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The planned US destruction of Yugoslavia is spelled out in an October 31, 1988, US National Intelligence Council memorandum titled "'Sense of Community' Report on Yugoslavia". Written by Marten van Heuven, the National Intelligence Officer for Europe, the formerly classified Secret memo conveyed the opinion of the US Intelligence Community that it was doubtful that Yugoslavia would survive from its form in 1988. Van Heuven was a product of the RAND Corporation, the Pentagon think tank that developed countless scenarios for nuclear war, including thermonuclear mega-deaths on a global scale.
As the Cold War began to conclude, van Heuven and his American supremacy colleagues, including the later US 'viceroy' for Iraq, Paul 'Jerry' Bremer, and various US military commanders within NATO, began to sharpen their knives for the dismemberment of Yugoslavia.
Rather than blame outside influences for the pressure on the Yugoslav federal system, van Heuven began the meme that would later justify NATO's and America's intervention in Yugoslavian civil wars. For van Heuven, it was Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic who was squarely responsible for the fracture of Yugoslavia's federal system. This lie would persist until Milosevic's suspicious death in 2006 while he was on trial before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Van Heuven was one of a number of Atlanticists, some carrying significant anti-Russian and anti-Serb ethnic and religious baggage - for example, Polish-born Zbigniew Brzezinski, Czech-born Madeleine Albright, Hungarian-born George Soros, and Berlin-born Helmut Sonnenfeldt - who wanted to 'punish' countries like Serbia and Russia for bigoted reasons. In 1995, van Heuven wrote a paper for RAND titled "Rehabilitating Serbia". Van Heuven and his cheerleading comrades for NATO and the European Union saw Serbia as the Balkans' only aggressor nation and violator of human rights. Nowhere in the vocabulary of right-wing Atlanticists like van Heuvel, Albright, and Brzezinski would be found terms like 'Croatian neo-Nazi revanchism', 'pan-Germanic Slovenia', or 'Bosnian/Kosovar Islamo-fascism', all of which were holdovers from the Nazi pasts of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, and Kosovar Albania during World War II.
The speed at which Germany recognized and supported the independence of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo from Yugoslavia is a testament to the nostalgia of reunited Germany for the war years of German domination over all of the Balkans, except for the problematic Serbs, who refused to fall completely under the realm of Adolf Hitler.
The neo-conservative Atlanticists of the outgoing administration of George H W Bush and the incoming administration of Bill Clinton decided that the destruction of Yugoslavia would send a powerful message to Moscow about what could eventually be in store for the Russian Federation. The splitting of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia failed to provide the Atlanticists with any battleground on which to take on Russia. The post-Cold War Czech president, Vaclav Havel, was a darling of the Atlanticists. Havel's Slovak counterpart, Alexander Dubcek, the leader of the 1968 'Prague Spring', remained a committed Communist and a supporter of a loose Czech-Slovak Union. Although Dubcek was feted with the same sort of international 'feel good' awards and honors that were bestowed on Havel, a compliant 'poodle' for the likes of Soros and Albright, Dubcek was another story. Dubcek was determined to lead the leftist Slovak Social Democratic Party and an independent Slovakia that was not necessarily in NATO's hip pocket, as was the case with the Czech Republic.
On September 1, 1992, Dubcek's BMW skidded out of control on a highway near Humpolec in Czech Moravia. On November 7, 1992, Dubcek died from his injuries, which included multiple organ failure. The future socialist leader of an independent Slovakia would pose no problem for a NATO that planned to expand to the East. The attention of the Atlanticists would switch to another rigid socialist who stood in the way of NATO expansion. That person was Milosevic.
It is clear from van Heuven's 1988 memo that the US goals for Yugoslavia would end up in a dismembered federation. The Central Intelligence Agency, through its support for Croatian, Slovenian, and Bosnian separatists, encouraged ethnic tensions that provoked widespread violence that ultimately led to Yugoslavia's dismemberment. 'Dismemberment' of Yugoslavia is a constant theme in van Heuven's 1988 memo summarizing the combined 'sense' of America's various intelligence agencies.
