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To: Enigma who wrote (31544)	4/12/1999 5:40:00 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116770

DD : My thesis is that atrocities, or whatever, are not the real reason that the US and UK are prepared to spend an untold fortune and risk WW3. I am not, for a moment, suggesting that Milosevic is an angel, far from it. He and his boys, especially Mr Arkon, are known bastards. I was searching for what the US self-interest was in the Balkans. Pieces are, in fact, beginning to fall into place in my view of things. msnbc.com Albania has now given NATO carte blanche over all military and other resources including, I heard on the news, the harbor facilities. This makes a whole lot of sense. Every time there is trouble in Mideast or Balkans or wherever, it is massively expensive for the US to send in a carrier fleet. NATO is now at the end of its life so US can't count on NATO countries for bases in future. So, I speculated that US was looking for a strategically situated base in the region. Albania is, in fact, ideal. It commands the Balkans, Southern and Eastern Europe including Russia, the Mid East (Iraq) and North Africa. It is the poorest country in Europe so the government can easily be persuaded with a few gifts. It is very mountainous --- excellent for underground missile sites. With harbor facilities on the Med access is excellent. But US couldn't just move in. There would have been a major outcry. Now, under the pretext of caring for refugees and punishing Milosevic, US is welcomed in! No one can protest that America is now colonizing Europe. I am now satisfied with what I believe is the underlying reason for the expedition and the airstrikes. I also know that a new railway has been built, at US expense, between Skopje, in Macedonia, and Bucharest, in Romania. This could indicate that US will eventually bring Romania into the plan. And, if so, it will bring US interests eye-to-eye with Russia. I know international power play is not about being nice to the homeless. It is about brute, naked force and national self-interest. Something didn't click, for me, about the Kosovo story. Now it does. SS