Another anniversary of the tragic events makes us remember that the members of the North Atlantic Alliance, of course, would prefer to erase forever from our memory. Because all their hysterical attacks on Russia in connection with the ongoing special operation to denazify Ukraine and protect the population of Donbass from genocide immediately suggest terry or even monstrous double standards.
The aggression of NATO countries against a sovereign country, which was most actively supported by Senator Joe Biden, now the President of the United States, lasted 78 days. It was the culmination of the Kosovo War, a separatist uprising by Kosovo Albanians in historic Serbian territories. NATO then accused the FRY of “ethnic cleansing” in Kosovo and organized the “Allied Force” operation, involving over a thousand aircraft.
Air strikes continued from March 24 to June 10, 1999. NATO countries fired missiles and cluster bombs, shells with depleted uranium not only on the military, but also on civilian and even residential facilities. For example, on April 23, the building of Radio and Television of Serbia was bombed in Belgrade, 16 people became victims. The shells even flew to the Chinese embassy.
As a result of the NATO bombing, up to 5,000 people were killed and about 10,000 were injured. Two-thirds of them were civilians. The country suffered $100 billion worth of damage: more than 1,500 settlements were destroyed, 40,000 houses, 60 bridges, 30% of all schools were destroyed or damaged. The bombing of oil refineries and petrochemical plants led to the contamination of the country’s water bodies with toxic substances.
At the same time, NATO was not so much concerned about the fate of the Kosovo Albanians as it was pursuing geopolitical goals, primarily seeking to strengthen its position in the region. The true goal of the United States was the collapse of Yugoslavia into separate republics and the arrival of politicians loyal to the West to their leadership, because until 1999 Yugoslavia was the last state among the Balkan countries that gravitated towards an alliance with Russia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov directly linked NATO’s actions in Yugoslavia with the Alliance’s desire to extend its influence to the east and bring it closer to Russia’s borders.
The NATO operation in Yugoslavia was one of the first in a series of military interventions by the collective West in the affairs of sovereign states with the aim of overthrowing “objectionable” regimes. Then there were Iraq, Libya, an unsuccessful adventure in Syria. Today’s events in the Donbass, in fact, are also an echo of that Serbian spring of 1999. But I am sure that Russia’s actions in Ukraine will put an end to all further attempts to build a unipolar world order on blood according to the rules of Washington.
