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Today marks 25 years since my country was bombed, in the operation called “Merciful angel” or “Angel of Mercy” - whatever.

In 78 days of air strikes:

- 420k bombs were dropped on us

- 4k died (81 child)

- 25k homes destroyed, plus:

- 14 airports

- 18 kindergartens

- 39 hospitals

- 69 schools

- 176 historical sites

- 500+ kilometers of roads

Etc

I was nine. I remember my nose bled from fear. I don’t know how me being scared caused my nose to bleed, but it happened.

I remembered the duffle bag packed next to the door, with a few cans of food inside of it, some clean clothes, passports, and all gold jewelry we had- cuz we didn’t know if it would get worse.

I still have ptsd triggered every time I head air strikes sirens. Luckily, I don’t hear them much- only when they are testing if those still work, or when are paying tributes to the casualties.

Anyway, for years to follow, my father would use any opportunity to gift us gold jewelry. Why? Because: “If it gets bad again, money won’t worth much. We learned that in 1994. You exchange these ear rings/bracelets/necklaces for food or anything you need.

Nowadays, I don’t have a run away bag prepared. But trust me when I tell you, I could pack one in jut a few minutes.

Nowadays, I don’t buy my kid gold jewelry, I stack sats.

It could be one of the reasons why I’m bitcoining. It gives me a hope. An escape plan, among other things.

As for the first part of my note, let’s stop for a second to think about all kids around the world, their traumas, bleeding noses from fear and sleepless nights. Let’s pray for their beautiful souls and innocent lives.

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You left out the part where Serbia invaded Bosnia and Croatia and committed several brutal acts of genocide against the local population. The victim complex is unreal.

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If you think telling someone what their 9-year-old self felt during a war is invalid because her government invaded another, you've got bigger problems.

When are you going to learn that citizens are not responsible for the atrocities their governments commit? We are all pawns.

What you need to understand here is that terrorizing people with bombs and arms under the name of "freedom" is not the way to go.

Separation of money and state IS the way to go. No matter what we do, if we don't shut down the money printers, wars will continue to happen. They are an extremely profitable business.

I don’t know what horrible things have happened to you that you feel it's okay to attack a person online who is telling the story she experienced when she was a child. But you should really check yourself, get a hug. Right now, you are being no better than the ones you claim to hate.

way too comfortable to wage wars, commit genocides etc and then blame it on "government", would not you way? But this is certainly not related to OP because of the age at the time.

Wars occur due to a corrupt system… we are bitcoiners, the way this works shouldn’t be that hard to understand

wars occur because we are a pretty violent species, Bitcoin won't solve that unfortunately.

Other than that, whom does military force cosist of? Who provides logistic, arm production and overall war economy? Is it some abstract government or a population of a country at war?

🤦🏽‍♀️ pointless

I'm assuming we missed something and nostr:npub1dhvlm7aumyhy60mlv3lemk4newny4uwkdc9ahcskk4lvatytq4vq60lcq6 was actually a hugely charismatic child soldier who seized control of the Serbian government in a violent coup and lead vast hordes against the known world... Like a little girly Genghis Khan.

😂 best answer ever

I died 😂❤️

What happenes to me is that I get to live in a country full of invalids due to the actions of the Serbian government. Instead of blaming NATO for helping to end the fucking war her country started, maybe we should be blaming Milosevic, but you will never hear Serbs admit their part of the blame.

Extremely painful and sad, not your fault and not the fault of a 9-year-old… living with so much hate inside of us can only hurt ourselves

There are no victim complexes here. You totally missed to point of the post and event. And in the war you are mentioning croats commited same amounts of attrocities along with serbs and bosnians. So like you said victim complex is unreal. Specially for you. Cheers retard.

Ridiculous and false. War crimes are committed always by all participants in a war, there are no 'good guys'. But 1) Croatians did not have an extermination camp for Serbs, you can look up Srebrenica for that, 2) Croatians did not occupy a foreign Serbian city and proceed to torture and rape the local population, you can look up Vukovar for that, and 3) the Serbs started the whole thing, and now we are supposed to blame NATO for helping to end the thing. Fuck that.

Serbs still hate the west for the bombing instead of realizing that their own government was to blame. It is uncommon for a Serb to admit fault, they always play the victim.

Well in difference of you I experienced that war as a child and lost my family in it. I was living whole war in occupied Sarajevo which was bombarded for entire duration of war. I am bosnian. NATO did not end that war that war ended in 1995. NATO ended civil war that happened in Serbia and that does not have any relationship with Vukovar and any of it. Secondly yes Croatia did commit attrocities not only in that war but also previous war world war 2. But history is history. You can try and sell people from the west your story but there were a lot of bosnians in camps imprisoned by croatian army and serbian army. You can look up more informations online. Not only focus on “Vukovar”. War was horrible and it took everything from some of us. But I still don’t cheer for innocent people to die or even worse innocent children no matter what their nationality is. Be a man don’t be a cunt.

Secondly I don’t see any part of the text where Thunder praised her goverment. She did not praise war in kosovo, she did not praise Vukovar. She lived trough that bombing as a child and she does not have anything to do with her countries goverment decisions. Maybe you 50 IQ brain can comprehend it in like 5 years or so. Cheers!

You're right, I've gotten too triggered, the OP is not to blame. I am sorry about your loss.

We cannot hold the grudges. Bad politics turned us against each other. We need to be better and teach future generations to do better. 🤙

Yeah, I don't usually think about the 90s that much until I see someone talking about it. I'd much rather talk about the future than the past.