đ TFF PressInfo # 736 - The 'Not To Forget' Wars
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Lund, Sweden, March 20, 2024
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NATO bombed Yugoslavia 25 years ago, and the war on Iraq turns 21: Not to forget - because today it is Russia & Ukraine and Gaza andâŚ
Over four years, TFF was a mediator in the Kosovo-Serbia conflict - for the nonviolent Kosovo-Albanian leadership under Dr Rugova and three governments in Belgrade and then-President Milosevic.
Our team developed the only plan for a three-year negotiated solution (see below) - the most circulated in both sideâs media. Arrogantly and hubris-like, the US/NATO/EU wanted a bombing âsolution.â
I was in Belgrade during NATOâs bombing; it was not small bombs. And it was NATOâs first out-of-area operation that was a gross violation of international law and of its own - defensive - Treaty. This marks the start on the slippery slope to offensiveness and illegality - to Ukraine.
It is natural, therefore, that TFF is participating in the Not To Forget commemorative conference in Belgrade this weekend. Watch also the bonus video below.
Here is TFFâs concluding report âYugoslavia - What Should Have Been Done?â - by Galtung, Oberg and Wiberg. It is 2000+ A4 pages published as written back then. Anyone can judge who made the more precise predictions, who were peace advocates and who were warmongers.
TFF did two fact-finding missions to Iraq right before the US Coalition bombing and occupation. It did not take 24 hours in Baghdad to understand that no one would stand along the road when the Bush-Blair-FoghRasmussen & Co troops rolled in.
It was "A Predictable Fiascoâ from Day One, thus also the title of my Danish book from 2004. Here is one of many TFF pages with hundreds of analyses of why this was - yes, a predictable fiasco.
These are Not To Forget wars. Western mainstream media will write nothing about them, their consequences and the human suffering they caused.
TFF will. We were there, on the ground, and did Diagnosis, Prognoses and Solutions.
Our five platforms are The Transnational, TFF Substack, TFF 2 News, TFF Vimeo and Jan Oberg's online home. Here is a selection of new posts on them:
â TFF Share Blog, News & Notes from 2021 till today - browse all the re-postings that media do worldwide of TFFâs materials and get the news from inside TFF.
Pacifism Today: A Dialogue about Alternatives to War in Ukraine
China and the U.S. â The future will be decided by economic influence, not military dominance
After Ukraine: US readies âtransnational kill chainâ for Taiwan proxy war
Yugoslavia, NATOâs criminal bombing 25 years ago and why Jan Oberg became a peace researcher
Kishore Mahbubani on why the West can't accept the rise of Asia
TFF 2 NEWS: Thought-provoking news and views from the corners of the blogosphere and side-stream newsâŚ
Flashback: âLeaving the Cold War Behind. How the West Can Create Cooperation and Build Peace With the Sovietsâ - 1989, those were the daysâŚ
Bonus video
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