On October 23 an analysis appeared on a major Russian news site regarding the recently announced change in Russia's military doctrine allowing for the first use of nuclear weapons. To demonstrate the lingering and perhaps irreversible effects of NATO's first war of ten years ago, the article revealed that "Russia started speaking about the possibility of delivering preemptive nuclear strikes long ago, in the late 1990s after NATO bombed Yugoslavia. Russia subsequently held war games [in] 1999 simulating a military conflict with NATO similar to the one in Yugoslavia.
"That war game showed that only nuclear weapons would save Russia in case of Western aggression. The Russian government subsequently changed the schemes of using nuclear weapons, especially tactical ones." [23]
Crimes left unaddressed and unpunished, especially war crimes, exact a terrible toll on international relations and on the world's conscience.
The monument to former U.S. President Clinton further diminishes his political and historical stature, considering by whom it is being dedicated and why.
As long as much - most - of the world continues to ignore, apologize for and even endorse the crime for which he is being celebrated the prospects for a peaceful and just world are far beyond the grasp of those eager for a planet forever free of war.
1) New Kosovo Report, October 29, 2009
2) Beta News Agency, October 29, 2009
3) Wikipedia
4) Beta News Agency, March 24, 2009
5) Adriatic Charter And The Balkans: Smaller Nations, Larger NATO
Stop NATO, May 13, 2009
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/adriatic-charter-and-the-balkans-smaller-nations-larger-nato
6) Associated Press, October 10, 2009
7) Focus News Agency, October 28, 2009
8) Ibid
9) BalkanInsight, October 29, 2009
10) Reuters, October 30, 2009
11) Vecernje Novosti, October 17, 2009
12) Threat Of New Conflict In Europe: Western-Sponsored Greater Albania
Stop NATO, October 8, 2009
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/new-threat-of-conflict-in-europe-western-sponsored-greater-albania
13) Focus News Agency, October 10, 2009
14) Sofia News Agency, October 18, 2009
15) Ibid
16) Tanjug News Agency, October 19, 2009
17) Tanjug News Agency, October 24, 2009
18) B92, October 16, 2009
19) B92, October 8, 2009
20) Bulgaria, Romania: U.S., NATO Bases For War In The East
Stop NATO, October 24, 2009
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/bulgaria-romania-u-s-nato-bases-for-war-in-the-east
21) Why Is NATO In Yugoslavia?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/GER108A.html
22) Younes Bhat, Crisis from the Balkans to Caucasus: Munich Speech to
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Mainstream Weekly, October 11, 2009
23) Russian Information Agency Novosti, October 23, 2009
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