Comments by "Matthew Loutner" (@Matthew_Loutner) on "Why Did NATO Bomb Yugoslavia? | Flashback with Palki Sharma" video.

There are no "provocations against Russia "
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 @AleksandarMitic72 Russia was the ringleader.
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@BojanPeric-kq9et No it is not "utterly wrong." Go check your facts because I am correct.
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@BojanPeric-kq9et The discussion here is whether NATO "attacked" a country. What happened in Yugoslavia is that Kosovo attempted to declare their independence from Serbia and the 2 countries started building up their weapons and fighting about it. To make a long story short, Serbia could greatly out-power Kosovo and started heavy military attacks on Kosovo. That is when NATO stepped into the fray and told Serbia, "If you do not stop attacking Kosovo and leave them alone, we are going to come bomb you until you do stop." Forcing Serbia to leave Kosovo alone is not "attacking" their country. The war was already an ongoing war before NATO stepped in. This is basically the same thing as two men fighting on the street and a policeman steps between them and stops the fight. One would not say that the policeman "attacked" them
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@BojanPeric-kq9et I thought you said you lived in the area. Serbia and Kosovo separated from each other 15 years ago and are now independent countries. Kosovo declared its independence on February 17, 2008. Before the big breakup of the Soviet Union there were about 7 or 8 of those little countries that banded together and were called the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Both Serbia and Kosovo were in it. The some of the little countries in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. stayed in it for several years and continued to all be referred to as Yugoslavia.
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@BojanPeric-kq9et You are right. It was Yugoslavia that I meant to say, instead of Hungary. And I am not "posting nonsense." I am "INFORMED." Everything that I said is right, except it happened in Yugoslavia. I am going back in my comments and changing Hungary to Yugoslavia. (And I am not "delusional.") And I might add that you thought Serbia and Kosovo were one country. So you cannot say much about my little memory mistake.
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@BojanPeric-kq9et I already covered 1999: "The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) carried out an aerial bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia DURING THE KOSOVO WAR. The air strikes lasted from 24 March 1999 to 10 June 1999. The bombings continued until an agreement was reached that led to the WITHDRAWAL OF THE YUGOSLAV ARMY from Kosovo."" I did not "deny the bombing" on Yugoslavia. I said the bombing of Yugoslavia was not an "attack" on Yugoslavia
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@BojanPeric-kq9et Whenever defending the weak who is being attacked is never "aggression."
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@BojanPeric-kq9et That is correct. NATO has never "attacked" a single country.
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@BojanPeric-kq9et My definition is morally right. Not interested in what UN snakes think. The defender cannot also be the aggressor. There are no random "terrorists." All "terrorists" are military combatants trying to win their war. Strong armies use big weapons. Weak armies use small weapons. Everyone is fighting for their rights, beliefs, freedoms, territory, control of others or cause.
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@BojanPeric-kq9et The defender cannot also be the aggressor and the aggressor cannot also be the defender. Putin cannot rewrite the Law of Gravity.
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@BojanPeric-kq9et NATO was DEFENDING Kosovo. The first one to violate the other person's rights is the aggressor.
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@BojanPeric-kq9et "On 26 June 1990 Serbian authorities barred access to the building of the Kosovo Assembly, citing special circumstances. On 2 July 1990, 114 ethnic Albanian delegates of the 180-member Kosovo Assembly gathered in front of the closed building and declared Kosovo an independent republic within Yugoslavia. On 5 July the Serbian Assembly dissolved the Kosovo Assembly. Serbia also dissolved the provincial executive council and assumed full and direct control of the province. Serbia took over management of Kosovo's principal Albanian-language media, halting Albanian-language broadcasts. On 4 September 1990 Kosovar Albanians observed a 24-hour general strike, virtually shutting down the province. On 5 August 1991, the Serbian Assembly suspended the main Albanian-language daily newspaper, Rilindja, declaring its journalism unconstitutional."
