I'm largely familiar with the critiques about NATO intervention in Serbia (let me know if I missed something) but I'm really not sure why anti-interventionists can criticise what happened in Bosnia.
How do you respond to the argument that NATOs involvement here was a massive net good and stopped a genocide?
I know that it probably had less than benevolent intentions (likely trying to destroy a potential counter to neoliberalism in Serbia and steal Bosnian resources for west corporations) but that doesn't mean it didn't have good effects, just like ending Japan's empire wasn't motivated by any kind of love of the Japanese people but still had massive benefits. (Would also like to take a moment to soapbox about how Pearl Harbor/Hawaii was once a country that was couped by the USA and capitalists in the 1890s).
Both interventions were ostensibly to protect civilian Muslim populations from Serbian Christian militaries.
It seems that these interventions would undercut the narrative of Al-Qaeda that the United States was on a 'crusade' against Muslims. At the time, did these interventions engender any goodwill for America from Muslim-majority countries?
I'm also struck that Bosnia and Kosovo both contributed not insignificant amounts of recruits to ISIL/ISIS. Did the US/NATO interventions in the Balkans have any effect on promoting radical Islamic movements within these counties?
>THERE IS STILL so much that matters. For Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic, who says he lost several family members to the virus, the task ahead is vital.
>His home country, Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been ravaged by COVID-19, with over 200,000 confirmed cases and 9,600 deaths reported to the World Health Organization, but it still has very limited access to the vaccine.
>"They just have donations, but not enough to vaccinate the people," Nurkic says. "I tried to buy it for the whole country. I figured out the money, the plan and everything. But we still can't do it.
>"Even if we find vaccines, I guess United States laws say that until the American people are vaccinated, you can't sell it. So, I don't know what else to do. I really tried."
>What's even harder, Nurkic says, is knowing how much vaccine supply is going unused in the United States, which he would gladly purchase for his country.
>"All these countries are suffering and you have the United States, obviously the No. 1 in the world, has the vaccines and people don't want to get vaccinated," he says.
>"I just feel like humanity has kind of failed, because all the countries around should get at least some of those vaccines, right?"
>Last July, just as the NBA's bubble was beginning in Florida, Nurkic learned that his grandmother in Bosnia and Herzegovina had contracted COVID-10 -- and treatment options were limited.
>"After 17 days, she survived the COVID," Nurkic says. "Then on Day 19, she had a heart attack. It was unbelievable."
>Nurkic got the news as he was on a bus to a game.
>"At that point, I wished I could just take a plane to go to the funeral," he says. "Probably, if I could do it again, I would do that. It's difficult when you're really far away."
Great stuff from Nurk.
I saw that one of the hot posts relates to the shitty practices of Unicredit Bank when it comes to crypto related business. This bank has recently lost a 128 million EUR suit related to crypto in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This bank is losing money fighting a battle against crypto windmills it isn't even funny.
Google Translate of the article:
"BANJA LUKA - Banja Luka's "Unicredit Bank" is obliged to pay 256 million marks in compensation to the company "Bitminer Factory" from Gradiska due to a failure that led to the failure of the project for the production of cryptocurrencies in Gradiska, the CAPITAL portal has learned.
The epilogue is the largest cryptocurrency dispute in Europe, which was conducted before the District Commercial Court in Banja Luka, and which lasted a little less than two and a half years. Both parties have the right to appeal this verdict.
The company from GradiΕ‘ka had a plan to produce electricity through renewable energy sources, which would be partly sold to a partner company for cryptocurrency mining, while part would go to the electricity network.
For that, they needed investors that they attracted by issuing digital tokens in exchange for money collected through an account opened in "Unicredit Bank" in Banja Luka.
However, as soon as the payments started to arrive, the bank decided to return them, justifying that it cannot do business with companies that deal with cryptocurrencies, which was the first thing CAPITAL wrote about in this text last year.
As the entire project was founded and imported through Blockchain technology, there was no time and space to open new accounts, so the project was doomed from the start.
The court in the verdict, which is in the possession of CAPITAL, states that the bank did not prove that any act had a prescribed ban on entering into business relations with clients dealing with cryptocurrencies.
"No act of the defendant, and this primarily refers to the contracts on opening accounts and general business conditions, did not prescribe a ban, nor was it proven that there is any ban on the defendant's business with persons dealing with cryptocurrencies in any way, so the court cannot accept these claims . Also, the evidence conducted during the procedure shows that the plaintiff did not trade cryptocurrencies or activities related to cryptocurrencies, but collected funds in order to implement the project of investing in renewable energy sources and investing in hardware equipment, "Judge Igor D
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Hello Redditers of BIH, I just wanted to ask you if you think Bosnia-Herzegovina should join NATO or not in the near future?
NATO and Bosnia-Herzegovina share a lot of recent history. Firstly with NATO intervention during the Bosnian war, then the NATO IFOR and SFOR peacekeeping missions, and most recently your government sent 130 troops to help NATO led forces in the middle east.
I don't wish to start a argument I just want to find out what people from Bosnia-Herzegovina think about joining NATO.
