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Originally Posted by Pointman
Insight? It's written on NATO's official site that NATO may bomb another country in the event of "sustained large-scale violation of human rights and killing of civilians" - rather than attack on NATO member. And this is certainly happening in Ukraine. Just replace Kosovo with Ukraine in the text below and you see a perfectly valid justification for bombing Russia.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/t...11767.htm#c102
Quote from NATO site:
Fact: The NATO operation for Kosovo followed over a year of intense efforts by the UN and the Contact Group, of which Russia was a member, to bring about a peaceful solution. The UN Security Council on several occasions branded the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and the mounting number of refugees driven from their homes as a threat to international peace and security. NATO's Operation Allied Force was launched to prevent the large-scale and sustained violations of human rights and the killing of civilians.
Following the air campaign, the subsequent NATO-led peacekeeping operation, KFOR, which initially included Russia, has been under UN mandate (UNSCR 1244), with the aim of providing a safe and secure environment in Kosovo. |
You're bringing up an event from 1999. It has no relevance to today's situation/circumstances. The human rights violations today are happening on Ukrainian soil, not on Russian soil.
As for motivation, the motivation in 1999 was clearly to put a stop to the bloodshed and ethnic cleansing being carried out there. The was no motivation to bomb. The bombing was done reluctantly and only as a last resort.
Such a thing would never happen under today's circumstances. Yugoslavia wasn't a nuclear armed nation, and its abuses were taking place on its own soil. Russia is a nuclear armed nation invading a neighboring sovereign nation and attempting to take control it. If your worry was about NATO bombing Russian military targets
on Ukrainian soil, perhaps your worry would be somewhat understandable. Still somewhat ill-informed, but understandable.
But the idea of a possible US strike on Moscow, is completely absurd.