good thread: twitter.com
On March 24, 1999, NATO began illegally bombing Yugoslavia for 78 days without the approval of the United Nations, dropping more than 28,000 bombs, including depleted uranium and cluster munitions, killing over 2000 civilians and displacing more than 250,000 people.
By June, NATO destroyed:
-25,000 residential buildings
-595 kilometers railroads
-470 kilometers roads
-44 bridges
-14 airports
-19 hospitals
-69 schools
-18 kindergartens
-176 cultural monuments
Senator Joe Biden supported aggressive military action against Yugoslavia, advocating for the bombing of Belgrade and the destruction of bridges on the Drina River. He criticized NATO's actions as not ruthless enough and suggested a "Japanese/German-style occupation."
NATO intentionally targeted civilian infrastructure such as power plants, factories, hospitals, and bridges, setting back the country's economic progress by several decades. The NATO strikes were intended to inflict immense suffering on the people of Yugoslavia. The strikes targeted critical infrastructure, resulting in significant economic disruptions, power outages, and water shortages that inflicted a cost of over $120 billion on Yugoslavia.
In 2000, a Yugoslav court sentenced President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, and other Western leaders to prison for war crimes:
-Crimes against humanity
-Initiating an aggressive war
-Using illegal weapons
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