He did not say one very important thing. In the 1990s, there was serious talk that the US should abolish its military bases in Germany, just as the Soviet Union had done. The military presence in Germany gave the USA influence over German and European politics, and the USA did not want to give it up. Bombing Serbia and supporting the creation of Kosovo enabled the creation of a military base, the second largest in Europe, in case the US was forced to leave Germany. That is why the USA exerted pressure to recognize the state of Kosovo, where they built a base at a time when it officially belonged to Serbia.
The default nature of the Balkans is war. Plain and simple. If the US were to leave tomorrow, war would break out, and 10,000's would die. The "bombing of Serbia" killed no more than 1,000 Serbs. Not exactly the genocide Serbian nationalists want to believe.
That is why a big part of USA will collapse politically and physically into the ocean. No country can spread the war all the time, all around the world, and never get it back from the mother nature. Stupid people think if USA is far away from the other continents, it is far away fron the justice of the natural law! I would left this country as soon as I can, if I would be living there!
@@heyyo162Leslie Stall asked her if sanctions on Iraq, which killed 500,000 children 5 or under, was worth it. She replied they were. I used to like her too, but then...
Diese Aussage wurde von einem englischen Admiral getätigt und lautet so : Wenn wir ( die engliche Kolonialmacht ) unsere Macht und unseren Einfluß in der Welt behalten wollen müssen wir Deutschland unten und Russland draußen lassen und verhindern das beide ein zu enges Verhältnis haben . Diese Aussage tätigte er schon vor dem 1.Weltkrieg.
There was also the invasion of Libya. China and Russia stood aside in this conflict and watch with horror how NATO and its mercenaries destroyed that country. When they tried to do the same in Syria, Russia began to take a stand against the intervention with China support in the Security Council of the UN. These two conflicts made Russia realize that NATO needed to be stopped.
Both China and Russia were not ready to confront the combined West. The West would have destroyed both countries with Sanctions. It's unfortunate but timing is everything.
@@yellowsheepson which Planet do you live ? US have 44 Billions USS depts. Russia nearly nothing. BRICS is coming, with a Gold Standard. USA is done, like the Roman Empire
@@Ryan-dk7mm The current Western Sanctions on Russia has NOT stopped anything. Russia has already won "hands down" so now the Collective West is gonna go after China ...which they will also fail. However, US/UK has successfully defeated and enslaved Europe for the foreseeable future. In 2011, there wasn't China's "Belt and Road" (BRI). Both Russia and China needed to solidify alternatives to the West (i.e. BRICS, SCO, EAEU, MIR, Union Pay etc..etc..). Most mainstream people in the West are clueless to what's going on geo-politically.
@@Ryan-dk7mm, in the early 2000s Putin actually was quite pro-western and even wanted to join NATO. They said no (who would get rid of the perfect scarecrow which was used for centuries). Putin is not stupid so he understood that Russia will be targeted when it gets stronger. So he prepared. And it's not fair to say that sanctions don't work at all. But since there were some sanctions since 2014 - people get used to it, economics also changed etc. Plus the west underestimates the strength of russian people. We survived the 90s with default and uncontrolled crime crisis so the sanctions don't hurt us as much as they would have hurt americans or europeans.
Knowing how the US government operates, I can't help wondering whether it was somehow involved in instigating the horrible actions in Yugoslavia that then required NATO intervention. The old "divide and rule" strategy.
It was involved, it's only common sense to me on how our US Govt works. My unit out of Germany during the time early/mid 90s finally got sent to Tuzla Bosnia in 96'.
Yes. Reagan initiated a program in 1984. After Titos death with the help of the ruling elite and IMF, Yugoslavian economy was thrown into turmoil. Right wing nationalist movements were supported financially. It was only a matter of time. result... NATO has almost full military control of Balkans. Drugs flow into Europe, wich CIA used to train and equip KLA. Weapons flow into Africa, but even rest of Europe. The whole area is a powderkeg more than ever, and US is playing with matches.
Racak massacre was totally made up..Go watch how US pressured the people doing the autopsy to change their report. But it was easy to make up these false flags at that time..
A year before the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, on Nov. 5, 1990, the U.S. Congress passed the 1991 Foreign Operations Appropriations Law 101-513. This bill was a signed death warrant. One provision in particular was so lethal that even a CIA report described three weeks later in the Nov. 27, 1990, New York Times predicted it would lead to a bloody civil war. Only forces that the U.S. State Department defined as "democratic forces" would receive funding. This meant an influx of funds to small right-wing nationalist parties in a financially strangled region suddenly thrown into crisis by the overall funding cut-off. The 1991 Foreign Operations Appropriations Law also prescribed various forms of economic strangulation for several other countries deemed enemies, including Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Korea (DPRK) and Vietnam. On the other hand countries moving hastily toward a capitalist market economy in 1990, such as Poland, were to receive special funding. "NATO In The Balkans: Voices Of Opposition" by Sean Gervasi, Ramsey Clark, Sara Flounders, Thomas Deichmann, Nadja Tesich... (1998)
I live in the US and the people who make the major foreign policy decisions here have two main goals: control all the world's money and control all the world's oil, or as much of it as possible. The more capitalist-based a country or a particular set of leaders are, the more amenable they will be to US-based corporations exploiting their markets and resources. That's all they (my govt) cares about. To that end, my govt will provide financial assistance to countries they see as friendly to western Big Capital interests (but always with special strings attached and usually to the detriment of the common person in said country, eg world bank or IMF loans); and use influence, threats, or attempt CIA coups for the purposes of regime change in nations they see as opposing Western Capital expansion. Amy nation not willing to be manipulated or influenced by the US to the degree they demand is at risk of one or more methods of US govt muscle-flexing and coercion. In extreme cases, this means my govt will come up with a dummy reason to invade and send in our military, such as what happened in Vietnam, the Korean war, Iraq, the small island of Grenada, and now with Ukraine, although that's what we call a proxy war. You can best believe my govt is doing everything possible to cause and deliberately escalate this current conflict between Ukraine and Russia due to Putin's opposition to being a continued target of NATO and to submit to a US agenda of dominance and control. Yes there are most certainly pre-existing local tensions but as they have always done, my govt is very expertly maximally exploiting these to their own ends. It's what they like to do.
Far more actual info here than in Vijay Prashad's entire verbose expose. The State Department does not serve US interests - it serves the interests of the financial powers that it demonstrably has served for decades.
Let's set aside any justifications for a moment and focus on the facts. A sovereign nation experienced a secessionist movement backed by terrorist attacks. It's only natural for any country to respond with force, which can unfortunately lead to atrocities. The issue here is the apparent double standard: the West supports Ukraine's efforts to remain unified, largely due to its anti-Russian government. However, when Serbs take similar action against Albanians in defense of their sovereignty, they face punishment and demonization, primarily because of their close relationship with Russia.
This is pure propaganda and your comment is made out of absolute ignorance and it's very inaccurate. I am Bosnian and have survived this war as a child. My school was destroyed by Serbs, my hometown razed to the ground, my apartment burned and looted by Serbian "military"... I was a refugee for 3 years in my OWN country, Bosnia. And only with the help of NATO did my family return to live in a liberated city after 3 years of being a refugee. Meanwhile, Serbia was intact and wasn't touched at all until they started a 3rd war in a row, in 1999 against Albanians. So NATO intervened again to prevent yet ANOTHER genocide by the Serb army. But anyway, keep believing Russian-Serbian propaganda and keep thinking you know shit. I just hope you never have to live through what my people have lived through. I sincerely pity you.
Therld began in 1999 with the attack and occupation of the NATO pact on the Serbian land and the seizure of 17 percent of the Serbian territory where America built the largest military base without permission and against UN resolution 1244. In cooperation with the Albanian mafia and paramilitary formations, they are grave crimes against the Serbian population. NATO wants to secede from Serbia the province of Kosovo, which is part of Serbia, and does not allow the Dombas Republic to secede. The first war after the Second World War was launched by NATO with 19 countries against a sovereign European country for no reason and in a sea of Western lies. Type in the Google search engine: The aggression of the NATO pact on Yugoslavia in 1999.
This Ukraine-Russia may help to stop future bombing by NATO perticularly. I've learnt lot of thing after this conflict began. Unfortunately Ukrainins are suffering but people around the world educaying themselves of NATO and US hegemony other bombings through out the history. This awareness is good. ❤️ from Sri Lanka.
@Primoz Majhen NATO's never been used for its intended stated purpose. NATO is a Cold War imperial hegemon tool to continue a war economy for the U.S. that couldn't accept the U.S.S.R. as the actual victors over the Nazi's. The CIA even parachuted UHDR Nazi's back into Ukraine from 1949 to 1954 that we know of-- after Stalin died
Perhaps the most important thing was not mentioned - Serbia is the only country in the NATO environment that is close to Russia. There are opinions that NATO has decided to tear Serbia apart and take over the territory piece by piece. This would slowly reduce the zone of Russian influence to zero. Madeleine Albright said that it was Vojvodina's turn. They have not been able to achieve this so far because Serbs are the majority of the inhabitants of Vojvodina.
Vijay Prashad , you have left out some very important information regarding the era you say where Putin was pliable to the NATO , but everything changed around 2007 , and this is where you failed to fill us all in on , where America started mobilising Military Bases into some of these countries freshly accepted into NATO . This was breaking the Minsk Agreement by arming those bases with missiles with nuclear capability . So of course Putin was going to keep bringing it to notice at certain UN and Nato meetings , but to no avail , the West just totally ignored Putin`s plea and now what we are all seeing is the end results !!!
Yes, you are Right Rick, but in just a seven-minute clip he couldn't give us the entire story. At least he is one of the voices bringing a counterbalance to the crazy narrative about Putin, NATO, and Russian relations. Zelensky is Putin Jr. He is No compassionate democratic leader, he is another dictator. The U.S just can't pick the right one. This channel is bordering on being a misinformation propaganda Putin machine and liable to be shut down by the UA-cam mafia. The moment people present a different point from the approved Orthodoxy that's it!!! You are targeted for termination.
@@MrRawnerves Yes , you are right but I wish they would bring all the relevant facts . The all end up being misinformation channels , depending on whom they follow , cheers .
@@MrRawnerves Well, if you think this channel is a "Putin machine," why don't you turn it in to the Gestapo Thought Police and get them "terminated"? Zelensky is not a dictator. He is an actor who is being dictated TO. And before you call Putin a 'dictator,' remember that any national leader who defies the USA gets called a "dictator," even though they truly represent their people, even though they are elected in better election systems than our own. Hugo Chavez and Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela. Daniel Ortego in Nicaragua. Both countries are suffering US 'sanctions" (siege warfare). Why? WHY? The term "dictator" has become nearly meaningless. And the true dictator of the world - US-based multinational corporations and their enforcers, the CIA and the US military - can't be seen because they are not a person, they are a collective - indeed, they are a communist-style system for the uber-rich. They distribute all the riches among themselves.
People have lived in Kosovo together for almost thousand years. Albanian people even helped to Serbian army and civilian people in 1917 and saved tens of thousands lives running from their historical enemies, union of German empire including at that moment Italy and Croats in some minority, later in WW2 they were all called with the capital letter "N". Maybe not a brotherhood but still respectful friendship was untill the moment when America and Anglo-Saxons didn't stuck their fingers there between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians. Exactly the same they did in Ukraine, now trying to implement with Taiwan and at meny other different places around the planet Earth.
