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Instead of capitulating within a week, the government of Slobodan Milosevic fought on for 78 days, agreeing to let NATO occupy Kosovo only after receiving explicit guarantees of sovereignty. When Yugoslav troops retreated from Kosovo, they did so nearly unharmed and in perfect order, showing that the bombing was primarily directed against civilian targets and intended to terrorize. The war was illegal and illegitimate, but the Empire did not care. Kosovo was a Rubicon the Empire needed to cross: a demonstration that it could attack anyone, anywhere, for any reason. And crushing Yugoslavia – whose resistance to the broader trends of political and economic reform (Norris, 2005) was the real reason behind the war – would send a message to Russia.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:48:15 +0000

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