So, here we are five years later and I am about to attend another commemoration in Belgrade, this time of the 15th anniversary of the start of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. And this time, I really have nothing to say. I have already said it, over and over. Others are saying similar things, with more authority, from Professor Stephen Cohen to Paul Craig Roberts. Many of us have warned against the dangerous folly of seeking endlessly to provoke Russia by enlisting her neighbors in a military alliance whose enemy could only be—Russia. Of all Russia’s neighbors, none is more organically linked to Russia by language, history, geopolitical reality, religion and powerful emotions. The U.S. Undersecretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, Victoria Nuland, has openly boasted that the United States has spent $5 billion to gain influence in Ukraine —in reality, in order to draw Ukraine away from Russia and into the U.S. military alliance. It is now no secret that Nuland intrigued even against America’s European allies—who had a less brutal compromise in mind—in order to replace the elected President with the American protégé she calls “Yats,” who indeed was soon installed in a far right government resulting from violent actions by one of the very few violent fascist movements still surviving in Europe. True, Western media do not report all the facts at their disposal. But the Internet is there and the facts are on the Internet. Despite all this, European governments do not protest, there are no demonstrations in the streets, much of public opinion seems to accept the notion that the villain of this story is the Russian president, who is accused of engaging in unprovoked aggression against Crimea—even though he was responding to one of the most blatant provocations in history. zcomm.org/zmagazine/ukraine-and-yugoslavia/
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:22:21 +0000
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