re: #227 Salamantis

To prevent burgeoning fascism in the soft southern underbelly of Europe from spreading and destabilizing the continent. When we didn’t intervene early before - twice - it cost us very dearly.

The truth is that the Balkans were never of strategic importance to the US. Clinton did succeed in so damaging US - Russian relations, that later, when we needed Russia to help us with Iran, we got the finger. It was a geo-strategic blunder of the first order to intervene in the Balkans. Russia has been paying us back ever since by dragging out international action vis a vis Iran and North Korea.

We saved some muslims but got fucked on Iran and NK.