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CONTENTS

Section II

8) War as a commodity

NATO – WAR PRODUCER AND PURCHASER
COMMODITY “BALKAN WAR”
WE SAY NATO – IMPLY UNO
ONE YEAR BEFORE “UN – YUGOSLAVIA” WAR
WAR IS SOLD OUT
BRAND NEW WORLD IN BALKANS
“FOX” IN MACEDONIA
FASCISM AND NATO: HISTORIC PARALLELS
NATO “FOR PEACE”
NATO NEW MEMBERS
NATO “POSTGRADUATES”
ORDINARY NATO PARTNERS
MATERIAL SECURITY OF NATO EXPANSION
PRACTICAL EXCERCISES OF NATO EXPANSION
SPECIAL NATO PARTNERS FROM CIS COUNTRIES
UKRAINE AND NATO
NATO AND RUSSIA
NATO NEW AGE
THE THIRD WORLD WAR. COLD AND WARM
NEW REGIONAL LEADERS
NECCESSITY OR INEVITABILITY OF WAR?
FASCISM – THE LAST RESORT
CASUS BELLI
NUTOPIA

BRAND NEW WORLD IN BALKANS

Historic way of “renewed Yugoslavia” after NATO war was not so original. Events went the same way as they did in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The difference lies in the scale of usage military force and in more or less rigid position of “NATO-UNO” toward say leadership of Serbia. However for the world capital in general acting by the arms of NATO it is important to get full loyalty of newly established ‘democratic regimes’ to ‘world community’ bureaucracy. Total subservience of new democracy, their full controllability from the side of UNO, IMF, NATO and EU presented like evidence of “civilisation” of their nations. The cruelty of NATO forces, collateral damages, and refugees all these is set as a guilty for one is to be accused deliberately. Strangely enough this theatralised package of the next imperialistic repartition of the planet meets full support of the world public. There are some milestones of new Yugoslavian history.
14 June, there was a discussion about the role of OSCE in Kosovo held in NATO headquarters that was titles as “civil participation in peaceful plan implementation in Kosovo”.
18 June, an extraordinary joint meeting of Foreign and Defence Ministers of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) was held at NATO HQ in Brussels. Ministers welcomed the ongoing withdrawal of Yugoslav security forces and the speedy deployment of KFOR.
19 June, NATO admits Russian forces participation in KFOR.
20 June, Dr Solana, decided to terminate Phases I and II of the Phased Air Campaign as well as the Limited Air Response. On the same day, the NAC noted an Undertaking on Demilitarisation and “Transformation” by the UCK. 21 June, KLA or UCK gave a written guarantee of disarmament and cooperation with NATO. At the same time KFOR continues deploying of troops and now ‘works’ close with UN Mission of Transition Administration in Kosovo (seriously!).
23 June, it is announced that of the almost 1 million ethnic Albanian refugees who have fled Kosovo, nearly half have already returned home. And nothing is told about 250 thousan of ethnic Serbs which did not return home at all. Tha was a great raspberry of NATO informers: 750 thousand refugees left region (not checked!) while about million got back (without taking into account Serbs).
24 June, during the visit, Solana reiterated NATO's determination to uphold values -democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law- which the Alliance has been defending for 50 years. The result was that NATO had financed and “protected” simple burgeois nationalism of Albanians in Kosovo to allow them to deal with Yugoslavian state socialism in Europe. KLA is just a tool used for this purpose by CIA and NATO. 30 June, NATO and “partners’” forces are still deployed in Kosovo. For now they have a name “peacekeeping NATO forces”. “Peacekeepers” find new “evidences” of destruction houses and annihilation of harvests of ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo.
14 July, KFOR engineers continue to work on vital infrastructure improvements. KFOR is also helping with the collection of applications to join the new police force. The first draft is announced for 16 August.
23 July, 14 Serbian peasants killed in Gracko; the murder condemned by both sided. Investigation is commenced.
8 September, the NATO-led multinational Kosovo peace implementation force (KFOR) now consists of 49,000 personnel, 41,000 of whom are in Kosovo, 6,000 in Macedonia and 1,600 in Albania. In addition to the 17 NATO nations in KFOR, 21 Partner and other non-NATO nations are also participating. KLA is almost totally disarmed and will abolish as officially said by 19 September. However experience and knowledge obtained in KLA from CIA had not lost.
