Yugoslavia, Interrupted: A European Success Story Ruined by NATO Invasion
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If NATO hadn’t ruined Yugoslavia, the country would be on par with major European powers, US political analyst Phil Butler notes, adding that the dismantling of Yugoslavia was part of the West's bigger plan to convert potential rivals into Third World regions.
Post-World War II socialist Yugoslavia was something of a European success story and it was that prosperity that prompted the Western political establishment to seek the country's dismantling, US political analyst Phil Butler emphasizes.
"Can you imagine Europe today with Yugoslavia as a key player among nations? I can. Yugoslavia was in fact, one of the greatest cultural and human experiments in history. Formed in the crucible that was the conflict in between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, Yugoslavia melded together people of both cultures, and in ways not seen since the time of Alexander the Great's assimilation of peoples after immense conquest," Butler writes in his article for New Eastern Outlook.
The political analyst underscores that the state was built on an idea that Southern Slavs should not remain a weak and divided people.
Butler calls attention to the fact that between 1960 and 1980 Yugoslavia boasted one of the most vigorous growth rates in the world with its free medical care and education, a guaranteed right to a job, one-month vacation with pay, decent standards of living and a literacy rate of over 90 percent.
The Yugoslavia GDP in 1991 positioned the country as 24th among world nations, the analyst stresses.
Furthermore, Yugoslavia had been struggling for the Non-Aligned Movement's ideals, summoned by Cuba's Fidel Castro as:
"The national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries [in their] struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, and all forms of foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics."
It was that economic prosperity and ideological independence that caused Western powers to seek to curtail the rapid growth of the European competitor.
"The county could not be allowed to compete with Germany, France, and especially Britain, and the London and Luxembourg bankers could not extract their billions in a socialistic system. Yugoslavia had to die, and the Reagans, the Bush family, and Clintons helped make it happen," Butler narrates, citing Michael Parenti, Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC.
Parenti elaborated that Washington's ultimate goal was to transform Yugoslavia into a Third World region. The plan envisaged splitting the nation up, opening its economy to Western corporatocracy and bankers, and dismantling Yugoslavia's industrial sector so that the nation would not be able to compete with Western manufacturers. In this context the Yugoslav population would become a cheap labor pool.
"Does this strategy sound familiar? Remember the Rand Corporation plan for Syria. Were Ukraine, Donbass, and Crimea understood before the Euromaidan? What is the plan for Russia? This is where the metal meets the meat my friends," Butler emphasizes.
The analyst points out a surprising similarity between the propaganda campaign kicked off by NATO members before launching their deadly strikes against Yugoslavia and their narrative on the eve of the invasion of Iraq or Libya.
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A man walks past a poster with the reading “Ten years of NATO occupation of Serbia”, and displaying images from 1999 NATO air campaign against Serbia and Montenegro, in Belgrade on March 23, 2009.
The Clinton administration's bombing campaign aimed at carving Kosovo out from Serbia was later dubbed "the most important precedent, supporting the legitimacy of unilateral humanitarian intervention" by Fernando R. Teson, an Argentine-American legal academic, known for his contribution to the law of humanitarian interventions.
So, has NATO's plan really worked? Yes, indeed.
Butler emphasizes that Bosnia and Herzegovina now ranks 112th economically, and conditions are worsening; Croatia is currently 76th, but Bloomberg names the country one of the ten worst on Earth; Macedonia ranks 130th; Montenegro is 149th among world nations; Serbia is ranked 87th in GDP; Slovenia ranks 81st in GDP.
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As for the Kosovo region, carved out from Serbia, it has lately been labeled as a "mafia state."
"With an unemployment rate of 35 percent, Kosovo is wracked by persistent outbreaks of terrorism, crime, and political violence," US writer Jonathan Marshall notes in his article for Consortiumnews.com.
By no means can former Yugoslavian parts be considered competitors to major EU states.
Furthermore, NATO is swallowing the states one by one. Montenegro began accession talks with NATO on February 15.
On February 12 Serbian lawmakers ratified a diplomatic immunity agreement and logistical support for NATO representatives. Several days later Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic signed a confirmation of the country's cooperation plan with the alliance. The move prompted Serbian patriotic activists to hold peaceful demonstrations in Belgrade against the country's cooperation with NATO.
"And as I type these final letters, I think about what the courageous and strong people of Yugoslavia might have won had their destinies not been interrupted by outsiders," Butler concludes.
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Blogger's Note: Please note that in 1991 President Bush signed into law a bill that was passed by the "Democratic" Congress. The bill was basically that the US would no longer support the Republic of Yugoslavia, but would support the independent republics that made it up. Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence, and the civil war began with Serbia being the bad guys. So on whose conscience should the guilt for this rest? Well on the US of course.
Bill Clinton, coke snorting, money laundering, philandering, pedophile then becomes President. This was not by accident, but by design. He was picked by the Bilderberg to get NAFTA, GATT, MAI, GATS trade treaties through a "Democratic" Congress for a Republican would have a difficult time. He was also to tax Social Security while "borrowing" money from it. This was to facilitate the continued plunder of the American people and to throw Social Security into the dust bin of history in the not to distant future. He was also to make poverty a crime of personal irresponsibility, much like the acting President, Ronald Reagan.
Of course Monica Lewinsky facilitates a distraction in the Oval Office that Henry Hyde and the Republicans could not let go of. Bubba Clinton claimed "I did not have sex with that woman." The Republicans, perhaps out of jealously, as they hadn't gotten any in a long time, would not let go of it. They even began impeachment against him over a lie about sex. I said then that there was more to this than meets the eye. The impeachment failed, and the next day Clinton filled in what I suspected. He began bombing Serbian forces in Kosovo, and in Serbia. This was clearly an abuse of power, but now he and his successor are inoculated from impeachment for the abuse of Presidential Power. Just look today to see what abuses the current White House's polished turd has done, and he will abuse his power even more. As we have seen with his killing of Justice Scalia, and his joking about it.
It might be well to note that the KLA was supported by the Albanian Mafia that was dealing the heroin from Afghanistan. The Mujahedeen was also funding and supplying our "allies' in the destruction of Yugoslavia.
Lets step back to 1992. On July 14th Milan Panic was named Prime Minister of The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Now lets step back to 1954 when Milan came to the US. He was reportedly from the Black Nobility of Europe. He started ICN Pharmaceuticals, and in later days had Governor Jerry Brown on his board of directors. He started another company, which happened to purchase a company that I represented. Quickly that company was FUBARED by Milan. He was regarded by the purchasing departments of some major universities as totally incompetent. I shared the opinion.
One morning while I was listening to the radio the announcement of Milan Panic being named Prime Minister almost knocked me off my chair. So some investigation was in order. Milan was a citizen of the US, and the chairman of ICN Pharmaceutical and ICN Chemical. Why would the board of directors allow this as he was on their payroll? It was found out that his five top aids were US citizens and ICN employees.
A little more digging was in order. ICN purchased a 75% stake in Galenika Pharmaceutical, Hungary. They also purchased a drug distributor in Russia. Then this was beginning to make sense. A leak came from the ICN board of directors. What I was told what that if Milan defeats Milosevic, that he would cut off funding for the Serbian military and thus end the civil war. ICN would then be rewarded with the distributorship of Western drugs into the former iron curtain nations.
Democracy this is not, but one conspiracy woven into another.
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