Kosovo and the bombing of Yugoslavia was a turning point for NATO; since then, Western military interventions around the world are no longer even questioned.
This is what Austrian historian Kurt Gritsch told Deutsche Welle in an interview that the Serbian language service of Germany’s state broadcaster ran under the headline, “NATO mutated after Yugoslavia.”
Gritsch, who is promoting his book, “The War for Kosovo,” said – referring to the western military alliance’s 1999 war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ), made up of Serbia and Montenegro – that it represented “the beginning of a new world order.”
“Kosovo was at the beginning, as a war in which NATO authorized itself to act outside the borders of the members of the Alliance. Kosovo is at the beginning of new wars, followed by other interventions abroad, Macedonia, the war in Afghanistan, Iraq – in which not all NATO members participated, then 2011, Libya, and in the meantime the eastern enlargement of NATO, which has been developing since the 1990s to the present day and has led to a rival relationship with Russia. Some say that this revived the Cold War. But at the beginning of everything was the Kosovo war,” said Gritsch.
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