NATO & Russia Nearly Went to War - Kosovo 1999

In 1999, NATO and Russia came close to war over the issue of Kosovo, a tiny Balkans nation that NATO intervened in to restore peace. When a British general was ordered by his American superior to forcibly eject Russian soldiers from an airport, an extraordinary confrontation occurred between the two Allies.
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[@emunozq]

"I will not start WWIII for you". Incredible and amazing how his judgement in that split moment prevent such a catastrophe...

[@cjraymond8827]

That fear of Russians going berserk and nuking the world is their best weapon, and it’s indicative of how irresponsible Russia’s leaders are that they cultivate such concern that even the slightest provocation will result in world ending nuclear catastrophe.

[@xa-12musk8]

NATO would whoop Russia so I find it difficult to believe it would occur immediately. However it woudlnt exactly be desirable regardless

[@Kysushanz]

It is decisions like that which signify a great commander! When the heat is on, one steps up.

[@nikolaristanic3249]

​@@xa-12musk8There is no point in whoping someons ass if you risk thousands of of deaths around the world.

[@SweatyFeetGirl]

nato wouldnt whoop russia. the world would be whooped.@@xa-12musk8

[@Nord_Mann]

Thank you Mark! This incident happened while I was serving in the Norwegian military as a dentist. I had the responsibility to get the dental status for all our 1250 Norwegian soldiers in the KFOR 1 deployment and our officers. I remember just before deployment having our commanding officer, Colonel R. Mood, in the chair, when he asked me if I too was ready to go to Kosovo? I had just met a girl and declined the proposal to see the Balkans wearing green uniform and blue beret. As it happens I came to marry this girl and we actually celebrate our 15th wedding day today❤️

[@betrayal6231]

Wow. Wonderful story

[@CleverChina]

God bless. War does nothing but destroy, happy to hear you didn’t have to go through it and met the woman of your life

[@20ola02]

Gratulere!

[@johndufford5561]

Happy Anniversary from Montana, USA

[@th0mas_papill0n3]

This is so sad, Alexa, play "War, what is it good for" by Edwin Starr

[@MemphisBBQ640]

"There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed." --Sun Tzu, "The Art of War."

[@MyDadIsBillGates]

james blunt diffused the situation by singing the opposing force "you're beautiful"

[@amadeusagripino6862]

Any bad situation can be defused by this wonderful song

[@benz.]

I remember reading this story for the first time and being absolutely stunned that the Captain James Blunt I was reading about was also the musician!

[@edalder2000]

Yup. Blunt was on "Top Gear" a few years back and discussed it with Jeremy Clarkson IIRC. Not a fan of Blunt's music, but he seems a solid guy.

[@normanboyes4983]

@@zaynevanday142 Captain - actually.

[@zaynevanday142]

@@normanboyes4983 point conceded 😂

[@normanboyes4983]

Zayne van Day He was a Captain - actually. He served 6 years and commissioned in the Life Guards.

[@maverick4177]

@UCYIWA9AW8wpOlWn-SnzlRgg he was, a captain in the life guards, the ones who also perform ceremonial duties on horses in London and Guard her majesty the Queen, my friend Brendan was in Kosovo in his troop, sadly i was in the Blues and Royals so never got sent 🤣

[@billbyfield5985]

Absolutely loving this "modern history" about Russia and Europe. Keep giving us more!

[@StoccTube]

100%, anything Ukraine/Russia related either modern or less modern with modern implications is so on the money right now.

[@timmyjones1921]

Me Too .

[@_monti142]

@Right Hand ? no he was a socialist that led Serbia into deep problems

[@bosanskipatriota2295]

Is a Serb the commanding General of Russian forces? Because until now all military actions by the Russian army are by the playbook of Serbian army in Bosnia and Croatia. Another genocide it seems

[@manjelos]

@Right Hand Yep, he did stole billions, mostly from Serbs and his family live with this money in Moscow today 😂 🤣

[@thetoiletinspector6878]

2:35 Fun fact: Monica Lewinsky was under the table.

[@salvatoresquadrito109]

😋😋😋😋😋😋😍😍😍

[@user-gn2dj6ju3q]

Lewinsky zsidó származású ahogy minden Ameriki elnök zsidó azért kellett 100 millió őslakost lemészárolni a zsidók tudjanak élősködni

[@user-hv4vl5qk1u]

In fact, there are two people in the frame in this video

[@salvatoresquadrito109]

😋😋😋😍😍😍😍😍😍😋😋😋😋

[@dusankaibranimirkrekic9724]

If there was no Monica Lewinsky there wouldn't be intervention

[@uhohjrama7789]

My parents , who were divorced for a few years already, took me out of school and picked up my grandparents so we could all go camping for two weeks around my birthday in April 1999. I never thought strangely about it until watching this.

[@Zoofactory]

That entire affair was utterly confusing to understand as a civilian in the US in 1999. Mark Felton has a tendency to keep it straightforward. 👍

[@justonecornetto80]

It wasn't confusing to us in the UK. Clark was out of line and tried to bully the wrong British officer. Jackson was tough AF and took no crap from anyone but there was no way he would have risked his starting a war (and his men's lives) for a wannabe Patton like Clark who hadn't explored other options and was just seeking some glory.

[@genepozniak]

I'm actually MORE confused now. I was doing a PhD in Foreign policy studies at U of Md then, so I paid very close attention, and I'm wondering what he's talking about when he said Clinton's air war didn't succeed on its own. You can't count post-conflict peacekeepers as ground troops. Clinton's air war DID succeed!

[@vladik8843]

It wasnt confusing but there was no interest to understand

[@DragPakMerc]

@@vladik8843 No, even as someone with a desire to understand, it wasn't easy. The U.S. media presented the conflict in sound bites and video snippets, completely ignoring the historical context and presenting the motivations of the various factions in the most simplistic terms imaginable, if not glossing them over completely. The internet wasn't widely available yet, so accessing reliable sources of the in-depth information necessary to develop a reasonable understanding of the situation was difficult for the average person.

[@vladik8843]

@@DragPakMerc thats ur problem. The media. THE MEDIA IS ALWAYS LYING. You need to stop listening to the media. And really dig for info.

[@davidpeters6536]

"And the French pulled out leaving the British alone..." Another 1st rate video from Mark.

[@ComboMuster]

That line in the video clip had me in stitches!

[@paladinsmith7050]

😂😂

[@buryitdeep]

Maybe tongue in cheek payback for Dunkirk?

[@josephking6515]

_And the French pulled out leaving the British alone..._ Again??? 😬Why am I not surprised. Maybe they needed more cheese. 🤦‍♂

[@edwinsalau150]

And Hungry refuses to allow over flights to the Ukraine today! Way to go! I am sure people will remember!

[@ChrundleTGreat]

I was one of the first US forces to enter in June 1999. But I worked together with the Russian Army a year later to close the ground safety zone and to safeguard a Serbian village called Pasjane

[@Djomla_87]

USA+UK=EVIL

[@SerboFaca1]

I have friend from Pasjane

[@TheCrazySerbian1]

Pasjane is village in Gnjilane area

[@Lilly-hh9es]

..Sad what happened to Serbs who lived for centuries on their land Kosovo 😢

[@MaxRockatansky78]

Это вы классно придумали))) сами разожгли конфликт, сами помогали защищать)не тебе лично адресовано, старина, ты врядли в чём-то виноват😊

[@reorioOrion]

In fact, the NATO war against Yugoslavia is much more important than many might think. Read about the "turn over the Atlantic" ("Primakov's loop") This event, which became a turning point in relations between the Russian Federation and the United States. Half a year after the end of the NATO bombing, Yeltsin resigned, transferring authority to a former member of the KGB - Putin. There are much fewer historical, linguistic and family ties between Russia and Serbia than between Russia and Ukraine. However, Serbia is an Orthodox country - the successor of Constantinople. As is Russia. We have one religion. 100 years ago, defending Serbia, Russia got involved in the First World War. It was the bombing of Yugoslavia that showed many Russians that the path of openness was wrong. Thus, Russia gradually began to embark on the path of militarism.

[@kiki-zt8fz]

true

[@gahdhsh623]

don't forget about chinese embassy being targeted by nato in 99 aggression... after that chinese never looked at usa the same. underrated moment in history

[@youwayo]

This is really scary.

