• Sal@lemmy.world
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    I always find it hilarious when certain types complain about Yugoslavia getting bombed, and almost every time I see it it’s either a butthurt Serb nationalist whose daddy should’ve gotten blown the fuck up or an “axis of resistance” dipshit whose entire ideology revolves around “USA and NATO bad and anything against them is good”.

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      Man had some fucking charisma to keep Yugoslavia together mostly-peacefully for as long as he did. Also, killed Nazis and was a genuine socialist.

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    Weirdly, that was exactly the time even the president of USA tried everything to switch focus to anything else from Monika Lewinsky.

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      … the scandal broke the year before, and Clinton had already been acquitted by the Senate after impeachment proceedings at time of the latter intervention.

      Maybe not everything in the world revolves around domestic US politics?

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        That’s why it’s weird.

        Also, at the time when US started the intervention in Serbia. Monika Lewinsky scandal was still in the news.

        Sadly I know that, because I was already alive back then… Maybe you should say please when you ask chatgpt next time?

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          I wasn’t just alive but full adult. Your memory is wrong. The Clinton scandal was a year before Kosovo. Clinton had already been acquitted. It was still talked about by comedians. Comedians still talk about it today.

          But it had absolutely no political benefit for Clinton to bomb Kosovo AFTER he was already acquitted.

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            I bet they talk less today and Monika then they did then. What do you think?

            I didn’t say Clinton did, but I remember many have claimed that, that’s why I remember. I might have hinted it a bit, because of the similarities, but I have no horse in the race here.

            Very funny exchanges.

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              People might have claimed that Clinton would start a war during the Lewinsky scandal. But he didn’t do anything until AFTER it was over.

              Starting a war as a distraction AFTER a scandal is over and acquitted makes no sense. No one claimed Kosovo was related to Lewinsky after acquittal because it was already completely politically finished.

              Comedians still joke about Trump bankrupting casinos. But no one claims that Venezuela is a distraction from comedians talking about Trump’s casinos.

              Trump raping children is still politically important because Trump hasn’t release all the Epstein files.

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                Scandal was not over after he was acquitted. I don’t know why you would think that would happen in politics.

                Not sure why you care so much, but I don’t, it’s just a interesting similarity, you can say it’s not, don’t care. Nice chatting with you. Bye.

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                  Scandal was not over after he was acquitted

                  It was over completely. Polls after the acquittal showed Americans supported Clinton more than before the impeachment. So while it was still a popular joke, it was a political gain for Clinton.

                  Not sure why you care so much

                  Because you remembered something completely out of chronological order. Then you claimed you have no horse in the race.

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          lol dude here naysaying the historian with vibes. Flesh and blood, but artificial intelligence