During the recent meeting in Caracas of the Venezuelan Presidential Economic Advisory Commission, in mid-June 2018, President Maduro said something extremely interesting, but also extremely disturbing - nonetheless highly important for the region to be aware of. Mr. Maduro mentioned Yugoslavia, the foreign induced local conflicts, the breakup and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, starting with the "Ten Days War" on Slovenia in 1991, the Croatian War (1991-95); the Bosnia War (1992-95); the Kosovo War (1998-99), culminating with the Clinton induced 69-day NATO bombing of Kosovo, under then European NATO leader Wesley Clark (today the
Repentant - in retrospect it's easy to be sorry), pretending to save the Kosovo Albanians from Serbian Milosevic's atrocities. How Milosevic served as a patsy for the imperial forces is another story.
All of this would not have been possible without a decade long preparation by several Fifth Columns infiltrated and trained in and outside of Yugoslavia, the only country in Europe that in the 1980s and 90s flourished, with general wellbeing above that of the average Europeans, who were suffering recessions and increasing inequality, the beginning of xenophobia in the age of nascent neoliberalism. There was no extreme poverty in Yugoslavia, but prosperity without excesses for everybody. There was economic growth under a loose Mao-model socialism which could, of course, not be allowed persist, lest it might serve the world as an example. Besides -
the breakup of Yugoslavia into chaos was needed to create mini-states that are in conflict with each other, some of them still today, and that could be 'accommodated' against a hefty 'fee', of course, to accept the installation of NATO bases - ever an inch closer to Moscow's door step.
Comment: Russia's Embassy in London has responded to Williamson's accusation by calling for an actual investigation. RT reports: Also see: NewsReal: Novi-shock! Devious Russians Tire of Spectacular World Cup, Poison Innocent Brits For Laughs