Quote Originally Posted by carl View Post
Russia: You're kidding right?
Not at all. Remember the year; 1994. Russia could easily have mobilised the military and aeroflot Il-76s for a massive airlift.

African countries: How would those African countries have gotten there and how would they have been able to maintain forces if they had gotten them there?
How an African army would have been maintained in the field? Guess how.
Tip: They need no sandbag fortress with air-conditioned containers and McDonalds franchise.

We were the only country that had C-130s, C-5s, C-141s, KC-135s and KC-10s by the hundreds and hundreds therefore we were the only country for whom the effort would have been a relatively minor one, relatively.
So what? A genocide like that does not happen every decade or even year. It doesn't matter whether you give a marching order to all your paras and all your air transport wings or just to a fraction of them.

The killing was done in large part with machetes, clubs or at most by ill-equipped, ill-organised, ill-led and ill-trained troops.
All you needed for an effective intervention was to send paras in.

Even Luxembourg could have made a difference; mobilise their infantry battalion, charter seven airliners, send them in and let them loose in platoon-sized teams to hunt down and disarm mobs and gangs.