The CIA's biggest problem in Yugoslavia was to 'de-Titoize' the federation. World War II partisan leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito brought the disparate peoples of federal Yugoslavia [together] with a simple slogan: "Yugoslavia: six republics, five nations, four languages, three religions, two alphabets, one Party". The one party was the Communist Party. Although Tito allowed the Yugoslav republics a great deal of local autonomy, the van Heuven memo pointed out that this was at the expense [of] market forces being able to take advantage of a uniform economic policy throughout Yugoslavia. Therefore, Yugoslavia would have to be dismantled with the component republics being able to be more easily absorbed into NATO and the EU than a large unwieldy Yugoslav federation. Therefore, for the Atlanticists, Yugoslavia had to die and die quickly.
The CIA and its affiliates decided that the northern Catholic, Western, and relatively prosperous republics of Croatia and Slovenia would be the first to carve out of Yugoslavia. US weapons and mercenaries were provided to Croatia for its military standoff against the Yugoslav army. The Yugoslav army was considered in 1988 to be a major barrier to NATO's designs for the country. But van Heuven and others believed that if Yugoslavia could be economically dealt with by more than 200 percent inflation and an unpayable foreign debt, the political disruption would adversely affect the federal Yugoslav armed forces. The Atlanticists were correct as Croatia scored a military victory over Serbia in Operation Storm of 1995, which wrested control of the self-proclaimed Serb Republic of Krajina and provided assistance to the Bosnian army in seizing control of Western Bosnia from Serb forces. Operation Storm received covert support from NATO and the intelligence services of the United States, Britain, and Germany.
The Atlanticists also wanted to see the poorer Yugoslav southern and Orthodox and Muslim republics go their own way. Milosevic was demonized by the Atlanticists over his plans to reassert Serbian control over the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. The Atlanticists, in their support for irredentist Hungarian nationalism in Vojvodina and Albanian nationalism in Kosovo, knew a human rights conflagration would be ignited. While muted in Vojvodina, the resulting bloody ethnic turmoil in Kosovo ended in NATO having their reason to occupy the Albanian province and shepherd it to independence.
The Atlanticists' propaganda machine painted Milosevic and the Serbs as dangerous 'hegemonists'. There was yet one more target for the NATO butchers who dismembered Yugoslavia. Montenegro was convinced that they were not, as insisted upon by post-World War I Yugoslavia, Serbs but Montenegrins, totally distinct from the Serbs. The same NATO psychological warfare operation was used to convince Macedonians that they, too, were different from Serbs and should be independent. NATO, however, never took into consideration the fact that Greece would never allow a country on its northern border with the name 'Macedonia'. The Atlanticists have never been known to be keen scholars of the histories of lands they intend to carve up for their own selfish purposes.
Today, Yugoslavia is a jigsaw puzzle of a once-strong, independent, and non-aligned federation. In addition to opening up southeastern Europe to full NATO incorporation, the dismemberment of Yugoslavia was also designed to send a message to Russia. That message remains: if Yugoslavia could be dissected into seven independent republics, what could NATO and the Atlanticists do to the Russian Federation, spanning eleven time zones and consisting of 85 federal entities, many of which are based on ethnicity? NATO has already shown with Yugoslavia what it is capable of doing.
Wayne Madsen is an investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club
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Yeah I'm getting sick of this biased head bashing too.
Because I believe the "Kosovo War" was a successful US/NATO-led false flag operation that led to regime change and the Balkanization of a prosperous proto-Communist/Capitalist country called Yugoslavia. [Link]
It's obvious what I think of US-puppet pisstank and what you call his "logic"
Lol, no he didn't. Yeltsin resigned. Lots of (corrupt & otherwise) leaders do it: Nixon, Kevin Rudd, Horst Kohler, Mbeki, Mahathir Mohamad, etc.
If the people of the Donbass & Crimea vote overwhelmingly in favour of independence- no, I don't think Ukraine has the legal & moral right to bomb them. What's your point, lysna?
When did I say, "Serbia had the right to attack Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia?"
It was about the warmongering Atlanticism in the journalist's own country: the US and the plan to carve-up Yugoslavia ever since the 1980s
But hey, while you're regurgitating the CIA-mantra that criminal Serbs eat babies from wombs and wear the placenta, the real criminals behind the great game have carved-up four countries since. Well done
And where the feck in this article does it say "Milosevic was trying to save Yugoslavia and was the only good guy in the whole affair"??
