Passing along some more Serbian propaganda..
POSTCARD FROM BELGRADE:
Let's sum up the effects
Conclusions drawn on basis of data from Western, Central and Eastern press, Yugoslav media and what little is known about the CIA/BND (German equivalent of CIA) operation code named ROOTS
Preface CIA and BND (German equivalent) started their operation code named "Roots" around 1989. Its objectives were to train and arm Kosovo separatists, then use them to start a local war and provide an excuse for NATO to intervene for "humanitarian reasons". Stage one was to break away Kosovo from Yugoslavia, as well as a large chunk of Montenegro and Western Macedonia, and then glue all that together into a Great Albania. Initially, northern Greece was also included, but that part was subsequently abandoned for the sake of peace within NATO. Next, Raska (western part of Serbia, populated by muslims) would be broken off and glued to the muslim part of Bosnia. Finally, Vojvodina, Serbia's northern province, would be broken off and joined with Hungary, using the reason of ethnic Hungarians living in Vojvodina. This would deplete Yugoslavia of its ores in Kosovo and its grain fields in the north, and of its exit to the Adriatic via Montenegro, which would be given its "independence", under strict NATO auspices. This would effectively prohibit Yugoslavia form ever becoming an industrial country, and would, most important, eliminate any chance of Russia's exit to the Mediterranean and nearby Italy and its NATO bases. More of this in Germany's "Junge welt", 9 April 1999, from which this information is sourced.
Introduction 1. USA led NATO bombings never had a clear PUBLIC explanation One would have to be an idiot to accept the thesis than any bombing can be "humane" or used to prevent "humanitarian catastrophies". By their very nature, bombs are made to destroy, and hence cause death, pain and suffering - so how can they prevent the very things they were made to cause?
2. Clinton, Albright at al. never explained what were the US national interests on Kosovo Beside vague references, no actual explanation was ever offered to the public - perhaps behind closed doors, but not to the public. Evidently, the public is expected to take the President's word for it.
3. The world was never told why Yugoslavia refused to sign the so-called Ramboullet treaty It was always stated in vague terms that Yugoslavia refused to sign the peace treaty. However, it was never said that this "treaty" was never subject to Contact group discussion, that it was written by separatist Kosovars, who were brazen enough to publically print it in a Pristina paper on 10 February. The world was never told that according to this treaty (Articles 5, 7 and 10), NATO would have the right to occupy not just Kosovo, but to establish bases, liasons etc anywhere on Yugoslav territory. In other words, it was most clearly stated that Yugoslavia would be occupied and no longer a sovereign state. This sits well with the objectives of operation Roots.
4. Many wrong premises The entire affair of bombing is based on so many worng premises that it is mind boggling. Some idiot or other assumed that the first bombs would make Yugoslavia beg for mercy. Even if these big planners didn't study any history, they should at least have known that Yugoslavia has been under sanctions they imposed for the last 8 years. Obviously, they were designed to break our spirit, but one wonders what their intelligence was doing, it they didn't know that they had failed. They assumed they could bomb out existence Yugoslav radars and anti-aircraft installations, but they should have known what all those who served national service know - that the Yugoslav defence is based on the principle of mobility. It uses lighter but highly mobile units in most aspects, including locally produced airplanes (Soko), which can land on grass fields. They assumed the population would break down in panic - if instead of blatantly disregarding history they read some, they would have known that our behaviour was never like that, or at worst, not like that after the initial shock of war simmered down. In 1941, we went bare handed against the incomparably stronger, better trained and equipped Wehrmacht and managed to hold down no less than 6 divisions, not counting local traitors - the bloodiest of which were the Croats (some 700,000 Serbs were literally butchered in Jasenovac, which horrified even the Germans) and ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, which began their ethnic cleansing then and continued it until this day - but no longer. They relied on traitors, as they always did, knowing full well that the so-called KLA is nothing else but the armed wing of Albanian mafia, now active on some 80% of world drug markets - but CIA has a long record of cooperation with elements such as these, using them to do their dirty ground work. Again, if they consulted some 20th century history books (not to mention earlier times), they would have known how traitors fare in this part of the world, sooner or later. KLA has no alternative but to use press gangs for recruitment, since ethnic Albanians know very well what KLA is and who the people in KLA are. They gain nothing, because those pressed in will desert at first opportunity, failing both KLA and CIA/BND; They assumed everything could be settled from a distance, using a remote control, press a button in Washington, NATO jumps and bombs fly, so surrender is a sure thing. Now the warmongers discover what their own generals have been telling them all along - you can't win any war without your ground troops taking the territory. But, that's what the voters won't stand for, so why not send the Europeans in to fight, and additionally arm the KLA? As for the Europeans, well, I don't think they like the idea, and as for the KLA, the result of that policy will be total destruction of the KLA; They assumed Russia would passively stand by and not see the underlying logic. Unfortunately for them, Russians can be called anything, but stupid they are not, they saw what was afoot and are reacting; They assumed nobody inside NATO would dare oppose the Big Boss, but Greece opposed the tragic decision from day one, Italy is getting unhappier by the day, the Norwegian pilots just went home, Germany is in trouble locally, pressure is on in France, and even Turkey is unhappy, as it sees an analogy in a possible future settlement of the Kurd question; They assumed their losses "could amount to 12 planes", but they have climbed to 32 planes and 88 men. Of course, as in the Vietnam war, they deny everything, but every point they deny to their public and effectively block their public from knowing becomes known in time, and Finally, they assumed they were untopuchable, both in Washington and NATO.
