Replies to post #405866 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

Yeah, it IS different. There was no concern about controlling the skies over the Balkans, as the USSR was no more.

I do remember GOP leadership losing their shit over what Clinton was planning to do. THAT kind of hyper-partisan crap hasn't changed.

Disregarding war crimes was not an option to NATO in the 90's in Bosnia.

But maybe now is different?

[B402]

Its an obvious statement,,,,Perhaps uncomfortable to some

[sortagreen]

"Disregarding war crimes was not an option to NATO in the 90's in Bosnia"

It was in Hungary in '56.

It was in Czechoslovakia in '68.

It was for years while we held the line on our side of the curtain.

It was in Tienanmen Square.

Nuclear arsenals do change the calculus. Go ahead and pretend they don't.

Of course war crimes were never an issue in Rwanda, or Uganda... They weren't an issue in Aleppo. They're not an issue in Myanmar or Niger or any of countless other places where non-white people live. But I digress.

I'm almost assuming we'll be involved in Europe soon.. if Putin doesn't collapse or get taken out. But you can go now. You've got the will. And unlike B402 you've actually got the chops. I assume you can afford a plane ticket. So roll...