How Britain and America Backed Jihadists Throughout Kosovo War
kitklarenberg.substack.com
On 24 March 1999, NATO launched a 78-day-long bombing campaign against the then-Republic of Yugoslavia. Still hailed by the Western mainstream as a successful 'humanitarian intervention', the true story of the conflict's roots and legacy is far darker, and points to extensive collaboration between London, Washington and extremist Islamist forces.
It may be old news for you but for so many of us struggling to find real journalism detailing assorted conflict areas it's priceless to have trusted sources and fresh context, thank you!
The more I read about Western based hypocrisy and use of violence against poor countries for its own benefit, the more I hate the US, UK and NATO degeneracy! To H*** with them all.
Thanks Kit. It's no mean feat being a true journalist in today's world. The article was very insightful, even for someone who has lived through years of the bloody war.
You should rewrite the start of the article. Kosovo and Metohija are provinces of Serbia, annexation makes no sense in this context.
Additionally the autonomy of K&M was not revoked in 1989, it was reduced to the level of autonomy it had under previous constitution from the '60s. Same was done for Vojvodina autonomous province.
Excellent article. Perfidy in describing this is an understatement. It does appear a similar playbook is being used in Ukraine. Putin's intelligent and surely he knows all of this, and yet he has obliged every step of the way just as Milosevich and the Serbs obliged. In fact, NATO members have been arming him, Putin, since 2014 and before despite the 2014 embargo by virtue of a convenient loophole. A strong case can be made that the goal for these cretins is war for war's sake with no other over-arching goal than that but certainly a great many ancillary benefits such as gratuitous war profits, hence the burning of both ends of the Ukrainian War candle.
Great info. I would call the KLA the original 'moderate rebels', but their criminality and brutality was so obvious the West never seemed to try to sell them as such very enthusiastically. But the mechanism was certainly similar to Syria- Western spooks recruit/enable jihadi nuts to destabilize and take over an imperial enemy.
Kosovo was and still is officially part of Serbia. It didn’t need to be ‘annexed’ … Serbian military was just trying to stop unilateral secession of the Kosovo from itself … small correction to otherwise great article
It may be old news for you but for so many of us struggling to find real journalism detailing assorted conflict areas it's priceless to have trusted sources and fresh context, thank you!
The more I read about Western based hypocrisy and use of violence against poor countries for its own benefit, the more I hate the US, UK and NATO degeneracy! To H*** with them all.
Thanks Kit. It's no mean feat being a true journalist in today's world. The article was very insightful, even for someone who has lived through years of the bloody war.
You should rewrite the start of the article. Kosovo and Metohija are provinces of Serbia, annexation makes no sense in this context.
Additionally the autonomy of K&M was not revoked in 1989, it was reduced to the level of autonomy it had under previous constitution from the '60s. Same was done for Vojvodina autonomous province.
Excellent article. Perfidy in describing this is an understatement. It does appear a similar playbook is being used in Ukraine. Putin's intelligent and surely he knows all of this, and yet he has obliged every step of the way just as Milosevich and the Serbs obliged. In fact, NATO members have been arming him, Putin, since 2014 and before despite the 2014 embargo by virtue of a convenient loophole. A strong case can be made that the goal for these cretins is war for war's sake with no other over-arching goal than that but certainly a great many ancillary benefits such as gratuitous war profits, hence the burning of both ends of the Ukrainian War candle.
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Great info. I would call the KLA the original 'moderate rebels', but their criminality and brutality was so obvious the West never seemed to try to sell them as such very enthusiastically. But the mechanism was certainly similar to Syria- Western spooks recruit/enable jihadi nuts to destabilize and take over an imperial enemy.
And the direct NATO war on Serbia was f-ing brutal and insane, killing lots of civilians and blowing up both a major TV channel and the Chinese embassy. Just finished a piece that goes into that- https://open.substack.com/pub/ourimperialpress/p/how-the-fk-are-these-the-good-guys?r=nv5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web.
Kosovo was and still is officially part of Serbia. It didn’t need to be ‘annexed’ … Serbian military was just trying to stop unilateral secession of the Kosovo from itself … small correction to otherwise great article