Noam Chomsky thought it was done to get Yugoslavia into the neoliberal system. From an interview: DM: Last month marked the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the bombing of Yugoslavia. Why did NATO wage that war or I should say why did the United States wage that war? NC: Actually, we have for the first time a very authoratative comment on that from the highest level of Clinton administration, which is something that one could have surmised before, but now it is asserted. This is from Strobe Talbott who was in charge of the…he ran the Pentagon/State Department intelligence Joint Committee on the diplomacy during the whole affair including the bombing, so that’s very top of Clinton administration; he just wrote the forward to a book by his Director of Communications, John Norris, and in the forward he says if you really want to understand what the thinking was of the top of Clinton administration this is the book you should read and take a look on John Norris’s book and what he says is that the real purpose of the war had nothing to do with concern for Kosovar Albanians. It was because Serbia was not carrying out the required social and economic reforms, meaning it was the last corner of Europe which had not subordinated itself to the US-run neoliberal programs, so therefore it had to be eliminated. That’s from the highest level.
he also thinks no genocided happened there and serbs are the good guys. hes an idiot and an eternal anti us imperialist, even if they did something right.
This is the reason America bombed Serbia, in the words of NATO Supreme Commander US General Wesley Clark: "There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states, that's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states." Four years later the same US General said: "We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." Serbia was one of many counties sacrificed under the totalitarian jackboot of the New World Order.
Croatia is the most ethnic pure state after they expelled 25% of Serbs in 90es. In WWII she expelled also 200 000 Italians and 200 000 Germans. While EU and USA didn't mind as long is Croatia their colony.
Translation : "We're going to succeed where the former USSR & Yugoslavia failed; we're gonna cram this multinational/multiethnic/multicultural,etc. thing down the throats of all those affected, whether they like it or not" - because it's good for business [ raping other countries' national resources, putting up the golden arches, & exporting whatever new social trend is popular ( formerly Evangelical Christianity : they'd bulldoze the land with the military then send in the evangelists to mop up )] - that's the part they don't tell you. All that talk about freedom, democracy, & self-determination is just that - talk. If they really cared about all of that they would have gotten involved in Croatia back in '91.
@@iaindj and Serbs expelled over 300k+ germans from vojvodina plus crimes they've committed over ethnic germans over 100k bosniaks killed in eastern bosnia tens of thousands of croatians and catholic serbia was the first country who reported to hitler that they are judenfrei(free of jews) etc croatia expelled serbs because of revolution and anexation of land done by serbs despite Z4 plan which was warant under US and EU that serbs have more than autonomy within croatian borders,serba was deaf on all warnings from nato and un to stop what they're were doing and they were doing ethnic cleansing and masacres wherever they conquer the land kosovo was the last straw
I think the bombing of Yugoslavia was the point where the NATO lost any credibility as a purely defensive alliance. And what is it doing now? It's deeply involved in and committed to a proxy war in Ukraine between the US and Russia and has dragged other members of the club into the shit with them whether they want to or can afford to be involved or not.
Vijay Prashad is very knowledgeable & a great guest. Katie Halper, your show has truly become top notch. At a time, so many channels have been terribly disappointing, you have become more impressive.
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Nato bombing of Serbia (Yugoslavia) WAS GREATEST WAR CRIME after the WW2. Kosovo Albanians were just the minority in Serbia that had ALL (their University on albanian language, basically ALL they ever asked for), and if there wasnt for Tito who created "Autonome Province of Kosovo and Metohija" nothing would happen. Albanians that lived on Kosovo for generations, WERE NEVER for separate country, THEY LOVED YUGOSLAVIA, and UCK (Kosovo Liberation Army - which was designed as terrorist organization by CIA just 1 year prior to the bombing) was killing those Albanians that didnt hate Serbia and Yugoslavia. In 1998 (but also before, in 1981 Albanians slaughtered ENTIRE guard platoon, who were soldiers yet to be trained) they started to kill policemen, and in numbers, they made many ambushes, IED, etc. So, one day, YU army + police made the operation to wipe out them in village of Racak. They did their job imaculate. But, from some reason Serbs LEFT those bodies of KLA killed soldiers and KLA came during the night and CHANGE THEM, they put civilian clothing and remove markings of KLA. All of those "victims" were young man, fit to fight, 0 women, 0 oldmen, 0 children. NATO used that FAKED incident to BOMB and POLUTE an independent country and people. Similar "netrocities" can be seen even today in Ukraine, like that "russian soldier" decaputating the enemy - I mean, who can buy that sht ???
everyone who takes their info from the "free independent western media" and takes it for granted. and you'd be surprised how many people do that. also governments that are not liberal democratic are liars by default in their minds.
What he said was not a lie but 100% true, I know this because I was there as part of the italian regiment with in NATO, stationed in Prizren, the albanians are not innocent as presented in the western media, the excuss that was used to bomb serbia was a complete lie, I realised this after serving there. @@isaylast2465
From 1945 (even before the formation of the CIA) to 1953, the US supported the Nazi collaborators in Western Ukraine forming an underground insurgency within the Soviet Union (resulting in 300K deaths - Scott Ritter recently said) This is while US conducted Operation Paperclip and Canada welcomed Nazi collaborators to become Canadian citizens. 1948 - Henry A Wallace (of the FDR administration but who Truman had fired) runs for the presidency in the US on the Progressive Party ticket. He was adamantly against the growing tensions with the USSR 1949 - NATO formed In 1953 Stalin died and Khrushchev heads the Soviet Union. Eisenhower gave his "Chance for Peace" speech. In 1954 the Soviets offered to enter NATO (the Molotov proposal). The US refused In 1955 the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact and the Cold War continued unabated
Quoting Scott Ritter? You lost that argument easily. Why would the West allow the soviet union as a member of Nato? Were the soviets sincere? Extremely doubtful.
No, Serbian megalomaniac politics is the main reason Yugoslavia broke up. At the time Slovenia and Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia looked more like a fascist state than a socialist one. Long story short, Slovenia and Croatia wanted more autonomy (most developed republics being hold back in development by the extremely poor regions, like Kosovo), they got it in 1974., Tito died in 1980. and from then onward Serbs started to gradually take over the control of Yugoslavia, again centralising all the power in Belgrade. If they weren't acting like that, maybe Yugoslavia would still exist to this day (probably as a confederacy, with even greater autonomy for republics) or at the very least, there wouldn't be any blood spilled after the break up. Sadly they chose what they chose, sacrificing their own people for their stupid, megalomaniac, power-thirsty causes.
The real reason was that: 1. Serbs and Macedonians were always looked by the West as little Russians (Orthodox Christianity and Cyrilic Script), and 2. Because Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) did not allow NATO bases on their land. So, the West decided to carve-out Kosovo and Metohiya from Serbia and built there their biggest base in South Europe. - The Bondsteel military base. So, they did that for geopolitical reasons..
Read Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and you will see that they write about the intolerance of the Western world towards the East (Slavs) for at least the last 300 years. The bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić also clarifies a lot.
Vijay is the only one who does the real talk on geopolitics without the "left vs right" stupidity. I wish he was a frequent guest on leftists channels, and heck, on all channels.
Vijay is one, however, there are others. Listen to Professor John Mearsheimer or Jim Rickards. You'll find them on youtube. Since 2014 those two have been writing and speaking about this day coming. People from both parties hated Trump when he said NATO needs to be dissolved. He was right. I believe we wouldn't be in this situation if he was the president. The United States lost an opportunity to repair a relationship with Putin after the foreign policy debacles of the Obama administration. Which only caused Russia to befriend China instead, what a dumb move. Trump had a good relationship with Putin. But the democrat’s poison that well by instigating the fake Russia collusion. If Trump was seen as even talking to Putin he would have been labeled as a Putin stooge and proved them right. So Trump wasn't allowed to repair relations, what a mistake. Look what it has caused, the suffering of an entire country and millions of people, and all could have been prevented. Another U.S failed foreign policy. Dr. Gideon Polya author of the book “ American Holocaust, Millions Of Untimely American Deaths “ counted 70 different times the U.S. invaded other nations since 1776 - or about once every 3-4 years. So, why get upset with Russia when it invades the Ukraine? It's called Cognitive Dissonance.
@@MrRawnerves Putin is not that naive to destroy good relation with China when he knows that after the next 4 years of Trump evil Clintons or Bushes will come and change the tune. You just confirmed what I think - Trump is the only good person in that country.
@@sextempiric7137 What did you mean by the comment “ Trump is the only good person in that country “. I don't understand your position. Can you clarify?
@@MrRawnerves You said it yourself mate: " People from both parties hated Trump when he said NATO needs to be dissolved". You just need to ad a prefix "all". He is the only good one symbolically, of course, but not far from a truth, as you guys lost all connection to Normal. Chauvinism and greed, sadism and ignorance is in your genes now, after centuries of brain wash. Pure case of mental atavism. If you don't hate Russians, than you hate Chinese, if not them, than someone else, openly and unpunished by your law that is based on equality and human rights, while in same time enforcing same laws through world, punishing anyone that doesn't hate who you hate. I'm not talking about your government mate, I'm talking about you, people. It's in you. You could be right about one thing, but in same time, you are torching someone else and think that that is right. The only time your conscience wakes is when you're scared.
1:47 "Expansion of Serbs in Kraina?!" What expansion you talking about? Maybe you wanted to say "extermination of Serbs from Kraina, from their homes during many centuries." Btw. Destruction of Yugoslavia was prepared by Germany since 70's (before Tito's death) There was some insiders: ua-cam.com/video/GzMKgeESSu4/v-deo.html
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Just a small correction - the conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia were settled under the Dayton agreement of 1995 - the bombing of Yugoslavia (Serbia) in 1999 only related to the conflict in Kosovo.
nato helped croatians and bosniaks before 1999 conflict, just like he described in the video and they wouldnt even be on the same site since they killed each other before that.
@@billybob-vy4sw from the beginning with deployment of weapons,later,from 1994 ,they started to use planes,bombing the position's of RS army, airport in RSK,etc...in the end they completely organised so called "operation Storm".To make a long story short.
America is a country ruled by oligarchs, who enrich themselves through cronyism, endless warfare, and kleptocracy. In the last 100 years, America prospers by benefiting from the death and misery of other nations. Isolated by two oceans, America relies on its military interventions, bases and installations around the world to control territories of its current and future interests. America welcomed the war in Yugoslavia, for it solved a problem of the third world countries; Yugoslavia was the leader of NAM, Non-Aligned Movement in the “third world” that did not want to align themselves with either Eastern or the Western bloc. NAM insisted on mutual collaboration, bartering and avoiding of the US dollar trade standard. When NAM lost leadership (which also consisted of Libya and Iraq, two prominent NAM countries), it was easy for the oligarchs to conquer poor third-world countries with impossible-to-repay loans and debt. America hates large unified and strong countries, like Yugoslavia was, then Russia, China, or post-war Serbia. If it can't control them - like they controlled Boris Yeltsin and previous leaders of China - It will do everything to destabilise them, starting from publicly demonising them, then through psychological warfare of exporting fake news and lies, social-reengineering via the decadent cultural exports and the so-called “sexual freedoms”, that destroy families and cultural cohesion, then through "globalism", that destroys strong local independent economies. Destabilising Serbia in the Balkans after the war was a strategic move in order to destabilise a traditional Russian ally in the Balkans and to threaten others who won’t comply.
