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Fifteen years ago on March 26, 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) bombed a sovereign nation, Serbia, unilaterally intervening
in a civil war without UN approval on a phony pretext of "humanitarian"
intervention and also in an effort to distract American public attention from
the Monica Lewinsky "frosted dress" scandal caused by the philandering US
president. NATO violated its own "defensive" charter that required military
recourse only when NATO-member nations were attacked which was not the case
regarding Serbia. By bombing Serbia for 78 days, US President Bill Clinton
violated the US's own War Powers Resolution of 1973 but despite the obvious
infraction and even efforts by US Congressmen to hold him accountable, he was
never punished for this obviously illegal action.
NATO warplanes (including, shamefully, German Tornado
aircraft just as their Nazi predecessors during WWII) slaughtered hundreds if
not thousands of innocent civilians during 78 days of illegal and incessant
bombing - roughly as many died on all sides in the conflict before NATO entered
the fray. NATO was so merciless in the mass slaughter that the organization
continued bombing during Orthodox Christian Easter just as the Nazis did in 1941
demonstrating their savage and robotic nature. NATO warplanes fired tons of
depleted but highly toxic uranium causing untold cancers including among NATO
personnel stationed in Kosovo (e.g. eye cancers). NATO warplanes unleashed tens
of thousands of internationally banned cluster bombs which continue to kill and
maim children (in the form of unexploded ordinance) to this very day [1-2].
NATO warplanes bombed the Pancevo chemical complex which released thousands of
gallons of toxic chemicals into the Danube river (Europe's longest waterway).
Countless civilian targets such as homes, trains, market places, hospitals,
power stations and schools were bombed as well.
To prevent the world from seeing proof of NATO's
savagery, Serbia's only satellite link to the world was disconnected. The
headquarters of the Radio and Television Serbia (RTS) were viciously bombed [3],
slaughtering some dozen staff members and journalists who had assembled to
interview (for Larry King "live" at CNN) a Serbian government official in what
can only be described as the most vicious act of censorship in history. Even
the Chinese embassy was deliberately bombed [4], murdering some three Chinese
staff members and journalists, to punish Chinese for aiding the Serbs in getting
the word out about NATO's true evil face.
The end result was the theft of Kosovo, Serbia's Jerusalem
- the cradle of the Serbian Orthodox Christian Faith, from Serbia and the utter
destruction of international law; replaced by the laws of the jungle: "might
makes right." This orgy of illegal and barbaric violence against Serbia
demonstrated to the world that terrorists can successfully alter the borders of
sovereign nations "by force" if NATO supports them. Now, the US has established
Camp Bondsteel, the largest US base outside of America on stolen Serbian land in
Kosovo.
Since the fall of the Berlin wall, NATO has aggressively
marched Eastward toward Russia in a classic "drang nach osten." NATO has
established a missile "defensive" shield right on Russia's borders. NATO
encouraged and equipped the Georgians to attack the South Ossetians and
Abkhazians in an effort to stir trouble on Russia's border. And now, NATO has
incited mob violence to overthrow the democratically-elected government of the
Ukraine. The goal of all of these surreptitious and incessant efforts are
simply to break up Russia, the world's largest nation [5], so that her immense
natural resources can be cheaply exploited by Western companies and to remove
any lingering obstacles to the "New" World Order which will enslave all
humanity.
Before "holier than thou" Western leaders such as Canadian
prime minister Stephen Harper so judgmentally, viciously and rashly criticize
Vladimir Putin for his honoring the wishes of a vast majority of Crimeans (with
barely a shot fired) by returning the Crimea to Russia, they should look in the
mirror and ask themselves who provoked him. They also need to realize that the
West has completely lost any "moral" authority to condemn Russia for acting in
her interests which include resisting NATO's efforts to enslave Russia.
Dr. Michael Pravica