“ When the greatest military power of all time has an identity crisis, the world is in danger. With the end of the Cold War, NATO’s role as a de- fensive alliance ended. There were those who said that NATO should have been dissolved, now that there was no more Soviet Union. But there were also those—many of whom were bureaucrats benefiting from the existence of such a massive organization—who said NATO should now be used as a weapon to forge “democracy” around the world—in other words, it should be used to promote the global economy, and make the world free for Coca-Cola. Four of the six constituent republics within former Yugoslavia agreed to this immediate transition to “democ- racy.” Serbia did not, and it paid the price. In fact, everyone in the for- mer Yugoslavia paid the price, and Srebrenica was part of that price.
Post-mortem studies of events in the former Yugoslavia, including those by the United Nations, have cited the international community’s inability to recognize “evil” as the main reason for its inability to end the wars of the 1990s in the Balkans. If such self-delusion were not so tragic, it would be comic. Wars have never been fought to destroy evil, no mat- ter what religious zealots may assert. Wars have been fought for eco- nomic, political, strategic and social reasons. The wars of the 1990s in the Balkans were no different. It was geopolitics, not original sin, that drove NATO’s ambitions.”

SREBRENICA MASSACRE


It’s not like we haven’t seen the prequel to the current US led NATO sh!t show before. Again, past is prologue and you could easily read about similar history in Georgia. That is, if you have any interest. Or listen to blow dried Madison ave infotainment programs. I don’t care.

I was sad to see the war break out in Yugoslavia. I know some ‘leftists’ will say it wasn’t doing socialism the correct way but it enjoyed the best of both worlds and had a rocking film festival in Zagreb that was well attended by both sides of the curtain. I remember the refugees working in the film industry with dirty or no visas being taken advantage of by unscrupulous production houses. ‘Who they gunna complain too?’ Was the reassurance to the rational for exploitation.

Naw, I agree, NATO’s a market built around standards and public investments that needs a reason for its existence. Putin’s just another comic villain for the proles , Emanuel Goldstein for the PMC. Underneath all the BS is a market that, having been created, cannot be dismantled. Not unlike fossil fuels and consumerism.

I guess I should be glad that Europe’s sliding under the ice from its own internal contradictions while simultaneously tying itself to ours. Some seem happy about the current situation. Who’s to say what’s appropriate?

Last edited by chunkstyle; 09/08/22 02:31 AM.