Bosnian War

Yeah.

So I was born in Bosnia and shortly after the Bosnian War started and we moved to Serbia.

A couple of years later, the NATO bombings occurred and it was a very fascinating childhood.

I wouldn't say I have a lot of memories from my childhood, but I have enough.

Sarajevo.

Anyway, she wants to write about the Bosnian war, this huge, and in particular, like i googled it afterwards because i even i don't know that much about it um why'd i say like such a like oh even i who knows everything i don't know much about the bosnian war um the and i had i found out it's this 14 1425 day siege is how the war ended anyway all these terrible atrocities and things happen into it so she goes there and she wants to do it and what the film ends up becoming it's not really a movie about someone writing about the Bosnian War and being inspired by it and writing about the atrocities of it or whatever.

The film actually becomes sort of tackling the key question of is it okay for her to, to write about that? There's like an earlier scene in where she's attempting to talk to someone and, um, uh, they say, why do you want to write about this? And she's like, well, I'm Polish basically saying that because Poland's it's, it's, it'd be like, I dunno, saying, I don't know.

I'm trying to think of a good Sam fucking New Zealand.

I mean, Emmanuel will talk about his emotions, but for me, it was like Sarajevo has been part of my European history.

When I came here and started working as a journalist after being a student, The Bosnian war, the Balkans war were the first major crisis that I had to deal with in which the EU was complicit as well.

And that's when some of the masks that I, then some of the fabrication and some of the fiction that I had around Europe and its power to bring peace to the world, the project of peace, which we now realize is rather limited and rather abstract.

That was clearly in view.

I remember as a child, I was born in 1989, seeing the bombing of Yugoslavia and just being shocked and not understanding what was going there.

But as time went by, I had a group of friends when I was a teenager, and some of them, they were former soldiers in the Bosnian War, Russian-Ukrainian volunteers.

And I tried to read books and I tried to understand And for me, you know, Yugoslavia was mostly, you know, the war and the violence and the silly turbo folk songs and a few movies that I didn't watch in the original language.

But I thought of myself when I was maybe 17 or 18 as an expert.

Many of those factories were subsidiaries of large industrial complexes, including Energoinvest and Unis.

A lot of those factories, they still exist.

Some of those factories did not survive the Bosnian War, but a lot of them still exist.

They recently had their first defense expo called Balkan Shield.

Listen, here's part.

From my very first big, exciting assignment covering the first Gulf War to the horrors of the Bosnian War, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Iran, Ukraine, and all the points in between, it is the teams and the camaraderie we built that counted so much.

The teams and the camaraderie we build, and she said that's why CNN, she said they have this responsibility to share the truth, the truth.

Look, I'm going to say one thing about Amanpour's courage.

So, in order, though, to use this strategy of hammer and anvil, the enemy army needs to be clustered or come together, and usually that happens to take territory.

Well, America showed just how powerful this approach of hammer and anvil could be in multiple wars from 2001 in the Gulf War through the Bosnian Civil War, where we used American air power precision hammer with friendly Muslim Croatian ground forces against the Serbian army.

Then also we saw this in toppling the Taliban with, again, American Air Forces, special forces were on the ground, but only 50 of them, guiding our precision air power with the Northern Alliance, which was moving against the Taliban on the ground and put the Taliban in a catch-22, just like what I'm saying.

The Taliban army had to decide, were they going to cluster and stop the approach of the army by the Northern Alliance? in which case our air powers would smash them, and we did, or would they disperse to avoid the air power smashing them, in which case we take Kabul.

Do you think that we should put any faith or read anything into his comments saying that we're not going to use nukes because we have the Moab bomb instead?

No, and it's not because I think we're on the verge of using nuclear weapons.

I think that, so I've advised every White House since 9-11 that I've advised chief staff of the Air Force during the Bosnian Civil War.

So I've watched many speakers of the House.