, Andrija Artuković, Mile Budak and countless and nameless others). Yet to become something else they have had to kill those that have remained Serbs using the most brutal methods - by organizing throat-slitting competitions or by crushing their victims' heads with a wooden sledgehammer, to name a few. They had to burn the identity-bridge behind them, they had to kill the Serb in themselves.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Croatian_census

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentration_camp

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Storm

[3] https://youtu.be/NvsOIYmW6wU?t=7

As much as I share your view (some things partly, some in full), if you - for whatever reason - don't want, I don't need to go back in the history to get my point across.

I will look at the present. If you are honest and if you look at what both leaders (politicians, intellectuals) and ordinary people in today's Croatia, Muslim/Croatian part of Bosnia and Herzegovina and in occupied part of Serbia ("Kosovo") say AND do regarding Serbs, you must realize that they still display stark animosity against anything Serb-related. Almost 30 years/over 20 years after last wars there have ended!

This year (2022), as one example out of many that I could name, in Dubrovnik (Croatia) high school graduates have celebrated high school end and were walking through the center of the city while chanting "Za dom spremni" (Croatian-Nazi greet from WWII, equivalent to German-Nazi "Sieg Heil"), while singing Croatian-Nazi songs about killing Serbs, while wearing Croatian-Nazi flag and while being greeted with Nazi salutes by other young people who have filmed this spectacle of true emotions [0]. These young people will be MD's, lawyers, engineers, policemen, soldiers - future of Croatia - tomorrow and they don't mind putting their hatred towards Serbs into the public on the bright sunny day.

They have probably never met a Serb in their short lives, because in today's Croatia - due to huge social pressure - you must hide your identity if you're a Serb. Which is why many Serbs cave in, change their religion (from Christian Orthodoxy to Roman-Catholicism) and then become Croats. And many/most of them then hate Serbs at least just as much, because it is not enough to just change your religion/identity/name - you must prove yourself in the new identity. (I am aware that social pressure varies between regions in Croatia: Dalmatia probably being the worst, Istria probably being the least bad - on average)

At the same time, Serbia and Serb-part/entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina ("Republika Srpska") are still in good part multi-religious and -ethnic and they help others by letting them get jabbed for free during pandemics (with many Croats, Bosnian Muslims and Kosovo Albanians being vaccinated in Serbia), by giving Sarajevo natural gas to stay warm during the past winter or by sending helicopters to put out fires that have recently raged in Muslim/Croatian part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (to name a few)

To summarize: Serbs want to a life in peace, to prosper and to procreate, and neither our leaders nor ordinary people (almost exclusively) show animosity towards all of you while everything that we hear and see in Croatia, Muslim/Croatian-part of Bosnia and Herzegovina and "Kosovo" is show of hatred and threat to us. It teaches us that most of you live in the past, waiting to repeat crimes against us that you have commuted in the past 100 and some years.

(I could write for days, read my other comments in this thread, read Wikipedia articles I have linked for more context.)

[0] https://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/maturanti-na-stradunu-ur...