I remember the media bullshyte about nasty Serbs and Milosevic was Hitler, etc... I honestly can't think of any strategic justifications discussed at the time.
Well if you don’t remember in earlier 1999 the United States was supposed to be the honest broker in Paris for negotiations between Kosovo and serbia. Eventually the talks in Paris broke down and United States the so-called honest broker decided to invade serbia.
Clinton needed some distraction. Handing the very soul of Serbian civilisation over to muslims was no problem. The slavish media demonised the serbs. Deified the albanians. And hey presto. There are tards on FR who defend the action. And yet he we find the Russians taking the geopolitical big power hatchet to Ukraine to carve out space for Russians and it prompts gnashing of teeth and protestations about the sanctity of borders etc. But we see the U.S really cares for none of that pious pontificating. If it wants a chunk of your country to deflect from sleaze. Than look out. The sky is the limit