The Sad Results
1. The UN Charter, and therefore the UN itself, were completely disregarded and all but made redundant in an overt attempt to make USA controlled NATO take the place of UN. Now there are calls to move the UN headquarters away from New York, since the US are not paying their dues anyway. This will happen, if not now then soon, because nobody is big or strong enough to bully the whole world;
2. They have awakened Russia, deeply suspicios of NATO's intent to spread East, by proving Russian fears absolutely true. Three basic effects: a) Russia now knows that the West cannot be trusted in any matter, as it will lie according to its current interests, which are the only God the West recognizes, b) Russia now knows that it must look towards its traditional allies (such as Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus, etc) and those whose interests coincide with Russia's (such as China), and c) Russia is now quite sure that it can and must overcome its problems, caused by that same West in form of IMF, which will forever try to bleed Russia to death, both for its riches and the fact that it is a natural competitor, and capitalism does not tolerate competition if it can help it. Ultimately, USA forced Russian President Boris Yeltsin to declare today, 9 April, that Russia would not allow NATO troops to occupy Yugoslavia "at any cost" - now, that's pretty clear, but can Clinton understand what's being said and done? Or is he sure he can win a nuclear war? Because that's where he is pushing us.
3. They have cracked their beloved NATO wide open, which is catastrophic for the US, as NATO is its principal stranglehold over Europe. First, they stepped all over NATO's own charter and attacked a sovereign country which threatened nobody, but was battling local terrorists. Albright might have bludgeoned NATO members into a short term operation, but what NATO is doing now is no short term operation, but an orgy of impotent violence as never seen before. No rational human being with any integrity can stand for it. When you start having deserters (French, German) by the hundred, when your ally pilots pack up and go home (Norwegians), when your ally refuses to allow troops to come (Greece), when your allies say that your "peace treaty" was dirty blackmail (Italy), when your ally blows wide open your covert operation (Germany, operation Roots), etc, etc, you should seriously reconsider your activities, or you will be dismissed;
4. The world percieves USA as the greatest danger ever, even if they cannot say so officially. At this time, USA is rampant, totally out of control, as its leaders are obviously drunk with what they see as absolute power. And why not? They have managed to draw the US and NATO into a real war without any control over them - who's to stop them? The Congress? The Senate? How, when this is not a war, they say, but an imperative if America is to be the world leader. Does the world WANT a leader? One whose policy boils down to "kiss my ass or I'll bomb you"? Well, Tony Blair may kiss Clinton's ass, but not many others will;
5. USA led NATO has disregarded any and all international treaties it has signed. This is hardly inspiring of one who would be king and naturally makes everyone suspect you of foul play, which the CIA and hence the US government are world famous for. China has officially announced it needs to have new wepoans and a better equipped army, because if it's Kosovo today, it might be anywhere in the world next. US and NATO have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted, since they so easily dumped their own NATO charter the first opportunity they had. If they don't respect their own internal charters, how will they respect any other agreement, treaty, etc?
6. USA has aggrevated the Holy Sea. When the Pope asked for a cease fire during the Easter holidays, a time honored tradition in Europe and the Christian world, Clinton flatly refused. The Pope then stated that America was waging war against Christianity. Immediately, a blown-up part of a photograph showed Clinton send a Satanist greeting. An odd coincidence - or is it?
7. The orgy of violence, reflected in USA's European chapter called NATO, is best reflected in its bombing statistics. As of today, over 75% of targets bombed and destroyed or damaged are purely civillian targets - bridges, hospitals, maternity wards, post offices, banks, justice buildings, oil refineries, etc. It could be argued that any building could be used for military purposes if you bring soldiers inside, but that makes literally EVERYTHING "a legitimate target", to quote NATO spokesmen. It also shows the impotence, ignorance and vandalism of NATO and its leader, the USA. This has stopped being a military objective bombing on day three, and is now the repetiton of the US doctrine of burned ground, as first applied in Vietnam. Damages are estimated at over $100 billion so far;
8. As a result of the growing awareness of these facts, a process is beginning to take shape in Europe, one which the US spent hundreds if billions dollars to terminate, an awareness that there is no Europe where there is NATO. In Western Europe, still anaesthetized by CNN and such like, this is as yet an embryonal feeling, but in the East, it's common knowledge. The first step was put forth today by Russia and Belarus, which will accept Yugoslavia as a partner in a military union, planned to expand to a confederation in the future. Though it will guarantee Yugoslavia's independance by Russian nuclear arsenal, it's much more important in the fact that a new Europe is beginning to take shape, and it bodes ill for USA in the long term, though a future President may have more brains, knowledge and vision than the current President;
9. USA has been debased as never before in its history, by a man with associates who refused to step down in a scandal which made A,erica the laughing stock of the world, and who is now healing his enormous ignorant ego with wars. 30 military interventions in 6 years, against 11 for all Presidents preceding him. How to deny that American policy boils down to bombs?
10. While he may be ignorant, the man is not stupid. He has managed to obtain extremely high orders of power in his hands by side-stepping both the Congress and the Senate, helped by Senators whose campaigns have been helped by the death manufacturer and merchant lobby. He has gone to war simply by refusing to call it by that name, and has hence side-stepped the constitution. That's how it starts. He already has CNN as his side whatever he does, so he doesn't need Dr Goebbels as such. How long will it be before he side-stepps other consitutional provisions, and then blatantly walks all over them, to proclaim himself king? Science fiction? Is it? He's getting there, just watch him. What Americans have always failed to realize is that dictators need not be overt military types who march in with tanks to take over. Much of the time, they slowly creep in, a small step at a time so nobody notices, but by the time people take note, all too often it's too late. |