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@BojanPeric-kq9et "On 17 November 1988 Kaqusha Jashari and Azem Vllasi were forced to resign from the leadership of the League of Communists of Kosovo (LCK). In early 1989 the Serbian Assembly proposed amendments to the Constitution of Serbia that would remove the word "Socialist" from the Serbian Republic's title, establish multi-party elections, REMOVE THE INDEPENDENCE of institutions of the autonomous provinces such as Kosovo and rename Kosovo as the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija."
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@BojanPeric-kq9et I already explained that. NATO bombing was not aggression because it was defense. The defender cannot also be the aggressor. Serbia attempting to remove Kosovo's independence is an act of aggression. Serbia violated Kosovo's rights. Serbia is the aggressor.
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@BojanPeric-kq9et Yugoslavia attacked Kosovo. NATO defended Kosovo. "On 20 March 1999, Yugoslav forces began a massive campaign of repression and expulsions of Kosovar Albanians following the withdrawal of the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) and the failure of the proposed Rambouillet Agreement. IN RESPONSE TO THIS, NATO intervened with an aerial bombing campaign that began on March 24"
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@lesahenderson7365 For starters, you are completely out of line telling your elders to "grow up.' Now I will tell you what happened in Iraq: Iraq has a very checkered history of internal wars that you have never heard of. During those internal wars, Saddam Hussein and his government used a WMD called mustard gas on tens of thousands of his own citizens who were a minority group called Kurds. The United Nations ordered him to destroy his WMDs or face sanctions. Then Saddam Hussein claimed that Kuwait was stealing Iraqi oil and invaded Kuwait. Then the allies went to war against Iraq. That was in 1991. After that war, the United Nations inspectors tried to do their inspection to see if Iraq still had the WMDs. But the Iraqi government was playing cat and mouse with the UN inspectors and the UN inspectors could not do their job. At this point it is instructive to note that Saddam had previously built a nuclear reactor, but had dismantled it. But the UN inspectors could not verify things because of the cat and mouse game. Following on the heels of that background, a top-level Iraqi scientist defected to Germany. The Iraqi scientist told German intelligence that he had personally worked in Iraq's WMD program and he gave long, lengthy descriptions of all of the WMDs that Iraq was currently developing and that he had worked on to German intelligence. On the basis of what German intelligence had, Iraq was invaded. The only one who lied here was, apparently, the Iraqi scientist/defector. In Syria, the Syrian Democratic Force is trying to overthrow the dictator there. The United States is rendering assistance. Now I will give you some advice about "growing up" : 1. You will be more "grown up, if you do your research, know your facts, and have your facts straight before accusing someone of lying.
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@BojanPeric-kq9et They just did. It is a matter of historical facts. Look it up
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NATO is NOT "provoking" anything in Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine claiming it was being run by NAZIs.
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 @stuartmoore6310 We do not "call the shots." We get one vote out of 31 votes. Stop lying.
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@gerrycoogan6544 You have so much false and misleading information in your comment that I am not even going to try to refuse it. It would take me 3 days. So I am just going to report it to utube as spreading misinformation. The only thing I have to say is this: All of the various wars Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and so on have their own reasons. They cannot be lumped together and used to claim that America is on the rampage. You are reported for not dealing with each war separately. As an American those false accusations really makes me angry. The Afghan war took place because Americans were attacked in American soil.
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 @robluck21 They attacked Kosova. So that makes what NATO did defense. Why do you liars always want to lie about what defense is?
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There was no "war against Russian-speaking regions." Both of the regions were taken over by armed militants. The war was only to free those regions from the armed militants and return rule of those areas to the Ukrainian government.
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@robluck21 Right. And how STUPID are you? NATO does not have to only defend a country in its charter. It can defend any country. Serbia was in the process of attacking Kosovo. NATO was DEFENDING. Afghanistan attacked America. NATO was DEFENDING. A top-level Iraqi scientist told was that Iraq was developing WMD's which Saddam had previously used against the Kurds. NATO was DEFENDING. It is all about DEFENDING the weak. DEFENDING DEFENDING DEFENDING DEFENDING DEFENDING DEFENDING DEFENDING Get it now???? Stop playing stupid.
