>>>>>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