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NATO did not put boots on the ground. They discussed it a lot and armed Kosovans but did not move into the ground. This Wash Post article is titled " Kosovo Lan
by onetimemanytime 7y ago
NATO did not put boots on the ground. They discussed it a lot and armed Kosovans but did not move into the ground. This Wash Post article is titled " Kosovo Land Threat May Have Won War " for a reason
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/sept99/airwar19.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/sept99/...
NATO, er USA, has a lot of options to inflict pain and lots of it. A few Tomahwaks can cripple the best factory, power supply etc (they can link it to aiding the military so no war crime). They can escalate until the other side surrenders
- Marazan 7y agoSomeone needs to tell James Blunt he wasn't a soldier in Kosovo then. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11753050 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11753050 KFOR was a thing, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Force https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Force
- onetimemanytime 7y agoafter Serbs surrendered, get it?
- nl 7y agoThis isn't accurate. To quote the KFOR Wikipedia page: > KFOR entered Kosovo on 11 June 1999 two days after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244. At the time, Kosovo was facing a grave humanitarian crisis, with military forces from Yugoslavia in action against the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in daily engagements. Note that daily engagements were ongoing at this point.