this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
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[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Ah, Yugoslavia. How dare anyone disturb that genocide.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There was intense conflict along ethnic lines on both sides. NATO didn't intervene to "stop a genocide," it bombed hundreds of state-owned factories and murdered over 2000 civilians (including 300 Albanians, which NATO claimed to be "protecting"). The real drive was to destroy a nation that dared to be a part of the Non-Aligned Movement, and make them subservient to western interests, opened up for foreign plundering.

The ethnic violence was horrible, but NATO didn't really fix it, it took advantage of it as a reason to get involved and achieve the aims of western powers economically.

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why doesn't NATO disturb the current genocide in Gaza?

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, who do they think they are? NATO?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)
[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Of all the things, you decided to defend that scumbag. He and his cronies were one of the primary agitators that caused the war. Even if he himself didn't order a genocide, he actively militarily supported the Bosnian Serbs that caused one. And say what you want but the bombing did stop the active ethnic cleansing happening in Kosovo.

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[–] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

Bombs were falling on civilian targets nowhere near Kosovo. Various bridges, schools, hospitals, a chemical plant in Pančevo that almost destroyed the entire city, the Chinese embassy, a bomb fragment fell literally in my family's garden. Hundreds of civilians died, my grandma almost impaled on a table from a bomb shockwave and the glass shattered onto the cradle I was in (I was 1 year old at the time), but luckily my mom placed protection around me just in case. This was on the far north of Serbia.

To be clear, OP is a tankie who shouldn't be given any attention or a platform (I checkes their post history), but the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 was a campaign that caused untold suffering to countless civilians (be it in injuries, deaths, or just going through every day not knowing whether you and your loved ones will be alive tomorrow) that had absolutely nothing to do with Kosovo, something that left scars in society that are still felt. It was not simply "disturbing a genocide". Not to mention that it was an attack launched without the approval of the UN.

[–] mienshao@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Gotta love 2025. Is this an alt-right post or an alt-left post? No one can tell. Horseshoe theory, etc etc.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The right is pro-NATO, as NATO is the main millitant arm propping up western imperialism, and the left is anti-NATO for the same reasons. There's no "alt-left," lol.

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone against NATO is against Western imperialism and would be considered a "leftist" by Western standards (just humane and ethical for the rest of the world). I don't see what can be misunderstood here.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Plenty of far-right people would be leftist then. Interesting

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're just saying words now, lol.

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[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That list of nations is very short.

[–] rdri@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

With all that is happening in the world, someone decides to spend time to make a meme about NATO being a bad guy?

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[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Never ask an EU supporter about why their own country doesn't get to decide things for its self

[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] anon@lemmings.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What do you not like about the EU and do you think Germany should leave the EU?

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[–] burgerchurgarr@lemmus.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)
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