The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, was founded April 4, 1949 as a regional defense alliance. The stated purpose of NATO was to enhance the stability, well being, and freedom of its members by means of a system of collective security.

The primary purpose of NATO was (until recently) to defend Eastern Europe from the perceived threat of Soviet aggression. Before the alleged end of the Cold War, the USSR was a significant threat. The forcible installation of communist governments throughout Eastern Europe, territorial demands by the Soviets, and the support of conflicts in Greece and Iran was considered a very real dangerous threat to something that could spark World War III.

Before NATO, in 1947 Britain and France (adversaries for centuries) signed the Dunkirk Treaty for common defense against aggression.

For over fifty years NATO has been successful in keeping the Russian/Soviet aggressors out of Eastern Europe -- until now. Notwithstanding all the propaganda (on both sides), all the posturing, dissembling, duplicity, and fraud, the most significant result of the Kosovo adventurism is being overlooked. Russia achieved a 50-year objective ... in a cakewalk.

Take a deep breath, step back from the mainstream spin, and consider the following facts:

• NATO was established as a defensive alliance to prevent Russia from getting a toehold in Eastern Europe.
• NATO abandoned their defensive role and took on the mantle of aggressor when they attacked a sovereign country.
• NATO abandoned a 50 year old ally and assaulted the Serbs to ally with a group of immigrants struggling to carve out a portion of sovereign Serb soil for their own.

• We are going to be plagued with assorted silly stories of what is or isn't happening in the wake of the alleged "peace accord."
• Secretary of State Madeline Not-So-Bright has yet again compounded her serial blunders by mismanaging the Russians.
• The failed Rambouillet agreement has already been exposed as a farce, designed to spark an "excuse" to precipitate the original bombing of Kosovo.
• This recent peace deal almost went sideways at the last minute because of ONE SENTENCE stupidly inserted and maintained by Madeleine's morons.
• Friday last, Moscow's head negotiator threatened to bypass NATO and negotiate a Russian-controlled sector directly with Belgrade if the Atlantic alliance refused to agree. General Leonid Ivashov said Moscow would not be bullied into placing Russian forces under a unified Kosovo peace force commander with a NATO general in charge (Britain's Sir Michael Jackson). "We are not going to beg the United States to give us a specific sector," Ivashov said. "If we do not reach an agreement (with the Americans) we will work out with Yugoslavia the sector we will control.
• Saturday it was reported Russian troops were set to beat NATO into Kosovo, with their commander warning they would seize control of Serb-populated parts of the province regardless of whether NATO liked it or not. Neener-neener-neener. ...
• Russia DID get on the ground first, and subsequently there was a series of theater of the absurd "gosh oh gee golly, whoops" -- kinda the Russian variety of a Bill Clinton "bureaucratic foul-up," but remember, "hey, everybody does it ... right?"
• British paratroopers were put on alert to head off a possible landing by more Russian forces at Pristina airport, but changed their mind after a few hours and didn't. U.S. honchos were caught with their pants down -- this time by a Russian deployment of a couple of hundred troops on the border with another 1,800 on standby to fly into Yugoslavia.

The pundit brigade has been pontificating ad nauseum about the potential for World War III starting in the Balkans (usually for all the wrong reasons). The mainstream co-conspirators have been so embroiled in trying to put a patriotic and statesmanlike face on this bastardized strategic misadventure, they have failed to even acknowledge (to the best of my knowledge, so far) the monumental significance of the following facts:

• NATO has abrogated its charter, and failed in their primary mission -- which was supposed to be to keep a Russian presence out of Europe.
• We are on the brink of breathing life into the formerly comatose Russian military.
• A partitioned occupation force similar to Berlin is all but an inevitability. Russia is on the ground -- in Kosovo -- allied with the indigenous Serbs.
• NATO, the United States in particular, has created a blood enemy with a penchant, experience, and lust for long memory ... and revenge.

Some wag once observed you should be careful whom you step on your way up; you may have to kiss their butts on the way down. That's one of the cute axiomatic bromides that apply to most everyone -- except Bill Clinton.