In context, this means that Milosevic was actually working on keeping Yugoslavia together, instead of attempting to cement Serbian hegemony. All except Serbs were basically neo-nazi thugs working on behalf of the Atlanticists. This is an absolutely ridiculous notion.
Also, insisting on calling me lysna (character assasination) just shows the weakness of your argument.
Your putting words in the article that are not there.
You're at SOTT- we see through the CIA power points you're regurgitating
I would paraphrase him and say: Nowhere in the article's vocabulary would be found terms like 'Chetnik revival', 'Gter Serbia' or Serbian Hegemony'
I have twice provided examples from the article. It just seems you didn't really ready. Point is that an otherwise uninformed reader (such as you) would come out of this thinking that Serbia is completely clean while the others were neo-nazi islamo-fascists who were brainwashed by the CIA into believeing that Yugoslavia was a bad country.
Also, I tell you about the food shortages etc. and you go and compare this with Syria. You are right, though, we ARE at SOTT, where fhe party line is toed no matter the evidence.
And in no way is Revolucionar ...me...Lysna...LOL...!!!
I'm from Ozz.
All the best and sorry for the late replies as mentioned I've been ill.
Serbia is just lucky it did not end up like Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya, the other victims of disgraceful western attacks.
NATO and the US are nothing without their foot soldiers and the men and women who hide behind the words 'enlisted' are as guilty of murder as are their leaders.
And what happened to Slobodan Milosevic was a disgraceful act for which the Netherlands should be held totally responsible.
Milosevic started with nationalist rhetoric. Do you know what nationalist rhetoric in multinational Yugoslavia means? The Communists stood up against it, but Milosevic was stronger. Milosevic took the autonomy of Kosovo 1989. and thus disrupted the status quo.
1998. Milosevic's special forces, killed Serbian young men in Panda cafe to accuse Albanians.
Florans Artman claims that Milosevic was consciously self-poisoned with drug against leprosy that causes the blue urine and blocked drugs for blood pressure loosening. He wanted to avoid being accused of genocide etc that would burden Serbia. That does not mean he wanted to die, but might have wanted to quit trial for treatment. Later another defendant killed himself with poison, Croatian General Praljak. I think the elite Serbia persuaded Milosevic to take the drug that killed him, in order to remove the burden from Serbia, regarding reparations etc.
In the war, Serbia encouraged the growth of the Chetnik movement (which was suppressed during communism) proud of brutality towards civilians. In the past, this movement fought at various stages against the Nazis (shortly), with the Nazis (mainly), and and against their own people. They were united with Ustashas, German Nazis and Italian fascists against the Partisans.
In the war, the policies of Serbia and Milosevic were not the strengthening of Yugoslavia, but ethnic cleansing by murder, expulsion, rape, the establishment of Great Serbia, and it was in accordance with the wishes of the outer enemy to create fences among nations so can not to reunite so easy and fast. According to some opinions (for example croatian general Davor Domazet Loso), the elite in Serbia is linked to elite in Britain and have jointly broke up Yugoslavia.
Former CIA agent Robert Baer -"The aim of the propaganda was to divide the republics so they would break away from the motherland Yugoslavia. We had to choose a scapegoat who would be blamed for everything. Someone who would be responsible for the war and violence. Serbia was chosen because in some ways it is a successor to Yugoslavia."
-"Can you name the politicians in the former Yugoslavia were paid by the CIA?"
-"Yes, although it is somewhat delicate. Stipe Mesic, Franjo Tudjman, Alija Izetbegovic, many counselors and members of the government of Yugoslavia, were paid as were Serbian generals, journalists and even some military units. Radovan Karadzic was being paid for a while but stopped accepting help when he realised he would be sacrificed and charged with war crimes committed in Bosnia. It was directed by the American administration."
So, the CIA was also in the Serbian side, managing the events. Everywhere. But it can not be denied the responsibility of Milosevic in killing the spirit of Yugoslavia with numerous crimes and Serbian nationalism.
Ill respond more as soon as somewhat mentally alert.
