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While the United States and NATO, with it's dog Albania, running rough-shod over the small innocent sovereign country of Yugoslavia, the Russian bear sleeps. This criminal NATO alliance ( and especially member nation Germany ) had better look back to fifty years ago, when it awakened the hibernating beast to it's East. Russia has publicly denounced the illegal aggression by NATO, but has fallen short of any concrete action.
Boris Yeltsin has publicly said Russia will not get involved in the illegal Clinton/Gore War, but he doesn't speak for all Russians. Many Russians believe they have been humiliated by Clinton and NATO, including Gennady Seleznyov, speaker of the Duma. Reportedly, he talked about the consequences to NATO aircraft if Russia shipped a few top of the line SAM ( surface to air missile ) batteries to Yugoslavia. He was very concerned about what the future may bring, saying, " It's clear NATO is preparing a ground operation in Yugoslavia, so Russia must clearly state how it can render serious military, technical aid to Yugoslavia ".
To complicate matters even more, the European Union is expected to vote added embargos on Yugoslavia and Montenegro, later this week or early next week. Eleven of the fifteen E.U. nations are members of the NATO alliance, and they will flex their muscles with an oil embargo to further punish the innocent Serbian people. Sadly, this can only inflame the Russian populace even more.
While Yeltsin's special envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin, visits Belgrade for talks with Milosevic and hears that five hundred people have been killed and four hundred wounded, with a half a million thrown into unemplyment as a result of NATO's murderous air strikes, he can only offer words. First Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Avdeyev sided with Yeltsin, saying " Only Russia has the unique possibility to use its special relations with Yugoslavia and its remaining relations with NATO...to find a peaceful political way out ". I don't think those angry crowds in the streets of Moscow have peace talks on their minds. Well, Russia will be boycotting NATO's puny little fifty year anniversary/funeral party in Washington D.C. at the protests of some NATO members, as it should be.
NATO had better keep an eye to the East. This current Russia may not be the snarling beast of World War II and the Cold War, but I would suggest NATO remember the lesson Nazi Germany learned at Stalingrad, before inserting it's ground forces into Yugoslavia.
- Bongo ( Set my alarm? )