18-20 September, before chairing the Informal Ministerial meeting in Toronto NATO Secretary J.Solana first held bilateral meetings in Washington D.C. He met with President Clinton, Secretary of State Albright, Secretary of Defense Cohen and National Security Advisor Berger. Then he went to Switzerland and to USA or if someone would say, first he visited cashier then went to boss to report about the work completed. In Washington J.Solana took part in the seminar held by National Defense University and entitled “Forward Looking, Forward Moving: NATO in the 21st century” focused on three different themes: 1) responding to future security challenges, 2) managing change in transatlantic industrial cooperation and 3) hi-tech opportunities. If we get these topics closer to real life they may be sounded as follows: 1) global surveillance and consolidation of world capital efforts on self-protection of Possessions civilization, 2) globalization and concentration of the world military-industrial corporations, as technological change results foremost are implemented in military sphere, 3) hi-technology primarily provides for development of new weapons, no matter what is it – biotechnology, pharmaceutics or acoustics. First of all they invent weapons, then – the all the rest.
29 September, help has been given to the winterisation and reconstruction programme, through the distribution of shelter kits and building materials, and support to the Humanitarian Logistics Centre. Winterisation and humanitarian support are now main task for multi-ethnic brigades in Kosovo.
13 October, KFOR force size is approximately 49,000 troops with primary missions continuing to focus on providing a secure environment to all ethnic groups, monitoring the establishment of the newly formed Kosovo Protection Corps and supporting, within means and capabilites, the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) with its civil implementation tasks. In fact they make a full-term NATO military base in Kosovo.
3 November. Peacekeepers prepare for winter and also carry “exercises”. Brigade of military support of KFOR participated in NATO exercises Shelter Express aimed at assistance in provision of transport and logistic communication. 17 November, winter has come to Balkans. KFOR's Force Support Brigade continues to participate in Exercise Shelter Express and has transported a total of 22 truckloads of winterisation materials. KFOR has also been involved in a multitude of other projects ranging from transportation of material for the International Medical Corps vaccination programme, distribution of 100 of the German NGO, Arbeiter Samariter Bund's school packets, and distribution of 2,418 cubic meters of firewood donated by Finnish Church Aid, to name just a few. Yet it is more veridical not to wage a war and not to support it.
24 November, KFOR's Winterization Emergency Team (WET) is formed in Kosovo. The Multinational Brigades (MNBs) are transporting firewood, delivering fuel and hundreds of stoves, and providing handyman assistance to the elderly. Additionally, they even assisting with cleaning the streets in Mitrovica.
1 December. “Winterisation” programme continues to gain momentum as KFOR ensures the delivery of substantial amounts of humanitarian aid, including food and clothing, to minorities and villages in need of assistance. KFOR units, along with the KPC and NGOs, are working together to construct 500 winterised classroom-tents with flooring, lights, stoves and furniture. These tents will provide temporary accommodation for 15,000 school-aged children. It means that as much as twenty scools were desctucted in course on NATO air strikes. That’s the abyss of burgeois hypocrisy.
Next year political regime and stability had reached at last the level required by the “world community”.
2 February 2000, new NATO Secretary Lord Robertson opens the annual security conference held in Munich, known as the Wehrkunde conference and gives an opening speech on the “lessons of Kosovo”. After stating that the “international community” had won the war, he briefly outlines the importance of close relations between the military and civilians, and the value of relations with Russia and more generally with Partners.
Yet on 25 February the situation in the divided town of Kosovska-Mitrovica aggravates since there have been violent confrontations between ethnic Serbs and Albanians. Mitrovica is a flashpoint that is attracting extremists from both sides. KFOR has had to send reinforcements to deal with the unrest but the situation is under control. “International community” has forgotten already about Kosovo. It’s time to finish with Yugoslav question. Even indignation on CIA activity a year after Yugoslavian war expressed by European can not change anything. By their opinion actions of CIA co-workers brought to nothing the opportunity for political solution of the conflict and provoked the commencement of air strikes in Serbia and Kosovo.
24 September, president elections held in Yugoslavia. Milosevic lost to V.Kostunica. Kostunica is considered to be a “transition” president and he well meets the requirements of the world elite although he refused to rat Milosevic to Hague international tribunal even for 50 millions dollars of the promised American loan. But on the 1 April 2001 Milosevic was kidnapped by western special forces and brought in prison. Judicial trial performance started in Hague where the former president of Yugoslavia was named as guilty for the war, named as president of ‘fascist’ regime that was assigned “agreeesor” against Kosovar Albanians by NATO and USA. New Yugoslavian leadership got a reward for Milosevic namely 100 milliod dollar loan (opposite 200 billion dollar of war damage).
