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> two of the more plausible candidates for the beginning of this whole thing are [...] the American invasion of Serbia Are we talking about 1999?
by mcphage 4y ago
> two of the more plausible candidates for the beginning of this whole thing are [...] the American invasion of Serbia
Are we talking about 1999?
- Iwan-Zotow 4y agoyes, 1999
- 5040 4y agoYeah. Those initial airstrikes really freaked Russia out. Relations were never the same after them. NATO's first military attack really shook them.
- mcphage 4y ago> Relations were never the same after them. There have been... a lot of momentous geopolitical events since 1999.
- simonh 4y agoThey were shaken so much they decided to bomb and shell the living crap out over every square inch of Chechnya to get it out of their system. I'm sure blowing up some of their own apartment buildings that September helped them de-stress. I'm sorry, but the Russian government isn't a bunch of children. They're not that easily rattled. That was long after the whole mess in Bosnia, so it's not like we hadn't seen a horrible bloody genocidal conflict that the US and European countries intervened in before.