{"id":56652,"date":"2025-12-15T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56652"},"modified":"2025-12-15T07:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:24:04","slug":"how-nato-went-from-defense-to-offense-interview-with-diana-johnstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/15\/how-nato-went-from-defense-to-offense-interview-with-diana-johnstone\/","title":{"rendered":"How NATO Went From Defense to Offense: Interview with Diana Johnstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YtDkN4i1SSg\">this interview<\/a> Diana Johnstone explains how NATO was repurposed into an offensive coalition through media lies and the war that led to the breakup of Yugoslavia. Johnstone is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fools-Crusade-Yugoslavia-Western-Delusions\/dp\/158367084X\/\"><em>Fool&#8217;s Crusade<\/em><\/a>, a detailed expose of the distortions, diplomatic deceit and military aggression that was presented as a humanitarian intervention. Much of the western political Left was duped and this war in the 90&#8217;s became the template for the NATO wars that followed. This interview is vital today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YtDkN4i1SSg?si=JhBiQ_gF_WBiRtoo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview Diana Johnstone explains how NATO was repurposed into an offensive coalition through media lies and the war that led to the breakup of Yugoslavia. Johnstone is the author of Fool&#8217;s Crusade, a detailed expose of the distortions, diplomatic deceit and military aggression that was presented as a humanitarian intervention. Much of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[795],"class_list":["post-56652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56656,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56652\/revisions\/56656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56652"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}