Serbia calls decision to cooperate with NATO politically necessary

Serbian veterans of the conflict with NATO 1999, the current cooperation with the alliance is not easy, but a political decision was made for the benefit of the country, leads RIA News the opinion of Colonel-General Vladimir Lazarevich, who commanded the Pristina Corps and the Third Army of the Serbian Armed Forces in Kosovo during the conflict.

In 2003, the general, together with other officers, was accused by the Hague Tribunal in expelling Albanians from Kosovo. He was convicted and held on trial and imprisoned for 10 years.

In 2006, Belgrade was included in the NATO Partnership for Peace program, and in 2011, it signed the Individual Partnership Plan. Serb units take part in exercises conducted by the alliance forces.

It is difficult to accept a situation in which you are mercilessly destroying you and those who yesterday destroyed you are cooperating in the same military sphere. More specifically, it’s not just that they killed our military and civilians, 20 years ago. They are still killing us, because the consequences of the use of radioactive weapons catastrophic throughout Serbia

- said Lazarevich.

According to the general, during his 20 years, many of his comrades died as a result of radiation received from depleted uranium ammunition.

He noted that as a person “defending the republic from NATO criminals”, it is difficult for him to accept such cooperation. However, he is aware that this decision may be politically necessary and even useful for the country and the people.

At the same time, Lazarevich pointed out that Serbia is trying to maintain military neutrality, cooperating with NATO only within the framework of the Partnership for Peace program.

Nevertheless, "for me, the military, this is a difficult situation," he concluded.

Recall alliance air strikes continued from March 24 to June 10 on 1999. The exact number of victims is unknown. Belgrade estimates that around 2,5 thousand people, including 89 children, died during the bombing.

Comments

[Stoler]

A very interesting "justification" for his political impotence

[Aleksandr21]

Quote: Stoler

A very interesting "justification" for his political impotence

In all fairness, the Serbs definitely do not have warm feelings for NATO, even from the statements of this general it is clear how difficult it is for him to make such a decision ..... but do the Serbs have a choice? They are surrounded by countries that are members of the EU and to be part of the EU (trade normally, interact with neighbors), you need to be on friendly terms with NATO through clenched teeth. And I think there is no need to remember the military component of the NATO bloc, the bombing of Yugoslavia showed what the consequences of a "different" policy could be ....

[bouncyhunter]

You speak correctly.

Quote: Aleksandr21

Do Serbs have a choice?

There is always a choice, another question: are everyone capable of making a choice? Or just accept the imposed choice?

[Brother]

Not so much the Serbs do not feed ... but perhaps they naturally hate it!
At one time, the Soviet Union had to do this ... Then in the 30s the Nazis had a leader - Nazi Germany ... and the Soviet Union had to "negotiate".
Moreover, later under fascist Germany the same "mongrels" and Italians and Magyars and Romanians fought against the USSR.
The current fascists under the star-striped flag ... these are without conditional Americans, they have won so far! And they are served by the same Germans, French, and the rest of the "loyal European mongrels" of America.
Yes, Serbs today have to "cooperate" - to negotiate with NATO-fascists. This is a forced necessity after all around ... and inside the victorious fascists.
But the most disgusting thing ... so let's say .. the famous air unit "Normandie Niemen" also became fascists when Serbia was bombed! It's insulting and disgusting so smeared in the dermis!

[passerby]

I did not think that the Serbs are so “flexible." Collaborating with those who killed your children is simply beyond description.

[Normal ok]

Quote: passerby

I did not think that the Serbs are so “flexible." Collaborating with those who killed your children is simply beyond description.

Russia is cooperating with Germany. Although what the Germans did in the USSR can not be compared with NATO in Serbia.

[stalki]

I did not think that the Serbs are so “flexible." Collaborating with those who killed your children is simply beyond description.

Russia is cooperating with Germany. Although what the Germans did in the USSR can not be compared with NATO in Serbia.

Both were killed there, so no matter how much and how, it’s all exactly death. But we made the Germans regret and repent. But no one made the FSU feel sorry, they still do not care what they have done. And this is a huge difference, a killer who regrets what he did and a killer who laughs in the face.