[@marionuka5158]

Nato Intervened coz was a bloodshell against Albanians,ethnic cleaning, innocent people masacred from Serbian Army. The Butcher of Balkan was repeating Bosnia. thats why they stepped up. And for your info When Nato intervened in Kosovo, Yugoslavia was gone long time ago so stop ur Blasphemie.

[@reorioOrion]

@@marionuka5158 Good. Let's play that game. Russia intervened in the civil war in Ukraine, which was started by Nazi butchers - fans of the Nazi Stepana Bandera. These Nazis burned people alive in Odessa and killed the children of the rebellious republics - the DPR and the LPR. From 2014 to 2022, they (only officially) killed over 8 thousand residents of the DPR and LPR, more than 200 of whom were children.

[@Chief-Solarize]

I remember when this happened. I was in basic training. Our instructor called about 15 names and we stood up. He said after basic training you guys are selected to work perimeter security at a military base in that region. It woke us up really quick to how we have to always be ready to go to war. Luckily it was a joke but it taught us all alot about being soldiers.

[@archlich4489]

Thank you for your service!

[@teen_laqueefa]

Thanks for your story

[@cv507]

i remembär währruß xD whörrvieh bässtärt v v

[@jamiestewart9407]

Top level banter

[@guy7gsa]

Thanx for sharing.

[@TURBOWILEY]

So sad. I remember when I was in Kosovo in 2001 I met a number of Russian soldiers. They had a BTR, and they allowed us to check it out. We exchanged patches and MREs. It's sad to see the state of affairs these days.

[@adnanabdullahu]

Where were you in Kosovo?

[@TheVanpablo79]

You let rats live? Coward

[@donaldfeger91]

That was cool thank you for sharing your story!

[@InfernoSRB]

@@adnanabdullahu just outside of Illyria 😄

[@ZhuJo99]

@StrongRUSSIABraveCHECHNYA=UNDEFEATED You can hardly be attacked by NATO when you invaded sovereign nation. That is a defense, not an attack. You are attacking these days and Ukraine has a full right, as a sovereign state, to ask for help anybody they want to. Russia has no right to tell any other sovereign nation (Finland and Sweden included) what alliance to join, where to send their military equipment etc.

[@vukasin2323]

When they ran out of military targets,which happened pretty fast, they switched to bombing TV stations(which were in residential areas, a bomb fell 50 meters fromy my house and destroyed the neighbours yard), factories, railroads, bridges were down which the first few weeks.

[@Blrmq]

Spokesperson of the Chinese Mission to the EU said that as a Cold War remnant and the world's largest military alliance, NATO has not yet abandoned its thinking and practice of creating "enemies" and engaging in bloc confrontation 30 years after the end of the Cold War.

[@trog7986]

That's funny coming from the CCP

[@drazantodoric6040]

This video tells about another of the series of crimes of the NATO fascist alliance. In the video, they show many time-proven criminals and corrupt politicians from the AMERICAN AND ALBANIAN SIDES. AMERICA, as always, was "SENSITIVE TO THE SUPPRESSION OF CIVIL LIBERTIES" and, as always, unerringly CHOSEN THE CRIMINAL, FASCIST SIDE AND ALLOWED THE SEIZURE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TERRITORY OF A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY (read the history of SERBIA, ESPECIALLY KOSOVO AND METOHIA, CAUCASIAN ALBANIA, AND ESPECIALLY THE ARRIVAL ALBANIANS INTO THE TERRITORY OF THE PRINCIPAL OF DUKLJA 1043AD AND THE UNAUTHORIZED TRADING OF THE AGREEMENT WITH PRINCE VLADISLAV, WHO RULED DUKLJA, AND WHO GAVE TEMPORARY PERMISSION FOR THE CAUCASIAN ALBANIANS, WHO FIGHTED IN SICILY FROM 836-1043AD AND LOST THE WAR, TO TEMPORARILY REMAIN AS REFUGEES. ALBANIA THE NCI HAVE TRAMLED AGREEMENT AND REMAINS FOREVER.) SEE WHERE IS THE BIGGEST WING OF THE SICILIAN MAFIA IN SICILY AND WHAT IS IT CALLED (it has an ALBANIAN NAME). FROM THAT YOU CAN CONCLUDE WHO THE ALBANIANS ARE. THE ALBANIANS MOVED FROM THE TERRITORY OF FORMER DUKLJA, WHICH THEY ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED, TO THE TERRITORY OF SERBIA (KOSOVO AND METOHIA). They are still looking for the conquest of the northern part of SERBIA, as well as NORTHERN MACEDONIA, MONTENEGRO, CROATIA, GREECE... The state of AZERBAIJAN KNOWS WHO THE ALBANIANS ARE. THEY CALL THEM THEIR ANCESTORS. (AZERBAIJAN IS ON THE TERRITORY OF THE CAUCASUS) !!! EVERYONE KNOWS WHO THE ALBANIANS ARE, AND NO ONE WANTS THEM IN THEIR COUNTRY. BEFORE WRITING THIS, I READ HISTORICAL FACTS FROM SOURCES FROM GREAT BRITAIN, AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA, GEORGIA, RUSSIA (Dagestan), ARABIA, TURKEY, GREECE (BYZANTIA), ITALY (Sicily), CROATIA (DUBROVNIK), MONTENEGRO (Duklja) , BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, SERBIA ...

[@BojanPeric-kq9et]

@@trog7986 I find it funny that you never even heard about Wolfowitz's doctrine

[@1chish]

Just to add some further context to what happened: The Russians were able to get to Pristina because the actual NATO advance was delayed because the US forces were late and Clark wouldn't let anyone else start without them. So everyone waited, the Russians saw an opening and went for it. Great battlefield opportunism. What Mark missed out was not only did the French bail out of the operation to Pristina the Americans did as well. So we had an American General looking to have UK Paras and light armour go forward alone. So eventually Blunt got to Pristina and was leading his armoured recon squadron from D Company Blues and Royals but had hard nosed Paras itching for a fight with him as well. having recced the situation they stood back and referred to KFOR HQ by radio. In fact the order to attack the Russians came directly to Blunt from Clark not Jackson as expected and it was Blunt that refused. “The direct command came in from General Wesley Clark to overpower them.” Blunt said later. “Various other words were used that seemed unusual to us. Words such as ‘destroy’ came down the radio.” Where were the US troops at this point? “Bringing up the rear.” Blunt and the Bs & Rs officers queried the order twice and and resolved to disobey it if repeated a third time. However 'Word' had got back to UK command and as Clark himself was on the radio a third time to Blunt, General Jackson came on the radio and told Blunt to ignore the order and "Sugar off round the airport with 1 Para" which Blunt did. Jackson went to Pristina airport by helicopter and spoke with the Russian 2 star general there in fluent Russian. With a flask of whisky. He realised they would fight but were cornered. It was later that Jackson met Clark in Skopje NATO HQ and despite Jackson briefing Clark about the situation he had personally seen Clark still ordered an attack to which Jackson refused twice more and even made a call to UK Chief of the Defence Staff and when Clark yet again ordered an attack Jackson made the famous comment with cold formality: “Sir. I will not start World War Three for you.” The story doesn't end there but I have taken enough bandwidth!

[@jedimindtrix2142]

History is full of individuals taking a stand which shaped the future in large ways. This is one of those awesome stories.

[@gromovnik178]

Thanks man,i was there...truth

[@tnr9012]

Does it seems that the US generals have been hitching for the third world war ever since? Hmmm🤔 God, save humanity from these bunches of blood thirsty individuals...

[@Followme556]

Reconnoitered the situation.

[@thetoaster501th4]

Will this be in the history books?

[@BatMajor]

I was in middle school when this happened and I remember seeing the picture of the downed US bomber on the front page of the LA times. I remember asking my teacher what this could mean and he said "If this conflict gets out of hand this could mean World War 3" coincidentally we were learning about WW2 at the time.

[@duskosekulic5143]

And it did cause WWIII as we can see now...

[@duskosekulic5143]

@@Dave-ty2qp Well,we agree on that one. Never again. Every nation for itself. Serbia will never again help anyone getting out of Austro-Hungary empire. It was a bad idea indeed.

[@clvrswine]

Sounds like B.S. to me. I doubt you saw this. I doubt you asked your teacher anything.

[@rcdarkangel]

@@clvrswine You seem like the kind of guy who spins a lot of bullshit so no doubt your an expert.

