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The NATO countries that bombed Serbia in 1999. Let me show you where they got the money for those bombs. Belgium dropped bombs on us. Using wealth from Congo's uranium, cobalt, and diamonds. Small country, zero resources, but enough money to join NATO operations 1,000km from their border. France flew 1,300 sorties over Serbia. Dropped bombs paid for with extraction wealth from 14 African countries still using the CFA franc. Uranium from Niger powered their nuclear program. Gold from Mali. Oil from Chad. All of it feeding the French military budget. Britain sent Tornado bombers and cruise missiles. Funded by centuries of colonial extraction. India, Kenya, Nigeria, half of Africa, chunks of Asia. The British Museum is still full of stolen artifacts. Their military is still funded by that legacy. Germany participated. Bombed Belgrade bridges. First time German forces attacked Serbia since 1945. Where did post-war Germany get military money? Marshall Plan rebuilding, sure. But also maintaining economic control over former colonies through corporations like Siemens and Deutsche Bank operating across Africa. Italy sent aircraft carriers and fighter jets. Former colonial power in Libya, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia. Never paid reparations. Never returned what they took. Just converted colonial administration into corporate contracts. Spain joined the operation. Smaller role but still there. Built their economy on South American silver and gold for 300 years. Financed their modern military on that foundation. Netherlands contributed aircraft. Tiny country, huge colonial empire. Indonesia. Suriname. Caribbean islands. Extracted resources for centuries. Used that wealth to build a military that could bomb a country that never threatened them. Turkey participated. People forget that part. Ottoman Empire ruled the Balkans for 500 years. Built that skull tower in Niš from Serbian heads. Now they're in NATO bombing Serbia again. Canada sent CF-18s. Built their economy on indigenous land and resources. Never settled those accounts. Just took the wealth and built a military. United States led the whole operation. 800+ aircraft. Most of the bombs. Funded by what? Slavery-built economy. Indigenous genocide. Then 20th century resource extraction through CIA-backed coups across Latin America, Africa, Middle East. Every dictator who gave them cheap resources got American support. I watched those planes fly over Belgrade. Heard the bombs. Saw the bridges fall. The pharmaceutical factory, the TV station, the Chinese embassy. All destroyed by militaries funded with colonial wealth. They bombed us for 78 days. No UN approval. No legal basis. Just power. And where did that power come from? Centuries of taking from others. The same pattern in Africa, Asia, Americas - extract resources, build military capability, then use that military to extract more resources. Serbia never colonized anyone. We fought against empires for 500 years. Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Nazi Germany. We saved 500 American airmen in WWII. We stood with the Allies. And in 1999, the descendants of colonial powers bombed us using wealth they stole from the very continents they lecture about helping. The bombs that hit my city were paid for with Congolese cobalt. Nigerian oil. Indonesian rubber. Indian textiles. South American silver. That's where their military budgets come from. That's how small European countries afford fighter jets and cruise missiles. That's how they fund operations thousands of kilometers from their borders. They didn't bomb us in spite of being colonial powers. They bombed us because they still are.