The terrible violence against the Bosnian Muslims was preceded by the fact that the agent of the Americans, Osama bin Laden, transported a force of thousands of mujheddin mercenaries to Bosnia. These forces ransacked 52 Bosnian Serb villages (mostly attacked on Christian holidays...) and killed 3200 Bosnian Serbs, indiscriminately! These marauders attacked from Szebrenyica, a city protected by the UN! When the Serbs launched an attack on Szebrenyica, these "brave" butchers simply ran away and handed the city over to the revenge-hungry Serbs! The Serbs did what they did after that...
I heard a rumor the reason why the US bombed Yugoslavia was so that Bill Clinton had a public distraction from his sexual scandals with Monica Lewinsky
Friend i have to tel you your analyses are based on us and EU mainstream media! Yugoslavija was destroid becose several reasons: 1 to eliminate the possibility that one day Yugoslavia can unite with Russia! 2 to eliminate the possibility of any independent countries in Europe! 3. To show Germany, what would happen if they try to leave, NATO 4. To eliminate possibility of orthodox, Christianity continues to thrive in EU!
Thank you for this report. Educational as always. Here's what I see happening, in a nutshell, as a US citizen. Those who make major foreign policy decisions here have two main goals: control all the world's money and control all the world's oil, or as much of it as possible. The more capitalist-based a country or a particular set of leaders are, the more amenable they will be to US-based corporations exploiting their markets and resources. That's all they (my govt) cares about. To that end, my govt will provide financial assistance to countries they see as friendly to western Big Capital interests (but always with special strings attached and usually to the detriment of the common person in said country, eg world bank or IMF loans); and use influence, threats, or attempt CIA coups for the purposes of regime change in nations they see as opposing Western Capital expansion. Amy nation not willing to be manipulated or influenced by the US to the degree they demand is at risk of one or more methods of US govt muscle-flexing and coercion. In extreme cases, this means my govt will come up with a dummy reason to invade and send in our military, such as what happened in Vietnam, the Korean war, Iraq, the small island of Grenada, and now with Ukraine, although that's what we call a proxy war. You can best believe my govt is doing everything possible to cause and deliberately escalate this current conflict between Ukraine and Russia due to Putin's opposition to being a continued target of NATO and to submit to a US agenda of dominance and control. Yes there are most certainly pre-existing local tensions but as they have always done, my govt is very expertly maximally exploiting these to their own ends. It's what they like to do.
*@ . Netscape.* Super great comment. Thank you. Coincidently I just viewed this clip yesterday. *Note:* By _Americans,_ Arnab means the Washingtonians and their corporate bosses. *_Why Does America Love The Russia-Ukraine War? Arnab Goswami Cuts To The Chase_* ua-cam.com/video/o27grM1hFuY/v-deo.html
as a american maybe don’t talk about stuff you don’t know,ukraine is solely one person’s fault don’t make it as if nato pushed that shit when literally any ukrainian would tell you the oposite
@@hurremhightower well you're certainly welcome to your opinion but I believe I am well informed. I've been following this since it started and I believe I'm well versed in the general history of the region going back not just to 2014 but back into the 90s, 80s, and right after WW2. So I believe I speak from a good base of knowledge. You're welcome to believe what you're believe but I won't be changing my mind today.
@@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999 this is not a matter of opinion💀not when the idea that nato or us started it when it has been proven that they did not,like just knowing the history for 30 years doesn’t make you an expert in this and like i said is not a matter of opinion
@@hurremhightower no I'm not the expert and I don't claim to be. I'm just making the best judgment I can based on the information that I have. Like I said to someone else I hope it gets resolved quickly and peacefully. I think it's always a shame anytime armed conflict breaks out. I hate for any innocent person to get caught in the middle on either side. I hope that a mutually acceptable diplomatic agreement can be found soon.
What is this guy saying?! Before 2007 Russia was okay with NATO's eastward expansion?! Does he even know what he is talking about? I am a Russian citizen. I remember it all too well - Russia had been expressing its concerns about the expansion since the very collapse of USSR in 1991! The fact that Lavrov "welcomed Baltic states into NATO" (which, in fact, he never did) was nothing more than following a diplomacy protocol.
Yes, NATO is a criminal organization and should be held accountable for crimes committed in Serbia and Montenegro. They destroyed infrastructure and destroyed factories to allow Western corporations to enter the market, and Kosovo and Metohija is a spoil of war. It is known that the area is rich in ores. After the war, corporations controlled by General Clark and Madeleine Albright became the owners of factories and mines in Kosovo and Metohija. Kosovo and Mttohija is the real name, not just Kosovo. Metohija in translation means the land that belongs to the Church /Serbian Orthodox Church/.
Misleading title, Yugo was deindustrialised to give Germany a monopoly on euro industry, simple as that, ex yugo states now are now neo-colonies of the west, same with Ukraine in 2013 it's main export was semi-processed industrial goods, mainly to ex USSR states, now its raw unprocessed agricultural commodities
This guy knows nothing. He had better study the real data about the village of Rachak, which was the alleged reason for the bombing of Serbia. We have been living in a big lie for a long time.
Mr Prashad is not careful about his pronunciation. By "Cina", I think he means Croatia. Katie should have clarified. Also, Prashad does not consider that Pres Putin, before 2007, was President of a very weak Russia that could not oppose the US or NATO's movement eastward. Only at the Munich meeting in 2008, did he have a platform to express his concerns, and he was sharply criticized for his Munich speech in the west. As Russia got to its feet, it became more assertive about telling NATO to halt its eastward advance. He warned at Munich against including Ukraine and Georgia.
During the G8 meeting in Washington Obama had only seven seats at the main table so Putin had to sit and eat his lunch alone at table to the side. Putin eat his meal and left the meeting. This is how the west in treating their neighbors and the rest is history.
I think Ukraine 2022 will be remembered like Suez 1956 - the time and place the British Empire lost preeminence due to a military/diplomatic miscalculation.
They did NOT like that the Baltics joined NATO. They just couldn't do anything about it at the time and they are relatively small, insignificant countries. Plus they have Kaliningrad to secure their position in the Baltic.
Or, you could Google it and research from there, or look it up on Wikipedia. If you believe everything the internet brodeo posts w/o looking it up for yourself, you deserve what you get.
Edward Abbey spent two years as a Arches National Park ranger which inspired him to write “Desert Solitaire," and this particular insight came to light: “Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
Sarajevo was a mixed national population. There where 150 000 serb civilians in it. Ower 10 000 of them where killed by muslim side in conflict, serb civilians not soldiers. Same muslim extremist soldiers where killed in Srebrenica after their capture by serb armie in revenge for them killing serb civilians in neighboring vilages around Srebrenica for years in most grusom mideval ways. Now i dont dispute that they shoud haw been put on trial and that was a war crime but calling it a genocide after what they did to civilians is pure propaganda to justify all actions after that where conducted by the US and NATO. Which all lead to this mess all ower Balkans, Afganistan, Iraq and now future WW3 conflict starting to flare up in Ukraine...
Prashad don't know a thing about conflict in Yugoslavia. Srebrenica was in 95 on the and of conflict. After thousands of civilian Serbs were killed in that area.
I was a teenager in the States during this Was recruited as a teenager by all the branches The media portrayed this era as a "time of peace" bombing Yugoslavia out of existence I nearly went and may have participated in these very acts you're describing
@@williamthebonquerer9181 What a lie,Albanians wanted to take Kosovo from us,and because we didn't wanted to join Nato,west made up story about that to make a reason to attack us. And ofc we didn't want to let Albanians to take what is ours,sam if Mexicans want to make some USA country independent because majority of them live there
@@williamthebonquerer9181 Because we didn't want to play like USA wanted,second think there is a rich mine on Kosovo,thrid thing there is a Nato base on Kosovo now. Why did USA lie about weapon of mass destruction in Irak? Albanians started to act rly bad to Serbian people on Kosovo 20 years before war,after that a lot of Serbians move to the north,because they had hard life there. So Albanians become majority there.
Vilay Prashad points out himself the critical point, namely that it wasn't until 1994 (Maastricht Treaty, 1 Nov. 1993) that the EU -- Europe, not the EEC -- formalized efforts to establish an unified economic and political policy let alone a unified military policy, the latter which still is not in place today. The post-WWII status of the EU was more or less defenseless, both in terms of military power to defend itself, but perhaps more importantly, in terms of a unified strategy to defend itself, which again is questionable today -- 80 years later. Cooperations among EU nations was tenuous in the post-war era. It took until 1957 to create the European Economic Community (EEC). While "power" also comes with responsibility, one must also rightly observe that "responsibility" must come with "power", both in term of strength but also in terms of authority to carry out that responsibility. If the EU did not wish NATO security forces to defend them until 1993 (and still today), they should not have signed the NATO treaties and accepted the security forces, for which they still haven't paid the bill in any significant amount. Nor should its members have voted for the bombings, though several voted against. Bill Clinton was president at the time of this bombing. It is doubtful that one can hold that Bill Clinton represents the sum of "American NATO policy" for the entire period of NATO's existance, but he was the president at the time. I notice the guest doesn't even mention Bill Clinton, but attributes all to "American power seeking", while simultaneously and clearly mentioning Russian leaders as a "partners of peace". The guest further describes Russia as "pliable" and says the question is about who will dominate Europe, Russia or China. Interesting alternatives. Many have rightly questioned the motives behind the Yugoslavia bombings, which were not sanctioned by Congress, but they were sanctioned by NATO members. They should question them.
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@@iceflame1167 He didn't say at all. There's literally a Bill Clinton statue in Kosovo. Ask Croatians if they want to be part of Serbia still 😂 this is just anti NATO rhetoric. He didn't explain a single thing.
They were fucking killing them self, it had to be ended. The inhumanity going on in yugoslavia was beyond anything seen on the continent after ww2. Complete butchery.
Dominik Ivanković 2 months ago No, Serbian megalomaniac politics is the main reason Yugoslavia broke up. At the time Slovenia and Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia looked more like a fascist state than a socialist one. Long story short, Slovenia and Croatia wanted more autonomy (most developed republics being hold back in development by the extremely poor regions, like Kosovo), they got it in 1974., Tito died in 1980. and from then onward Serbs started to gradually take over the control of Yugoslavia, again centralising all the power in Belgrade. If they weren't acting like that, maybe Yugoslavia would still exist to this day (probably as a confederacy, with even greater autonomy for republics) or at the very least, there wouldn't be any blood spilled after the break up. Sadly they chose what they chose, sacrificing their own people for their stupid, megalomaniac, power-thirsty causes.
Whatever the reason, aggression on Yugoslavia and consequent US push for Kosovo statehood, some 9 years later, was pivotal moment in the world history. International order, created after WW2, was completely destroyed. Aftermath we see today
Nope... Serbia-ran Yugoslavia became a nationalistic militarist power threatening the peace in Europe; so NATO did in 1999 what it should have done in 1992. Bombing Serbia's military targets brought down Milosevich's killing machine. The current leadership in Serbia has to move away from Milosevic era and tactics, and orient the country toward western democracy and western values instead of aligning with Putin.
