Kissinger may have some fans in Belgrade as he uncharacteristically and sharply criticized the NATO attack on Serbia in this 1999 essay (which currently is attributed to 'staff' but it's Henry):
"The rejection of long-range strategy explains how it was possible to slide into the Kosovo conflict without adequate consideration of all its implications--especially the visceral reaction of almost all nations of the world against the new NATO doctrine of humanitarian intervention...
"Rambouillet was not a negotiation--as is often claimed--but an ultimatum. This marked an astounding departure for an administration that had entered office proclaiming its devotion to the U.N. Charter and multilateral procedures. The transformation of the Alliance from a defensive military grouping into an institution prepared to impose its values by force occurred in the same months that three former Soviet satellites joined NATO. It undercut repeated American and allied assurances that Russia had nothing to fear from NATO expansion, since the Alliance's own treaty proclaimed it to be a purely defensive institution."
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Kissinger may have some fans in Belgrade as he uncharacteristically and sharply criticized the NATO attack on Serbia in this 1999 essay (which currently is attributed to 'staff' but it's Henry):
https://www.newsweek.com/new-world-disorder-166550
"The rejection of long-range strategy explains how it was possible to slide into the Kosovo conflict without adequate consideration of all its implications--especially the visceral reaction of almost all nations of the world against the new NATO doctrine of humanitarian intervention...
"Rambouillet was not a negotiation--as is often claimed--but an ultimatum. This marked an astounding departure for an administration that had entered office proclaiming its devotion to the U.N. Charter and multilateral procedures. The transformation of the Alliance from a defensive military grouping into an institution prepared to impose its values by force occurred in the same months that three former Soviet satellites joined NATO. It undercut repeated American and allied assurances that Russia had nothing to fear from NATO expansion, since the Alliance's own treaty proclaimed it to be a purely defensive institution."
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