Our intervention in the Balkans was Tony Blair’s project.
Sorry but this is wrong.
Maddy Albright made quite an efford to find anyone in europe to help her plans to counter milosevic with a war.
England and France decided to take a waiting position - Russia wanted to be of help, but saw no possiblitly without loosing it face then to take a counter position - but promised to not interfere severly.
Germany alone - on the way to find a new self definition after the fall of the iron curtain - joined her in her effords - forcing the others to jump in.
the War on the balkans was inniciated by the USA.
Remember that this was written in 2001 and addresses US policies begun under the first Bush. That policy survives 8 years of Clinton and 8 years of the second Bush. Why that is is something I can't deduce.
...the War on the balkans was inniciated by the USA.
'Prosecuted' would be better than 'initiated.' The European troops were there but not doing much. The slaughters were proceeding and the US grew impatient with the inaction of the Euro nations.
Germany and GB were the primary political instruments behind the war. NATO was simply the executioner.
It was when you had 250,000 refugees sitting in camps all through Germany when “your” government began knocking on NATOs and others door because the so-called peace keepers under UN authority before that were failing.
YU was still on the map when Genscher declared proudly that Germany would recognize Croatia as a sovereign state.........
Russia didn't want to be of “help,” they sided with the Serbs whom they had been arming and had ties to historically and even present day. The Russians did everything they could to stop any intervention since ultimately intervention meant that Serbia would be pressured. In fact the infamous Pristina airfield incident where it almost came to blows between US/Russian troops was more or less Russia throwing 200 men at at airfield and seizing it so they could maintain a back-door line of logistical communication outside the oversight of others.
You're completely clueless.