>>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