Clip Of Biden Boasting He Proposed NATO's 78-Day Airstrikes On Belgrade Goes Viral

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Both Russian and Chinese media and state officials have in the last days been widely circulating a resurfaced video from 1999 wherein then senator Joe Biden bragged about being the first US official to propose bombing Belgrade and destroying the city's infrastructure.

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suggested bombing of Belgrade. I suggested that American pilots go there and destroy all bridges on the Drina," Biden had said at the time.
The 78 days of air strikes lasted from 24 March 1999 to 10 June 1999. The bombs kept falling even on Serbia's Easter - called Pascha - which is the holiest day of the Orthodox Christian year.
"I was suggesting very specific action," Biden said while seeming to praise his own 'muscular' proposals which helped lead to the NATO war against the Serbs.

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Russian officials used the clip to blast Biden over his latest description of Vladimir Putin as a "war criminal" and "thug" due to the invasion of Ukraine. It's also getting wide circulation on Chinese social media.

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China's mission to the EU also called out prior US action over what was Yugoslavia, condemning the outrageous May NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy - which killed and injured multiple Chinese nationals and journalists.

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The Chinese diplomatic mission in the European Union said on Thursday that Chinese people could fully relate to the suffering of other countries because “we will never forget who bombed our embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia”.
“We need no lecture on justice from the abuser of international law,” it said. “As a Cold War remnant and the world’s largest military alliance, Nato continues to expand its geographical scope and range of operations. What kind of role has it played in world peace and stability? Nato needs to have good reflection.”

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