Thank you for bringing this guest to show light to the realities of today by showing the history that got us here in the first place. You will be labeled as a Putin apologist for this.
Dominik Ivanković 2 months ago No, Serbian megalomaniac politics is the main reason Yugoslavia broke up. At the time Slovenia and Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia looked more like a fascist state than a socialist one. Long story short, Slovenia and Croatia wanted more autonomy (most developed republics being hold back in development by the extremely poor regions, like Kosovo), they got it in 1974., Tito died in 1980. and from then onward Serbs started to gradually take over the control of Yugoslavia, again centralising all the power in Belgrade. If they weren't acting like that, maybe Yugoslavia would still exist to this day (probably as a confederacy, with even greater autonomy for republics) or at the very least, there wouldn't be any blood spilled after the break up. Sadly they chose what they chose, sacrificing their own people for their stupid, megalomaniac, power-thirsty causes.
I think Russia allowed interference from NATO until 2007 because foreign investments were coming into Russia and Russia needed those investments to modernize their industry, oil and gas in particular. Don't forget that it was primarily BP that developed their Siberian oil fields.
thw russian have got the brains and can develop thier own oil fields the ussr was the biggest producer of oil in the world but after its collaspe there was economic kaos.Many carpet baggers came from the usa to steals as many soviet assets as possible. illuminati jewish carpet baggers like bill browder
I'm sure it had more to do with shoring military contractors with more cash. After all, they have to spend all that money somewhere. Since they're all in on it for themselves (government being nothing more than a corporate extortion racketeering scheme), why not? 😉
The comments section was worth a read. A side note is that I don’t think Stoltenberg said exactly that about enabling US power projection over europe. However he mentioned other parts of the world, like the middle east. However I still agree with Vijay at large. And it highlights I think why it from a Russian perspective in the ongoing Ukraine conflict, is a perfectly reasonable opinion to think NATO expansion towards Russia can be seen as a threat.
@@hungmanxxxx2462 His 'real reason NATO bombed' is at best an opinion. He offers no proof. The invasion of Ukraine strengthened the influence of the United Staes and NATO. The influence of the US was waining until Russia invaded Ukraine.
You know, I don't agree with a lot of what NATO has done in the past, or what it continues to do but the kosovo intervention was necessary, the serbs were doing ethnic cleansing against the albanians. It had to be stopped, and even though the bombing from the air killed many serb civilians, the war ended thanks to NATO.
Not so bright analysis. Fact is that Serbia stopped biggest Hyperinflation in only 2 months,and announced to establish actual Golden Dinar ,USA would nuke anyone who try that.Another fact-Serbians suffered biggest loses in % fighting against Anyone who wanted to dominate this region,and was victim of several genocides because of that.Last example is Islamic drug "state" of Kosovo,which had biggest military US base in Europe.If anyone asking how hundreds of tons of drugs coming to EU every month-just see what is inside those US military trucks going around. There is lots to say ,as fact that Nato is NOT defensive organisation. Just a tool for world dominance of that colonial powers....again. Its time to open your eyes ,almost too late...
It was always about power, and so will it always be. However, Albanians, Bosnians and Croats were actually saved against Serbian misuse of power. There were actual an ongoing ethnic cleansing done by the Serbs, although these reasons are not solely why nato intervened.
I had to down vote not because of his opinions, but the lack of specific citations and information from which he bases his conclusions. I learned nothing here
As a Bosnian, I think I speak for all former Yugoslavians (except Serbs of course) when I say that the bombing of Serbia by NATO wasn't even half the karma they deserved for what they did in 'Krajina' and 'Republika Srpska'. Those two 'countries' were created by Serbs to guarantee that no one would stop them from carrying out massive genocides against people they used to call brother and sister. If Yugoslavia ever returns, it will either exclude Serbia or be another evil attempt at destroying Bosnia and Croatia.
As a Serb born and raised in Serbia, was thought to love and believe in Yugoslavia by both my parents. I was called Chetnik at the age of 9 back in the late 80’s when visiting family in Bosnia. Shameless muslims in my family and their redneck friends; no wonder Alija was able to play his role the way he did. I can tell you with certainty that the upbringing of a lot of Bošnjaka was to hate anything Serbian. No different then in Croatia. No one hated you in Belgrade and in Serbia before the war, I know because of my dad’s background. Unlike you, I know my identity and know I am a Serb who’s ancestors accepted Islam on my dad’s side, but not being a muslim or atheist I am still a Serb. What are you without your religion? And not to be misunderstood, I support you being a Muslim, I am a Christian and have no issues with other religions nationalities race etc. Everyone deserves their place under the sun, but I can’t stand ultra nationalists and hypocrites, no matter if they’re Serb or not. You assuming “New Yugoslavia” would not have Serbs in it, is to be naive to think it could exist or ever been created without them. Unless you’re planning another NDH with the Croats? Someone also should teach you what karma really is, it’s certainly not in death and destruction, but your statement just shows how much hate you have in you. Blind to see no one benefited from the war but those who “couldn’t agree”. We don’t need another Yugoslavia to respect one another, but “brother”, I can never respect you and I am sure no one outside your inner circle does as you are full of hate. You need detox.
Just see my main video if you don’t believe me how they really are and that we Bosniaks are victims and not the bad guys , Srebrenica ,and thousands of Bosniak women and young girls were raped in very brutal ways, Bosnia ,1992-1995.I will not forget nor forgive.✌️😢.Many girls did call me ugly when it’s not my fault ,many were very mean to me,mostly my own kind,but I can’t help it I feel sorry and I fight any evil any injustice this way at least…..
And if NATO didn't do that, what would have happened to the bosniaks and kosovars? A fate worse than NATO bombings on the aggressor States in those two conflicts that is for certain
I lived in Yugoslavia and this is all wrong Nato Bombing happend but the war was allready over we won bombing destroyd key factorys and milliteri sayts and helped in completly stoping the war we live in peace with Serbia now and trade with them
He did not say one very important thing. In the 1990s, there was serious talk that the US should abolish its military bases in Germany, just as the Soviet Union had done. The military presence in Germany gave the USA influence over German and European politics, and the USA did not want to give it up. Bombing Serbia and supporting the creation of Kosovo enabled the creation of a military base, the second largest in Europe, in case the US was forced to leave Germany. That is why the USA exerted pressure to recognize the state of Kosovo, where they built a base at a time when it officially belonged to Serbia.
That's true!
Read my main comment.
He can't say that! That's just to much truth! No one talks about the real reason why Monica was under ther desk either!
The default nature of the Balkans is war. Plain and simple. If the US were to leave tomorrow, war would break out, and 10,000's would die. The "bombing of Serbia" killed no more than 1,000 Serbs. Not exactly the genocide Serbian nationalists want to believe.
That is why a big part of USA will collapse politically and physically into the ocean. No country can spread the war all the time, all around the world, and never get it back from the mother nature. Stupid people think if USA is far away from the other continents, it is far away fron the justice of the natural law!
I would left this country as soon as I can, if I would be living there!
Real reason in two words: Madeline Albright.
A true hero!
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@@heyyo162Leslie Stall asked her if sanctions on Iraq, which killed 500,000 children 5 or under, was worth it. She replied they were. I used to like her too, but then...
@@republica13 I was not referring to the very tragic Iraq history when I called her a hero.
@heyyo162 Such ignorance...
"The whole purpose of NATO is to keep the US in (Europe), Russia out and Germany down". (I forget who said that)
It was the first leader of NATO, Lord Ismay.
Diese Aussage wurde von einem englischen Admiral getätigt und lautet so :
Wenn wir ( die engliche Kolonialmacht ) unsere Macht und unseren Einfluß in der Welt behalten wollen müssen wir Deutschland unten und Russland draußen lassen und verhindern das beide ein zu enges Verhältnis haben .
Diese Aussage tätigte er schon vor dem 1.Weltkrieg.
"The whole purpose of Russia and Serbia is to declare war on its neighbors and then pretend to be the victim." (I forgot who said that)
Wise words, barbaric russia must be kept far away from Europe. Without the help of US it would be very difficult.
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There was also the invasion of Libya. China and Russia stood aside in this conflict and watch with horror how NATO and its mercenaries destroyed that country. When they tried to do the same in Syria, Russia began to take a stand against the intervention with China support in the Security Council of the UN. These two conflicts made Russia realize that NATO needed to be stopped.
Both China and Russia were not ready to confront the combined West. The West would have destroyed both countries with Sanctions. It's unfortunate but timing is everything.
@@yellowsheepson which Planet do you live ?
US have 44 Billions USS depts.
Russia nearly nothing.
BRICS is coming, with a Gold Standard.
USA is done, like the Roman Empire
@@yellowsheeps You mean the same kind of sanctions that stopped the war in Ukrai... oh wait.
@@Ryan-dk7mm The current Western Sanctions on Russia has NOT stopped anything. Russia has already won "hands down" so now the Collective West is gonna go after China ...which they will also fail. However, US/UK has successfully defeated and enslaved Europe for the foreseeable future. In 2011, there wasn't China's "Belt and Road" (BRI). Both Russia and China needed to solidify alternatives to the West (i.e. BRICS, SCO, EAEU, MIR, Union Pay etc..etc..). Most mainstream people in the West are clueless to what's going on geo-politically.
@@Ryan-dk7mm, in the early 2000s Putin actually was quite pro-western and even wanted to join NATO. They said no (who would get rid of the perfect scarecrow which was used for centuries).
Putin is not stupid so he understood that Russia will be targeted when it gets stronger. So he prepared. And it's not fair to say that sanctions don't work at all. But since there were some sanctions since 2014 - people get used to it, economics also changed etc. Plus the west underestimates the strength of russian people. We survived the 90s with default and uncontrolled crime crisis so the sanctions don't hurt us as much as they would have hurt americans or europeans.
Knowing how the US government operates, I can't help wondering whether it was somehow involved in instigating the horrible actions in Yugoslavia that then required NATO intervention. The old "divide and rule" strategy.
It was involved, it's only common sense to me on how our US Govt works. My unit out of Germany during the time early/mid 90s finally got sent to Tuzla Bosnia in 96'.
Supporting terrorists. What happened later? Kosovo gave largest number of ISIS fighter per capita. Go figure.
Yes. Reagan initiated a program in 1984. After Titos death with the help of the ruling elite and IMF, Yugoslavian economy was thrown into turmoil. Right wing nationalist movements were supported financially. It was only a matter of time.
result...
NATO has almost full military control of Balkans. Drugs flow into Europe, wich CIA used to train and equip KLA. Weapons flow into Africa, but even rest of Europe. The whole area is a powderkeg more than ever, and US is playing with matches.
Racak massacre was totally made up..Go watch how US pressured the people doing the autopsy to change their report. But it was easy to make up these false flags at that time..
Probably
A year before the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, on Nov. 5, 1990, the U.S. Congress passed the 1991 Foreign Operations Appropriations Law 101-513. This bill was a signed death warrant. One provision in particular was so lethal that even a CIA report described three weeks later in the Nov. 27, 1990, New York Times predicted it would lead to a bloody civil war.