But to repeat what I said earlier..Yes there's truth that reveals how the west operates in the video link..there is however a bias towards serbs being victimized & no mention of serb aggression & aspirations of dominance over Yugoslavia...They are part of the reason why the usa M.O. was easily achieved & the other ethic groups more easily motivated to act. As I already said if this lecture was written down in book format someone deliberately ripped out crucial pages & chapters...
Yeltsin paved the road to Putins power so he wasn't all that stupid was he...was my point...All the best guy/girls...haha P. inC..
I'll stay the fukk away from it as much as possible.
"Bill Clinton, NATO, and the forces of globalism brought about the collapse of Yugoslavia and a surge in nationalism in the Balkans"
Yeah, the USA&CIA policy should be criticized, but the breakup cannot be perceived only through this context i.e to ignore the internal reasons which mostly led to the breakup. The foreign involvement was late , while the breakup came naturally due to internal chauvinistic antagonisms among nations/countries policy which developed for several centuries (!). Tito himself in the Yugoslav Constitution, including the last from 1974, gave the republics and nations right to self-determination (!).
"Rather than blame outside influences for the pressure on the Yugoslav federal system ... For van Heuven, it was Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic who was squarely responsible for the fracture of Yugoslavia's federal system. This lie would persist..."
Tell me, who made the fracture of Yugoslavia's federal system if wasn't Milosevic with his Greater Serbia plan ? That's a fact.
"Van Heuven and his cheerleading comrades for NATO and the European Union saw Serbia as the Balkans' only aggressor nation and violator of human rights"
Which Yugoslavian republic with sized Yugoslavian army attack almost all the former Yugoslavian republics? Serbia . That's a fact.
"carrying significant anti-Russian baggae... The speed at which Germany recognized and supported the independence of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo from Yugoslavia is a testament to the nostalgia of reunited Germany..."
Then why Russia recognized Croatia on 17 February 1992, almost two months before the USA did on 7 April 1992 (!), while the war was still going on (!), and why Russia helped the Croatian army in violation of the UN arms embargo? That's a fact.
"Montenegro was convinced that they were not, as insisted upon by post-World War I Yugoslavia, Serbs but Montenegrins, totally distinct from the Serbs. The same NATO psychological warfare operation was used to convince Macedonians that they, too, were different from Serbs and should be independent."
Does the journalist imply that less controversially Montenegrins, but Macedonians were actually ethnic Serbs? That's total insanity. Not to mention that Montenegrins are distinct from the Serbs as their partial Serbian ethnic identity was forced with Serbian Orthodoxy several centuries before. The amount of Serbian propaganda and discrediting of Montenegrin academics like Špiro Kulišić who wrote about the ethnogenesis of tribes of Montenegro and Montenegrin identity is huge and incredibly partial, that's a fact.
Not to mention that people from the territory of former Yugoslavia or internationally, like the commenter
"pounamuknight" above who writes that Yugoslavia was a "prosperous proto-Communist/Capitalist country" is pathetic. Yugoslavia had the or one of the worst economies in Europe. It thrived with incredible external debt that grew annually 17.6% (!) between 1961-1980. It experienced a crisis in 1973-74, 1979-80, and in 1982 experienced unofficial "bankruptcy". People had lack of everything. In 1990, the industry per capita was 20% below the world average (!). Already in 1971, 21.5% of the workforce worked in foreign countries, and in 1978, the amount of money they sent to the state was more than 51% of exports by the Yugoslavian industry (!).
Instead of sharing this hit pieces which are against the USA and in favor of Russia (with partial merit), why don't you write about the "The Fourth Political Theory" by Aleksandr Dugin who criticize/inspire Putin supports the Greater Croatia, but especially Greater Serbia which would include Republika Srpska, Kosovo, Montenegro and parts of Macedonia. Are you aware what kind of war escalation that would make?
Like I said before - Stop looking at the tress only. See the forest.
Stop being distracted with petty foolishness. See the bigger picture.
The destruction of Yugoslavia was an event planned for execution, following a 1000s years old schedule.
Undoubtedly, it was a message, like Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
People need to awake, faster. The current pace of awakening is what is frightening the planners. They are in a panic.
Shalom
There's a lovely thought for the day on SOTT that says;
"In order to learn you have to change your mind"
Good advice...respects to all...back to my drug induced stupor..