(2nd Update)

Economic blockades and arms embargoes are effective for the vast majority of countries, but they are a dead letter for the five permanent members of the United Nations, because they make the rules, so they can play whatever they want.

Just as the United States sells anti-tank missiles to the Croats with its left hand, and sells its accumulated armored fighting vehicles or tanks to Bosnian Serb soldiers with its right hand. The Soviet Union was no exception, pulling the Chinese side together to sell rockets and outdated anti-aircraft missiles to the Serbian army, and on the other hand, dumping cheap RPGs and Kalashnikovs on the Croatian side.

Naturally, the NATO military strike bloc led by Britain, France, and Germany will not let go of this opportunity, but the Soviet weapons provided by the Serbian army are also not vegetarian, and when NATO fighters launch air strikes, they are targeted by the long-awaited Sam surface-to-air missiles.

The CIA deliberately or unintentionally leaked information about the flight route to the Bosnian Serb warlords, and then the Soviets turned a blind eye and pretended not to see it, selling the latest Beech missiles to the Serbs, which were not obsolete surface-to-air missiles, but models that were in service with the Soviet Union. This time, the CIA supplied intelligence, and the Soviet Union supplied the trap with weapons, just waiting for NATO fighters to step on the trap clip.

As usual, the Mirage fighter carried out an air raid mission over the forest land of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a few minutes after arriving at the designated place, the airborne radar received the model of the aircraft locked by the missile, and four Beech surface-to-air missiles flew mercilessly towards the fighter. Anyway, these missiles were supplied by the USSR free of charge. No need for nothing.

The French pilots did not have the courage to play the Pugachev Cobra maneuver like the Russians, and evaded the immediate surface-to-air missiles with extreme tactical maneuvers. When all the hot decoots are used up. The pilot finally found out in despair that the missile was getting closer and closer to him, and in line with the principle of safety first and fighter second, the pilot made the decision to abandon the fighter.

Just when the phantom was about to fall, the ejection seat freed him from the pursuit of death. The pilot successfully landed deep in the forest, waiting for the rescue of NATO troops. But how could the Serbs let this opportunity go, and they immediately sent troops to capture the pilot.

Then the news that a NATO fighter was shot down in the no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina shocked the world, and the pilot parachuted and was captured by the armed forces of the Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At this moment, even the countries of Western Europe were dumbfounded, and they could not believe that a group of troops with outdated missiles had actually shot down NATO's most advanced Mirage fighter. This is undoubtedly a huge blow to France.

It seems that NATO has only two options before it, one is to withdraw NATO forces from the troubled waters of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the other is to choose to support one faction until they go to the negotiating table or the other side wins. And the United States said that they didn't care, anyway, Yugoslavia was separated from the North American continent by an Atlantic Ocean, and the Soviet Union was not far from making many statements, after all, it was the roar to make a lot of money in a muffled voice.

As a result, France still held urgent consultations with the Serbian government, hoping to get back the pilot through diplomatic means. Of course, the Bosnian Serbs will not miss this opportunity to humiliate NATO, and they will hang the French pilots around the necks with the insulting signs of the West. And take a picture of it.

"I'm a lackey, executioner. Shameless butcher of the West. I am ashamed of the crimes committed by France in Serbia. ”

The Geneva Conventions only stated that prisoners of war could not be abused, but did not say that prisoners of war could not be humiliated.

At this time, the face of the French government could not be hung up, and how could they step down if this farce continued like this. French President Francois Mitterrand contacted Milosevic privately, hoping to use the Serbian president's popularity to get the Bosnian Serb general to release the detained pilot. But Milosevic acted like he couldn't help and said you should ask the Bosnian Serb leaders if they would like to release your pilots.

Karadzic's demands were more direct, he did not want a ransom or a promise that when the French government withdrew its troops from Bosnia and Herzegovina, he would return the pilots to the French government, otherwise everything would be left untouched.

"We need to preserve the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and any act of secession is a shameless betrayal of the motherland. We can't lose Croatia any more than you can't lose Europe, do you want to see the Ardennes ceded to Germany again? ”

"These are two different things, President Karadzic, and the war you have started has caused too many civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina to go into exile in Western Europe......" Mitterrand argued.

"No, that's the same thing! That's all I have to ask for, and everything else is out of the question. If you still don't come to your senses, we will expel all the refugees to Western Europe! Karadzic hung up the phone with a hard shot.

On the one hand, the pressure exerted by the Virgins at home to save the innocent pilot as soon as possible, and on the other hand, Karadzic's almost harsh commitment to France, suddenly put Mitterrand in a dilemma.

Of course, some people are happy and some are sad, and the Soviet Union, which has received a lot of foreign currency savings from Serbia, naturally wants to speak from the standpoint of Serbia; Shevardnadze issued a statement on the accident of the French pilot during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, saying that the invasion of the territorial airspace of Bosnia and Herzegovina by French warplanes was an act of undermining the territorial sovereignty of other countries, and that the Bosnian Serbs were fighting for the reunification of the country, just like the invasion of Algeria and Vietnam. Of course, the Soviets did not say anything about what happened to the captured pilots.

The fierce accusations of domestic public opinion and the cynical confrontation of the international community made the French government feel as if it was isolated, and even the United States, which usually stands on the side of Europe, pretended to be deaf and dumb at this time and did not pay attention to NATO's predicament at all. Under pressure, Mitterrand had no choice but to announce a reduction in military strikes against the Bosnian Serbs, hoping that this compromise could ease relations between the two sides.

As an ally and an enemy in hand, Mitterrand said that he did not want to be ousted because of domestic public opinion, as President Bush did. At this time, Mitterrand also began to envy the Soviet leaders who could cling to power and would not step down because of domestic public opinion.

However, at this time, a major reform attempt was also brewing at the top of the Soviet Union, and under the seemingly calm Soviet Union was an undercurrent, Yanayev wanted to seize the tail of the third industrial revolution and realize the modernization of the entire Soviet army and the informatization of science and technology.

On this quiet day, a comprehensive reform package was on Yanayev's desk. (To be continued.) )