Kosovo.What territory did NATO steal?
It wasn't. It was made into an independent country.What "NATO" territory was the newly acquired lands incorporated into?
The bombing campaign was an attempt to pressure Serbia into signing a document that would have allowed NATO to freely violate Serbian sovereignty.Whether or not the situation in Yugoslavia justified military intervention is open for debate, but I don't think the bombing campaign was about taking territory for NATO. It was to put an end to a civil war.
The theft of Kosovo came a few years later.
Why is it OK for NATO to steal territory, but not OK for Russia to steal territory?I don't think Serbia v. Ukraine is a very good comparison.
NATO was not trying to intervene in any civil war when they stole Kosovo in 2006.Ukraine's intended movement towards European integration was clarified in 2004, maybe earlier. Russia's military intervention to prevent that has been going on for 8 years- the civil war that Russia sparked in 2014 was for that very purpose.
But Russia was already running the propaganda war since 2004, and the original Azovs and Wagner were cousins. Putin had to set the stage, hence all the Nazi stuff. WW2 is a big part of the Russian social consciousness/identity- killing Nazis is always good...
Russia is not trying to intervene in a civil war- Russia is conquering territory of a neighbor state.
But it's very similar to taking Kosovo from Serbia in 2006.That's very different than NATO bombing Milosevic to the negotiating table (not to excuse that action).
Right. But since the theft of Kosovo was actually successful, that validates the same sort of theft of Georgian and Ukrainian territory.And of course, If Kosovo is not a country, it's because a referendum on independence is not valid. That same argument has to apply to the LDPR and Crimea.