[@guenthersteiner8163]

Technically it was a fighter-bomber

[@paulgaskins7713]

That bombing of the Chinese was not only not accidental but it was warranted as well. The Serbs are pretty smart and we’re able to take down an f-117, the only one to ever be lost to enemy forces, and they had given the Chinese a whole wing with all of the electrical components from the cock pit as well and we had to do what was absolutely necessary to keep that technology from falling into their hands

[@bgdabg6769]

It's still with Serbs. What you say is just...hospitals, tv, bridges, trains, homes...it was all places Serbs were hiding f-117?

[@Quoteonquotebread]

Hmm it’s not like the us had plenty of f 117s downed in Vietnam and never carpet bombed them

[@rider6500]

If you don't want your technology to fall into other people's hands, don't invade their countries. I bet the Chinese have never forgotten about this attack and will get payback one day - like dozens of other countries that had their people murdered by US soldiers over the years.

[@toblerone072]

Serbia downed 3 invisible birds... 2x F117a nighthawk and B2 Spirit over Croatia...

[@frenchcat2910]

​@bgdabg6769 Don't commit genocide, it's that simple.

[@rankingresearchdata]

NATO was offensive against Serbian in this war and killed over 3500 civilian and 800 soldiers. Also destroyed their hospital, passanger train, supply chain, infrastructure...

[@Tjalve70]

I believe that when James Blunt was on Top Gear, telling about this incident, he said that his group set up camp, and he started playing the guitar to entertain them. The Russians heard this, and came to meet them, Asking if they had any food and possibly other supplies to share. Blunt then said "Sure, if we can also share the airfield". Which the Russians agreed to. Whether that only meant NATO forces being allowed to use the runway, or whether it meant blocking it for Russian forces, I don't know. I might misremember some details, and I can't be bothered to look for the correct Top Gear episode. But anyone who want to look for it, can check.

[@G31M1]

Damn you, you made me really curious now hahah

[@andrewroberts5917]

Instantly thought about that top gear episode when I seen the title

[@typhoonb1]

Soldiers on the inside of the tank guitars on the outside!

[@Ocker3]

@@typhoonb1 acoustic armour? ;)

[@20PhantoM07]

Your spot on that’s what he said, I was wondering if he would be mentioned so I was thrilled when he was, he’s a top bloke.

[@urbanplanner7200]

General Westley Clark now has a major financial interest in mining operations in Kosovo.

[@valenrn8657]

After the Kosovo war... From NYTimes Date: Dec. 11, 2012 Asked for comment, former officials involved said their business dealings with the Kosovo government would benefit Kosovars by building a more prosperous economy. “We’re going to employ people, provide training, create exports and help the country grow and develop as a democracy,” said General Clark, who is chairman of Envidity, a Canadian energy company seeking to explore Kosovo’s lignite coal deposits and produce synthetic fuel. ... Lawrence Lessig, a law professor and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, said the appearance of “cashing in” risked undermining the prestige of the United States by clouding the humanitarian nature of the 1999 intervention, which was aimed at ending Serbian atrocities against Kosovars. ... General Clark said it was “insulting” to suggest that there could be any conflict between private profit-making and his past responsibilities. “My business is aboveboard, transparent and helps the Kosovar people,” he said. “We are going to use a resource that had no value to the Kosovo people and bring in hundreds of millions of dollars of investment.”

[@valenrn8657]

Westley Clark's paternal grandparents, Jacob Kanne and Ida Goldman immigrated to the United States from Belarus/the Russian Empire. LOL. Victoria Nuland's paternal grandparents (surname Nudelman) have immigrated to the United States from Ukraine/the Russian Empire. LOL The father of Victoria Nuland, a surgeon, professor of bioethics, and writer Shepsel Ber Nudelman decided to Americanize himself by changing his name to Sherwin Nuland. Immigration cause: In response to the Pale of Settlement and anti-Jewish violence from the Russian pogrom. Old world baggage returned against Russia!

[@applegg501]

@@valenrn8657 I knew him when his name was Wesley Kanne. His mother remarried a Clark, giving him his current name, Wesley Kanne Clark.

[@zachhoward9099]

Oh wow, thank you for the information.

[@TXLorenzo]

The ironic thing was the Russian unit sent to Pristina was part of the Russian Airborne Brigade serving as part of the Multi-National Division US in Bosnia. The whole problem could have been avoided by letting the Russians in on the operation as they were already cooperating in Bosnia. It was a stupid diplomatic blunder by NATO and could have easily been avoided.

[@mig-29]

Although illegal, their "declaration of independence" happened in 2008. There wasnt any small European nation of Kosovo in 1999. It was FR Yugoslavia. Very unbiased information from you.

[@marionuka5158]

a small reminder for you also it was called Albania till 1945. Then they split the land between the hyenas. and by the way you like it or not thers live 98% Albanian ethnic. so 0 fuks given to ur dreams

[@jackpavlik563]

It was made an autonomous region by Tito in ‘74. That autonomy was reduced by Milosevic in the late 80s.

[@adindrecaj]

hey vatnik, arent u supposed to be on the frontlines getting blown to bits by FPV drones? get outa here u little rascal

[@dujal8923]

it became autonomous along with Vojvodina to reduce Serbian demostic power in Yugoslavia because they had the biggest influence. that's why there was no autonomous provinces in Bosnia or Croatia at that time@@jackpavlik563

[@lux637]

@@jackpavlik563Autonomous region that belonged to Serbia this way or another. Never a republic on its own.

[@johnmunro4952]

I remember James blunt telling this story many years ago and some journalist looking into it expecting it to be Bullsh*t, only to find it was 100% true. blunt really is an exceptional chap.

[@craigmc83]

It's amazing isn't it

[@irishboer7124]

Yeah, he .is a soft english pansy who refused to fight Russians he outnumbered 5 to 1

[@fludblud]

His twitter roasts are also incredible

[@scottessery100]

His beer 🍺 is nice too

[@markhirstwood4190]

So many English are exceptional, it never ceases to amaze me.

[@Bibky]

The fact that this isn’t widely known among the American people is horrifying, we love to downplay its significance as a foreign policy failure.

[@hotstepper887]

You all know nothing about history. At uni, we even had think-tanks set up discussing why the Americans don't know anything truthful or real about history, and why they refuse to believe the factual history.

[@BaronvonBlutwurst]

And President Thirdgradetwice is next to make an error

[@DickCheneyXX]

The failure was the cowardice of the British here... The failure in America happened in 1949 when we failed to wipe out Russia in a preemptive full scale nuclear extermination.

[@hotstepper887]

@@DickCheneyXX Your country is by far the most cowardly country in the world. One thing nobody who studies world history would ever be able to seriously call the British is cowards? I mean, that is actually hilarious to read from anyone, but from an American? COMICAL. You need an education that does not consist of US propaganda and outright lies.

[@hotstepper887]

