Serbs Struggle to Understand Western Support for Kosovo Independence

Center for Peace in the Balkans ^ | Mar 5, 2008 | Ljiljana Smajlovic

[ThreePuttinDude]

I thought this was a rather interesting bit of information.
I know its not related, but it shows how much and by whom we get our supply.

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Crude Oil and Total Petroleum Imports Top 15 Countries

December 2007 Import Highlights:  March 3, 2008
Monthly data on the origins of crude oil imports in December 2007 has been released and it shows that two countries exported more than 1.50 million barrels per day to the United States. Including those countries, a total of five countries exported over 1.20 million barrels per day of crude oil to the United States (see table below). The top five exporting countries accounted for 73 percent of United States crude oil imports in December while the top ten sources accounted for approximately 88 percent of all U.S. crude oil imports. The top sources of US crude oil imports for December were Canada (1.784 million barrels per day), Saudi Arabia (1.675 million barrels per day), Venezuela (1.246 million barrels per day), Mexico (1.234 million barrels per day), and Nigeria (1.210 million barrels per day). The rest of the top ten sources, in order, were Angola (0.439 million barrels per day), Iraq (0.378 million barrels per day), Algeria (0.348 million barrels per day), Ecuador (0.195 million barrels per day), and Brazil (0.171 million barrels per day). Total crude oil imports averaged 9.823 million barrels per day in December, which is a decrease of 0.125 million barrels per day from November 2007.

Canada remained the largest exporter of total petroleum in November, exporting 2.360 million barrels per day to the United States, which is a decrease from last month (2.431 thousand barrels per day). The second largest exporter of total petroleum was Saudi Arabia with 1.686 million barrels per day.

Crude Oil Imports (Top 15 Countries) (Thousand Barrels per Day)
Country	Dec-07	Nov-07	YTD 2007	Dec-06	Jan - Dec 2006
CANADA	1,784	1,919	1,864	1,830	1,802
SAUDI ARABIA	1,675	1,530	1,453	1,471	1,423
VENEZUELA	1,246	1,227	1,150	1,045	1,142
MEXICO	1,234	1,484	1,410	1,245	1,577
NIGERIA	1,210	1,245	1,082	1,010	1,037
ANGOLA	439	408	496	610	513
IRAQ	378	508	485	419	553
ALGERIA	348	184	443	406	362
ECUADOR	195	154	198	240	272
BRAZIL	171	78	167	130	133
KUWAIT	158	154	176	163	179
AZERBAIJAN	134	77	57	68	27
LIBYA	116	66	84	46	66
COLOMBIA	113	197	137	74	141
UNITED KINGDOM	93	42	102	93	130

Total Imports of Petroleum (Top 15 Countries) (Thousand Barrels per Day)
Country	Dec-07	Nov-07	YTD 2007	Dec-06	Jan - Dec 2006
CANADA	2,360	2,431	2,426	2,461	2,353
SAUDI ARABIA	1,686	1,620	1,489	1,491	1,463
VENEZUELA	1,387	1,381	1,362	1,274	1,419
MEXICO	1,322	1,581	1,533	1,366	1,705
NIGERIA	1,271	1,306	1,132	1,068	1,114
ALGERIA	600	447	670	662	657
ANGOLA	439	415	507	620	534
VIRGIN ISLANDS	387	414	346	334	328
IRAQ	378	508	485	419	553
RUSSIA	306	470	413	369	369
UNITED KINGDOM	238	210	278	199	272
ECUADOR	201	161	203	240	278
BRAZIL	178	85	202	162	193
KUWAIT	158	154	183	169	185
NETHERLANDS	157	58	127	98	174

Note: The data in the tables above exclude oil imports into the U.S. territories.

[eleni121]

The West gave the Sudetenland to Germany.

Czechoslovakia was not even invited to the talks. The Czechs were free to fight if they wished, but they had no support. They chose not to fight.

The rest is catastrophe...just like today.

The rest of your reasoning is bogus. Makes no sense at all..given that Poland was a communist state. The Polish people were our enemies as much the Russian people under the bolsheviks. Which means they were not.

[eleni121]

The OPEC cartel sets prices and production.
Here they are:

Algeria, Angola, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, and Ecuador

10 Muslim states and two terror supporting states and 2 failed states run by OPEC.

You knew that right?

