Originally posted by Serb
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The US *did* directly participate in vast military campaign to carve out Kosovo as an independent state. I note that historically most nations have been far more forgiving for being invaded by a country that eventually left than they have been of countries that took pieces of their state with them. It will not surprise me at all if Serbian resentment towards the US remains far more enduring than the other victims of US aggression even when the fatalities and economic losses were far greater. Imagine how much more bitter the Serbians would be about it if the US had subsequently annexed Kosovo.
Most importantly almost none of those wars should have been allowed. Perhaps Iraq 1991 per UN security council or possibly the Afghanistan war (to the extent that the US truly knew that OBL was directly responsible for the 9/11 attacks) but the rest were international law crimes and stupidities undermining almost all net US interests and even Afghanistan, executed as a decisive country scale intervention in the civil war was probably ill advised as subsequently executed in the occupation that followed. I suppose Vietnam as a defensive operation propping up the South Vietnam state didn't start as a war crime but by the time it ended the US had even managed to turn the prosecution of that war into the scene of various war crimes so I won't add that to the exceptions.
So what's the take away? Russia gets a pass for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine? How Serb?

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