Then Clarke ordered troops to block the runways to prevent landings - now since presumably the 200 Russian troop had taken the airport with the intention to use it, you couldn't block the runways without opposition from the Russian troops already there.
Then Clarke managed to close the airspace of neighbouring countries.
As for vladimir's
I don't know how you can "oust" a battalion of 200 men without threatening to fire on them.
Now, this is all very strange considering that NATO and Russia were supposed to be on the same side here. BBC News | EUROPE | Confrontation over Pristina airport
General Jackson tells the BBC: ''We were [looking at] a possibility....of confrontation with the Russian contingent which seemed to me probably not the right way to start off a relationship with Russians who were going to become part of my command.''
As has been pointed out around here, the Russian perception of relationships with The West™ changed dramatically after the Kosovo campaign. During the 1990's they seem to actually have believed the US and its allies were genuinely interested in partnership. In addition, Bush started off being very friendly to Putin but after a couple of years Putin realised Bush wasn't to be trusted. We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
yup, it's hard when you're looking into someone's soul to stop them looking right back at yours...
putin has been restrained in his responses considering how bushco's behaviour has been one long windup.
he's right not to take bush at face value, apart from being much smarter, he is better placed to take advantage of current and coming events than bush, who has already won his place in notoriety as the most recalcitrant ignoramus ever to steal a country's vote.
...and then reduce everything he touches to gold, for his friends...
....to dust for everyone else ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Reality is just never that simple.
