Error and conspiracy are only the top i.e. the two elevenths of the iceberg. Both error and conspiracy are deeply rooted into a social complex that has concrete though less visible totality, structure and logic. In chemistry, this totality, structure and logic is a valence , structural predisposition of chemical elements, which explains their mutual attraction, indifference or repulsion. There is neither error nor conspiracy, just a valence. Analogously with valence in chemistry, there is interest in politics.
Interest is a valence, chemistry of politics.
After long ten years of diabolic cooperation , in the spring of 1999, the West and Slobodan Milosevic, two main actors of the post-Cold War Balkan drama, have finally entered the stage of lethal confrontation . In some deeper sense, however, the very confrontation has been a kind of perverse cooperation. To be more precise, the two processes, cooperation and confrontation have been just the two sides of the same complex. Those who are familiar with modern history have no problem at all to recognize the old Cold War root and pattern of the complex. Slobodan Milosevic and NATO are not pure and unambiguous enemies, but a couple of bizarre and mutually necessary enemies .