Only forces that the U.S. State Department defined as "democratic forces" would receive funding. This meant an influx of funds to small right-wing nationalist parties in a financially strangled region suddenly thrown into crisis by the overall funding cut-off.
The 1991 Foreign Operations Appropriations Law also prescribed various forms of economic strangulation for several other countries deemed enemies, including Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Korea (DPRK) and Vietnam. On the other hand countries moving hastily toward a capitalist market economy in 1990, such as Poland, were to receive special funding.
"NATO In The Balkans: Voices Of Opposition" by Sean Gervasi, Ramsey Clark, Sara Flounders, Thomas Deichmann, Nadja Tesich... (1998)
I live in the US and the people who make the major foreign policy decisions here have two main goals: control all the world's money and control all the world's oil, or as much of it as possible. The more capitalist-based a country or a particular set of leaders are, the more amenable they will be to US-based corporations exploiting their markets and resources. That's all they (my govt) cares about. To that end, my govt will provide financial assistance to countries they see as friendly to western Big Capital interests (but always with special strings attached and usually to the detriment of the common person in said country, eg world bank or IMF loans); and use influence, threats, or attempt CIA coups for the purposes of regime change in nations they see as opposing Western Capital expansion. Amy nation not willing to be manipulated or influenced by the US to the degree they demand is at risk of one or more methods of US govt muscle-flexing and coercion. In extreme cases, this means my govt will come up with a dummy reason to invade and send in our military, such as what happened in Vietnam, the Korean war, Iraq, the small island of Grenada, and now with Ukraine, although that's what we call a proxy war. You can best believe my govt is doing everything possible to cause and deliberately escalate this current conflict between Ukraine and Russia due to Putin's opposition to being a continued target of NATO and to submit to a US agenda of dominance and control. Yes there are most certainly pre-existing local tensions but as they have always done, my govt is very expertly maximally exploiting these to their own ends.
It's what they like to do.
Thanks
Do you know if you could send a link for that CIA report? I need it for a research paper, thanks.
Far more actual info here than in Vijay Prashad's entire verbose expose. The State Department does not serve US interests - it serves the interests of the financial powers that it demonstrably has served for decades.
@@benkodzic4045Try to find some clue in the mentioned issue of the New York Times.
Let's set aside any justifications for a moment and focus on the facts. A sovereign nation experienced a secessionist movement backed by terrorist attacks. It's only natural for any country to respond with force, which can unfortunately lead to atrocities. The issue here is the apparent double standard: the West supports Ukraine's efforts to remain unified, largely due to its anti-Russian government. However, when Serbs take similar action against Albanians in defense of their sovereignty, they face punishment and demonization, primarily because of their close relationship with Russia.
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Yes, this needs to be said more often.
Well the middle name of the whole rotten West is - hypocrisy...just rotten to the core
But serbs are genocidal maniacs much worse than nazis and communists.
This is pure propaganda and your comment is made out of absolute ignorance and it's very inaccurate. I am Bosnian and have survived this war as a child. My school was destroyed by Serbs, my hometown razed to the ground, my apartment burned and looted by Serbian "military"... I was a refugee for 3 years in my OWN country, Bosnia. And only with the help of NATO did my family return to live in a liberated city after 3 years of being a refugee.
Meanwhile, Serbia was intact and wasn't touched at all until they started a 3rd war in a row, in 1999 against Albanians. So NATO intervened again to prevent yet ANOTHER genocide by the Serb army.
But anyway, keep believing Russian-Serbian propaganda and keep thinking you know shit. I just hope you never have to live through what my people have lived through. I sincerely pity you.
Therld began in 1999 with the attack and occupation of the NATO pact on the Serbian land and the seizure of 17 percent of the Serbian territory where America built the largest military base without permission and against UN resolution 1244. In cooperation with the Albanian mafia and paramilitary formations, they are grave crimes against the Serbian population. NATO wants to secede from Serbia the province of Kosovo, which is part of Serbia, and does not allow the Dombas Republic to secede. The first war after the Second World War was launched by NATO with 19 countries against a sovereign European country for no reason and in a sea of Western lies.
Type in the Google search engine: The aggression of the NATO pact on Yugoslavia in 1999.
This Ukraine-Russia may help to stop future bombing by NATO perticularly. I've learnt lot of thing after this conflict began. Unfortunately Ukrainins are suffering but people around the world educaying themselves of NATO and US hegemony other bombings through out the history. This awareness is good. ❤️ from Sri Lanka.
Exactly, another US vs. Russia/China proxy war. The only losers are the citizens of Ukraine. The longer the war goes on the more the US benefits.
@@daltanionwaves The more money the U.S. Oligarchs make.
@Primoz Majhen NATO's never been used for its intended stated purpose. NATO is a Cold War imperial hegemon tool to continue a war economy for the U.S. that couldn't accept the U.S.S.R. as the actual victors over the Nazi's. The CIA even parachuted UHDR Nazi's back into Ukraine from 1949 to 1954 that we know of-- after Stalin died
Hopefully. Or it will give NATO more of an excuse to be aggressive.
It was Ukraine's decision to be USA pawn. No one forced them. They forced USA upon themselves. Now they can't expect to gain sympathy and innocence.
Yugoslavia was totally a AmeriCIA nato orchestrated war as we are seeing the same geopolitical interference and same players in Ukraine.
No it was not
@@Mirabell_Noir je i to dobro znaš
@@Mirabell_Noir IT was ! 100%
Well done. Finally someone with wide open eyes.
@@Mirabell_Noir Yes, it was .
Let's face it, NATO only exists to destroy weak countries! Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afganistan, STAND STRONG MY EASTERN BROTHERS!
"Let's face it, this channel is a wealth of ignorance.
NATO pact exists to
divide Germany and Russia
You go slavia was a shithole it was an artificial state only held together by US funding. When funding stopped it fell apart.
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Perhaps the most important thing was not mentioned - Serbia is the only country in the NATO environment that is close to Russia. There are opinions that NATO has decided to tear Serbia apart and take over the territory piece by piece. This would slowly reduce the zone of Russian influence to zero. Madeleine Albright said that it was Vojvodina's turn. They have not been able to achieve this so far because Serbs are the majority of the inhabitants of Vojvodina.
Vijay Prashad , you have left out some very important information regarding the era you say where Putin was pliable to the NATO , but everything changed around 2007 , and this is where you failed to fill us all in on , where America started mobilising Military Bases into some of these countries freshly accepted into NATO . This was breaking the Minsk Agreement by arming those bases with missiles with nuclear capability . So of course Putin was going to keep bringing it to notice at certain UN and Nato meetings , but to no avail , the West just totally ignored Putin`s plea and now what we are all seeing is the end results !!!
yes thanks for bringing attention to it
Yes, you are Right Rick, but in just a seven-minute clip he couldn't give us the entire story. At least he is one of the voices bringing a counterbalance to the crazy narrative about Putin, NATO, and Russian relations. Zelensky is Putin Jr. He is No compassionate democratic leader, he is another dictator. The U.S just can't pick the right one. This channel is bordering on being a misinformation propaganda Putin machine and liable to be shut down by the UA-cam mafia. The moment people present a different point from the approved Orthodoxy that's it!!! You are targeted for termination.
@@MrRawnerves Yes , you are right but I wish they would bring all the relevant facts . The all end up being misinformation channels , depending on whom they follow , cheers .
@@MrRawnerves Well, if you think this channel is a "Putin machine," why don't you turn it in to the Gestapo Thought Police and get them "terminated"?
Zelensky is not a dictator. He is an actor who is being dictated TO. And before you call Putin a 'dictator,' remember that any national leader who defies the USA gets called a "dictator," even though they truly represent their people, even though they are elected in better election systems than our own. Hugo Chavez and Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela. Daniel Ortego in Nicaragua. Both countries are suffering US 'sanctions" (siege warfare). Why? WHY?
The term "dictator" has become nearly meaningless. And the true dictator of the world - US-based multinational corporations and their enforcers, the CIA and the US military - can't be seen because they are not a person, they are a collective - indeed, they are a communist-style system for the uber-rich. They distribute all the riches among themselves.
@@rickoliver2059 Vijay knows all that. He was just touching on the beginning shifts in Russian commentary. It's just a short clip.
People have lived in Kosovo together for almost thousand years. Albanian people even helped to Serbian army and civilian people in 1917 and saved tens of thousands lives running from their historical enemies, union of German empire including at that moment Italy and Croats in some minority, later in WW2 they were all called with the capital letter "N".
Maybe not a brotherhood but still respectful friendship was untill the moment when America and Anglo-Saxons didn't stuck their fingers there between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians. Exactly the same they did in Ukraine, now trying to implement with Taiwan and at meny other different places around the planet Earth.
Noam Chomsky thought it was done to get Yugoslavia into the neoliberal system. From an interview:
DM: Last month marked the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the bombing of Yugoslavia. Why did NATO wage that war or I should say why did the United States wage that war?
NC: Actually, we have for the first time a very authoratative comment on that from the highest level of Clinton administration, which is something that one could have surmised before, but now it is asserted. This is from Strobe Talbott who was in charge of the…he ran the Pentagon/State Department intelligence Joint Committee on the diplomacy during the whole affair including the bombing, so that’s very top of Clinton administration; he just wrote the forward to a book by his Director of Communications, John Norris, and in the forward he says if you really want to understand what the thinking was of the top of Clinton administration this is the book you should read and take a look on John Norris’s book and what he says is that the real purpose of the war had nothing to do with concern for Kosovar Albanians. It was because Serbia was not carrying out the required social and economic reforms, meaning it was the last corner of Europe which had not subordinated itself to the US-run neoliberal programs, so therefore it had to be eliminated. That’s from the highest level.
you have no idea what you are talking about -you need to do some research
he also thinks no genocided happened there and serbs are the good guys. hes an idiot and an eternal anti us imperialist, even if they did something right.
And that’s why Russia is hated by the neolibs/neocons today
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Bunch of leftist BS...
This is the reason America bombed Serbia, in the words of NATO Supreme Commander US General Wesley Clark:
"There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states, that's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states."
Four years later the same US General said:
"We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran."
Serbia was one of many counties sacrificed under the totalitarian jackboot of the New World Order.
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Croatia is the most ethnic pure state after they expelled 25% of Serbs in 90es. In WWII she expelled also 200 000 Italians and 200 000 Germans. While EU and USA didn't mind as long is Croatia their colony.
Translation : "We're going to succeed where the former USSR & Yugoslavia failed; we're gonna cram this multinational/multiethnic/multicultural,etc. thing down the throats of all those affected, whether they like it or not" - because it's good for business [ raping other countries' national resources, putting up the golden arches, & exporting whatever new social trend is popular ( formerly Evangelical Christianity : they'd bulldoze the land with the military then send in the evangelists to mop up )] - that's the part they don't tell you. All that talk about freedom, democracy, & self-determination is just that - talk. If they really cared about all of that they would have gotten involved in Croatia back in '91.
