An Inconvenient Truth: The NATO Intervention in Yugoslavia, Propaganda, and the Rise of a New World Order
An Inconvenient Truth: The NATO Intervention in Yugoslavia, Propaganda, and the Rise of a New World Order The dissolution of Yugoslavia and the subsequent NATO intervention remain one of the most contentious issues of modern history. This essay synthesizes the complex arguments surrounding the 1990s Balkans conflicts, the role of media like the BBC series "The Death of Yugoslavia," and the controversial 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia. It argues that while the BBC series, despite some critiques, largely captured the truth that the war was a deliberate project by cynical ethno-nationalist leaders, the humanitarian catastrophe it documented was very real and not a Western propaganda construct. However, the essay delves deeper, revealing that the 1999 NATO intervention, while morally defensible as a "humanitarian intervention" to stop ethnic cleansing, was legally questionable due to its lack of a UN mandate. This action, regardless of its immediate intent, functione...