@@DickCheneyXX HISTORY LESSON.... The rubbish the Americans all shout and claim about WW2?, is nothing but complete and utter bull they've all been spoon-fed from birth? We endlessly read them claiming things, that are untrue, and are really disrespectful lies? We read them endlessly, trying to suggest the USA somehow saved the UK, in WW2? How many times have we all read that? Only, the reality is, and the truth is, that all the known facts of WW2, show us the exact opposite is actually the reality, and truth, as I'll explain, and I'll explain, with only truth and the real known facts, facts anyone can merely go and look up, to learn all about themselves! The USA, only saw the chase of Germany back to Berlin in Europe, during WW2. And what we see and read them all claim about the War in the Pacific? Well, you'd actually believe only the USA fought Japan in WW2? What rubbish that really is! We should all know the truth, we used too! And that truth is, that the American people themselves, really supported Germany in WW2, (only so many have no idea today). The American people, themselves, protested in millions, against supplying the British. Millions of them wanted to support Germany. My grandad told me (when I was a kid), that the British troops had heard the American's were protesting against the British over the radio, (they weren't supposed to be able to listen to). And from then on, they all became known as the "cowardly Yankers" (obviously meaning W****rs). Even when they eventually got here, someone would always shout out and say, "here comes the cowardly Yankers", we can still watch the footage of the first Americans landings, in the UK, (In the online British war archives) and you can hear some of them shouting out, calling them cowardly Yankers. And It's not hard to see why. The USA waited, and they waited, and they waited, for the Germans to defeat Britain. The USA even put up with 1000s of tons of their own shipping in the Atlantic gap, being sunk by German U Boats, killing thousands of American Merchant Seamen, yet still, Roosevelt refused to declare War on Germany! And let's not forget? Hitler had made his intention of global dominance, known in 1936, meaning, it was always going to be a world war. The USA tried to suggest it was "just another European War", but were soon forced to change their minds, as soon as, and only because, they got attacked at Pearl Harbor. Otherwise, the USA were doing nothing, and they had refused to do anything. The Americans only arrived, after being forced to fight, with the attack on Pearl Harbour, and to help with the final assault in Europe. More truth is, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the British declared war on Japan without a second thought, and they then fought Japan long before the USA did, (In the Battle of Hong Kong). But the USA, once again, still refused to declare war on Germany (who were Japan's ally)???. And that actually speaks volumes about the USA. It really says it all, they all really believed, and they really thought the British would be crushed by Nazi Germany, and they waited, and they waited, for Germany to defeat Britain. Roosevelt, even refused to allow Britain the use of 50 old, half sinking, rotting, wooden, WW1 destroyers. Just left rotting away in US waters, as Roosevelt had an election coming up, (and he knew it would not be welcomed by the American people). What does that actually show us? We needed them to patch up, to use for the protection of our convoys, convoys that were carrying the kids, (our parents and grandparents), from the Island before the Blitz! Roosevelt only agreed, after the UK agreed to give up all of her military bases across the world, and lease them all to the USA for 100 years. Some ally hey? And just look what they've done with those military bases since? By the end of 1941?, Britain had survived Dunkirk. Britain had survived the blitz. Britain had beaten Germany in the Battle of Britain (alone), Inflicting Hitler's first defeat, his first airborne defeat. Britain had held Tobruk, and forced Rommel all the way back to El Agheila, where he came from. Inflicting Hitler's second defeat, his first land defeat. Britain (with tremendous support from her Commonwealth) had overcome the mass of German U-Boats in the North Atlantic, and was receiving most of her needed cargo again, Inflicting Hitler's third defeat, and first Naval defeat. While over on the other front, (a front only opened by Hitler, because he could not defeat the British), the Soviets, at a massive cost of over 10-20 million men, had turned Germany around (in the battle of Moscow) and were now forcing them back to Berlin and their demise. That's also the point of WW2, where every historian agrees and says Germany could no longer win the War. That was all before the end of 1941. When did the American arrive? Well? Exactly. In Europe, we'd been through, and we'd survived Dunkirk. We'd been through and we survived the Blitz. We had fought, and had won, the Battle of Britain. We had fought, and we'd won, the battle for the North Atlantic. We had fought, and we'd won, in the African desert (twice). And we had been successfully destroying German resources, weapons factories, submarine infrastructure, and chemical plants, and the critical oil refineries right across Europe in country after country. We were also fighting in Greece, in Egypt, in Burma, in Singapore, (our biggest ever military defeat) and many other places around the world. Sure, we had some hard times. Sure, we lost a few battles. But we won far more! We were never beaten, or even close to being beaten. The closest Britain came to defeat in WW2, was right at the start, in Dunkirk, the USA were no part of the war then, and again had refused to be. Surely, the whole world knows this? So where these Americans get this notion from, that the USA saved Britain?, or in fact, saved anyone else? Nobody knows, it's so insulting, and it's so wrong. Saved Britain from what exactly? When, and where, did the USA save Britain? Where was Britain losing the war, that the USA saved us from? We were winning the war! Tell us all about this saving of ANYONE?

[@jimduffy7199]

Congratulations on your channels. The quality of your research, and strict focus on facts, is superb.

[@thijshagenbeek8853]

The moment your troops call you Darth Vader you've made it.

[@jonathanperry8331]

The way they shot down that f-117 with their low frequency radar was fascinating. It is very unreliable because of the noise that it picks up like birds and weather but if you get lucky it will pinpoint a stealth fighterhter

[@Rudizel]

Is there a story out there about this?

[@user-sr6ys3ff8g]

it was definitely smart by the serbian general but nato was also using the same path over and over so it definitely made it easier

[@user-sr6ys3ff8g]

@@Rudizel yeah there are plenty. just search f117 and results show up about it being shut down

[@RandomGuy-ej5dr]

Nah bro, we just didn't know it was invisible

[@lukamarko1037]

What you can't see can't hurt you

[@zarathustra498]

The Chinese embassy was not bombed by mistake, the US airforce had the whole country mapped and used smartbombs that were precise enough to enter a window if wanted to. My dad worked as a lead engineer in a refinery that was bombed (Novi Sad) and he says all the hits were in the most vital parts of the refinery and if wanted to disable the plant he would have chosen exactly the same targets in the same order. So I assume all the targets were investigated in detail by experts and approved before the actual bombing took place, in no way was it a mistake

[@smithfinland214]

five months after the bombing, The Observer from britain along with Politiken from denmark, published the results of an investigation citing anonymous sources which said that the bombing had actually been deliberate as the Embassy was being used to transmit Yugoslav army communications.

[@WellBattle6]

There’s been some reports that it was the Hotel across from the Chinese embassy that was transmitting Yugoslav Army communications, as the owner was a known backer of the army. These reports conclude that some NATO dumbass concluded that the intelligence they received on the radio signals that the Chinese embassy must be the source, rather than the hotel.

[@Ralathon12]

I've heard it said it was observed that Chinese ambassadors had been purchasing pieces of the downed F-17 and was an attempt to prevent anything being leaked to China.

[@TheConflictLibrary]

The Chinese Embassy was also suspected to be housing the only downed F-117 in the embassy. The Americans had aimed for the underground parts of the facility to destroy their downed F-117 before the Chinese could steal the stealth technology.

[@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692]

@@TheConflictLibrary What bullshit. What possible incentive could Yugoslavia have to give it to China and therefore antagonize Russia?

[@bigtony4829]

Wow James Blunt ....Bit of a dark horse there 😄 Great video ..

[@DominicFlynn]

Kosovo is not a nation, even today. It's a part of Serbia under international law.

[@BeyondNormal.]

It is not, it is independent and recognized by the civilized world.

[@johnbrown8570]

@@BeyondNormal. “by the civilized world” aka I’m a Nazi and I look down on Serbian and other races I see as subhuman. How does it feel to be a fascist? How does it feel to use dehumanizing language so casually?

[@xic2365]

@@BeyondNormal. ah well the UN resolution says quite different, asshole! also beginning with a war which was not under approval of the UN

[@distilled78]

I went to Kosovo after the war with my Father. He was a Foreign Aid Project Manager tasked to rebuild and modernize factories for building roof tiles. I didn't understand his misson until we went there. There were so many houses without roofs, especially around Prishtina. All broken from gun fire and bombs. They said that even a bomb hit like 50m away would blow all the roof tiles off and shatter them. I've seen houses basically intact but missing all the roof tiles. So no insulation in harsh winter times. It was really hard for me to see all the destruction after the war, never seen anything like that. I'm from Germany btw. His office was directly in Prishtina and he had local employees (albanians) working with him for this mission. We had to use electricity generators most of the time to keep the office running as the power was only available at certain times. So strange to have to get fuel so your computer can run. All people i met there were really nice to me (maybe because i'm german) but i noticed the very deep rooted hatred between albanians and serbs. He could not mix the ethnicity of the employees because the employees would basically fight in the office. I could never comprehend that. The KFOR Troops were still around (germans in my area) and it was really strange to walk past a Main Battle Tank or Infantry Fighting Vehicle parked in the middle of the street to get my Doner from the local shop. The german soldiers were really nice though and after knowing i was german they always greeted me or even saluted when i would walk past them on my way to the Doner shop. Well that is my little story i wanted to share. Make Peace not War.

[@Mondo762]

Good story. Thank you for sharing it.

[@Cheeki_breeki6]

It's crazy because most Albanians I've met are some of the nicest and most intelligent people. Many speak multiple languages and I noticed Albanian Muslims and Christians get along perfectly.

[@pamperedmaster8690]

I hate that this hate between Serbs and Albanians still exists. As an albanian I hope this ends in future generations.

[@theoutlook55]

Thank you so much for sharing your personal story. It paints such a vivid picture and goes a long way toward helping outsiders like myself appreciate things.

[@657449]

Great story. A lot of problems would be solved if people talked to each other and not about each other. Every group has its good and bad people.

