From #Yugoslavia in the 1990s to Libya in 2011, the goal of such military interventions is to bring countries to their knees, stripping them of their national sovereignty and political autonomy, while forcing their subordinate integration into the global economy. As the then #NATO Commander, General Wesley Clark, stated, “demolish, destroy, devastate, degrade, and ultimately eliminate the essential infrastructure of [Yugoslavia]”. Yugoslavia was balkanized and reduced to smaller, docile republics with de-industrialized economies. Once pro-Western reactionary forces and puppets were installed, these entities metamorphosed into a perfect locale for the extraction of cheap minerals, overexploitation of labor, and the expansion of NATO’s military footprint.

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