Peace Piper
03-03-2015, 11:28 AM
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visiting Camp Bondsteel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Bondsteel) in Kosovo, May 2009. Credit: David Lienemann
Thomas Harrington, February 28, 2015 AntiWar.com
Kosovo is falling apart at the seams, with it thousands of its citizens seeking desperately to escape life there by any means possible.
Haven’t heard about that one?
Perhaps that’s because the U.S. is almost wholly responsible for creating an independent Kosovo, and from there, the brutal and corrupt power structure that lords cruelly over the life of its people. The creation of an independent Kosovo in the name of democracy and humanitarianism is considered by the Clinton crowd to be one of the U.S.’s first post-Cold War foreign policy successes.
Under the direction of the late egotist Richard Holbrook, intellectual – if we can use that word – godfather of today’s Susan Rices and Samantha Power, a new U.S. protectorate was created in the heart of the Balkans, one of the more historically unstable regions of the Western world.
Of course, it had nothing to do with democracy and humanitarianism and everything to do, as has been the case with most major moves the U.S. has undertaken in the world since 1989, with the need to give the U.S. the ability to a) project power into every corner of the globe b) disrupt the possibility of any country or bloc of countries impeding its economic and military designs.
More concretely, it was part of the U.S. plan to make sure that the then newly unshackled countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe would essentially be beholden to it, and not their EU neighbors.
Once this dependence was established, as it was in Kosovo, Bulgaria, Poland (which did not need much coaxing) and the Baltic Republics, the U.S. could, as Rumsfeld famously let slip in 2003, play the new Europe off against the old Europe and, in this way, neuter any ability the Old Continent might have to act as a check upon U.S. prerogatives.
The program has worked like a charm. How do we know? Just look at the way the more important European countries (to call them "powers" today would be to strain credibility) like Germany and France have, until quite recently, completely acquiesced to a foreign policy on Ukraine that was wholly designed in Washington, and that is completely inimical to their economic and strategic interests.
Russia needs Europe and Europe needs Russia.
But the strategic players in Washington, those sons and daughters of Brzezinski, Holbrooke and Albright, have other ideas.
And up until last week’s meeting in Minsk with Putin, it seems that neither Merkel, nor Hollande truly understood role of useful idiots they were playing within the U.S. game....SNIP Continue
http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2015/02/27/another-us-success-story-the-creation-and-abandonment-of-kosovo/
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Kosovo was the first PNAC war
http://i.imgur.com/gbC15Jr.jpg
http://web.archive.org/web/20020205133621/http://www.newamericancentury.org/balkans.htm
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visiting Camp Bondsteel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Bondsteel) in Kosovo, May 2009. Credit: David Lienemann
Thomas Harrington, February 28, 2015 AntiWar.com
Kosovo is falling apart at the seams, with it thousands of its citizens seeking desperately to escape life there by any means possible.
Haven’t heard about that one?
Perhaps that’s because the U.S. is almost wholly responsible for creating an independent Kosovo, and from there, the brutal and corrupt power structure that lords cruelly over the life of its people. The creation of an independent Kosovo in the name of democracy and humanitarianism is considered by the Clinton crowd to be one of the U.S.’s first post-Cold War foreign policy successes.
Under the direction of the late egotist Richard Holbrook, intellectual – if we can use that word – godfather of today’s Susan Rices and Samantha Power, a new U.S. protectorate was created in the heart of the Balkans, one of the more historically unstable regions of the Western world.
Of course, it had nothing to do with democracy and humanitarianism and everything to do, as has been the case with most major moves the U.S. has undertaken in the world since 1989, with the need to give the U.S. the ability to a) project power into every corner of the globe b) disrupt the possibility of any country or bloc of countries impeding its economic and military designs.
More concretely, it was part of the U.S. plan to make sure that the then newly unshackled countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe would essentially be beholden to it, and not their EU neighbors.
Once this dependence was established, as it was in Kosovo, Bulgaria, Poland (which did not need much coaxing) and the Baltic Republics, the U.S. could, as Rumsfeld famously let slip in 2003, play the new Europe off against the old Europe and, in this way, neuter any ability the Old Continent might have to act as a check upon U.S. prerogatives.
The program has worked like a charm. How do we know? Just look at the way the more important European countries (to call them "powers" today would be to strain credibility) like Germany and France have, until quite recently, completely acquiesced to a foreign policy on Ukraine that was wholly designed in Washington, and that is completely inimical to their economic and strategic interests.
Russia needs Europe and Europe needs Russia.
But the strategic players in Washington, those sons and daughters of Brzezinski, Holbrooke and Albright, have other ideas.
And up until last week’s meeting in Minsk with Putin, it seems that neither Merkel, nor Hollande truly understood role of useful idiots they were playing within the U.S. game....SNIP Continue
http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2015/02/27/another-us-success-story-the-creation-and-abandonment-of-kosovo/
*************
Kosovo was the first PNAC war
http://i.imgur.com/gbC15Jr.jpg
http://web.archive.org/web/20020205133621/http://www.newamericancentury.org/balkans.htm