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NATO’s War of Aggression against Yugoslavia

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

Summary:

The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia began on March 24th and ended on June 10th, 1999. It lasted 78 days.

According to various sources, up to 2,500 inhabitants of Yugoslavia lost their lives during the operation.

The official reason for the start of the operation was, allegedly, the protection of the Albanian population of Kosovo.

That is how the West interpreted the operations of the Serbian police and the military against the terrorist organization “Kosovo Liberation Army”, which controlled almost 40% of the Serbian province’s territory and violently fought against “Serbian occupiers”.

NATO assured the public that it would only target military facilities.

Yet, the result of the aggression was: 25,000 destroyed homes, 470 destroyed kilometers of roads, 595 destroyed kilometers of railway and 38 destroyed bridges.

Then: 14 damaged airports, nearly 40 damaged hospitals and clinics, almost a 100 damaged schools and kindergartens, and 176 damaged cultural monuments.

In total, 38% of bombed buildings were actually civilian.

Loses:

The overall damage is estimated to be from 30 to 100 billion dollars.

It is believed that between 1,200 and 2,500 people were killed and 6,000 people were injured.

In total, there were 2,300 air strikes on 995 buildings across the country.

About 420,000 bombs were thrown on Serbia, including those filled with depleted uranium.

The symbol of suffering of the Serbian people was the murdered three years old Milica Rakić. The house where she lived with her parents was hit by a NATO bomb.

Jamie Shea, the secretary of the Alliance’s media, called the civilians who were murdered during the NATO bombing “collateral damage”.

Epilogue:

Regardless of the foreseen disarmament of KLA terrorists, Kosovo formed its defense corps, the security forces, and ultimately an army in 2018.

Regardless of the Resolution 1244 foreseeing the territorial integrity of Yugoslavia, Kosovo still declared “independence” in 2008 with the support of a number of members of the international community.

After the arrival of international forces on Kosovo, more than 200,000 Serbs and other non-Albanian people has left the province.

Those 78 days of fear, violence, terror and destruction mustn’t ever be forgotten.

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hey! im not that well versed on all things space bc it's a relatively new interest of mine. how come ive seen so many blogs post about not wanting the other nasa logo? you totally don't have to answer, i just saw that you reblogged a post about it :) hope you have a good day!

By the other NASA logo do you mean the worm or the wormball?

And to answer your question, I’m think the logo arguments are pretty much entirely aesthetic. Some people think the worm is dated and ugly, other people love how sleek it looks. Some people think the wormball is a good compromise, others think the aesthetics are clashy (I’m in that boat.)

For reference, here’s some NASA logos. The ones under the cut are a little rare and honestly you don’t have to care about them, they just look cool.

This is the meatball. It’s the original from the 60′s and it’s still in use today. Detailed yet clean. Gorgeous. The swoosh is a tie in with the aero side of NASA and the stars and orbit with space. The serif lettering manages to look classy rather than dated. Even if this isn’t your preferred logo, you have to respect how it’s got the perfect amount of detail to look interesting while also being ca clean design.

This is the worm. It was an attempt to modernize the logo around the start of the Shuttle/Skylab era. If this was for any other agency, I admit the worm styling would be a little dated. But personally, I think this logo brings back some of the enthusiasm of the early Shuttle era, just like the meatball brings back the energy of the Apollo era. It’s striking, it’s recognizable, and it’s one of my favorite worm stylings. (Compare it to SF MUNI’s worm logo, which was so cluttered I, as a local, didn’t notice it said “muni” until I was a teenager.)

This is the wormball. (Wikimedia was giving me trouble so it’s just a transparent background; I actually don’t have this one saved on my laptop for personal aesthetic reasons lmao.) Some people love it, but you will never convince me to. 100% personal preference, though, so if you love it, that’s fine, just keep it away from me. It’s like pineapple on pizza; you either love it or you hate it, but you’ve definitely got a strong enough opinion to argue about it.

This is NASA’s seal. You’ll only ever see it on official documents and things like that. It’s not something that’s displayed very commonly on, say, the wall of a NASA facility, and even less commonly on spacecraft. I believe this has been in use since the creation of the agency.

And, last but not least, I’d like to leave you with how the insignia is displayed on NASA aircraft, because they all. Look. Sick.

When they display the meatball on the rudder of an aircraft, like on SOFIA here, they omit the meatball and stars and display it like this! It looks cool as hell and it looks even better on aircraft where the rudder frames it nicer. (While I was searching around I saw a mockup for a meatballess wormball and it didn’t look awful.) Maybe we should call this the vegan meatball?

It’s also displayed like this on aircraft that were associated with NASA/USAF’s hypersonic research program in the early 60′s. Some pilots from this program went on to become astronauts.

... Including Neil armstrong who flew the X-15 above.

Aircraft from that program also featured a pretty neat rudder: it has this yellow stripe with NASA in a serif font that's unique to this design, as far as I know.

The first photo is Neil's X-15 again, the other is Dick Scobee's X-24B.

Lastly, the worm was plastered unedited onto aircraft during the worm era. It didn't always look good, but it looked too sexy on the X-29 to not include a pic.

(All photos are mine from NMUSAF!)

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