How modern bombings look: The bombing of Belgrade in 1999 — Branko Milanovic

 While NATO expansion under Bill Clinton can be identified as the initial causal factor in a constellation of causes that has led to the present situation, the US attack on Belgrade and subsequent partition of the former state of Yugoslavia, also ordered by Bill Clinton, was a key turning point in the causal chain. It woke up the bear and alerted Russia and Russians to the danger of the US empire and the extent to which the US and their NATO allies go to impose their will using the pretext of "freedom, democracy and human rights as cover for imperial ambitions of global domination.

Economist Branko Milanovic, a Serbian and resident of Belgrade (although he was not present for the bombing) relates his own experience watching the bombing on television while it was underway.

Global Inequality
How modern bombings look: The bombing of Belgrade in 1999
Branko Milanovic | Visiting Presidential Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality, senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and formerly lead economist in the World Bank's research department and senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

http://glineq.blogspot.com/2022/02/how-modern-bombings-look-bombing-of.html

See also

Magpie's Asymmetric Warfare
Operation Iraqui Freedom version 2.
Magpie

http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2022/02/operation-iraqui-freedom-version-2.html

(Regular readers of this blog will recognize Branko Milanovic from previous links and also Magpie as an occasional commentor.)