[passerby]

After they hung all those Germans who were involved in war crimes.

Quote: Normal ok

Quote: passerby

I did not think that the Serbs are so “flexible." Collaborating with those who killed your children is simply beyond description.

Russia is cooperating with Germany. Although what the Germans did in the USSR can not be compared with NATO in Serbia.

[Tarhan]

I did not think that the Serbs are so “flexible." Collaborating with those who killed your children is simply beyond description.

Serbia simply refuses the grand-chauvinistic policy of former President Slobadan Milosevic. Therefore, he wants to join NATO.

It is Milosevic, in the name of preserving the influence of "great" Serbia, trying not to give sovereignty to the former republics of Yugoslavia - Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia. And he tried to leave these republics under the thumb of Belgrade by force, unleashing a war.

It is all the same if the Kremlin tried not to give sovereignty to the former republics of the USSR and unleashed wars with Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states, the Caucasus, and Central Asia in the 90 years. But then the Kremlin was smart enough not to shed the blood of other nations and the blood of the Russian people in vain.

[Normal ok]

Quote: Stoler

A very interesting "justification" for his political impotence

Depart, like this general, for 10 years for the defense of your country, and then you will have the moral right to criticize him.

[egor egor]

Yes, throughout the whole history of the Serbs, we have been facing us, but backwards to the west, so that they ......

[Victorio]

Quote: Stoler

A very interesting "justification" for his political impotence

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General 70 years old, what claims to him?

[Chichikov]

Hard, but necessary? And for what? What kind of partnership "for the sake of peace" does the current NATO leadership profess? After 10 years of imprisonment, for defending the country's sovereignty in fulfillment of the oath, he is still afraid to call a spade a spade. Apparently Western freedom of speech and democracy are not so guaranteed.

[stalki]

Bent over, bent down and ready to swallow everything that is offered. Ugh, turns from such inside out.

[Dude]

Yeah, it was disgusting to read a similar quote, all the more so, as much as an entire general plc Or does the surname oblige?

[midshipman]

How can you cooperate with the aggressor and killer of civilians. One cooperation with NATO is a military tribunal. Those who ordered the bombing of Yugoslavia were sentenced to death by hanging. I personally managed to see such a sentence being brought against 10 fascist generals in Leningrad in 1946 on the square near the Gigant cinema.

[Kenxnumx]

Your memory fails. Among the eight hanged men was one major general and two officers.

[midshipman]

Konstantin, you are right, because I was 6 years old then. On the third day, all the hanged men stole their boots. Then they put the guard. And the executioners of the Russian people still sagged for several days.

[Kenxnumx]

Even taking into account Christian humility, they are dear to them.

[Kenxnumx]

A small country has its own ways of surviving.

[Roma 1977]

Or not to survive ....

[Dude]

A small country has its own ways of surviving.

Or you can, in general, immediately follow the recommendations of the ever-memorable Katz, isn't it?

[Kenxnumx]

In the case of Serbia, yes. The result is the same.

[Dude]

Let me ask, why?

Quote: Ken71

In the case of Serbia, yes. The result is the same.

[Kenxnumx]

Because the military confrontation with NATO led to the destruction of the economy and the death of people with the inability to do retaliatory damage and to the deterioration of positions in the negotiations. The bawdy Brest peace with the Germans allowed to gain time and minimize losses.

[Dude]

Brest peace, exactly what

allowed to gain time and minimize losses

, You, as I understand it, suggest that the Serbs simply surrender to the mercy of the winners, and tacitly and submissively lie under NATu.
This is not the Brest Peace anymore - it is surrender

[Kenxnumx]

They ALREADY surrendered. Joining NATO guarantees them from future problems with Alabania and makes it possible to conduct dialogue within the club, rather than resist it

[cniza]

That never guarantees, they think so themselves.

[Kenxnumx]

Perhaps you know better, but most likely they know better all the same to them.