[@Mediaevalist]

It is truly frightening, how many times mankind narrowly escaped a large scale conflict or even nuclear war, mostly not due to political decision-making or doctrine, but by individual people simply using their sense of reason like Stanislav Petrov. Thanks for another gem, Mr Felton!

[@Ilsimeone]

I highly doubt that Russia would have started WW3 because of 250 soldiers at Pristina Airport.

[@willw8011]

LMAO, no one was ordering the British to start a war or even attack the Russian troops. The British have a habit of habitually lying and slandering the USA and Americans. This comes from the British ego and inferiority complex. Funny how Europeans always attempt to talk tough and slander the USA and Americans.

[@mbaxter22]

Who would have thought that James Blunt and Stanislov Petrov would go down in history as two of mankind’s greatest saviors.

[@chico9805]

@@Vel_D Compared to similar operations undertaken by America, for example, I'd say Russia has a great deal of care for civilians and enemy combatants alike. I'm yet to hear news of Putin ordering the bombing of a children's hospital, like his contemporary Obama did, in Syria.

[@teabagtowers3823]

@@Ilsimeone It seems like Russia and Britain were both being sensible as they had troops in the firing line. Meanwhile, that gung-ho idiot General Clark was trying to start a fight thank God General Jackson was bit less stupid.

[@zachf3788]

I can't believe I found out James Blunt was a military man from a Mark Felton video.

[@JJ-nj3pd]

Fun fact. Captain James Blunt is the British pop singer, who sings “you’re beautiful”

[@saltymonke3682]

Thank you James Blunt. For preventing WW3. In fact, one of his song was dedicated for a KIA American officer he knew briefly during KFOR operation. "Carry You Home" is the title if you're wondering.

[@GTAplayajk]

Thank you James Blunt for preventing WW3...but "you're beautiful" is a No lol

[@grigorov3323]

Thank you for postponing*.

[@user-iw1jq1tf8t]

Blunt indirectly caused the disasters in Ukraine today.

[@zidorovichburblyatya2862]

@@user-iw1jq1tf8t So we should let the nukes fly then, eh? Americans really love trouble and you don't realize that.

[@user-iw1jq1tf8t]

@@zidorovichburblyatya2862 Arthur Neville Chamberlain, the former British Prime Minister, had very similar argument in 1938.

[@cte4dota]

As Serbian im 100% sure that accidentally bombing of Chinese embassy with high precision rockets is not ''accidental'' at all. Because remains of downed stealth f 117 where there, they bough it for huge money and it was top notch technology what Chinese did not have.

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

Your comment makes zero sense.

[@cte4dota]

@@sheilamacdougal4874 What?

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

@@cte4dota You heard me.

[@cte4dota]

@@sheilamacdougal4874 I did and i don't get you? You have no idea how war work obviously.

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

@@cte4dota Your conclusion (that the bombing was not accidental) is ridiculous, and your argument for it (some nonsense about a downed aircraft) is absurd. NATO lost more than one aircraft, and they didn't bomb the remains of their aircraft anyway, and the 3 people killed in the accidental bombing were journalists who had zero relation to any downed aircraft. You just make up bullshit because it fits a conspiratorial narrative you prefer to believe. Perhaps psychiatry might help.

[@fpscanada3862]

Hey Mark. What is that notch on the kukri blades that make up that Gurkha crest? My brother had one and i never knew what the notch was for

[@MegaEssin]

Its so that blood wont run down onto the handle and make it slippery and hard to hold onto.

[@fpscanada3862]

@@MegaEssin that just doesnt make sense. Its a notch not a channel

[@RasVoja]

Fun fact: International mediation that will resolve Kosovo status (under which Milosevic signed reatreat) never occured

[@MartinMartinm]

Mark's videos are simply unmatched to anyone on KZbin. He's such a natural talent.

[@mr.onethirtyeight5088]

It's up there with the guy that does "Timeline" history channel.

[@PanzerBuyer]

I've watched his subscribers skyrocket.

[@matthewishunting]

He's a cultivated talent* he's worked hard on his craft. He didn't just wake up and pump out great doc

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Interestingly enough, in Serbian mythology Kosovo is seen as a stumbling stone, judgment stone. Place where kings and empires will be broken and punished by God. In 1999, US and the West, at peek of their power, choose to break international law . In their hubris they taught that no one could touch them. It was prophesied they would be severely punished for this. At that time it all sounded foolish. But look now, God has indeed struck them with an iron rod. Lead by fools, wallowing in their own filth and degeneracy, their children mutilating themselves, and their enemies getting stronger. Kosovo indeed became a stone on which they broke their heads.

[@spitfireace87]

@@PanzerBuyer yea i was here when he only had a few thousand and couldn't figure out why hahaha

[@jondoe9548]

The fact that we get free documentaries on KZbin by Mark Felton Productions is truly a gift 👍👍👍

[@blackmantis3130]

It isn't free

[@robertbullock6360]

I recently started listening to Wesley Clark’s comments on the Ukraine war, he spoke about his time as NATO commander but this didn’t come up. He was also valedictorian of his West Point class of 62. Impressive man

[@RogerChabotBIA]

You fail to mention the Canadian 1PPCLI Battle Group, and the Tanks of the LDSH, that I was part of KFOR in 1999. As a member of B Coy, 1 PPCLI, we were based in Magura, near the Pristina Airport, and on top of conducting our operations to disarm the KLA, we also had to monitor the Russians activity around the Airport. A very dangerous time... it was like sitting on a bomb that could explode any time.

[@vladtheimpaler2930]

Yeah you had guys from Québec there too

[@mobilizedpanda3795]

Dr Felton deserves all the praise he gets, his content definitely lives up to the hype. Thanks Mark

[@nozrep]

yes!

[@stopitas5790]

dr felton you have very interesting content on the channel. I have a remark regarding this video. some of the information you provide is false, missing or incomplete. I worked as a VJ officer in Kosovo at the time. Kosovo in that period was not a republic or a state, but a province. Kosovo was attacked by the Albanian regular army in co-operation with the KLA. NATO bombed civilian targets throughout Serbia. since 1980 there has been no peace and there has been national tension on both sides.

[@colorona8456]

Only until you learn about his plagiarism and in many cases right out wrong statements as well as many assumptions stated as facts. Don't get me wrong - his videos are entertaining and I watch them too and enjoy them, but you should still take it with a grain of salt and not just blindly trust a youtube-vid, just because it's by a "historian".

[@mobilizedpanda3795]

@@colorona8456 Lies

[@yellowwasprakija2869]

The facts in this video are one sided and quite simply not true in many parts

[@MatijaCG]

Interesting fact: During WW2 an air battle over Niš in modern-day Serbia occurred on 7 November 1944 between the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) and the Soviet Air Force, which was one of the few direct conflicts between these two nations.

[@stefanjoeres7149]

Pretty sure the US and Soviets fought each other during the American Invasion of Russia after WW1...

[@whyareyoureadingthis5308]

There were also dogfights between the UN and Soviet aircraft in korea

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

@@whyareyoureadingthis5308 Actually it wasn't NATO in Korea, it was UN forces, but that's just a minor point. The interesting thing is Russian pilots were suspected of being in Korea flying North Korean and Chinese Migs, but there was no way to prove it until the Soviet Union collapsed and the information was revealed. It should be noted the Russians flying in Korea were doing so under the handicap of strict radio silence which made things very risky for them.

[@stopitas5790]

Mogu ti reći da dobar dio informacija ne dostaje .

[@lt.lasereyez8891]

@@whyareyoureadingthis5308 There were Soviet pilots in Vietnam as well

[@batdovlutin]

0:35 Kosovo never wasn't a nation. Serbian and Albanian nations live on Serbian region named Kosovo. You need to read more history about this themes if you want to give the right informations to people.

[@sesad5035]

Some countries recognize kosovo.

[@veternik-4563]

​@@sesad5035they can recognize them but until Serbia recognizes them they can't be independent state even if all other states in the world recognize them and that's by the international law, they same law who was applied for aleged war crimes and expelling of Albanians because the main reason for bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 was aleged Rachak massacre that was later conffesed by Germany and others that was not a really a massacre. That false accusation was a excuses for bombing. Also did you hear about yellow house were Albanian criminals and terrorists were harvesting organs from Serbian civilians and also other Albanians who were against war with the Serbs. It's shame that they have burned many houses, churches and monasteries in Kosovo that are twice as older that America.. basically Kosovo and Metohija are our holy land and we will never surrender those lands. Our time will come, we were under Ottomans for nearly 500 years and we survived and managed to liberate from them. Same will be with the Axis of evil the west and Albanians and others who are trying to take our fatherland, maybe not now but we will never surrender.