28 October 2000, municipal elections held in Kosovo, the first since last year's crisis. Party of I.Rugova Kosovo Democratic Leage (KDL) won the majority of mucipalities; the second was Democratic Party of Kosovo (DPK). Two competiting parties took the majority of votes: 58% for KDL and 27,3% for DPK. By the end of November the growth of extremists’ activity is seen in Preshevo Valley in the south of Serbia. Again “Peacekeepers” hag got a job that concerned bringing the order into Yugoslavia. By 30 November NATO expressed concern about the upsurge in violence, condemned “the attacks made and the violence caused by a minority of extremists” and called for an immediate end to these illegal activities. Military tension reduced to some extent.
However on 27 February 2001 growing tensions in the Presevo Valley takes a form of weaponed opposition of Serbs and ethnis Albanians. It is not easy to keep freed jinn in a bottle that was let free to deal with Milosevic regime. Once again NATO, EC, OSCE and UNO consolidate their efforts in order to reduce number of weaponed incidents.
28 February 2001, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the UN in Kosovo came to NATO HQ. The situation in Southern Serbia, including the issue of the Ground Safety Zone was discussed at some length, as was the situation in Mitrovica.
12 March 2001, NATO intermediaries agreed upon cease-fire between Yugoslavia and ethnic Albanians from the south of Serbia.
14 April 2001, the second to last of the five zones which form the Ground Safety Zone (GSZ) separating Serbia and Kosovo was handed over to Yugoslav forces. The decision to return this section of the buffer zone to Belgrade was taken by NATO's top decision-making body - the North Atlantic Council – on 10 April. It sounds like decision was made by the “highest worldwide authority”. The situation got back to those what was before the March 1999. However NATO military base is imposible to withdraw beyond the borders of the former sovereign country as well as troops can not be taken outta here.
25 April 2001, the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Dr. Nebojsa Covic visited NATO Headquarters on 25 April. He was accompanied by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic and the Commander of the Joint Security Forces, General Ninoslav Krstic. Dr. Covic met with the North Atlantic Council, NATO's highest decision making body, for a frank and open exchange on the situation in Southern Serbia. It looked like thay attended doctor’s office.
11-12 May 2001, NATO-led peacekeeping forces in Kosovo seized what was one of the largest hauls of heavy weapons it has come across yet during the overnight. Weapons seized included anti-aircraft missiles and launchers, anti-tank rocket-launchers, wire-guided anti-tank missiles, mortar, rifles, machine guns and assault rifles, which were destined for ethnic Albanian armed groups operating in the Presevo Valley. The seizing of arsenals was made in Pech city and it caused the arrest of 7 people.
In the meantime, 28-29 September 2001 prospects for the security inclusion of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the Partnership for Peace and Euro-Atlantic community was the theme of the first NATO-sponsored seminar held in Belgrade. Say, integration of the “former Yugoslavia” in NATO structures is alredy solved issue.
17 November 2001, the legislative elections held in the province of Kosovo were carried out in what Lord Robertson called “a positive climate”. The vote elected a provisional assembly of 120 members. It will have powers in areas such as health, education and transport.
5 December 2001, the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister came to NATO HQ to discuss the situation in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in particular, in Southern Serbia and in the province of Kosovo following the recent legislative elections. He met with Lord Robertson and briefed the North Atlantic Council (NAC) on developments in his country. Lo and behold three years after starting “peace talks” in Rambouillet in 1999 everything repeat again:
6 February 2002, three members of the ‘former’ KLA were arrested. NATO’s Lord declared about this the following: “One of the main priorities of the international community is to re-establish the rule of law as the cornerstone of a democratic society in Kosovo”. They were arrested by the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), with the assistance of the NATO-led peacekeeping force. Despite the fact that KLA must be disband by 19 September 1999. World public has already forgotten by the time about “crisis in Kosovo”. It looks like formally law and order are restored. Therefore military pressence may be reduced.
27 June, during a one-day visit to the province on 27 June 2002, Lord Robertson welcomed the progress made in Kosovo and said that the fact that NATO can now reduce the number of troops in the area is a testimony to that progress.
Yet in May 2002 NATO initiated rationalisation of its pressence in Balkans since it became quite expensive. At that the number of NATO-led international KFOR responsible for security and safety in Kosovo will reduce. “Reduction is just designed to allow us to use 60000 soldiers in Balkans in more flexible way”, - stressed Lord Robertson at the press-conference after his meeting with prime-minister of Kosovo, official of the province occupied by NATO. “These changes will help us build on success”, - said Lord Robertson. “Since we first sent forces to the Balkans much has changed and improved, and we are changing with them. What hasn't changed, though, is our determination to work with the people of the region to build peace and prosperity together. Make no mistake these forces will still be robust enough, tough enough and flexible enough to maintain a safe and secure environment” and to guarantee bringing back refugees. Please notice that they talking about the year 2002 and not about 1999.
