>>>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