@iaindj True
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and Serbs expelled over 300k+ germans from vojvodina plus crimes they've committed over ethnic germans over 100k bosniaks killed in eastern bosnia tens of thousands of croatians and catholic serbia was the first country who reported to hitler that they are judenfrei(free of jews) etc croatia expelled serbs because of revolution and anexation of land done by serbs despite Z4 plan which was warant under US and EU that serbs have more than autonomy within croatian borders,serba was deaf on all warnings from nato and un to stop what they're were doing and they were doing ethnic cleansing and masacres wherever they conquer the land kosovo was the last straw
I think the bombing of Yugoslavia was the point where the NATO lost any credibility as a purely defensive alliance. And what is it doing now? It's deeply involved in and committed to a proxy war in Ukraine between the US and Russia and has dragged other members of the club into the shit with them whether they want to or can afford to be involved or not.
Vijay Prashad is very knowledgeable & a great guest. Katie Halper, your show has truly become top notch. At a time, so many channels have been terribly disappointing, you have become more impressive.
Is the channel Richard Medhurst disappointing?
@@itsblitz4437 No, Richard Medhurst in my #1 actually.
Its bullshit, Nato expansionism that put Yeltsin out, problem not only for |Putin also Gorbachev ua-cam.com/video/3wB9uL2lKaw/v-deo.html
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he so full of shit on this topic!
Ask any bully why being so cruel towards weaker ,most popular answer: BECAUSE I CAN !
Nato bombing of Serbia (Yugoslavia) WAS GREATEST WAR CRIME after the WW2. Kosovo Albanians were just the minority in Serbia that had ALL (their University on albanian language, basically ALL they ever asked for), and if there wasnt for Tito who created "Autonome Province of Kosovo and Metohija" nothing would happen. Albanians that lived on Kosovo for generations, WERE NEVER for separate country, THEY LOVED YUGOSLAVIA, and UCK (Kosovo Liberation Army - which was designed as terrorist organization by CIA just 1 year prior to the bombing) was killing those Albanians that didnt hate Serbia and Yugoslavia. In 1998 (but also before, in 1981 Albanians slaughtered ENTIRE guard platoon, who were soldiers yet to be trained) they started to kill policemen, and in numbers, they made many ambushes, IED, etc. So, one day, YU army + police made the operation to wipe out them in village of Racak. They did their job imaculate. But, from some reason Serbs LEFT those bodies of KLA killed soldiers and KLA came during the night and CHANGE THEM, they put civilian clothing and remove markings of KLA. All of those "victims" were young man, fit to fight, 0 women, 0 oldmen, 0 children. NATO used that FAKED incident to BOMB and POLUTE an independent country and people. Similar "netrocities" can be seen even today in Ukraine, like that "russian soldier" decaputating the enemy - I mean, who can buy that sht ???
The biggest lie you could say .
everyone who takes their info from the "free independent western media" and takes it for granted. and you'd be surprised how many people do that. also governments that are not liberal democratic are liars by default in their minds.
What he said was not a lie but 100% true, I know this because I was there as part of the italian regiment with in NATO, stationed in Prizren, the albanians are not innocent as presented in the western media, the excuss that was used to bomb serbia was a complete lie, I realised this after serving there. @@isaylast2465
From 1945 (even before the formation of the CIA) to 1953, the US supported the Nazi collaborators in Western Ukraine forming an underground insurgency within the Soviet Union (resulting in 300K deaths - Scott Ritter recently said) This is while US conducted Operation Paperclip and Canada welcomed Nazi collaborators to become Canadian citizens.
1948 - Henry A Wallace (of the FDR administration but who Truman had fired) runs for the presidency in the US on the Progressive Party ticket. He was adamantly against the growing tensions with the USSR
1949 - NATO formed
In 1953 Stalin died and Khrushchev heads the Soviet Union. Eisenhower gave his "Chance for Peace" speech.
In 1954 the Soviets offered to enter NATO (the Molotov proposal). The US refused
In 1955 the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact and the Cold War continued unabated
There is much more than that u forgot British !
Yes it was run by Allen Dulles and the OSS at which was the predecessor to the CIA.
Quoting Scott Ritter? You lost that argument easily. Why would the West allow the soviet union as a member of Nato? Were the soviets sincere? Extremely doubtful.
Ritter said hahahaha
Because they wanted to dismantle the nation-state of Yugoslavia ... the last existing socialist country in Europe, at the time.
Lol most people in these Countries don't even miss it anymore.
@@kayvan671 nonsense.. yogoslavia fell apart because Tito was dead, he was the glue who did hold yugoslavia together..
@@fredjansen2770
I never heard of a Bosnisan or Serbian who missed Yugoslavia.
Infact, there is alot of hatred for their neighbors.
No, Serbian megalomaniac politics is the main reason Yugoslavia broke up. At the time Slovenia and Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia looked more like a fascist state than a socialist one. Long story short, Slovenia and Croatia wanted more autonomy (most developed republics being hold back in development by the extremely poor regions, like Kosovo), they got it in 1974., Tito died in 1980. and from then onward Serbs started to gradually take over the control of Yugoslavia, again centralising all the power in Belgrade. If they weren't acting like that, maybe Yugoslavia would still exist to this day (probably as a confederacy, with even greater autonomy for republics) or at the very least, there wouldn't be any blood spilled after the break up. Sadly they chose what they chose, sacrificing their own people for their stupid, megalomaniac, power-thirsty causes.
@@kayvan671hey asshole am born in Yugoslavia in Sarajevo and I miss it...shut up with your arrogance!
Yeltsin complained about NATO expansion back in the 1990's
Serbs under sanctions at that time lived better than Russians without sanctions.
Putin speech in Munich was in Feb 2007, the financial crises was in 2008.
The real reason was that: 1. Serbs and Macedonians were always looked by the West as little Russians (Orthodox Christianity and Cyrilic Script), and 2. Because Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) did not allow NATO bases on their land. So, the West decided to carve-out Kosovo and Metohiya from Serbia and built there their biggest base in South Europe. - The Bondsteel military base. So, they did that for geopolitical reasons..
Idiotic conspiracy theory.
Косово је срце Србије
Read Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and you will see that they write about the intolerance of the Western world towards the East (Slavs) for at least the last 300 years.
The bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić also clarifies a lot.
Vijay is the only one who does the real talk on geopolitics without the "left vs right" stupidity. I wish he was a frequent guest on leftists channels, and heck, on all channels.
Still full of sh.. Too much talk saying little.
Vijay is one, however, there are others. Listen to Professor John Mearsheimer or Jim Rickards. You'll find them on youtube. Since 2014 those two have been writing and speaking about this day coming. People from both parties hated Trump when he said NATO needs to be dissolved. He was right. I believe we wouldn't be in this situation if he was the president. The United States lost an opportunity to repair a relationship with Putin after the foreign policy debacles of the Obama administration. Which only caused Russia to befriend China instead, what a dumb move. Trump had a good relationship with Putin. But the democrat’s poison that well by instigating the fake Russia collusion. If Trump was seen as even talking to Putin he would have been labeled as a Putin stooge and proved them right. So Trump wasn't allowed to repair relations, what a mistake. Look what it has caused, the suffering of an entire country and millions of people, and all could have been prevented. Another U.S failed foreign policy.
Dr. Gideon Polya author of the book “ American Holocaust, Millions Of Untimely American Deaths “ counted 70 different
times the U.S. invaded other nations since
1776 - or about once every 3-4 years.
So, why get upset with Russia when it
invades the Ukraine? It's called Cognitive Dissonance.
@@MrRawnerves Putin is not that naive to destroy good relation with China when he knows that after the next 4 years of Trump evil Clintons or Bushes will come and change the tune. You just confirmed what I think - Trump is the only good person in that country.
@@sextempiric7137 What did you mean by the comment “ Trump is the only good person in that country “. I don't understand your position. Can you clarify?
@@MrRawnerves You said it yourself mate: " People from both parties hated Trump when he said NATO needs to be dissolved". You just need to ad a prefix "all". He is the only good one symbolically, of course, but not far from a truth, as you guys lost all connection to Normal. Chauvinism and greed, sadism and ignorance is in your genes now, after centuries of brain wash. Pure case of mental atavism. If you don't hate Russians, than you hate Chinese, if not them, than someone else, openly and unpunished by your law that is based on equality and human rights, while in same time enforcing same laws through world, punishing anyone that doesn't hate who you hate. I'm not talking about your government mate, I'm talking about you, people. It's in you. You could be right about one thing, but in same time, you are torching someone else and think that that is right. The only time your conscience wakes is when you're scared.
NATO was to counteract the Warsaw Pact. The Warsaw Pact hasn't existed for 30 years. Why is NATO still in existence?
@@account-369 because of the usa
1:47 "Expansion of Serbs in Kraina?!" What expansion you talking about? Maybe you wanted to say "extermination of Serbs from Kraina, from their homes during many centuries."
Btw. Destruction of Yugoslavia was prepared by Germany since 70's (before Tito's death)
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So what do you think about our Homeland Security policy?)
The real question is, is who really needs the security?
America ain't no threat to being attacked, man
They're the ones doing the attacking and history proves it
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They bombed China and Korea during the Korean War
Then they bombed Guatemala back in 1954
Indonesia and Cuba fell victim to the trend
Then in 1960 they hit Guatemala again
The Congo, Vietnam in 1969
Cambodia and Guatemala for a third time
Grenada in '83, yeah I remember seeing this
Then Gaddafi in Libya back in 1986
Minister Farrakhan saw that one in a vision he would have
Elijah told him Reagan was plotting with the joint chiefs of staff
El Salvador, Iran, Nicaragua came in time
Then they blew up the ghettoes in Panama in '89
Iraq in '91, the same year they got Kuwait
Somalia, Bosnia, Sudan in '98
Afghanistan, Yugoslavia over to Yemen
And they never cared about innocent children and women
In 2001 again Afghanistan
Initiated after the fake 9/11 scam
Then they back doored Iraq till they took out Saddam
They called everyone terrorists, but who's really dropping bombs?
@@sonjajolovic718no no, only 188 years of 200…
Just a small correction - the conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia were settled under the Dayton agreement of 1995 - the bombing of Yugoslavia (Serbia) in 1999 only related to the conflict in Kosovo.
Yes but NATO interference started in "Croatian" and "Bosnian" conflicts.
nato helped croatians and bosniaks before 1999 conflict, just like he described in the video and they wouldnt even be on the same site since they killed each other before that.
@@OrthoGoth79 how and when did they interfere?
@@billybob-vy4sw from the beginning with deployment of weapons,later,from 1994 ,they started to use planes,bombing the position's of RS army, airport in RSK,etc...in the end they completely organised so called "operation Storm".To make a long story short.
@@billybob-vy4sw they bombed serbs in bosnia, in 1995..
I wish the U.S. would stay out of Europe and focus more on the Americas.
thank god for independent media
Criminals, the lot of them, with Madeleine Albright in front.
And now we have a new Madeleine Albright, she is called Victoria Nuland.
what is common for those two ladies?
