The first step of the imperial predators was the imposition of draconian
economic sanctions used to cripple their economies, weaken their
governments (always referred to as
‘a/the regime’) and create political unrest. From 1992-95, and again in
1998, Yugoslavia was hit by the harshest sanctions ever imposed on a
European state. The sanctions even involved an EU ban on the state-owned
passenger airliner JAT