[Kolokotronis]

Does this answer your question? The Albanian Mohammedans love him because he has our troops provide protection for them in Kosovo when they dynamite Orthodox Churches.

[joan]

The Austrians illegally annexed Bosnia. They didn't even live there but wanted to control the people - and especially oppress the Serbs and buttress the Muslim population as the Ottoman Empire weakened.

The Austrians dangled the Archduke (whom they didn't even like) on a purposely important Serbian holiday to provoke them and didn't supply him with protection (even though they had some of their army stationed in Sarajevo and had control of the Bosnian Muslim soldiers.)

The assassination team was mostly teenagers and included a Muslim. When one of them threw a grenade at his motorcade, they still didn't beef up security.

His car stopped 5 feet from Gavrilo Princip - which appeared the only way the inept, bumbling crew could do the job.

Once accomplished there were suddenly the thousands of soldiers and police on the streets to arrest him and then begin the hangings of civilian Serbs (including women) all around the locations where the Austrian army was stationed in Bosnia.

The Austrians wanted an excuse and German especially was keen on pushing them into a war and subsequently getting a jump on a war with Russia.

[eleni121]

And remember this (from wiks):

“On November 19, 2007, global oil prices reacted strongly as OPEC members spoke openly about potentially converting their cash reserves to the euro and away from the US dollar.”

We are being royally screwed.

[ThreePuttinDude]

We are being royally screwed.

...and we aren't even being royally kissed....just kissed off

[GAB-1955]

No, the argument is not bogus. Alliances and nations change. Serbia in 1995 is not Serbia in 1914, and so forth.

[Bokababe]

"The driving force in the Balkans is still nationalism, not religion"

Not sure how to be polite and still say that's utter crap.

Nationalism is steeped in a culture for a long time, and always emerges when it has an opportunity. German nationalism was hatched from an egg, that sense of German superiority and entitlement pre-dated Nazi Germany by centuries.

Serbia had a multitude of opportunities in the last 100 years to drive out all the Muslims (Bosnian and Albanians, both)in the Balkan wars and take what they wanted of Yugoslavia -- especially post-WWI. If they had, Croatia would have never had Dalmatia or the Krajina, and would have been confined to a small dot on the map. Serbia did none of that, but instead chose to share. That was their mistake. Because by the time, Tito came along, he made sure that Serbia stayed weak and small so that he could be the only glue holding Yugoslavia together.

If Serbs had been the raving nationalists you claim, they wouldn't be where they are today. The difference is that Croats, Bosnian Muslims and Albanians can all be hardcore nationalists and get called "freedom fighters" for it. Serbs, on the other hand, get called "hardcore nationalists" just for trying to preserve their sovereign borders and not cave in to globalist attempts to ravage them..

[FormerLib]

And Kosovo is the most ethnically pure area in Europe, thanks to our support of the pogrom carried out against the Serb, Jew, and Roma residents of Kosovo by the Jihadist illegal immigrants.

Pure idiocy on the part of the West.

[FormerLib]

The real question is why would we possibly support Jihad in Kosovo?

[Bokababe]

Michael Savage on Kosovo

[Iron Munro]

...and we aren't even being royally kissed....

You didn't get your kiss yet?

[eleni121]

Your changing scenario theory makes no sense. Unless we deliberately seek the destabilization of the region.

If so, we repeat mistakes of the past instead of learning from them.

Our beyond bizarrre and destructive interference in the Balkans has led not to a deflation of tensions but just the opposite. There are now two separate entities with Albanians and the clamor to join has begun...the Albanians in FYROM and Greece are next...A historical parallel is England let’s say supporting Nazi Germany in its demand for Sudetenland.

We are on the wrong side of history and we won’t even talk about being on the wrong side of morality.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

You talk like there is a difference between the Clinton administration and the Bush administration.

The only difference is rhetoric.

[SQUID]

“Serbs Struggle to Understand Western Support for Kosovo Islamic Albanian Thugs Who Were First Recognized By Their Brethren the Taliban”

[eleni121]

UP to 105-106 today. No end in sight. OPEC refuses to increase production..and why should they?

They get everything they want from our govt without anything in return.

[Honorary Serb]

Americans who KNOW ANYTHING about Kosovo, Serbia, etc. struggle to understand why we are backing Kosovo’s Muhammadan savages and criminals.

Americans who only know what the MSM tells them like our Kosovo policy just fine, especially if they are of the liberal or neocon persuasion.

[tired1]

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