just so we can get this out of the Paris thread.
Now to start off with, EDN is going to go into a long screed about how Yugoslavia was doomed to fail and how the various factions had and have hated each other for years. All of which was and is totally understood by anyone with a half a brain since the conflict re-erupted again in the early 90's into the phases that lead to the ultimate break-up of the country.
Now lets talk about how the U.S. and NATO expedited or some cases protracted that break up and all the terrible things that were done.
Jane's Defense did an excellent job of outlining how drugs financed the Albanians and please note the ties to NATO member Turkey:
http://balkania.tripod.com/resources/terrorism/kla-drugs.html#a25Congressional Investigation into Iranian Arms Shipments into Bosnia
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-105hrpt804/html/CRPT-105hrpt804.htmThe Clinton Administration failed to inform
Congress about its decision to allow Iranian arms to transit
Croatia into Bosnia.
Clear support by the Clinton Administration of rival factions within the country. Factions were repeatedly engaged in their own atrocities and trying to spur U.S./NATO involvement
CIA support of the KLA:
American intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia. The disclosure angered some European diplomats, who said this had undermined moves for a political solution to the conflict between Serbs and Albanians. Central Intelligence Agency officers were ceasefire monitors in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999, developing ties with the KLA and giving American military training manuals and field advice on fighting the Yugoslav army and Serbian police.
"It was purely the Albanian diaspora helping their brothers," said Florin Krasniqi, a New York builder and one of the KLA's biggest financiers. He described how sniper rifles were exported from America using a loophole in federal law that allowed them to be shipped to "hunting clubs". Armour-piercing Barratt rifles made their way to the KLA's "hunting club" in Albania.
Agim Ceku, the KLA commander in the latter stages of the conflict, had established American contacts through his work in the Croatian army, which had been modernised with the help of Military Professional Resources Inc, an American company specialising in military training and procurement. This company's personnel were in Kosovo, along with others from a similar company, Dyncorps, that helped in the American-backed programme for the Bosnian army.
https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/192/38782.html (as reported in the London Times)
Weapons flown in during the spring of 1995 were to turn up only a fortnight later in the besieged and demilitarised enclave at Srebrenica. When these shipments were noticed, Americans pressured UNPROFOR to rewrite reports, and when Norwegian officials protested about the flights, they were reportedly threatened into silence.
Iranian and Afghan veterans' training camps had also been identified in Bosnia. Later, in the Dayton Accords of November 1995, the stipulation appeared that all foreign forces be withdrawn. This was a deliberate attempt to cleanse Bosnia of Iranian-run training camps. The CIA's main opponents in Bosnia were now the mojahedin fighters and their Iranian trainers - whom the Pentagon had been helping to supply months earlier.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2000/03/koso-m16.htmlThose are just a few examples. We haven't even gotten into the NATO Bombing. But in EDN Whack-a-doodle land the U.S. and U.S. intelligence agencies had no involvement and this was all a natural political movement and conflict that ultimately resolved itself. Which is total nonsense, the U.S. military and intelligence agencies as well as NATO members had their hands all over this process.