[@BojanPeric-kq9et]

@@sesad5035 it is always good thing to support the country which gave most ISIS fighters per capita.

[@borisznidarsic9346]

Where is clip about conflict between albanians and north macedonians? How will you explain albanian expanson intentions.

[@oliverpetroski4205]

Exactly. I'm still waiting for that video. The world must know.

[@Tarik360]

How do you accidentally bomb an embassy?

[@john_something_or_other]

Misidentification of the building, off target missiles, incompetence.............

[@filipskalic3376]

F117 parts were in it allegedly

[@MrSstiel]

The book Great Military Blunders had a chapter about this too. Thank goodness for Sir Mike Jackson's judgement.

[@Angel9932]

In some re-tellings the quote from Gen. Jackson has been mis-attributed to then Capt. Blunt.

[@mikehipperson]

@@Angel9932 Oh yes, the first light tank into Cosovo with an acoustic guitar strapped outside the turret! I bet the thought of him singing to them caused the two factions to drop their guns and surrender, instantly! 🎶"You're beautiful! They say" 🎶

[@Porsche996driver]

Jackson’s judgment? You mean cozying up to the Russians?! What was his agenda in allowing them to control the airfield and disobeying an order?!

[@MrSstiel]

@@Porsche996driver The consequences of a NATO-Russia war in 1999 could have been catastrophic. That's the sad thing about the war in Ukraine, the Russian government's considerable supply of chemical and nuclear weapons as well as conventional forces.

[@stevie6621]

This paved the way for what is happening in Ukraine.

[@hansolo1571]

you support illegal separation of country and bombing you allow others to do the same. Ukraine war is now "accepted as normal" by Russia, since west did the same.

[@carloshannon8346]

No. US betrayal of Georgia paved the way

[@mladenperic843]

In 1999, NATO did something in Kosovo that will be regretted for a long time. They violated international law, and are directly responsible for everything that is happening in the world now.

[@user-re1ef7es9c]

True they helped albanians from kosovo who were under a genocide by serb forces, and because of that the african kids are hungry ukraine and russia is at war, the UFOs wont visit humans and because NATO stopped a real genocide happening the tsunami hit japan back in 2011.

[@dejansavic261]

thru

[@hansolo1571]

supporting illegal declaration of Kosovo and bombing to prove a point, just legalized everything Russia is doing to Ukraine. In terms of morality, west can't say anything to Russia and that is the problem, guilty accusing guilty.

[@whoifwhat]

agree- war crimes !

[@cgross82]

I wrote a paper on the air war and KFOR peacekeeping operations for my U.S. Army Combined Arms Services Staff School (CAS3) in 1999. I thought that I knew quite a bit about it after that, but you have certainly schooled me today with your video! Also, ironically I was an Army Bandsman who later became a commissioned combat arms officer (I am still a professional musician today), but you told us about a Royal Army Officer who later became a successful musician! Keep those true stories coming, Mark!!

[@muamermalik781]

Greetings from Sarajevo Bosnia

[@kentallard8852]

Kris Kristofferson was a Ranger before becoming a musician.

[@andrewmstancombe1401]

The Rolling Stones Bill Wyman ex RAF Conscripted 1955 but signed on for a further year

[@davemis40]

James Blunt .. has sold more than 20m albums worldwide .. other famous army musicians ? Jimi Hendrix and of course Elvis !

[@vladik8843]

Greetings from Kosovo

[@_007B]

Mark deserves so much credit for this channel. The amount of history, critically important history, that he has covered so much in depth is such a treasure. Thank you Mark, we appreciate all of your work dearly!

[@burnallempires3595]

This story about the conflict in Kosovo is completely one-sided, using the war propaganda of one side (America) as a source, and even falsely states that Kosovo was a republic within Yugoslavia. Kosovo was a province, as part of Serbia.

[@yellowwasprakija2869]

This is the CNN garbage version of event. Completely glossing over facts

[@Julian-4]

Mark Felton has been called out for falsifying information and for being one sided, he’s HARDLY anyone to thank or consider a treasure

[@jamesmccallum6770]

We could do with Mike Jackson now. Great video!!

[@Nperez1986]

I remember this as a kid...not alot of people in the US even know what Serbia or Kosovo are :(

[@Ungovernable_Schizo]

The graded school systems here really dont mention anything about these “smaller conflicts” compared to like both World Wars and Vietnam, Iraq, etc. Maybe in college lectures though.

[@nodamiaen]

given the events of the ongoing conflict in ukraine, i'd like to request a brief overview of the 2008 war in georgia/south ossetia, which has important geopolitical parallels to the current conflict (specifically, russia's outright and clear desire to prevent further nato ascension of nation states on its borders)

[@whatservicetojoin8593]

Good Idea !

[@darenzy]

Or South Ossetia and Abkhazia in 1

[@vutruong7761]

Even Nato admitted that Georgia the one who attack first on South Otessia and Abkhazia thus not much military actions were taken by Nato

[@jeffhouston4365]

Nato trained georgians and prepped the invasion for the same old reason: divide and rule. It was a try... The US took it more serious to try it thru ukraine: Maidan in Kyiv 2013, sending neo-nazi and kyiv troops to Donbass in 2014; 8 years of training and prep for proxy with russians in 2022. Everyone knows that "unprovoked russian offensive" sounds silly.

[@mihkelkm3068]

@@jeffhouston4365 damn man,i know retards when i see one

[@kippamip]

I remember going into the Airport whilst in Kosovo as I needed a nato travel order as my passport had ran out. We needed to pass through the Russian contingent to get to the part where the UK contingent was. When we came through the gate, they stopped us and immediately started to haggle with us for certain pieces of our equipment like boot's and smocks etc. We were offered world war 2 medals and all sorts of stuff. They were cold worn out and no doubt short on supplies. You kind of felt sorry for the ruskies as you could tell they were up against it. Looking back I wish I had stuff to trade just for the memorabilia.

[@kippamip]

@Bryan Kirby I was just a young trooper at the time so I didn't want to trade my pro boots or cold kit 😂

[@warrior6803]

You should’ve gave them your sister

[@luciaconn6788]

imagine the material shortages they're having now

[@mintheman7]

Not much has changed in the Russian army today based on reports from Ukraine

[@warrior6803]

@@user-otzlixr yes no you want your sis back i had her long enough

[@michaelpurtell9744]

I remember it well I was part of the Irish Guards Battle group when we went into Kosovo.

[@dejanmmatic]

Ко вас је звао да долазите у моју земљу,да нас убијате и да отимате нашу територију и дајете је суседној националној мањини? Агресори и убице а сад тражите поштовање права у Украјини. Нема права бес више, НАТО га је уништио

[@carloshannon8346]

Just before my time. Was there for telic 10 but everytime we played 'kosovo Micks' would have loved to be in for Kosovo

[@bizzleb7524]

French leaving the Battlefield what a Shocker...................................Brilliant video as always very informative Mark

[@WhaleMountain]

I love everything Mark has talked about and all the topics his videos go into depth about. Mark could talk about anything and he would have my direct attention. Brilliant work.

[@D-E-S_8559]

The oddity of WESTERN THINKING! A consortium of western nations can gang-up and illegally invade other countries under the same international law---but for some odd reason, because they are MANY and constitute some of the MOST powerful nations on earth, they are allowed to get away with it, they face NO CONDEMNATION nor calls for accountability, for millions of deaths in the countries that they illegally invade, under the disguise, illusion and abuse of "democracy".... Now, Russia is one single country, but their decision to invade another country in defense from alleged genocide of Russian speaking communities, is NO DIFFERENT to the same rationale used to invade Serbia and liberate Kosovo----the difference, is in the number of countries that partook in that decision to invade Serbia a sovereign republic itself.... Now, I DO NOT begrudge the Kosovan's their right to self determination---by then why would I equally begrudge the East Ukraine the very same right...???