Lord added that this reduction should be considered along with growing efficency of Kosovo police service. “Many of police functions initially performed by KFOR in that area are now firmly took in hands by civlil authorities and the role of KFOR is reducing as long as civil institutions are being developed and strangthened”, - he stated. Thus, refugees did not get back, safety of tha habitants is still under threat, KLA did not disappear and there are still a lot of weapons coming across Albanian border. Kosovo turned into the ‘black hole’ through wich different international criminals, drug dealers and nationalists. And all this under cover of “peacekeeping forces” by the desire of “international community”.

«FOX» IN MACEDONIA

Albanian nationalism fed by western democracy has been kept as strategic reserve of NATO policy at Balkan Peninsula. It has been gathered boldness and was ready to fight. “Great Albania” as a Alliance policy decoration cast its glances to Macedonia. Partially it has coincided with strategic NATO plan for destruction of Yugoslavian federation which was officially named in papers as a “former” one. Moreover in official international documents Macedonia named as the “Former Yugoslav Republic Macedonia”. Now Macedonia like all the other Yugoslav republic is to be a protectorate of the Western Europe presented by NATO, EC, WEU and finally UNO.
The case was not finished with deployment of NATO forces in 1998 on the eve of Yugoslav war. Macedonia did not push its luck watching the fate of Yugoslavia. On the contrary it joined the NATO partnership (Partnership for Peace), provided its airspace for NATO air jets for FRY air strikes. In other words Macedonia actively cooperated with “world community” in the name of NATO. Hence there was an issue on military-political incorporation of Macedonia in Alliance.
7 December 2000, B.Trajkovski, President of Macedonia, visited NATO headquarters to meet new NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson. Discussions focused on security in the region following the election of a new president in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, on relations with KFOR, and on progress made in preparing for possible future membership of the Alliance
9 March 2001, The Foreign Minister of Macedonia S.Kerim met with NATO's 19 Ambassadors to discuss co-ordinated approaches regarding the series of violent incidents occurring along the country's border area. Weaponed extremist activity of ethnic Albanians both in Serbia and at Macedonian border was discussed next day in NATO HQ.
19 March 2001, again S.Kerim held a special meeting with NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson to discuss joint measures against the armed attacks of ethnic Albanian extremists within the territory of Macedonia. So, yesterday’s panders of war became the object of nationalistic pretensions. But if we look from the other side: Macedonia perhaps will be more compliant under “rebels” attacks and provide the pad for the next NATO military base at Balkans.
26 March 2001, Lord Robertson calls for intensified political dialogue in Macedonia: He met with the head of the Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA), which is in government, and with two leaders whose parties are in Opposition, the head of the PDP which represents ethnic Albanians and the leader of the SDSM which is the largest Macedonian party in opposition.
29 April, NATO Secretary General has vigorously condemned an attack on Macedonian security forces, which killed eight of its members on 28 April. He said: "I condemn the cowardly acts of the extremists and my message is simple: the violence must end and their tactics will not be successful," he added. The attack, which took place near the city of Tetovo, was the first in weeks in the border area with Kosovo. We feel some kind of deja vu as if it happened once.
7 May, again we hear condemnations on extremists’ attacks. In the wake of repeated acts of violence by ethnic Albanian extremists against forces of Macedonia Lord Robertson traveled to Skopje on 7 May for meetings with President B.Trajkovski and other senior government officials and leading political figures. By 24 May, extremists took some towns and villages in the north of Macedonia, made some damage to those habitants whose rights they are fighting for. It seems that the case is not with the rights of national minorities. 20 June, Macedonia requested help from NATO in “demilitarizing” of the National Liberation Army (NLA) and disarming the ethnic Albanian extremists operating on the territory of this country not risking to repeat independent experience of Serbia in its fighting with extremists. Further, it was business as usual, meetings, discussions and talks.
Herewith by the 29 of June 2001 NATO approved an operational plan (OPLAN) called "Essential Harvest" which would be implemented on the sole condition that the political dialogue between the various parties in the ‘former Macedonia’ has a "successful outcome" and a cease-fire is implemented. It would involve the sending of up to 3 000 NATO troops to the country to disarm the ethnic Albanian groups and destroy their weapons.