America is a country ruled by oligarchs, who enrich themselves through cronyism, endless warfare, and kleptocracy. In the last 100 years, America prospers by benefiting from the death and misery of other nations. Isolated by two oceans, America relies on its military interventions, bases and installations around the world to control territories of its current and future interests. America welcomed the war in Yugoslavia, for it solved a problem of the third world countries; Yugoslavia was the leader of NAM, Non-Aligned Movement in the “third world” that did not want to align themselves with either Eastern or the Western bloc. NAM insisted on mutual collaboration, bartering and avoiding of the US dollar trade standard. When NAM lost leadership (which also consisted of Libya and Iraq, two prominent NAM countries), it was easy for the oligarchs to conquer poor third-world countries with impossible-to-repay loans and debt. America hates large unified and strong countries, like Yugoslavia was, then Russia, China, or post-war Serbia. If it can't control them - like they controlled Boris Yeltsin and previous leaders of China - It will do everything to destabilise them, starting from publicly demonising them, then through psychological warfare of exporting fake news and lies, social-reengineering via the decadent cultural exports and the so-called “sexual freedoms”, that destroy families and cultural cohesion, then through "globalism", that destroys strong local independent economies. Destabilising Serbia in the Balkans after the war was a strategic move in order to destabilise a traditional Russian ally in the Balkans and to threaten others who won’t comply.
The terrible violence against the Bosnian Muslims was preceded by the fact that the agent of the Americans, Osama bin Laden, transported a force of thousands of mujheddin mercenaries to Bosnia. These forces ransacked 52 Bosnian Serb villages (mostly attacked on Christian holidays...) and killed 3200 Bosnian Serbs, indiscriminately! These marauders attacked from Szebrenyica, a city protected by the UN!
When the Serbs launched an attack on Szebrenyica, these "brave" butchers simply ran away and handed the city over to the revenge-hungry Serbs! The Serbs did what they did after that...
That is pure bullshit.
Thank you, Katie! You and Vijay are an oasis of understanding in a sea of kindergarten journalistic mediocrity.
I heard a rumor the reason why the US bombed Yugoslavia was so that Bill Clinton had a public distraction from his sexual scandals with Monica Lewinsky
Friend i have to tel you your analyses are based on us and EU mainstream media! Yugoslavija was destroid becose several reasons:
1 to eliminate the possibility that one day Yugoslavia can unite with Russia!
2 to eliminate the possibility of any independent countries in Europe!
3. To show Germany, what would happen if they try to leave, NATO
4. To eliminate possibility of orthodox, Christianity continues to thrive in EU!
Thank you for this report. Educational as always.
Here's what I see happening, in a nutshell, as a US citizen.
Those who make major foreign policy decisions here have two main goals: control all the world's money and control all the world's oil, or as much of it as possible. The more capitalist-based a country or a particular set of leaders are, the more amenable they will be to US-based corporations exploiting their markets and resources. That's all they (my govt) cares about. To that end, my govt will provide financial assistance to countries they see as friendly to western Big Capital interests (but always with special strings attached and usually to the detriment of the common person in said country, eg world bank or IMF loans); and use influence, threats, or attempt CIA coups for the purposes of regime change in nations they see as opposing Western Capital expansion. Amy nation not willing to be manipulated or influenced by the US to the degree they demand is at risk of one or more methods of US govt muscle-flexing and coercion. In extreme cases, this means my govt will come up with a dummy reason to invade and send in our military, such as what happened in Vietnam, the Korean war, Iraq, the small island of Grenada, and now with Ukraine, although that's what we call a proxy war. You can best believe my govt is doing everything possible to cause and deliberately escalate this current conflict between Ukraine and Russia due to Putin's opposition to being a continued target of NATO and to submit to a US agenda of dominance and control. Yes there are most certainly pre-existing local tensions but as they have always done, my govt is very expertly maximally exploiting these to their own ends.
It's what they like to do.
*@ . Netscape.* Super great comment. Thank you.
Coincidently I just viewed this clip yesterday.
*Note:* By _Americans,_ Arnab means the Washingtonians and their corporate bosses.
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as a american maybe don’t talk about stuff you don’t know,ukraine is solely one person’s fault don’t make it as if nato pushed that shit when literally any ukrainian would tell you the oposite
@@hurremhightower well you're certainly welcome to your opinion but I believe I am well informed. I've been following this since it started and I believe I'm well versed in the general history of the region going back not just to 2014 but back into the 90s, 80s, and right after WW2. So I believe I speak from a good base of knowledge. You're welcome to believe what you're believe but I won't be changing my mind today.
@@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999 this is not a matter of opinion💀not when the idea that nato or us started it when it has been proven that they did not,like just knowing the history for 30 years doesn’t make you an expert in this and like i said is not a matter of opinion
@@hurremhightower no I'm not the expert and I don't claim to be. I'm just making the best judgment I can based on the information that I have.
Like I said to someone else I hope it gets resolved quickly and peacefully. I think it's always a shame anytime armed conflict breaks out. I hate for any innocent person to get caught in the middle on either side. I hope that a mutually acceptable diplomatic agreement can be found soon.
What is this guy saying?! Before 2007 Russia was okay with NATO's eastward expansion?! Does he even know what he is talking about? I am a Russian citizen. I remember it all too well - Russia had been expressing its concerns about the expansion since the very collapse of USSR in 1991! The fact that Lavrov "welcomed Baltic states into NATO" (which, in fact, he never did) was nothing more than following a diplomacy protocol.
I love Vijay. We haven’t heard from Chomsky. I hope his health is good. 🙏
As far as I know, his health is so good that you should stop waiting for him to say something.
i thought the same thing and googled "chomsky ukraine" and found a good interview he did recently
Yes, NATO is a criminal organization and should be held accountable for crimes committed in Serbia and Montenegro. They destroyed infrastructure and destroyed factories to allow Western corporations to enter the market, and Kosovo and Metohija is a spoil of war. It is known that the area is rich in ores. After the war, corporations controlled by General Clark and Madeleine Albright became the owners of factories and mines in Kosovo and Metohija. Kosovo and Mttohija is the real name, not just Kosovo. Metohija in translation means the land that belongs to the Church /Serbian Orthodox Church/.
Misleading title, Yugo was deindustrialised to give Germany a monopoly on euro industry, simple as that, ex yugo states now are now neo-colonies of the west, same with Ukraine in 2013 it's main export was semi-processed industrial goods, mainly to ex USSR states, now its raw unprocessed agricultural commodities
This guy knows nothing. He had better study the real data about the village of Rachak, which was the alleged reason for the bombing of Serbia. We have been living in a big lie for a long time.
And this is exactly why we need a strong BRICS now more than ever.
Mr Prashad is not careful about his pronunciation. By "Cina", I think he means Croatia. Katie should have clarified. Also, Prashad does not consider that Pres Putin, before 2007, was President of a very weak Russia that could not oppose the US or NATO's movement eastward. Only at the Munich meeting in 2008, did he have a platform to express his concerns, and he was sharply criticized for his Munich speech in the west. As Russia got to its feet, it became more assertive about telling NATO to halt its eastward advance. He warned at Munich against including Ukraine and Georgia.
During the G8 meeting in Washington Obama had only seven seats at the main table so Putin had to sit and eat his lunch alone at table to the side. Putin eat his meal and left the meeting. This is how the west in treating their neighbors and the rest is history.
I think Ukraine 2022 will be remembered like Suez 1956 - the time and place the British Empire lost preeminence due to a military/diplomatic miscalculation.
Russia is losing.
@@peterstafford4426 LOL
@@peterstafford4426 it's war, the only options are losing and loser more
@@peterstafford4426 The ruble is gaining value what was the purpose of the sanctions?
Brutish didn’t lost due miscalculation!
They played double agent !
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Thanks for that Katie, it was good to hear that.
Great show Katie! Thank you!
They did NOT like that the Baltics joined NATO. They just couldn't do anything about it at the time and they are relatively small, insignificant countries. Plus they have Kaliningrad to secure their position in the Baltic.
Yeah, that part was just weird of him to say.
He never said they liked it
.. and NATO supposed to be a defensive organisation.. another Bull😂
I know very little about Yugoslavia and the Balkan wars in general
Gotta read more about this, I think Chris hedges wrote a lot on that
Read Michael Parenti's book To kill a nation
@friskedmooo9369 u 2svetskom ratu Hrvati ubili 1100000Srba,pogledaj logor jasenovac.i knjiga Kaputt od Kurzio malaparte
Or, you could Google it and research from there, or look it up on Wikipedia. If you believe everything the internet brodeo posts w/o looking it up for yourself, you deserve what you get.
Edward Abbey spent two years as a Arches National Park ranger which inspired him to write “Desert Solitaire," and this particular insight came to light:
“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
'Desert Solitaire' is a small masterpiece.
The US created the conflict in Yugoslavia. They created the one in Ukraine too.
Sarajevo was a mixed national population. There where 150 000 serb civilians in it. Ower 10 000 of them where killed by muslim side in conflict, serb civilians not soldiers.
Same muslim extremist soldiers where killed in Srebrenica after their capture by serb armie in revenge for them killing serb civilians in neighboring vilages around Srebrenica for years in most grusom mideval ways.
Now i dont dispute that they shoud haw been put on trial and that was a war crime but calling it a genocide after what they did to civilians is pure propaganda to justify all actions after that where conducted by the US and NATO.
Which all lead to this mess all ower Balkans, Afganistan, Iraq and now future WW3 conflict starting to flare up in Ukraine...
Lies.
That is true, you can read the book The nation to kill by Michael Parentte
@@urvanhroboatos8044 wwii jasenovac, nazi croatians killed hundreds of thousands serbs even babies . they killed jews and gipses too
All true...I am from ex Yugoslavia
Prashad don't know a thing about conflict in Yugoslavia. Srebrenica was in 95 on the and of conflict. After thousands of civilian Serbs were killed in that area.
"Thousands of civilian serbs"? Bullshit!
You explained the Nordstream event very well.
I was a teenager in the States during this
Was recruited as a teenager by all the branches
The media portrayed this era as a "time of peace" bombing Yugoslavia out of existence
I nearly went and may have participated in these very acts you're describing
Yugoslavia was already gone by 1999. It was just a serb state that ethnically cleansed Albanians
@@williamthebonquerer9181 What a lie,Albanians wanted to take Kosovo from us,and because we didn't wanted to join Nato,west made up story about that to make a reason to attack us. And ofc we didn't want to let Albanians to take what is ours,sam if Mexicans want to make some USA country independent because majority of them live there
@@aleksadmitrovic940 why the hell would the USA give a shit about Serbia? You were committing war crimes and destabilising Macedonia
@@williamthebonquerer9181 Because we didn't want to play like USA wanted,second think there is a rich mine on Kosovo,thrid thing there is a Nato base on Kosovo now. Why did USA lie about weapon of mass destruction in Irak? Albanians started to act rly bad to Serbian people on Kosovo 20 years before war,after that a lot of Serbians move to the north,because they had hard life there. So Albanians become majority there.
@@aleksadmitrovic940 the USA did not spend $30 billion fighting a war over a coal mine in Kosovo XD.
