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To: JonPreston

Did they talk about?

Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is interpreted almost universally in the West as clear aggression against a sovereign state, while NATO’s bombing of Serbia in 1999 is still viewed in retrospect as morally justifiable. So why does this binary thinking still prevail in the Western public discourse?

On March 24, 1999, NATO launched its “justified” aggression on Serbia. At the time, it was widely portrayed as a “humanitarian intervention” prompted by alleged Serbian “ethnic cleansing” of Albanians in Serbia’s southern province of Kosovo.

https://asiatimes.com/2022/03/natos-serbia-assault-set-moral-precedent-for-ukraine/


19 posted on 08/15/2022 1:24:53 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff
So why does this binary thinking still prevail in the Western public discourse?

Because you're comparing apples and oranges, that's why

Serbia was clearly committing atrocities that justified action, while Russia had no justification for invading

see, that's the difference


23 posted on 08/15/2022 2:19:44 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: McGruff

Don’t forget about Libya either.


25 posted on 08/15/2022 3:14:49 PM PDT by EEGator
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