Actually, Gladio is basically a Western European watchdog... It has nothing to do with Yugoslavia. Moreover, Gladio rests on locals, that is insiders within Western Europe's political and military establishments. The overthrow of Milosevic is just the outcome of economic exhaustion and political frustration --the big Euro-carrot waved at the Serbian population did more to topple Milosevic than the US big stick --15,000 GIs stationed next door (in Kosovo). For instance, this very morning a French executive working for France's top car maker Renault was interviewed about the prospect of rebuilding Serbia....
Besides, the election of Kostunica's just a face lift: Serbia's nationalist agenda has not been discarded, only its figurehead, Milosevic, has been. The Europeans have made the Serbian authorities understand that keeping Milosevic in power would be counter-productive and lead inexorably towards the most unsettling prospect of an independent, Muslim Kosovo --a stone's throw away from Rome..... Such is an outcome nobody in Europe dare contemplate. With hindsight, we might say that Europe's killed two birds with one Serb election: defeating a dictatorial regime in Europe and defusing the threat of a Muslim proto-state in its midst.
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