[@patrickconnolly8616]

General Clark, along with the whole 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, always seemed pretty sleazy imo. Idk, that whole period from 1999-2003 where the US was heavily involved in regime change and other peoples business seemed sort of arrogant and pointless. We were the sole superpower and had the potential to use our political, military and economic influence to do some real good in the world but instead we bombed civilian targets in Serbia, got ourselves involved in a 20 year failed conflict in Afghanistan, and created an unstable government in Iraq. Still love my country, just not our leadership

[@dzonikg]

A hones American..nice to see..i am from Serbia ,was young then ,"pro western" before that and i just could not explain to my parents why NATO bombing my small town in middle off Serbia when there was no military 50 km around..what was point except meaningless destruction (also my house destroyed and my younger sister god diabetes from stress)

[@dragonstalk86]

At the time everyone was high on globalism and the neo-liberal western order, nobody ever stopped to consider that maybe we were the real bad guys

[@JaaaRossi]

@@dzonikg NATO tried to stop the ethnic cleansing of Albanians in Kosovo in 1999 but allowed ethnic cleansing of Serbs in 2004. And he is wrong about the targets of the bombing. Targets were Yugoslav air force and tanks, but majority of them were civilians. Now Kosovo is a number one "state" in Europe for terrorist, drugs and human organs export.

[@ervinhaxhiaj5456]

Milosevic just like Putin now was committing genocide against Albanians...if people thought like you Hitler would of had won the war...I guess you are ok with too? 🗽

[@ralphalvarez5465]

1999 - 2003?? The era of regime change? I guess we should have just treated the destruction of the World Trade Towers like the bombing of the USS Cole and embassy bombings in Africa. For that matter, don't forget Mogadishu where Americans where dragged through the streets. Don't worry, your boy was too busy lying to the American people about a young female intern rather than flexing that "superpower" muscle.

[@lazarstojkovic5969]

You can also watch a movie about this called “Balkanska medja” its a good one

[@mgthekangaroo]

What's the music in the beginning of the video?

[@Top_Weeb]

I really appreciate that you're covering history related to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

In Russian eyes: Ukraine = Yugoslavia Donbass region = KosovO Azov battalion = KLA Putin = Clinton Zelenskyy = Slobo Russian military = NATO

[@rumpstatefiasco]

@@AndyFromBeaverton Beaverton always has far more common sense than Portland. Your comment is additional proof of that.

[@timtam53191]

And I like how he manages to keep it strictly factual and non political.

[@dzonikg]

@@AndyFromBeaverton I am from Serbia and similarity is obvious ..If west recognised Kosovo should also Donbass..but what every west media forget to tell is that they etnic cleansed Serbs there..60 000 Serbs lived in Pristina before NATO came..now 0 ..including half off my family

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

@@dzonikg I went to an anti-war protest in Portland during the war. None of the usual anti-war left was there. It's strange how the left loves war when their guy is in charge. I called into a NPR talk show, hosted by Juan Williams at that time, bringing up all the atrocities committed by the UCK/KLA. He questioned his guest about every terrorist action I cited (because he didn't believe me) and his guest said I was 100% accurate. I remember Jamie Shea accusing Serbia of holding 50,000 Albanian prisoners in Pristina Stadium to justify NATO action? I'm kind of shocked Putin hasn't been citing KosovO as a justification. Strange that Putin creates war when Biden, Obama, & Bush were in charge but did nothing during the Orangeman period.

[@dineauxjones]

Hey I remember this. I was stationed at Fort Polk. The battalion I was in already had a company deployed to the Balkans, the rest of us in garrison were on alert during this time thinking the rest of us would be going. Thankfully cooler heads prevailed, and I didn't end up dead in some eastern European countryside 20+ years ago.

[@gunner678]

I was on the first hercules into the APOD. It was disconcerting to land with a dozen BMD turrets turned in our direction.

[@kikkk1073]

@George Thomas the beauty of balkans

[@karolinabasaric770]

You have lucky angels action on Yugoslavia🤣 you's from sky like pigeons. No otomans, no germans stay cold after fight with people from this balkan evroeastern vilage. Goodbay brain, you don't know nothing.

[@plaguerim5608]

"I was stationed at Fort Polk" fate worse than death

[@freeofbug4761]

One thing you have forgotten, ONU has never approved the NATO operation (as it was done for Irak and Libya).

[@ramizberisha5517]

Great historical presentation

[@eelismartin4927]

My dad was a UN peacekeeper in northern macedonia from 1999 to 2000. He said it was weird and scary time.

[@GegeDxD]

Peacekeeper? Is this how they call themselves? Why they don't go to Ukraine to keep the peace there? Why always go to do aggressions to small and poor countries?

[@eelismartin4927]

@@GegeDxD United Nations doesn't have any correlation to NATO. UN peacekeepers are in a spesific area to guard civilians from any crime or violence. Ukraine doesn't have any internal struggle. They are unified nation now that the war has started. If there was some internal struggle, UN would be there. War with russia is an external problem.

[@sekulicprodukcija007]

@@eelismartin4927 UN "peacekeepers" were actually part of aggression. Your dad never told you the full story about his time in Balkans.

[@p.s.l7777]

youre dad is a hero support from denmark

[@f4stpoke133]

War criminal

[@rightlyso8507]

Yes, this was due to Wesley Clark, another failed general. Afterwards, it was strongly downplayed in our mainstream media. But, I do remember several NATO (Brit?) higher-ups giving interviews on how the head of the NATO forces, Clark, almost precipitated a war with Russia.

[@Porsche996driver]

BS! General Jackson so close to the Russians apparently sympathized with them!

[@refixed]

I just watched an interview with him the other day, war mongering about Ukraine

[@petehaack5228]

He was not exactly regarded very highly when I was on Active Duty either.

[@rightlyso8507]

@@petehaack5228 First of all - THANK YOU for your service! Yes, I'd heard he couldn't care less about any of his men or duties. He was only concerned with "optics" as to his political ambitions.

[@petehaack5228]

@@rightlyso8507 Thank you, I do appreciate that! One of the absolute finest Commanders I ever worked for in my well over 30 years of service was on his staff and despised him. As that Commander had my utmost respect, that about says it all about Clark

[@panzer-schreck7032]

My Uncle Was in the KFOR in the Bundeswehr, but he never speaks about it. He was Hauptfeldwebel

[@user-dp4sp8cv9g]

Nobody believe that hiting Chinese ambasy was a mistake,specaly not Chinese!

[@alexanderherrmann743]

The media didn't even tell this story in the US. I found out about this incident on Top Gear from James Blunt.

[@Manco65]

I've known about this cluster from the time it happened. Clark had always been a very "political" officer from day one and Clinton's fair haired boy in the military. And don't even get me started on the false promises made to Ukraine back then.😡

[@mbaxter22]

Makes you wonder what they’re not telling us about Ukraine, like the Azov types murdering Ukrainian civilians that try to flee besieged cities.

[@MultiLeapinglizard]

Why were the U.S and the U.K there in the first place?

[@PanzerBuyer]

I heard about it kindof during the time, BUT apparently it was propaganda since they said Americans DID block the runway. Fog of War...

[@devilsadvocate7389]

@@MultiLeapinglizard maybe it has something to do with Serbians committing war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide (only one in Europe since WW2) for a whole decade before that. NATO effectively stopped a genocide by stepping in.

[@tdolan500]

Finally James Blunt is getting the recognition he deserves! Edit: I hadn’t watched the whole video and was actually joking.

[@PanzerBuyer]

Apparently he does deserve some credit for not killing Russians.

[@Kefuddle]

@@PanzerBuyer tbf, ultimately, that was his job...or to find the Russians for others to kill.

[@ytcensorhack1876]

He didnt kill any russians? So i assume he didnt sing 2 them then 😉

[@Kefuddle]

@@ytcensorhack1876 :D :D :D

[@angrydoggy9170]

@@PanzerBuyer He left that task to the special forces. Don’t be mistaken, NATO forces did effectively prevent the Russians from allowing the genocide to go on.

[@prypiatshadow6371]

Just found out James Blunt served in the military. Wow.

[@carloshannon8346]

Coldstream Guards. One of the units that guard the Royals

[@sankarchaya]

Its so wild to think how James Blunt of all people helped prevent WWIII from starting in the 1990s.

[@simoncoker3180]

Very informative, but you've missed the bit where Mike Jackson asked his staff to contact the MoD in UK and subsequently George Robertson and Tony Blair. I was on duty that night a, took the initial call and set up secure party lines for the discussions which included Sec(O), Dep D of Ops.