[Dude]

Quote: Ken71

They ALREADY surrendered. Joining NATO guarantees them from future problems with Alabania and makes it possible to conduct dialogue within the club, rather than resist it

Of all the "brothers", the Serbs for the Western Anglo-Saxon world are just the most uncomfortable and uncompromising. Not like the same Bulgarians. So you, in my opinion, are exaggerating, if not to say, breshete.
And merging with the North Atlantic bloc is not something that is not

guarantees them from future problems with Alabania and provides an opportunity to conduct dialogue within the club

, but legitimizes the seizure of the primordial Serbian lands by the Albanians and pan-Islamists, and deliberately puts the Serbs in the role of guilty of all sins and makes them a priori guilty of the Balkan crisis of our time.

[Kenxnumx]

Albania is in NATO if you are not in the know. And about the intransigence of the Serbs, I'm afraid you are mistaken. They are rightly looking for their own profit and have almost agreed

[Dude]

Well, if Albania is already in NATO, then, as I understand it, it’s not only the Serbs that it is time to sprinkle their ashes on our heads, we Russians probably have to pay and repent, but is it better to commit a collective suicide by the whole people?
Do not wait
We "better suffer" (c)
Would you, dear, better go to ... the shore of the Dead Sea

[Kenxnumx]

Albania has been in NATO for 10 years and by the way has not annexed Kosovo. Serbia is faced with the reality of changing which it has no strength. Therefore, she is looking for a place in the existing reality and not in fantasies. And rightly so. For the rest, your stream of consciousness does not bother me much because it is meaningless. And if I need your advice, I will definitely ask him.
By the way, I was on the shores of the Dead Sea, and in the sea I was in this. I recommend - a very interesting feeling.

[Dude]

I poked you with a nose into the incorrectness of comparing the situation of Soviet Russia at the conclusion of the Brest Peace and the current Serbia in the current paradigm, and you merged.
Go to Greater Albania on a tour better, it’s also in NATO, democracy is there on every corner, maybe people do not make lampshades from people.

[Kenxnumx]

YOU !!! ME ??? Yes, you are an optimist. What you wrote about the Peace of Brest-Litovsk "Peace of Brest-Litovsk is precisely what allowed to gain time and minimize losses, you, as I understand it, suggest that the Serbs simply surrender at the mercy of the victors, and silently and humbly lie under NAT. This is no longer the Brest Peace, - this is surrender "- this is partly a statement, partly stupidity. But I'll chew for you. The Peace of Brest-Litovsk is the cession of a part of the territory and the fulfillment of all requirements under the threat of complete defeat. Serbia also surrendered and ceded part of the territory under the threat of occupation and complete defeat. The Brest-Litovsk Peace was a temporary event because Germany lost the war. Lenin could not foresee this in advance, otherwise he would not have concluded peace. Serbia has no chance against NATO. Serbia within NATO and the EU against Albania - there are chances, like the Turks gutted the Greeks. Perhaps not soon, it may not work, but the options are considered. All the more so if US influence falls. So the Serbs are doing the right thing. A small country must spin to survive and enter into alliances.
I do not plan to go on a trip to Albania. They say the boredom of hell, as by the way, and Serbia, but Croatia and Montenegro are another matter

[Dude]

Take a breath, or you’ll get too hard, my dear This is not Channel One, excessive affectation and verbiage are redundant here
Recommended carefully re-read the article that we are discussing and tie up with demagogy, right!))
Yes, poked, yes, you, and, yes, absolutely in the case. And you will chew yourself, I do not need it.
Is there anything to add in the case? If not, we tie up holivar.

[Kenxnumx]

Take it easy. You only poked yourself in rudeness and incompetence.

[Dude]

There is a good Russian proverb: "There is nothing to blame on the mirror if the face is crooked." I recommend to delve into the meaning of these words, and be more critical about your tirades.
I’m saying, they tied it up!

[Kenxnumx]

Well, finally calm down, or say something reasonable. Do not stomp the keyboard in vain

[Bolo]

Let the Arabs first calm you down, which you kill in the hundreds.

[Kenxnumx]

Anti-Semites on the march?

[Kenxnumx]

Have you been released yet?

[stalki]

And about the intransigence of the Serbs, I'm afraid you are mistaken. They are rightly looking for their own profit and have almost agreed

Call a spade a spade, don’t seek profit, but they were taken for eggs, I apologize, and dictate what to say. There is no need to replace real concepts and real life with justifying formulations and false reality.

