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A high price for Serbia's master of spin 5:41pm on 29 May 2008 To dorand_v

My response to your #65 comments. I agree with everything you said. I would like to add a few more relevant facts to what happened in former Yugoslavia. Looking from the outside in, Yugoslavia's system of government, as was the case with all other Warshaw Pact states, was on the NATO radar screen for a long time, earmarked for eventual demolition. Yugoslavia was either not aware, or maybe simply ignorant of it. Yes, Milosevic was very naive and played into NATO states' " final solution" for Yugoslavia, in the worst imaginable way!

As I have said before, the Yugoslav Army's duty was to defend constitution, therefore territorial integrity and order, among other things. Same is true of all NATO states!

You will know that Slovenia first, followed by Croatia began to roll the ball that led to Yugoslavia's ultimate demise. Slovenia's and Croatia's borders were not disputable as those of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Indeed, Bosnia and Herzegovina borders were only tacitly recognised by Serbs and Croats as long as they remain a part of Yugoslavia because of their large Croatian and Serbian population.

Yugoslav Army, controlled by Serb generals, made a big mistake by allowing itself to be sucked into a war, as opposed to keeping peace as much as it could. NATO was not willing to act to soon until they felt that circumstances on the ground will dictate their inevitable intervention. As far as NATO was concerned, communism must go no matter what! At the time, Yugoslavia was the last country still under the communist system of government. Confuse, divide and destroy is a powerful weapon to bring down any regime, no matter how powerful! NATO propaganda machine did a good job!

In retrospect, Milosevic, if he were smart as opposed to proud, he should have called in the UN to intervene on Yugoslavia's behalf. At least he would have something to keep his enemies at bay. This might be a wishful thinking on my part, nevertheless, knowing what happened, in the former Yugoslavia, it would be a far better move.

Then again, US and Britain would want to delay intervention to allow situation to further deteriorate as to have a better pretext to remove Milosevic from power. This is in fact what they have done via the Kosovo Albanians, helping them to mount uprising against Milosevic's regime, with a promise via the so-called Rambouillet Agreement that was anything but (3 year ultimatum) for their imminent independence.

Finally, we should pay more attention on those who spearheaded disastrous events, in the former Yugoslavia, as opposed to what happened as a consequence, afterwards! Therefore, to know who is really responsible for Yugoslavia's demise is the one who is happy now as opposed to before! We must remember that the former republics separated as a result of Slobodan Milosevic's attempt to strengthen his control over Yugoslavia as opposed to a communist system of government. NATO insisted that former republics dump first communism as a precondition for their recognition and help!
There is so much more, but is mostly irrelevant now! I leave it at that for now.
Serbian vote exposes deep rift 7:30pm on 22 May 2008 dorand_v

You described well current situation in Serbia. It is precisely why NATO took 79 days to destroy everything of value to the government hopping that it will force Serbia to join NATO states sooner, in order to recover faster. Serbia, within former Yugoslavia, has already survived NATO states' sanctions for over 10 years. Neighbouring states were also hurt by sanctions and began underground trade of essential goods. NATO was powerless to stop underground trade and they feared that their ploy will not work. As a solution to the problem, NATO decided to exacerbate political situation, using Kosovo Albanians as a weapon, to provoke Yugoslavia into a response. This response against Kosovo Albanians was then used as a pretext to intervene militarily, because it was the only sure way to get rid of Milosevic and his communist regime. In any event, NATO states should not benefit from their crime against Serbia. The worst thing Serbia could do is to join EU and NATO! NATO states would not spent over 30 billions on destruction of Yugoslavia and counting unless they had a real, real good reason! You will agree that NATO does not care about ethnic minorities, nevertheless, as we have seen, they can be a very useful weapon. From Serbia's point of view, joining EU is not as big an issue as is their corrupt and definition-less 24/7 capitalism! If NATO drops capitalism as a way of life, Serbia would jump head first, without looking!

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