Ukraine, Syria, Venezuela and beyond: Beware the Wars of March
By Rick Rozoff
In the 1930s it was a notorious fact the German government of
Adolf Hitler chose the month 0f March (Ides of Mars), to perpetrate
its most daring moves in reasserting the nation as a continental power,
culminating in the most deadly war in history.
For example:
March 1933: German federal election brings Hitler to power as chancellor
March 1936: Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles
March 1937: The Third Reich’s Condor Legion bombs and attacks Durango, Spain and the next month bombs Guernica
March 1938: Germany absorbs Austria
Over the past fifteen years a not dissimilar pattern has emerged.
In March of 1999 the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
began Operation Allied Force, the 78-day air war against the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
In March of 2003 the U.S. and several of its NATO allies began
Operation Iraqi Freedom, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, ultimately
with troops from 23 of NATO’s current 28 member states stationed in the
country.
In March of 2011 the U.S. launched Operation Odyssey Dawn, nineteen
days later taken over by NATO under the code name of Operation Unified
Protector, a more than six-and-a-half-month-long air war and naval
blockade against Libya.
The above were the first wars ever conducted by NATO and were,
respectively, its first wars in three continents: Europe, Asia and
Africa.
In the unbroken series of direct, covert and proxy wars waged by the
U.S. and NATO since the attack on Yugoslavia on March 24, 1999, the
following nations and former nations have been seriously, more than
likely fatally, wounded. Destroyed.
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (subsequently the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, now splintered into three entities)
Macedonia
Afghanistan (what was left of it after the U.S. and several of its
NATO allies supported a fundamentalist-extremist insurgency operating
out of Pakistan from 1978-1992 and then backhandedly supported the
Taliban takeover in 1995-1996)
Iraq
Somalia
Ivory Coast
Libya
Yemen
Syria
Sudan
Mali
Ukraine
Somalia
Ivory Coast
Libya
Yemen
Syria
Sudan
Mali
Ukraine
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