[Kenxnumx]

Well, they could lie under us, but they chose a more promising partner :)

[Dude]

Quote: Ken71

Well, they could lie under us, but they chose a more promising partner :)

Sorry, under you - is it for whom? Specify, if not difficult, otherwise the flags were canceled))

[Kenxnumx]

Under Russia of course. CSTO, EAEU and all that. But obviously they have chosen a stronger partner. Of course it's a shame, but it's hard to reproach them.

[Dude]

I beg you, do not associate yourself with Russia! No need to scribble.
You are from Russia and its aspirations (as I look, judging by your statements) as far as wine from vinegar.
It seems that there is something in common, but, as you look closely, Russia, however, is wine, and you are some kind of sour

[stalki]

Well, they could lie under us, but they chose a more promising partner

Let's see, time will judge. In chess, for example, having a queen and two horses, you can lose to two officers. Everything in life is relatively and far from obvious.

[Dude]

Spell things by their names

oh, hardly the opponent is capable of it. Call a spade a spade to him that the knife is sharp

[boathouse]

And someone from the "brothers" expected another? They will join NATO and will eventually join the EU. Thank God we were smart enough not to "harness", in due time, for these "tovarische".

[Aleksandr21]

Quote: varadero

we had the sense not to "harness", in due time, for these "tovarische"

Now, so called Yeltsin’s cowardice?

[Dude]

Quote: Aleksandr21

Quote: varadero

we had the sense not to "harness", in due time, for these "tovarische"

Now, so called Yeltsin’s cowardice?

And all of his camarilla.
Unfortunately, our leaders were not enough for more than Primakov's U-turn.
And we then, we must call all Serbia by our proper names, - we betrayed. Leaked. They shut up, chatted, turned their backs, pretended that nothing terrible was happening.
I am all the more grateful to the Serbian people that, in spite of everything, they, for the most part, perfectly separates the Russian people from that superficial foam that is now called "Ylita", and, unfortunately, determines the policy of our state. Both external and internal, which, however, is interconnected.

[boathouse]

Yes, we betrayed everyone, everyone who received everything from us, and behind our back, he also crap us. Examples of mass.

[Dude]

And someone from the "brothers" expected another? They will join NATO and will eventually join the EU. Thank God, we were smart enough not to "harness", in due time, for these "tovarische"

You would be easier, to blame the Serbs for pro-Atlanticism - stupidity, sorry for the rude word. Been there, know the moods and aspirations of the people who inhabit this land? No offense

[boathouse]

I have visited their closest Croatian neighbors more than once. "The people are even more unkind", I have not heard any other owls about Serbs from the Croats, I hope the meaning is clear. And the Croats do not regret for a second that Yugoslavia has collapsed. And Serbs can be anyone, depending on the benefit at a given moment. It must be pro-Russian, must be pro-American, must be pro-European. Remember how they managed to flirt with both Stalin and Hitler before the Great Patriotic War.

[Gunter prereen]

One way or another, but they will join both the EU and NATO. They have no alternative. And you need to take this calmly. This will not affect the alignment of forces. This is just historical reality at this stage. The larger the EU and NATO, the weaker they will be.

[Kenxnumx]

Campaign and we need to enter there. Then they will fall apart

[Etsma]

As a girl with reduced social responsibility, it’s unpleasant, but somehow you need to earn money. It gets used to it over time, even sometimes they can cause injuries, but they pay well. Not any self-esteem. Selfish bros have become.

[boathouse]

They are "selfish", they have always been, it is a pity that it comes to us late. Read about the history of "Yugoslavia" carefully (Thank God there is enough information about this now). Everything will become clear.

[Etsma]

Thanks for the advice. Time will go deeper into history.

[valent45]

In Serbia, apparently, there are more liberals than in Russia.

[Lara Croft]

Quote: valent45

In Serbia, apparently, there are more liberals than in Russia.

When the Khasavyurt agreements were concluded, we also had enough of them ...

[cniza]

Serbia apparently has more liberals than Russia

It seems they are floating in the arms of the devil in the flesh.

