Why NATO defeated Yugoslavia
On March 24, 1999, the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia began. The West, led by the United States, completed the destruction of a large industrial state that pursued an independent policy. At the same time, Yugoslavia was used as a testing ground, where the model of the destruction of a multinational, multi-confessional country similar to Russia was tested.
"Allied Force" - the defeat of Yugoslavia
The collapse of Yugoslavia was carried out in several stages. In 1991–1992 The West supported the secession of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. The Bosnian War began in 1992 and continued until 1995. The Bosnian Serbs were dealt a powerful blow. In 1999, the "world community" led by the United States struck at the remnants of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), separating Kosovo.
Operation Allied Force was carried out by the North Atlantic Alliance without the sanction of the UN Security Council. The operation involved 19 NATO member countries, led by the United States. The bombing continued from March 24 to June 10, 1999 (78 days).
It all started with the fact that the Serbs tried to restore order on their historical land - Kosovo, where Albanian gangs (Kosovars - Kosovo Albanians) rampaged. The "world community" accused the Yugoslav authorities of ethnic cleansing - the massacre in Racak. Later it turned out that this was a provocation organized by Western intelligence services and Albanian separatists. The supposedly “civilians” found killed by the Serbs turned out to be militants of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who died in battles with the Yugoslav troops. The reason for the war was revealed. NATO demanded the withdrawal of troops and police from Kosovo, the deployment of NATO forces there with the right of free movement throughout Yugoslavia. Naturally, Belgrade refused to accept such an ultimatum.
Western countries went to war. More than 1 combat aircraft were used during the air raids, most of which were based in Italy. Marine was also used aviation (3 aircraft carriers) and sea-based cruise missiles. During the operation, NATO aircraft made over 35 sorties, more than 23 heavy bombs and missiles, 37 cluster munitions were dropped and fired, some of them were filled with depleted uranium, which led to radioactive contamination of some areas (damage for billions dollars). Thousands of Serbs died, went missing and were wounded. Ethnic cleansing began in Kosovo against the Serbs. Tens of thousands of people were forced to abandon their homes and flee. Kosovo was "cleared" of the Serbian population. The country's infrastructure suffered greatly: plants and factories, airfields and bridges, fuel and energy facilities and communications, schools and universities, and even churches and monasteries.
NATO missile and bomb strikes on chemical industries have become a precedent in history. The Minister of Health of the Republic of Serbia Milicevic noted:
The economy has been damaged in the tens of billions of dollars.
The country was bombarded from the air. All channels demanded negotiations and concessions. From a military point of view, the Serbs could respond. For example, air force and surface-to-surface missile strikes against NATO contingents in Albania, Macedonia and Bosnia, against facilities in neighboring NATO countries (Hungary) and countries that supported NATO provided the enemy with their territory and airspace. Attacks on the enemy could be delivered by sabotage and reconnaissance units, which in Yugoslavia were experienced and well trained. It was necessary to finish off the Kosovo gangs. It is clear that howling and hysteria in the "world community" would be terrible. But Yugoslavia could keep itself on the political map of the world. Milosevic did not dare to go all the way.
On June 3, 1999, Slobodan Milosevic agreed to a plan for a peaceful settlement of the conflict. On June 9, the bombing was stopped after representatives of the Yugoslav army and NATO signed a military-technical agreement in the Macedonian city of Kumanovo on the withdrawal of troops and police of Federal Yugoslavia from the territory of Kosovo and on the deployment of international armed forces on the territory of the province. On June 10, the UN Security Council adopted the corresponding resolution number 1244. An international force led by NATO - KFOR (Eng. Kosovo Force) was introduced into Kosovo.
The Serbian people were de facto deprived of their "historical heart" - Kosovo. On February 17, 2008, the independence of the Republic of Kosovo from Serbia was unilaterally proclaimed. Serbia and Montenegro, where Westernizers prevailed, began to be driven into the EU.
