>No I really think this is an important misunderstanding. The Drang nach
>Osten was for land. The Serb war against Kosovar self-determination is for
>land.
>BUT the NATO war against Serbia is *not* for land.
>NATO leaders and representatives have dissembled over a lot of things but
>they are telling the truth about this. Theirs is a war for "free trade",
>for the free movement of finance capital across all territorial boundaries.
>Their battle flag is atomised bourgeois human rights, forgetting the social
>rights of a society to survive whatever the IMF may have to say.
>The movement to the east is by peaceful assimilation. Look at the election
>result that has just occurred in Slovakia, paving the way for economic
>"reforms" that would enable Slovakia in due course to be a candidate for
>the European Union and for NATO. It is only that the Serbs have resisted
>this process and tried to reorganise the national boundaries on ethnically
>coherent lines, which would logically lead to apartheid.
>But international finance capital has abandoned apartheid in South Africa
>for sound economic reasons, and it has no interest in promoting it in the
>Balkans.
>The NATO war is *not* a war for land.
>Chris Burford
>London