>>>>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