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Biden speaking [Quote]: "I’ve been saying we should go in on the ground, we should announce there’s gonna be American casualties.We should go to Belgrade and we should have a Japanese/German-style occupation of that country and we should have public trials in order to strike away this mask of Serbian victimization," [End Quote] In an April 2002 gala dinner of the Albanian American Civic League in New York City, Biden vowed to continue to support having US troops [Quote]“on the ground with loaded rifles and drawn bayonets”[End Quote] in the Balkans until US objectives were accomplished. Biden went much further and ended up going into a bizarre hate filled Self-Projection rant against the Serbs: [Quote]:"Why some of you ask have I been so relentless on Serbia and [President] Kostunica who I do not trust? Why have I been so reluctant, so persistent in **not** providing aid to the people of Serbia who are many good people – why? Because until they look in their hearts they can never cure themselves of the DISEASE that they are the oppressed. And as long as they operate on that standard, this cycle will continue and continue and continue. So that’s why, not for vengeance, but for release - that it’s necessary for them to look the devil in the eye." [End Quote] March 24, 2023 marks the 24th anniversary of the start of the 1999 NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia (Serbia & Montenegro) . In 78 days, NATO jets conducted 2,300 sorties, dropping 420,000 missiles and bombs, including cluster munitions and depleted uranium rounds. Up to 5,700 people were killed, with tens of thousands more diagnosed with cancers in the years that followed. In a May 1999 appearance on NBC's 'Meet the Press' alongside the late senator McCain, Biden belligerently fumed for American servicemen to be put in harms way and die if necessary fighting in a full scale ground invasion in order to achieve Washington DC's goals in the former Yugoslavia during the Clinton administration. Before entering the Oval Office as Barack Obama’s vice president and then as president himself, Joe Biden served as a United States senator for over 30 years. Ahead of, during and after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, Biden was consistently one of the top hawks in Washington pushing for the conflict to be expanded into a full-on ground invasion. “Look, you have probably the only three people in Washington here who think we should go straight to Belgrade and arrest [Yugoslav president Slobodan] Milosevich,” Biden said in a May 1999 appearance on Meet the Press alongside the now late Republican senator John McCain. “But let’s not kid each other. We’re the only three people. The rest of this is malarkey. The Republican Congress won’t even vote for the bombing. The NATO forces won’t even go along with the idea of ground troops. And whether or not the president will or will not is not relevant. The question to me is: What is the definition of victory?” Biden complained. “The definition of victory was all the troops out of Kosovo, the Albanians back in Kosovo and a NATO-led force in Kosovo. That’s not total victory. That’s not the victory I want, that’s not the victory John wants. I’ve been saying we should go in on the ground, we should announce there’s gonna be American casualties. We should go to Belgrade and we should have a Japanese/German-style occupation of that country and we should have public trials in order to strike away this mask of Serbian victimization,” Biden said.