Thread by @20committee

Hey @Strategy_Bridge, are you intentionally publishing absurd Kremlin lies or do you just have no editors/fact-checkers?

Asking for a friend.

See attached.

thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/201…

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Quoth your piece: “These [Russian] strategists are quick to reference previous conflicts such as Iraq, the [US/NATO] bombing campaign in the Balkans that led to the early 1990s dissolution of the Yugoslav republic”

Wait, what?

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OK, let's try some #facts:

Tito’s Yugoslavia (SFRJ) dissolved in APR 1992, replaced by fake/rump “Yugoslavia” (Serbia + Montenegro) which survived until 2006 (though only as "Yugoslavia" until 2003).

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REALITY: The first NATO bombs didn’t fall on the former Yugoslavia until APR 1994 (limited strikes in Bosnia against Bosnian Serb forces) and there was no US/NATO serious bombing until Operation DELIBERATE FORCE in SEP 1995.

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Any and all US/NATO bombing in the former Yugoslavia occurred after that country ceased to exist. To assert that Western bombing caused Yugoslavia's collapse isn't just utterly ahistorical bunk, it's a rancid Kremlin lie.

cc @Strategy_Bridge