Democrat November-December 1998 (Number 33)
Unravelling history
Part II by Leo Dreapir -
The Balkans
"Anybody who was able to represent the Third Rheich as loyally as the Weimar Republic and the German Federal Republic as loyally as the Third Rheich, should have no difficulty in representing to the world the changing development of our democratic Germany. There has been no break, only the expression of a developing policy."
German Social Democratic leader, Foreign Minister and Chancellor, Herr Willie Brandt - 12 September 1967
Napoleon and Hitler sought to conquer Europe for
empire. The key to holding Europe is the reduction and holding of
Russia, the principal geopolitical competitor and obstacle. Russia
is a mineral and labour resource paradise.
The key to Russia is the Balkans. Neither, Napoleon,
nor Hitler could subdue Russia. As the Euro-driven Franco-German alliance,
together they have new designs on Russia. We all know that The EU
led by Germany smashed up the Yugoslav Federation which was initially
set up in the second decade of this century to thwart German expansionism.
The Balkans opens gates to Russian oil in Cheychenia Kazakstan and
the Caspian sea and consolidates the strategic Mediterranean for control
of Middle East oil.
During the recent Western vandalisation of Yugoslavia,
we were bombarded with Euro-anti-Serb propaganda designed to demonise
the Serbs, The Serbs are the main opponents of Germany in the Balkan
federation. They also have the presence of mind not to join NATO.
The Liberal democrats lashed the British public with Serb demonology.
The Labour "left" sung the praises of Western military intervention.
Ken Livingstone Labour MP in a London radio news programme in April
1994 called for the ariel bombing of the Serbs.
However, some British were not so keen to bomb their
old war time Serb allies, against the Nazi. An example of this happened
in November 1994 during the British UN Command of General Sir Micheal
Rose. Elements of the SAS, on the ground at night, acting under UNPROFRO,
refused to give US NATO F-16 fighters co-ordinates to attack Serb
artillery positions from the air, outside Bihac.
NATO forces
That NATO forces are used at all is contrary to its
own international rules on the defined area of its operations. More
to the point, the Americans seek to deny Germany and the WEU, as competitors,
the option of a military role in Europe. This the US feels is its
supremacist right. If there is any blitzkrieging to be done, it must
be done allowing the US to control events to their advantage through
superior military advantage.
Divisions multiplied amongst the Western powers for
strategic control of the Balkan gateway to East and middle East. US
and German/EU client protagonists scrambled to line up behind their
chosen interventionist powers who were seeking out neo-colonial spheres
of interest. This gave the interventionists the opportunity to pick
and choose who they were going to back politically and militarily.
Nevertheless only the US had the overt power and the imperial might
to enter the fray in serious competition with imperial Germany. These
two competitors are at the centre of a struggle for international
supremacy.
Competitors
Two features marked out the two main imperialist
competitors. Their ability to lie to the world about their real strategic
objectives under cover of "humanitarianism" and disgraceful propaganda.
and secondly, their ability to chop and change support for local national
factions to suit the fashion. Each competitor acting in one direction
while shamefully pretending another. The clandestine arming of local
armies is to this day proving a murderous strategy for what is yet
to come. And one suspects that Russia is to be the full scale battle
ground for what has been tested out successfully in Yugoslavia.
Bulldozer
When the US first reacted to the EU Balkan bulldozer,
it did so clumsily, yet recognising EU strategy as German foreign
policy. At first, the US sought a sphere of influence amongst the
Serbs in fielding a US backed leadership candidate called Milan Panic.
Utter failure here led the US to change sides overnight in pursuit
of a firm operational US regional base. The US found a host in the
Bosnian Muslims. Essentially, the US was obliged to re-establish its
position in a cold war map of Europe which "post cold war Germany"
had torn up.
Germany launched the Balkan destruction in the hope
of a swift decision and an opportunity to exercise the WEU Eurocorps.
This plan was quickly dispatched by the US intervention which drew
out the conflict with opposing national factions seeking patronage
from the great powers. The Balkans bled slowly to allow the mighty
to assert their new post cold war international imperialist positions.
Stand offs
The great western powers led by Germany and the US
belligerently face each other in"stand offs", sacrificing the blood
of small Balkan nations. In the North of the former Yugoslavia , Germany
controls Slovenia and Croatia. In the south The US has military bases
in Bosnia Montenegro and Macedonia.
At the time of writing NATO, is preparing to attack
the Serbs in Serbia itself. The pretext for this is a massacre of
18 Kosovans. NATO made no such clamour to Bomb London when British
paratroopers murdered 14 unarmed civil rights demonstrators in Derry
in January 1971. The Western vandalism in Kosovo is really the battle
between Germany and the US for international supremacy. Now, the stakes
have been raised considerably.
Fundamentally, the US has set Germany back by moving
in on German post cold war successes and halted its concerted move
eastwards. Germany, furious at this threatens to disrupt the whole
region, and the US political consolidation in the region by promoting
and arming the Kosovo Guerrillas. Success in creating a "greater Albania"
will involve the whole of the Balkans including Greece and Turkey
in possible all out war according to Western political analysts. Germany
pursues this policy to oust the US from Europe starting with the Balkans.
International policeman
The US is now prepared to bomb Serbia in order to
out-manoeuvre German backed Albanian movement for a greater Albania
which drew Serbia into the present conflict. The WEU would like to
deal with Serbia in its own way. The US denies its rival even this
option by virtue of its monopoly international policeman role.
We propose to examine the incitement and background
to war in Kosovo and Serbia in our next article in this series. We
hope to draw the lessons of the wanton destruction of Yugoslavia and
protest at the brutalisation of the Balkan peoples.
UN Charter
In March this year, a
Part I - Military aspects of European Union
On the other side of the Atlantic, one day after the
new Social Democratic German Chancellor, Gerhardt Schroder came to
power, he stressed that there would be no change in German foreign
policy, and the Franco-German axis remains unaffected.
Part III - Kosovo
Background to Kosovo-Serbia crisis of 1999