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19.12.01, 17:54
AN AMERICAN POPULIST: PRAVDA.RU INTERVIEWS PATRICK BUCHANAN
NATO expansion, Russia’s place in Europe, and the coming clash of
civilizations: Patrick Buchanan gives an exclusive interview to PRAVDA.Ru
Q. You are known as being a critic of the NATO actions against Yugoslavia
during 1999. As you know, the majority of the Russian population was against
the war. Many Russians feel as if the Serbs are their "little brothers." In
addition, many people here believe that the stories of large-scale "ethnic
cleansing" were simply designed to convince the American public to support the
actions. Why, exactly, were you opposed to this war?
A. I am well aware of the historic feelings of the Russian people for the
Serbs, who are fellow Slavs and Orthodox Christians. Indeed, it was the
unwillingness of Russia to permit the Austro-Hungarian empire to crush Serbia,
after the assassination of the Archduke in June of 1914, that led to World War
I. I opposed the Yugoslav war because I thought it was an unjust war against a
small nation that had done nothing to us. Serbia had not threatened us, had not
attacked us, and had been our friend and ally in two world wars. Serbs had
rescued hundreds of downed American pilots when we were fighting the Nazis. And
Serbia had not attacked any NATO nation. Why then did NATO attack Serbia? The
U.S. launched a 78-day air war against a nation of ten million, because that
nation refused to permit NATO troops to march with impunity across its
sovereign territory. As for the allegations of mass atrocities by Serbs,