25 July 2001, situation in Macedonia is named “critical”. 26 July NATO’s Lord Robertson helped reinvigorate talks aimed at ending five months of violence and averting war in Macedonia on a day's visit to the country.
13 August, framework agreement signed between belligerent sides.
15 August, two days after the signature of the political framework agreement between the different party representatives of the former Macedonia introducing internal reforms and allowing the entry of NATO-led troops into the country to disarm ethnic Albanian rebels, NATO authorised the deployment of the Headquarters of Task Force Harvest on the ground.
22 August, at 12 noon on 22 August, the Alliance decided to authorise the Operation Essential Harvest. The launching is taking place just over two months after President Trajkovski sent a letter to Lord Robertson asking for NATO assistance in restoring peace and stability in Macedonia. The same day they held regular meeting of the North Atlantic Council -NATO's top decision-making body- and the Political and Security Committee (PSC) of the European Union on development of situation in Macedonia.
Since 6 September decisions of Macedonian parliament should be aimed at constitutional reforms as it was said in Lord Robertson’s statement, just to reduce the sharpness of national opposition. That was the background for undergoing operation Essential Harvest. NATO forces continue to collect, transport and annihilate weapons and ammo from different places of the country.
19 September 2001, NATO received an official request from President Trajkovski for a reduced NATO mission to remain at least in smaller scale in the former Macedonia. This new mission would be a follow-up mission to Operation Essential Harvest which finishes on 26 September. Its aim would be to provide an additional level of safety to that provided by national authorities for monitors operating in the country. There you should understand that the “process” of full conformity of Balkan Peninsula to world capital policy is more important than result of ‘safety and stability’ achieved in this country.
27 September 2001, Task Force Amber Fox, the second NATO force to be requested by President Trajkovski, is being put into effect. It followed on from Operation Essential Harvest and will last for three months, with the possibility of having its mandate extended if necessary.
28-30 September, Skopje, a high-level conference on "Macedonia on the way to NATO" took place in Macedonia. Speakers included the Minister of Defence Vlado Buchkovski, the Spokesman of the OSCE Mission in Skopje Harald Schenker and NATO officials. They discussed different aspects of the country's security concerns, including the impact of the current situation on stability in the Balkans as a whole, the role of regional security organisations in Macedonia, in particular that of NATO, and the country's possible integration into European institutions. In fine, “rebels” and NATO helped the leadership of Macedonia to find the right place in new changing world.
16 November 2001, NATO’s Secretary Lord Robertson commended the passing of 15 constitutional amendments by the Parliament of the still Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. These internal reforms will "move the country closer to European standards on the equitable treatment of minorities", stated Lord adding that the country is "setting an example to the rest of the world."
7 December, NATO has mercifully agreed to authorise the extension of Operation Amber Fox in Macedonia until 26 March 2002, since the current mandate of new world makers by Euro-American way is out.
18 February 2002, and again the NAC has agreed to authorise the extension of Operation Amber Fox for a further three months until 26 June 2002, as a response to a formal request from the government of Macedonia.
21 May, NATO member countries agreed next to extend Operation Amber Fox in Macedonia. Operation was launched on 27 September 2001. The mission has now been extended a further four months until 26 October 2002. Eventually, Macedonia found itself as full partner of NATO getting involved in its programs, turning the element of global world capital strategy that is transmitting all over the world via NATO structures to required regions to be explored by international capital..
4-7 June 2002, a team from NATO HQ visited to Macedonia to look into ways of enhancing the country's cooperation with the Alliance in the context of the Partnership for Peace. They met with representatives of the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Interior to examine a series of problems, including unexploded conventional and potential chemical munitions; ammunition management and the destruction of anti-personnel mine stockpiles were also discussed
“Yugoslavia” is no more at last when in May 2001 two years later after Yugoslavian war of 1999 Albanian extremists commenced their offensive inland Macedonia. The West quickly changed its position. NATO immediately agreed to narrow a buffer-zone around Kosovo. Belgrade obtained the right to bring their troops there. “Albanian tool” in the hands of NATO and American politicians let them down, it got disobedient. It means that the case was not with Milosevic regime but in occupation of Yugoslav territory by European and American capital with minimum losses for their troops. The new foothold for NATO forces give them full control over Mediterranean Sea and over the outcome from the Black Sea; they’ve acquired an opportunity to get pressure on “petroleous” Arab regimes that are still resistant to American-European dictate, opposing to its imperialistic manners.

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