Kosovo compromise

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Sat Jun 5 21:36:18 PDT 1999


Max Sawicky wrote:


>All this supports the premise that projections of the conflict
>as a plan for Nato dominion over Serbia in the interests of some
>plan of greater conquest-cum-economic absorption were Marxoid
>hogwash. In the same vein, there is no talk of forcing any
>particular economic change in Serbia (not that there is much
>that needs changing from a neo-liberal standpoint to begin with).

<< Serbia has no economy anymore, Max. NATO blew it up. How do you think it will be reconstructed, if at all? Under the most strenuous WB/IMF/EBRD conditionality, of course, assuming the place isn't under even more >>

We'ren't they under that anyway? For that they had to go to war? There's evidence the IMF was stepping all over Serbia. But is there evidence that Milo's regime was putting up some kind of resistance?

<< strenuous sanctions. They don't even need to include the "free market" bit in the peace settlement now; this is cruise-missile neoliberalism. >>

Doug >>



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