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« on: March 25, 2008, 06:35:58 AM » |
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Yesterday, Washington announced its decision to supply weapons to Kosovo, which is considered by many countries in European Union to be illegal!
I wonder, whether not too many weapons have already been there in Kosovo. Why the hell supplying more!?
In this respect, I believe that it's not all so clear about these weapons supplies and especially the real Washington intentions! I recon these must be rather ambiguous ones!
For one thing, now some reasons have become evident why Washington had enforced separation of Kosovo - after a break-up, it became another market outlet for US weapons producers. Besides, you should never doubt that part of the supplied weapons (the best part of it, I assure you) will get into hands of Albanian mafia which concern is to be terrorizing EU countries. So, far and by, Europe has swallowed a venenate bait of Washington, i.e. Kosovo, and soon will be convulsing. Alas! We allowed Americans take us for a ride.
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« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2008, 03:46:24 PM » |
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got a link to your opening sentence?
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« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2008, 08:20:28 PM » |
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I don't think Oswald will be too happy about this...
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« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2008, 01:01:05 PM » |
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There is no such a thing as "US weapons". There are only NATO weapons, made in US or not.
US weapons simply comply with the NATO weapon standards as the US is a NATO member.
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« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2008, 01:55:17 PM » |
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Hello People, Allow me to take up Christie's objection. One link regarding this claim is here: http://en.rian.ru/world/20080328/102481859.htmlJust Google the web for more. Seems the Bush Administration is hell-bent on precipitating world war 4. The Balkans is the one place you don't want to supply arms (c.f. smoking gun and franz ferdinand) Rather than letting the UN or NATO as a body manage any fall-out or unrest from the very ill-advised decision to recognise Kosovo as a sovereign nation. The US immediately moves to supply arms to the country, thereby adding fuel to the fire. Is it possible that as well as trying to start a fire in someone else's back yard (Russia's or Europe's - who knows), that the unruly child is also guilty of moving to support Kosovo's move for independence just to create a new market for US arms manufacturers. There are a million other nefarious reasons I could point to with regards to motive's but I'd be interested to hear what might possibly justify this move. Understanding that those very weapons will be aimed at one or more minorities in upcoming campaigns of ethnic cleansing. Dio |
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« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2008, 02:25:47 PM » |
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Yes, but before talking of "weapon market" or world war 4 mega plan, first look at the size of Kosovo.
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« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2008, 05:11:55 PM » |
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There is no such a thing as "US weapons". There are only NATO weapons, made in US or not.
US weapons simply comply with the NATO weapon standards as the US is a NATO member.
I have to disagree...I work for one of the worlds premier defense companies and trust me...There are plenty of "US ONLY weapons". |
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« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2008, 09:58:52 AM » |
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I'm tired of being deployed to Camp Eagle....maybe this is all an attempt to finally get us out of there.
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« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2008, 11:58:23 AM » |
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There is no such a thing as "US weapons". There are only NATO weapons, made in US or not.
US weapons simply comply with the NATO weapon standards as the US is a NATO member.
I have to disagree...I work for one of the worlds premier defense companies and trust me...There are plenty of "US ONLY weapons". Kosovo is a NATO protectorate. If not officialy anymore, it's still is by fact. So every weapons that lands there are Nato weapons. Or we are talking about private sales, which is an even smaller business, or we talk about illegal sales which is another debate. I don't think the kind of weapons sold to Kosovo are "US-only", they are likely to be pretty standard and nothing fuzzy. |
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« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2008, 01:33:02 PM » |
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There is no such a thing as "US weapons". There are only NATO weapons, made in US or not.
US weapons simply comply with the NATO weapon standards as the US is a NATO member.
I have to disagree...I work for one of the worlds premier defense companies and trust me...There are plenty of "US ONLY weapons". Kosovo is a NATO protectorate. If not officialy anymore, it's still is by fact. So every weapons that lands there are Nato weapons. Or we are talking about private sales, which is an even smaller business, or we talk about illegal sales which is another debate. I don't think the kind of weapons sold to Kosovo are "US-only", they are likely to be pretty standard and nothing fuzzy. I must have misunderstood your post |
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« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2008, 02:09:08 PM » |
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You mean maybe "made in US", versus "Made in another Nato country".
In fact there no or very little difference since weapons in all Nato armies are supposed to be the same.
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« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2008, 07:21:53 PM » |
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wait....they aren't the same though.
They are all types of weapons that are kept for US forces only. In fact there are nations who have fluid exportability of US defense systems that aren't even NATO. (Japan and Australia)
Are talking about small arms? There is a reason why SM-3s are not sold out to any NATO nation...we do export AAMRAM and SL-AAMRAM to NATO nations, but the newest and sensitive guided ballistics are very restricted products.
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