>>213818001Russia was not our ally since forever. Also, just because Russia is helpless or unwilling to help does not mean I want to side with you. I am fine with being neutral. In fact, that was historically always our position.
>>213818125US threatened Yugoslavia many times. We also got sanctioned to hell. The army was disfunctional, the economy bit the dust in the 80s already, when shit hit the fan we were already a banana republic. All that equipment was worthless since the cadre was full of non-Serbs and it took years of restructuring. The number of equipment and soldiers on paper is not the whole story. This is why in 1999 Yugoslav army could actually put up a fight.
On top of that, Yugoslav army never trained to do what we were supposed to do.
Milosevic was threatened that if he does not withdraw from Croatia, there will be an intervention. JNA withdrew, and we left RSK only non-heavy equipment. The threat of intervention was made a lot of times after that, in Bosnia too. The war was completely controlled by America as Milosevic was righftully scared of American intervention.
Why the army didn't succeed in Croatia in the initial period of non-support from the US - I already said. Also, Serbs protested against the mobilization for Croatia. The war was not popular. I have no idea why this is, I can only speculate.
Key factors of Croatian success was Germany, which offered economic, military and diplomatic support.
>Meanwhile Russia was basically the only one arming usWeapons were smuggled in before the war even started. From eastern German stockpiles. But it is correct that Russian iglas helped a lot, for example.
>Then when Croatia entered NATO it had to give away the S-300 system to the US lol.S-300 you got was not functional in the first place, it was just brought in for the parade. I don't know if we knew this back then but it didn't matter anyways.