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[–]unagisongsBurn down Reddit! 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So how is everyone's world war going? I'm doing peachy keen for now. Not looking forward to sliding into a nuclear cacophony.

[–]chakokat[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It looks to me like the US finally starting to realize that they have lost their geopolitical power (nobody will eat the carrot and nobody is afraid of the stick ) that they have decided to upend the chessboard and throw the whole world into chaos before they slink off to lick their shrinking ego. ( sorry about multiple metaphors )

[–]chakokat[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

There are very few countries that have done as much damage to the Serbian people as the United States has. Despite never having been an enemy to the US, Washington DC simply doesn’t want to leave the small Southeast European country alone. What’s more, Belgrade was an American ally in both world wars, while Serbian people in America have given an invaluable contribution to its development, with globally renowned Serbian scientists like Nikola Tesla and Mihailo Pupin being among the most prominent names. During WWII, the Serbian Chetnik resistance launched Operation Halyard (also known as Operation Air Bridge) and saved over 500 Allied pilots shot down by Nazi German forces and their Croatian, Bosnian Muslim and Albanian allies. Serbian civilians also took part in this effort, providing food and shelter at a time when they had very little and needed every resource available.

What’s more, Nazi Germany and its allies in former Yugoslavia were conducting an all-out genocide that killed nearly 1.5 million Serbs. Their “crime”? They were the “Untermenschen”, so they had to be eradicated, along with other “lesser peoples”, which included over half of Europe at the time. Croats, aided by Bosnian Muslims, were conducting the slaughter in western parts of former Yugoslavia that Germans gave them control of, while Albanians were doing the same in Kosovo and Metohia, a southern Serbian province that Nazi Germany also gave to them. And while this may seem like a long-forgotten history now, the truth is that it’s still an ongoing process. The only “difference” is that it’s now being conducted by the geopolitical descendant of the Axis powers – NATO. And it’s precisely Washington DC that has taken the role that was previously held by Berlin.

Interestingly (albeit not unexpectedly), their allies in former Yugoslavia are exactly the same and include Croatians, Bosnian Muslims and Albanians. For its part, the US has fully taken their side and did everything in its power to do as much damage as possible to the Serbian people, the same one who has been saving American pilots during WWII (as previously mentioned, often at its own detriment). In the last over 30 years, the US has directly contributed to the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Serbs from the Republic of Serbian Krajina, Republika Srpska, and Kosovo and Metohia by helping Croats, Bosnian Muslims and Albanians to finish the job started in WWII. It can be argued they were the least successful in Republika Srpska, although the damage they’ve done is significant, as this Serbian state lost nearly 30% of its territory in Bosnia.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Typical Western policy of rule or ruin. The Serbs have resisted caving to the pressure exerted on them since the 1990s to become another neoliberal cash cow. Vucic is weak but thus far he's held the line because he knows the Serbian population would rise up against his government if he didn't. Another strike against the Serbs is their historical ties to Russia, they have Orthodox Christianity in common.

A reminder to anyone who wants to know more about what was done to Serbia in 1999, it was the subject of this discussion between the Duran and Serbian-Canadian Boris Malagurski, who did a series of documentaries about it called Weight of Chains; links to these are at the end of the above transcript.

[–]chakokat[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for the link!

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I try to keep it handy because as your excerpt pointed out, the West will just not leave them alone.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

More recently, Andrew Korybko wrote this piece (Dec. 25) about Serbia - The West Isn’t Content With Vucic’s Many Concessions And Wants Full Control Over Serbia:

Serbian President Vucic condemned the failed Color Revolution attempt on Sunday by the Western-backed opposition whose pretext for trying to seize government buildings was their anger with the latest national elections’ alleged irregularities. He also thanked unnamed foreign spy agencies for tipping him off about this plot, which Prime Minister Brnabic soon thereafter confirmed were Russia’s.

Many were surprised by what just unfolded since Vucic has made many concessions towards the West.

One would therefore think that the West would be content with his many concessions towards their New Cold War bloc, but instead it wants full control over Serbia as proven by Sunday night’s events.

This hegemonic mentality is counterproductive to its objective interests since the signal being sent to other countries is that no number of concessions will satiate the West’s lust for full control over them.

What happened on Sunday was a textbook Color Revolution attempt that no bonafide patriot could support in good conscience, but some undoubtedly experienced schadenfreude after he tried running with the hares and hunting with the hounds, only for the liberal-globalists to turn on him.