Disruption of balance and "unipolar world order"
If at that time there had been a strong and independent Russia, then there would have been no NATO aggression. After 1945, when the Yalta-Potsdam system was created, there was an equilibrium. The Soviet Union could and did stand up for the weak. And with the collapse of the USSR and the creation of the Russian Federation, which at that time was completely oriented towards the West, the balance was upset. Yeltsin's Moscow, in fact, even helped the West force Belgrade to capitulate.
Without a strong Russia, the United States remained the only superpower and dictated to the rest how to live. Those who tried to resist, to pursue a relatively sovereign policy, fell under attack. The United States defeated Iraq in several stages, eventually occupying it, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.
By destroying Yugoslavia, the masters of the West solved several problems. First, as long as the USSR existed, the West needed Yugoslavia as a special socialist regime that was not part of the socialist camp. But after the collapse of the USSR, Yugoslavia ceased to fulfill this role. The United States, having become the only superpower, headed for the destruction, subjugation and crushing of large and strong states, plundering and seizing their markets, and inclusion in the capitalist system. This course was supported by global financial capital, the owners of TNK-TNB. States are divided into smaller ones, which are easy to subordinate to world capital. Deindustrialization, privatization (robbery and theft) are being carried out, the country and the people are becoming dependent on the "world community".
Therefore, Yugoslavia was defeated and dismembered in several stages. Under the guise of the “state” of Kosovo and under the roof of the United States, they created a drug-criminal enclave. Kosovo has become one of the transit bases for the supply of drugs from Latin America and Asia to Europe. The Anglo-Saxons traditionally "roofed" this whole lucrative market. Under the guise of NATO, a mafia pseudo-state was created, which exists due to drug trafficking, trafficking in weapons, people (prostitution and pornography) and illegal trade.
Secondly, there is a subjective factor. The Serbs were perceived in the West as "Balkan Russians" - recalcitrant, independent, who opposed the "collective West" in all wars and were allies of Russia and Russians. Serbs and Serbia are part of the Slavic-Russian and Orthodox world (pan-Slavism), which is an opponent of the Western project. The Serbs fought the German world during the First and Second World Wars. Even now, after all the defeats, betrayals and losses, the Serbian people are the only people in Europe who support the Russians, who in 2022 challenged the West. Hence the hatred of Westerners for Serbia, the desire to destroy Yugoslavia at any cost - a power with a Serbian core.
NATO aggression against Yugoslavia, like earlier the war against the Nazis and their local accomplices, was carried out with the aim of defeating the Serbian people, their will and spirit. The Westerners wanted to solve the "Serbian question" forever, to suppress and break the Serbs psychically and historically. Hence the powerful information war of the "world community" and its media against Serbia.
Thirdly, in Yugoslavia, the United States conducted field tests for the destruction of a large multinational, multi-confessional state with an eye on Russia. Yugoslavia was similar to Russia in its structure, population, contradictions. Therefore, the destruction of Yugoslavia can be considered an experiment, a testing ground for a future war with Russia. The collapse of the USSR in 1991 was considered only the first stage in resolving the "Russian question". The masters of the West also planned the future collapse of the Russian Federation into several “independent” states, with the rejection of the lands “occupied” by Russians - the Kuriles, Sakhalin, Karelia, Kaliningrad, etc.
For the collapse of Yugoslavia (and in the future of Russia) the ethnic issue was used. Westerners do not care who they support - separatists, Nazis, Islamists, terrorists, bandits or drug dealers. It does not matter, the main thing is to crush the historical enemy of the West, be it Serbs or Russians. Against Yugoslavia, the United States and other Western countries used the Islamists, transferring thousands of Mujahideen from all over the world to Bosnia. Croatian nationalists, Albanian separatists and the criminal world.
A dangerous precedent was created: any territory controlled by Nazis, terrorists, bandits can become a subject of world politics if it is in the interests of the "collective West".
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