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Kosovo Exposes US-NATO Hypocrisy
The US and NATO use their “Rules-Based Order” to trump International Law and further US hegemony.
I am old enough to remember when there was a country called “Yugoslavia”. It was a sovereign socialist country in the Balkans and it had a famous leader named Marshall Tito.
We learned about Tito in school because he was something of a poster boy for US hegemonic propaganda during the Cold War. We all learned that Tito “stood up to Stalin” and Yugoslavia was socialist, but had an anti-Soviet posture diplomatically, figuring prominently in the so-called “Non-Aligned Movement” that existed at that time.
During the Cold War, the US and the USSR were like two competing suitors — each one trying to cajole the non-aligned countries into joining their sphere of influence. Yugoslavia was able to play this game to its advantage diplomatically and economically when it came to trade.
They even managed to export automobiles to the USA at a time when Ronald Reagan was railing against the Soviet “evil empire”. A friend of mine actually bought a Yugo in the 1980's.
“A viable nation and an economic success”
Michael Parenti, who authored the authoritative book, To Kill a Nation: The Attack…