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@robluck21 The correct question here is "how uniformed and uneducated are YOU?" Who said that NATO can only defend someone under article 5 ??? NATO can defend someone any time they choose to defend someone. You knew that there is more than one article in a charter, right? Or did you learn to start your numbers with 5? Serbia attacked Kosovo. NATO was DEFENDING. Afghanistan attacked America. NATO was DEFENDING. A top-level Iraqi scientist told us that Iraq was developing WMDs which Saddam had previously used on his Kurdish population. NATO was DEFENDING. Go ahead and throw up some more wars because I can do this all day.
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@robluck21 Serbia attacked Kosovo. NATO was DEFENDING Kosovo. Afghanistan attacked America. NATO was DEFENDING Americans (and you) from terrorist cells A top level Iraqi scientist told us that Saddam was developing WMDs which he had PREVIOUSLY USED against his own Kurdish population. NATO was DEFENDING them the Kurds. Japan attacked the United States. The United States was DEFENDING themselves. You be sure to tell them that. Maybe people will listen to you and everyone will stop attacking everyone else and NATO will finally be able to disband and go home I did not change English.
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@robluck21 The United States was attacked by Japan. They were DEFENDING. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forced Japan to surrender which resulted in saving a couple of hundred thousand lives as opposed to continuing a ground war. In Yugoslavia, Serbian bombs were already dropping and killing "innocent women and children." Kosovo bombs were already dropping and killing "innocent women and children." In Iraq, Saddam Husein had a LONG HISTORY of dropping bombs (and mustard gas) on "innocent women and children." Afghanistan: Terrorists hijacked jet airliners and flew them into skyscrapers killing many "innocent women and children." Japan was building an island empire in the Pacific Ocean by going from island to island bombing "innocent women and children." You do not cry for any of these "innocent women and children" because you do not really care about "innocent women and children." You only care about finding some fault in NATO. You are a heartless hypocrite. If you were not a heartless hypocrite, you would cry for all "innocent women and children" equally no matter whose bomb was falling. And your primary criticism would be against whomever STARTED THE WAR -- not who finished it. I did not redefine English. Defense means the same thing it has always meant from the beginning of the human race.
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@robluck21 The United States was attacked by Japan. They were DEFENDING. The type of bomb has nothing to do with anything. People are equally just as dead with any type of bomb. There are more people dead in Ukraine than Hiroshima and Nagasaki together. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forced Japan to surrender which resulted in saving a couple of hundred thousand lives as opposed to continuing a ground war. In Yugoslavia, Serbian bombs were already dropping and killing "innocent women and children." Kosovo bombs were already dropping and killing "innocent women and children." You do not care about them. In Iraq, Saddam Husein had a LONG HISTORY of dropping bombs (and mustard gas) on "innocent women and children." You do not care about them. Afghanistan: Terrorists hijacked jet airliners and flew them into skyscrapers killing many "innocent women and children." You do not care about them. Japan was building an island empire in the Pacific Ocean by going from island to island bombing "innocent women and children." You do not care about them. You do not cry for any of these "innocent women and children" because you do not really care about "innocent women and children." You only care about finding some fault in NATO. You are a heartless hypocrite. You have no feelings for any dying “innocent women and children” until NATO shows up. If you were not a heartless hypocrite, you would cry for all "innocent women and children" equally no matter whose bomb was falling. And your primary criticism would be against whomever STARTED THE WAR -- not who finished it. I did not redefine English. Defense means the same thing it has always meant from the beginning of the human race.
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@BojanPeric-kq9et I do not "defend terrorists." Stop lying. Everyone follows UN except Russia. Russia is aggressor invading Ukraine. Ukraine is defender.
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