[Dzafdet]

Yes, the weak only needs to bend down and push the buttocks apart. Se la vie ....

[silverwolf88]

this is the choice of Serbia and Serbs (very many people who spoke with say ... that it was supposedly not their war) ...
for myself I will answer the USSR would not cooperate with the Nazis after the Second World War ... even under the program "partnership with the SS for the sake of peace" ...

[cniza]

This is not even discussed, but the Serbs, not all of course, but they want a well-fed life at all costs, it is very unfortunate.

[Baloo]

Something like this:

[Black sniper]

Recall alliance air strikes continued from March 24 to June 10 on 1999. The exact number of victims is unknown. Belgrade estimates that around 2,5 thousand people, including 89 children, died during the bombing.
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For two and a half months, a densely populated city was bombed, and 2,5 thousand died ??? The numbers are clearly underestimated.

[cniza]

The Serbs surprised, very unpleasantly surprised ...

[Lieutenant Senior]

It’s just as if to stand in the position of the TV and spread the rolls ...

Well, you can’t do that. For 10 years they broke it, that’s nonsense.

[Panting]

Licking his kicking boots. Ma-scarlet but very proud Serbia.

[awg75]

in ten years they will be jumping abruptly than dill rides

[henkel]

That's how they become politicians.

[Lara Croft]

Lazarevich pointed out that Serbia is trying to maintain military neutrality by interacting with NATO

Neutrality with the aggressor, is it like Vlasov with the Nazis or something ....?
Well what can I say, Lazarevich - "Real Colonel" ...

[Livonetc]

Quote: Ken71

They ALREADY surrendered. Joining NATO guarantees them from future problems with Alabania and makes it possible to conduct dialogue within the club, rather than resist it

Who has NATO defended in its history?
And to confront NATO is quite real.
And it will not be worse.
Perhaps they will even regain the self-esteem and respect of their own children and grandchildren.
There would be a will.

[cniza]

NATO was only killing and ruining, and Serbia was slavery.

[cniza]

He noted that as a person “defending the republic from NATO criminals”, it is difficult for him to accept such cooperation. However, he is aware that this decision may be politically necessary and even useful for the country and the people.

It smells not good ...

[Maalkavianin]

And where do they go then. All is correct. We must join someone. NATO is around, so they have no choice.

[Tank hard]

Quote: Malkavianin

And where do they go then. All is correct. We must join someone. NATO is around, so they have no way out

It’s not true, there are always two ways out, and that’s the minimum.

[bone1]

Is it hard to admit, don’t admit, why the hell do you need this NAT?

[Tank hard]

And I said, but they minus me ...

[Alexander Ra]

The reason for everything that we do not like in our environment - Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other "former", Serbia, Poland, the Balts - is in the systemic and deep problems in Russia. Our healthy generation is extinguished and everything is not started. Anglo-Saxon rules, even within Russia.

[LeonidL]

Very correct position! We stocked up on cream, pads and relaxed in a position comfortable for NATO partners. ... As the politically correct advice says - "If you are raped, relax and have fun"

[Mavrikiy]

It’s hard to accept a situation in which you and those who destroyed you mercilessly yesterday,

Alas, alas. And continues to destroy.

A total of 15 tons of depleted uranium were dropped during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. These 15 tons turned into radioactive dust, which the wind blew throughout the Balkans, infecting the soil, air, plants and animals. This toxic radioactive dust will remain here forever, reaching a maximum peak in radioactivity in only 100 years.

https://damadiluma.livejournal.com/217093.html Источник так себе. Но, верю! Впрочем, опыт у США есть.

Later, when the United States unleashed a war against Iraq, during 2004 they sieged the city of Fallujah, bombarding the city with depleted uranium cluster bombs,
Read more at https://www.pravda.ru/world/1380446-children/

[military pensioner]

But what about ukrofashisty ??? The Germans destroyed the Ukrainians, and Soviet troops liberated. Now the little ones and their offspring from the UPA glorify the Nazis and hate everything Soviet.

[esaul1950]

Alas, Russia lost Serbia as an ally state., Almost.