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War in Ukraine.

I've always been proud of being European, but this event is exposing how shambolic the EU can be in some situations. Fuck, I just saw the headline "Germany says it can send rocket launchers in August"...



You should have seen the war in ex-Yugoslavia...

Many parallels with this current war. Describing the EU (and UN) as "shambolic" is not the word I'd use... :-/


Totally different. Yugoslavia was a deeply divided country held together by a strongman. When he died, if course it was gonna fall apart. No surprises there.


Vukovar was the parallel I was thinking of. And Osijek, and other towns.

Surrounded by invading Serbian forces (which taken over the assets of the 5th largest army in Europe), shelled mercilessly - the worst destruction since WW2. Then the defeat, and massacres - and mass rapes.

And an arms embargo on Croatia! Which effectively prevented any sort of defense.

Europe has conveniently forgotten...




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