[@ceanu9636]

James Blunt was one of the first senior officers on scene at Pristina airport. Mad to think the man who sang 'You're Beautiful' could have started WW3 😆

[@andybrown4284]

An encore might have tipped the balance

[@nickelbackfan]

I think it goes to show that life truly is a comedy

[@peterbrown1012]

I wouldn't say he was a senior officer, he was a troop leader, a Lt.

[@ceanu9636]

@@peterbrown1012 true but you see what i mean. He was one of several commanders at some level present for the situation. I think he spoke about having to have his guitar strapped to the outside of his tank.

[@oliverreedslovechild]

@@peterbrown1012 He was a Captain.

[@KrisWustrow]

Excellent video. Currently (October 2022), I often see Gen Wesley Clark as a CNN military analyst on the Russo-Ukraine War, and honestly I never knew about his background related to this standoff. Thanks for the research, professor.

[@ProfessorXplain]

Totaly biased, cnn version. There was aggresion on Yugoslavia without the UN approval, so according to definition state terrorists led by criminals Bil Clinton and Medlin Olbright.

[@teddybitner3302]

Thanks for this review, can't believe I missed it when you first posted it. I was involved in operations in Bosnia from 1994 to 1996 and know many of the individuals featured in this incident. General Clark's behavior in dealing with the Russians was pretty consistent with how he handled other situations - particularly his ill-advised meeting with Ratko Mladic in 1994.

[@sttvoyager1727]

Wesly Clark is INCREDIBLY INCOMPETENT

[@4evertrue830]

Can you believe he once contested to be the president of the United States.

[@onebridge7231]

General Clark failed to listen to reason an was not an adaptive leader. Too used to getting his way and firing off directives. Great job Commander Jackson. Love how he stood by his morales and confidence in his own ability to say ‘No’. The one word in the English vocabulary stronger than ‘Yes’.

[@justonecornetto80]

Mike Jackson was a highly respected officer in the British army and took no crap from anyone, especially a wannabe Patton like Clark. I'm just glad he was given political protection afterwards and went on to become Chief of the General staff unlike Colonel Tim Collins whose career was ruined by a US witch hunt during the Iraq war.

[@calc1657]

The action encouraged further Russian aggrandizement.

[@crownprincesebastianjohano7069]

I have met Wes Clark twice. He is not a terribly pleasant man.

[@mojo9291]

I did not know that detail about James Blunt!

[@mraso30]

Really been enjoying your modern history and analysis Mark. WW2 is awesome still too, but for the time being this all seems very prescient. Well done on all of it :)

[@joeeagles7528]

Accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy? No way. I live in Belgrade, close to this building. The embassy is now gone, replaced by a Chinese cultural center. Next to it is the new Japanese embassy that wasn't there in 1999. There are no other embassies in that part of town (New Belgrade). All the embassies are either downtown or in a neighbourhood called Dedinje. NATO said they mistook the building for a building of the Yugoslav Army. Bollocks. The bombing by the way, was organized and directed by the CIA. The embassy was targeted because it was being used to transmit Yugoslav army communications. That whole military intervention btw. was illegal. It did not have the approval of the UNSC, was in violation of several UN charters, international law and the Helsinki Accord. It was also against NATO's own directives because Yugoslavia had not attacked any NATO country. Next to hitting military targets, NATO also hit civilian targets such as buses, a commuter train, the open market in Nis, refugee convoys, hospitals and random houses in random villages. I have seen that all with my own eyes. Not withstanding that Albanians in Kosovo were treated like second class citizens and that Milosevic was a big crook (and there were many big demonstrations against him during the 1990s), the intervention was illegal. When Milosevic was forced to the negotiating table, he gave in to all demands, except one: the complete and unhindered access to all the territory of the FR of Yugoslavia by NATO. That effectively means occupation. Even Kissinger said that was over the top. This was all Madeline Albight's doing whose family Serbia saved twice when she was a child. Albight's investment's firm later did business in Kosovo, as did Wesley Clarke. Clarke btw. was soon after the incident with the Russians sent into retirement. The Kosovo campaign was a blueprint for NATO's later campaigns in the Middle East and now Putin is copying that blueprint under the banner of "denazification". Same illegal campaign.

[@_monti142]

couldnt have nailed it better

[@fuzailfarooq6919]

Class comment

[@sevasthvostanski5588]

@@_monti142 that's why god rewarded you 2 years later 09 11 2001. proof that there is a god

[@blakebrown534]

@@sevasthvostanski5588 Learn to interpret English properly. He said he very much agrees with the description given.

[@diotone5580]

Thank you for pointing this out.

[@paulbeesley8283]

I have heard that when Jackson, was commanding a parachute battalion in the 1970s, his men would wear t-shirts bearing the slogan, "I Serve The Prince Of Darkness." It is remarkable how people can surprise you.

[@deanbuss1678]

Thanks!

[@hoffmiermp]

The Clinton pic made me nauseous.

[@sladetuner8661]

A Rapest and a murderer

[@vermontvermont9292]

I second that.

[@tetab4795]

Nauseated

[@stefanfreestylez]

Reminder that there is a statue of him in pristina 😑

[@alexanderhikel2350]

The guy got sucked off but at least he stopped a genocide

[@Mark-yy2py]

Although general Clark is highly intelligent-he graduated first in his class in West Point-He was more of a political general than a military general. I remember he was a big swimming fanatic and every place he would visit- such as a military base- would have to make sure the base pool was ready for his swim...and no one else can swim when he took his laps.

[@koa5702]

I heard that he really likes coal mines in Kosovo, he says he likes the smell of mines, the millions he earns from them do not interest him, a wonderful man, among other things, like the vast majority of NATO and US high command

[@gillesderais3848]

When he was SACEUR and at SHAPE he would go swimming every day, very early in the morning when the pool was still closed to us.

[@fazole]

@@koa5702 I can't confirm that, but from the Bidet involvement in Ukraine business, I don't think it's impossible. However his political career went nowhere and he exposed the Neocon plan (after the fact) of starting wars in the Mid East. Iran was on that list.

[@koa5702]

@@fazole That's a problem with people, I don't mean anything bad because you don't know, but thousands, millions of people have been killed or displaced, their lives shattered, because of the wars fought by NATO and the USA fighting for "democracy" and behind that was just a thick disgusting interest.People just won’t check,to investigate, I’m not asking you to trust me or anybody else, investigate on your own, in detail,then you’ll see how the dice fit together. It's all one huge fat, disgusting lie and what's worst, when the avalanche starts it's hard to stop, now these people really hate each other, unfortunately, because of course someone died or who knows what. Sad and disgusting,sad for both, these people and also for those soldiers who were just exploited becouse they honestly thought they were doing a good thing

[@stevenhandorf3145]

Clark always struck me as being very arrogant and contentious.

[@timmiekat6072]

Funny seeing James Blunt play a major role, I was expecting him to pop up here but still

[@rumpstatefiasco]

Sobering: one principled man with a spine can make the difference between continued relatively peaceful International relations or potentially massive international conflict. Let us pray that such men are in the right place at the right time today.

[@pjbrawn2646]

Let's hope so because I can't remember a time when all our leaders were was stupid as ours are now

[@rumpstatefiasco]

@@pjbrawn2646 Same here… and I’m a fossil!

[@stevenpremmel4116]

I heard that since that incident the Russians are also trying to develop an obnoxious yet self-aware middle of the road singer capability.

[@christophersmith5691]

Apparently they do have a man (man?) who can do silly walks

[@nozrep]

lol

[@stefanschleps8758]

lol Hilarious!

[@LowFlyer]

Slight correction; around 4:30, you say that the Yugoslav air force was very active - in reality, the fleet was grounded within the first few days, because the outdated, under maintained and outnumbered jets stood no chance whatsoever against nato aircraft

[@c431inf]

Absolutely magnificent work sir , one of the best out comes of that campaign was the removal of Clark from any further command

[@calebassassin]

Thank you so much for this channel. I’m a huge history buff and you give so many interesting stories I’ve never even heard about. Thank you so much for all you do🔥

[@kuzinnik0543]

My Uncle was there at the airport as a russian soldier, he told it wasnt as "epic" as it is described and most of the command only realized what happened after the brits are on the way, after which they flew in additional units via helicopters

[@MrLordingit]

Did growing up in Colchester influence your interest in military history?

[@ciiicc865]

Where is the part about bombing the bridges, oil rafiniries, civilian trains?

[@whoifwhat]

not in official version !

[@Redri747]

Love your Historic updates . Great work and presentations