Thanks for this very useful historic overview. A few additions:)

1. It led to many refugees, many of which left their homes for good. Creating a brain drain in the region, whose effects will be felt for generations to come. (so very similar to what is now happening to Ukraine) I taught some of these brilliant kids when I worked at uni.

2. it led to a surge of weapons on the European black market. Which led to harder gang violence all over Europe's major cities. Handgrenades have now become a common feature in gang violence here.

3. And when it comes to really protecting the people, NATO's demonstration of Dutch courage in Srebrenica is exemplary. They simply handed them over to be massacred. NATO in a nutshell.

As a European, I am convinced that we must leave NATO. Stop being US vassals. We can all see the misery and destruction it brings to the world. Without her European enablers, it will be more difficult for the US to continue her aggression. So it's dire time to sever the Trans-Atlantic shackles and become an integral part of the Eurasian continent. As it is also the thermodynamic rationale of the coming post-fossil fuel era. China's peace plan is a good start...quickly, before the US brings on even more war, now against China.

As the US is now priming Kazakhstan against China and Russia. …. wanting to hit two birds with one stone.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/6/6/russia-faces-a-new-neighbourhood-threat-china

The author(s), the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs, is financed by the US government. They’re not even hiding it > https://www.highergov.com/awardee/oxus-society-for-central-asian-affairs-12749640/