Vilay Prashad points out himself the critical point, namely that it wasn't until 1994 (Maastricht Treaty, 1 Nov. 1993) that the EU -- Europe, not the EEC -- formalized efforts to establish an unified economic and political policy let alone a unified military policy, the latter which still is not in place today. The post-WWII status of the EU was more or less defenseless, both in terms of military power to defend itself, but perhaps more importantly, in terms of a unified strategy to defend itself, which again is questionable today -- 80 years later. Cooperations among EU nations was tenuous in the post-war era. It took until 1957 to create the European Economic Community (EEC). While "power" also comes with responsibility, one must also rightly observe that "responsibility" must come with "power", both in term of strength but also in terms of authority to carry out that responsibility. If the EU did not wish NATO security forces to defend them until 1993 (and still today), they should not have signed the NATO treaties and accepted the security forces, for which they still haven't paid the bill in any significant amount. Nor should its members have voted for the bombings, though several voted against. Bill Clinton was president at the time of this bombing. It is doubtful that one can hold that Bill Clinton represents the sum of "American NATO policy" for the entire period of NATO's existance, but he was the president at the time. I notice the guest doesn't even mention Bill Clinton, but attributes all to "American power seeking", while simultaneously and clearly mentioning Russian leaders as a "partners of peace". The guest further describes Russia as "pliable" and says the question is about who will dominate Europe, Russia or China. Interesting alternatives. Many have rightly questioned the motives behind the Yugoslavia bombings, which were not sanctioned by Congress, but they were sanctioned by NATO members. They should question them.
That is like a boomerang ,expect this situation in your countries soon
" All warfare is based on Deception " (SUN TZU) 5rh cenrury BC.
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Kosovo is Serbia, it has always been, it will always be. This time next year see you in Prizren
I listened carefully and Im not sure i heard correctly why NATO bombed Yugoslavia.
an opportunity for the US to exercise power in Europe
@@98091238 that's bit narcissist.
@@iceflame1167 He didn't say at all. There's literally a Bill Clinton statue in Kosovo. Ask Croatians if they want to be part of Serbia still 😂 this is just anti NATO rhetoric. He didn't explain a single thing.
@@briano9397 go ahead smartass, explain why NATO bombed Yugoslavia
@@98091238 bullshit
Fix your Headline Yugoslavia was not bombed it was Serbia that was bombed.
this was example, of NATO is dangerous, NATO Bombed Yugoslavia. this end to peace making in US-led NATO
They were fucking killing them self, it had to be ended. The inhumanity going on in yugoslavia was beyond anything seen on the continent after ww2. Complete butchery.
Dominik Ivanković
2 months ago
No, Serbian megalomaniac politics is the main reason Yugoslavia broke up. At the time Slovenia and Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia looked more like a fascist state than a socialist one. Long story short, Slovenia and Croatia wanted more autonomy (most developed republics being hold back in development by the extremely poor regions, like Kosovo), they got it in 1974., Tito died in 1980. and from then onward Serbs started to gradually take over the control of Yugoslavia, again centralising all the power in Belgrade. If they weren't acting like that, maybe Yugoslavia would still exist to this day (probably as a confederacy, with even greater autonomy for republics) or at the very least, there wouldn't be any blood spilled after the break up. Sadly they chose what they chose, sacrificing their own people for their stupid, megalomaniac, power-thirsty causes.
@@billybob-vy4sw NATO should keep pushing for peace and negations, instead of bombing Serbia...
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Montenegro was the top European vacation spot before the influence of salt in old wounds
Jugoslavia was distroied because it was an ally of Russia and the Adria became a Nato sea!
I agree
Yugoslavia (the complete country) was never an ally of Russia. It was not part of the Warsaw pact. Don't spread misinformation.
Whatever the reason, aggression on Yugoslavia and consequent US push for Kosovo statehood, some 9 years later, was pivotal moment in the world history. International order, created after WW2, was completely destroyed. Aftermath we see today
Look past the trees, there is a huge forest staring at you! That's the big picture!
Yes, the movie have not finish yet !!!!
Great like always the two of you.
So Yugoslavia is another Nagasaki/Hiroshima... showing off power? This is beyond evil
Nope... Serbia-ran Yugoslavia became a nationalistic militarist power threatening the peace in Europe; so NATO did in 1999 what it should have done in 1992. Bombing Serbia's military targets brought down Milosevich's killing machine. The current leadership in Serbia has to move away from Milosevic era and tactics, and orient the country toward western democracy and western values instead of aligning with Putin.
Yugoslavia was non aligned. Prashad gets this very confused.
Thank you for bringing this guest to show light to the realities of today by showing the history that got us here in the first place. You will be labeled as a Putin apologist for this.
Dominik Ivanković
2 months ago
No, Serbian megalomaniac politics is the main reason Yugoslavia broke up. At the time Slovenia and Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia looked more like a fascist state than a socialist one. Long story short, Slovenia and Croatia wanted more autonomy (most developed republics being hold back in development by the extremely poor regions, like Kosovo), they got it in 1974., Tito died in 1980. and from then onward Serbs started to gradually take over the control of Yugoslavia, again centralising all the power in Belgrade. If they weren't acting like that, maybe Yugoslavia would still exist to this day (probably as a confederacy, with even greater autonomy for republics) or at the very least, there wouldn't be any blood spilled after the break up. Sadly they chose what they chose, sacrificing their own people for their stupid, megalomaniac, power-thirsty causes.
More like alternate reality
Not much of a history buff but just how many wars has Europe had post-NATO vs. pre-NATO?
Good point
Vijay, there was violence from ALL sides.
I think Russia allowed interference from NATO until 2007 because foreign investments were coming into Russia and Russia needed those investments to modernize their industry, oil and gas in particular. Don't forget that it was primarily BP that developed their Siberian oil fields.
thw russian have got the brains and can develop thier own oil fields the ussr was the biggest producer of oil in the world but after its collaspe there was economic kaos.Many carpet baggers came from the usa to steals as many soviet assets as possible. illuminati jewish carpet baggers like bill browder
I'm sure it had more to do with shoring military contractors with more cash. After all, they have to spend all that money somewhere. Since they're all in on it for themselves (government being nothing more than a corporate extortion racketeering scheme), why not? 😉
The comments section was worth a read. A side note is that I don’t think Stoltenberg said exactly that about enabling US power projection over europe. However he mentioned other parts of the world, like the middle east. However I still agree with Vijay at large. And it highlights I think why it from a Russian perspective in the ongoing Ukraine conflict, is a perfectly reasonable opinion to think NATO expansion towards Russia can be seen as a threat.
Vijay is a LEGEND ….. truth teller on behalf of humanity
He is dishonest.
@@peterstafford4426 if you can refute any of the facts which Vijay stated, then let’s debate.
@@hungmanxxxx2462 His 'real reason NATO bombed' is at best an opinion. He offers no proof. The invasion of Ukraine strengthened the influence of the United Staes and NATO. The influence of the US was waining until Russia invaded Ukraine.
Talk of a peace dividend was anathema to AngloAmerican imperialism.
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This was decent but certainly didn't cover all the players that had an interest.
Sorry this gentleman does not know the topic.
Who is this all-mucus Patel? His voice reminds me that today is a BOGO at Subway sandwich.
Very informative, thank you Vijay 🙏
You know, I don't agree with a lot of what NATO has done in the past, or what it continues to do but the kosovo intervention was necessary, the serbs were doing ethnic cleansing against the albanians. It had to be stopped, and even though the bombing from the air killed many serb civilians, the war ended thanks to NATO.
True
nato is terorist merchant organization, why they don't bomb israel because palestinian or turks because of kurds
Not so bright analysis. Fact is that Serbia stopped biggest Hyperinflation in only 2 months,and announced to establish actual Golden Dinar ,USA would nuke anyone who try that.Another fact-Serbians suffered biggest loses in % fighting against Anyone who wanted to dominate this region,and was victim of several genocides because of that.Last example is Islamic drug "state" of Kosovo,which had biggest military US base in Europe.If anyone asking how hundreds of tons of drugs coming to EU every month-just see what is inside those US military trucks going around. There is lots to say ,as fact that Nato is NOT defensive organisation. Just a tool for world dominance of that colonial powers....again. Its time to open your eyes ,almost too late...
Why did Tesla's library get bombed?
It was always about power, and so will it always be. However, Albanians, Bosnians and Croats were actually saved against Serbian misuse of power. There were actual an ongoing ethnic cleansing done by the Serbs, although these reasons are not solely why nato intervened.
Read some history you fool
unique ethnic cleansing in the entire history…..
Wherever the Serbs carried out ethnic cleansing - there are no more Serbs there
I had to down vote not because of his opinions, but the lack of specific citations and information from which he bases his conclusions. I learned nothing here
As a Bosnian, I think I speak for all former Yugoslavians (except Serbs of course) when I say that the bombing of Serbia by NATO wasn't even half the karma they deserved for what they did in 'Krajina' and 'Republika Srpska'. Those two 'countries' were created by Serbs to guarantee that no one would stop them from carrying out massive genocides against people they used to call brother and sister.
If Yugoslavia ever returns, it will either exclude Serbia or be another evil attempt at destroying Bosnia and Croatia.
As a Serb born and raised in Serbia, was thought to love and believe in Yugoslavia by both my parents. I was called Chetnik at the age of 9 back in the late 80’s when visiting family in Bosnia. Shameless muslims in my family and their redneck friends; no wonder Alija was able to play his role the way he did. I can tell you with certainty that the upbringing of a lot of Bošnjaka was to hate anything Serbian. No different then in Croatia. No one hated you in Belgrade and in Serbia before the war, I know because of my dad’s background.
Unlike you, I know my identity and know I am a Serb who’s ancestors accepted Islam on my dad’s side, but not being a muslim or atheist I am still a Serb. What are you without your religion? And not to be misunderstood, I support you being a Muslim, I am a Christian and have no issues with other religions nationalities race etc. Everyone deserves their place under the sun, but I can’t stand ultra nationalists and hypocrites, no matter if they’re Serb or not. You assuming “New Yugoslavia” would not have Serbs in it, is to be naive to think it could exist or ever been created without them. Unless you’re planning another NDH with the Croats?
Someone also should teach you what karma really is, it’s certainly not in death and destruction, but your statement just shows how much hate you have in you. Blind to see no one benefited from the war but those who “couldn’t agree”.
We don’t need another Yugoslavia to respect one another, but “brother”, I can never respect you and I am sure no one outside your inner circle does as you are full of hate. You need detox.
Just see my main video if you don’t believe me how they really are and that we Bosniaks are victims and not the bad guys , Srebrenica ,and thousands of Bosniak women and young girls were raped in very brutal ways, Bosnia ,1992-1995.I will not forget nor forgive.✌️😢.Many girls did call me ugly when it’s not my fault ,many were very mean to me,mostly my own kind,but I can’t help it I feel sorry and I fight any evil any injustice this way at least…..
and Kosovo
@@partizanbgd0113 Thats a lot of text, did you forget to take your meds?
@@hellogoodbye3382 probably did, but hey who are you?
And if NATO didn't do that, what would have happened to the bosniaks and kosovars?
A fate worse than NATO bombings on the aggressor States in those two conflicts that is for certain
Serbia can't be the aggressor on its own sovereign territory, stupid
They never like to talk about that part... They are incapable of comprehending a world outside of the view "aNytHinG US dO bAD. US aLwAYs bAD GuY"
and what happened to serbs in croatia?
The guest has NO CLUE about Yugoslavia crisis nor does this make any sense or logic. Also incorrect info on Russia/ NATO
I lived in Yugoslavia and this is all wrong Nato
Bombing happend but the war was allready over we won bombing destroyd key factorys and milliteri sayts and helped in completly stoping the war we live in peace with Serbia now and trade with them
USA meddling things like this is what destroys a empire, very informational thanks Katie and Vijay
Doing these kinds of activities create adverse rivalry..
Comments that contain nothing but empty praise for people should be edited out. Such admiration is brainless clutter.