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<b>Dear Wojtek and Barkley,</b>
<p><b>Ohio Gov. George Voinovich came out of the closet this morning and
admitted that he is Serbian-Slovenian. Atta boy, George!!!
We knew it all the time.</b>
<p><b>Your Ohio Dutch correspondent(formerly Pennsylvania Dutch) and email
pal,</b>
<p><b>Tom L.</b>
<p>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>At 03:35 PM 3/25/99 -0600, Carrol wrote:
<br>>Apparently Yeltsin & associated mobsters have not emptied
<br>>Russia of all national integrity. From the local paper here this
<br>>morning (a Knight Ridder dispatch, dateline Moscow):
<br>>
<br>>President Boris Yeltsin, underscoring fierce Russian outrage
<br>>at NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia, responded by
<br>>severing relations with NATO, recalling Russia's representative
<br>>to NATO ...and calling for an emergency meeting of the
<br>>United States -- Ooops, I mean Nations -- Security Council
<br>>to halt the attacks. . . .
<br>>
<br>>Whether this is just a gesture while assuring the bastards in
<br>>D.C. behind the scenes that no real objections are meant, I
<br>>do not know.
<p>That is a possibility. Some time ago, a source familar with the
region
<br>told me that Milosevic made a grave mistake by siding with the attempted
<br>military coup leaders that tried to oust Gorbachev in 1989 or 90 (I
do not
<br>recall the exact date). Clearly Milosevic gambled hoping to win
support of
<br>what he saw as future leadership in Moscow, but he miscalcuated.
That coup
<br>was thwarted by forces led by Yeltsin and that explains the animosity
<br>between the two men. I hear that there is considerable dissatisfaction
<br>with Milosevic inside Russia - many Russians believe that Milosevic's
<br>uncompromising stance jeopardizes the fine line Russia tries to walk
in the
<br>times of her weakness.
<p>But I also think that Russians would be fools if they let the US to
<br>continue with its terror bombings - because that would demonstrate
the
<br>clear inferiority of Russian-made hardware, if not for other reasons.
A
<br>few downed F-16 (according to Russian sources, the Serbs already downed
2
<br>NATO planes) could restore the reputation of Russian-made weapons and
thus
<br>boost future sales.
<p>regards,
<p>Wojtek</blockquote>
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