{"id":257902,"date":"2024-03-25T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=257902"},"modified":"2024-03-25T09:31:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T09:31:46","slug":"the-kosovo-war-25-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/03\/the-kosovo-war-25-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cKosovo War\u201d 25 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_257904\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/racak-walker-osce-1999-kosovo-nato-serbia.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257904\" class=\"wp-image-257904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/racak-walker-osce-1999-kosovo-nato-serbia.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/racak-walker-osce-1999-kosovo-nato-serbia.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/racak-walker-osce-1999-kosovo-nato-serbia-300x176.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/racak-walker-osce-1999-kosovo-nato-serbia-768x450.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-257904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US diplomat and OSCE mission chief, William Walker, visits the staged \u201cRacak massacre\u201d on 17 January 1999 (KK)<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>24 Mar 2024 &#8211; <em>25 Years Ago Today, NATO Started the Illegal Kosovo War against Serbia<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NATO launched its illegal 78-day bombing campaign against Russian ally Serbia to take control of its Kosovo province. The war was based on a series of deceptions, such as the staged <a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/propaganda-in-the-war-on-yugoslavia\/#4-kosovo-the-racak-massacre-and-more-1999\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cRacak massacre\u201d<\/a> shown above: fallen KLA fighters were reclothed, rearranged, and passed off to the international media as executed civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Today Kosovo is home to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camp_Bondsteel\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Bondsteel<\/a>, the largest military base built by the US in Europe since the Vietnam War, while almost half of the Kosovar population wants to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/468218\/nearly-900-million-worldwide-wanted-migrate-2021.aspx\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leave<\/a> the country. The US-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_Kosovo_declaration_of_independence\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">independence<\/a> of Kosovo in 2008 was an important precedent for the more recent Russian recognition and annexation of Crimea and the Donbass republics.<\/p>\n<p>The world-renowned <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@swprs:3\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPR Media Archive<\/a> features several investigative documentaries about the Kosovo War, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@swprs:3\/moral-combat-nato-at-war-bbc-2000:b?lid=f65991a8639f4c0b9a498d6b83487d59ef614cba\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moral Combat: NATO at War<\/a> by the BBC and <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@swprs:3\/kosovo-war-it-began-with-a-lie:7?lid=f65991a8639f4c0b9a498d6b83487d59ef614cba\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kosovo War: It Began with a Lie<\/a> by German public broadcaster WDR. See:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/propaganda-in-the-war-on-yugoslavia\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Propaganda in the Yugoslav Wars<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Videos<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/playlist\/f65991a8639f4c0b9a498d6b83487d59ef614cba\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yugoslav Wars (1992-1999)<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-161314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> Swiss Policy Research<em>, founded in 2016, is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit research group investigating geopolitical propaganda in Swiss and international media. SPR is composed of independent academics that for personal and professional reasons prefer to protect their identities, and receives no external funding; there are no financial sponsors or backers. Our articles have been published or shared by numerous independent media outlets and journalists, among them <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/assange-tweet.png\" ><em>Julian Assange<\/em><\/a><em>, and have been translated into more than two dozen languages.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/the-kosovo-war-25-years-ago\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; swprs.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 Mar 2024 &#8211; 25 Years Ago Today, NATO Started the Illegal Kosovo War against Serbia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":161314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2999],"tags":[1161,960,1035,1126,1050,2023,2462,91,112,278,1885,124,95,70],"class_list":["post-257902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-racket-destruction-capitalism","tag-arms-industry","tag-balkans","tag-eastern-europe","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-kosovo","tag-military-industrial-media-complex","tag-nato","tag-pentagon","tag-russia","tag-serbia","tag-united-nations","tag-us-military","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257905,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257902\/revisions\/257905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}