SOME MORE ON HOW DISTORTED THE VIEW OF A POWERFUL COULD BE OR WE ARE TALKING PURE INSOLENCE, HERE?

The geopolitics of disinformation

By Janusz BUGAJSKI Source

"In the world of spies, nothing is as it seems" [quotation from the Serbian cult movie "The Balkan's spy"]. That was the thought of mine reading this article. The thing is that they are staging a new global war. The key line here is "Although the overriding objective is similar to Soviet times – to defeat the West - it has several supplementary goals: to confuse and frighten citizens, to delegitimize Western democracies, to corrupt and corrode state institutions and to strengthen nationalists and populists." Actually, our experience here teaches us quite the opposite. Everything Bugajski ascribes to Russians the Americans and the West are doing here at the Balkans and beyond. They are using the special warfare to confuse and frighten citizens, to delegitimze and shred state organization, to subdue states and even using limited terrorist aggression to destroy state resources and impoverish  and disorganize the population. In short, to corrode state institutions and to strengthen nationalists and populists. So who is that Polok, who very skillfully and wantonly turn everything around, sticking to Russia, all that US and the West, in reality, do? Janusz Bugajski was born September 23, 1954, in Nantwich, Cheshire. He came to U.S. in 1986. JB is a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington DC and host of “Bugajski Hour” and “Bugajski Time” television shows broadcast in the Balkans. He is the former Director of New European Democracy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He has served as a consultant on East European affairs for various U.S. organizations and government agencies as for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the United States Department of Defense, the International Republican Institute (IRI), the Free Trade Union Institute (AFL-CIO), the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), and BBC television in London. He testifies regularly before the U.S. Congress. He chairs the South-Central Europe area studies program at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. Who want more, visit Wikipedia, for me the guy is spook, but a kind of a public spook, everybody knows about. Permit me to make a short detour, first, Whoever had the opportunity to become to knowing closer the "Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave" could learn that Poloks are considered there as quite obtuse people. There are a million jokes about this. Two Polish immigrant are walking the street, dimeless and hungry. So, they collect a couple of dollars to buy two hot-dogs. They started eating, hiding from each other, a bit. Finally, one hesitantly asked another "What part of the dog have you gotten? We are in the situation now, that one Polok has been creating, and the most likely still creates geopolitics, and the other is European policy analysts and TV host in the Balkans. Both in their time considered as American political hawks. The first one claimed "Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire", and "...the end of America's global role ... would most probably be global chaos, so America is to make its main geopolitical rivals - Russia and China - work towards US interests. This is supposed to use the crisis in the Middle East as a source of supposed common threats to all three powers." So, let's see what the other has to say ...

IT HAS BECOME EMBARRASSING TO BE AN AMERICAN

A Government of Morons

By Paul Craig Roberts Source Institute for Political Economy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paul Craig Roberts has had careers in scholarship and academia, journalism, public service, and business. He is chairman of The Institute for Political Economy. Dr. Roberts has held academic appointments at Virginia Tech, Tulane University, University of New Mexico, Stanford University where he was Senior Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution, George Mason University where he had a joint appointment as professor of economics and professor of business administration, and Georgetown University where he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy in the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship, including the Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law and Economics, Studies in Banking and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Public Choice, Classica et Mediaevalia, Ethics, Slavic Review, Soviet Studies, Cardoza Law Review, Rivista de Political Economica, and Zeitschrift fur Wirtschafspolitik. He has entries in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance. He has contributed to Commentary, The Public Interest, The National Interest, Policy Review, National Review, The Independent Review, Harper’s, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Fortune, London Times, The Financial Times, TLS, The Spectator, The International Economy, Il Sole 24 Ore, Le Figaro, Liberation, and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. He has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions. Dr. Roberts was associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He was a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists in the United States. President Reagan appointed Dr. Roberts Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and he was confirmed in office by the U.S. Senate. From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy. After leaving the Treasury, he served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Dr. Roberts was president of the Inlet Beach Water Company, president of Economic & Communication Services, advisor to J.P. Morgan asset management, advisor to Tiedemann-Goodnow, advisor to Lazard Freres Asset Management, and a member of corporate and financial boards. Dr. Roberts was awarded the Treasury Department’s Meritorious Service Award for “his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy.”  In 1987 the French government recognized him as “the artisan of a renewal in economic science and policy after half a century of state interventionism” and inducted him into the Legion of Honor. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.

GEOPOLITICAL FORTUNE-TELLING FOR BALKANS, AMERICAN WAY

The Balkans Will Be America and Russia's Next (Virtual) Battlefield

By James Jay CARAFANO Read text in Serb's language HERE Source

OK, first things, first. Who is J.J. Carafano? The electronic page of "The National Interest" offers a reach and meaningful biography condensed in one sentence, only - James Jay Carafano is Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy at the Heritage Foundation. Wow! Sharp! Luckily, we have Wikipedia. What's next? Aha, what the heck is "The National Interest"? As they say in "About Us".... "Over almost three decades, The National Interest, founded in 1985 by Irving Kristol and Owen Harries, has displayed a remarkable consistency in its approach to foreign policy. It is not, as the inaugural statement declared, about world affairs. It is about American interests." To be honest, the only "remarkable consistency" I could see in J.J. text is distortion of truth! American manner of bending the truth could be funny if this hasn't cost Serbs lives, infrastructure, resources and territories.  J.J. starts from the middle. "Few would argue that the peace and stability of western Europe shouldn’t be a vital interest of the United States. The greatest external threat to a stable Europe is Putin. The Balkans is a playground for bad actors—and likely will be an increasing priority for them. Stopping these misadventures before they spin out of control just makes sense."!?  J.J. are you plainly stupid or just manipulative?  You people destroyed stability at Baklans, burning Yugoslavia in flames! You initiated, fed, support, trained, armed and encouraged Bosnian and "Kosovo" Muslim, Croatian and Slovenian extremists and nationalists to armed rebellion.  You simplified the situation reducing it to a single standpoint - "Serbs bad guys, everybody else good guys". Your "Pax Americana" has been the same as Tito's commies - Weak Serbs, strong Balkans. You satisfied Bosnian Muslim's, Croatian's, Shqiptar's hunger at the Serb's expense. You are still doing that. Here are Islamic extremists in the puppet para-state of "Kosovo", you Americans support. Pogrom of Serbs in Occupied territories of Kosovo and Metohija, in front of KFOR Occupier's very eyes. For you, "stability" at Balkans is when Serbs are on their knees. When the permanent hunting season on Serbs is ON. When you support everybody's nationalism, making Great Albania, Great Croatia, and permanently crying and bitching about Serb's "nationalists", "Greater Serbia", "genocidal Serbs". Serbs are to blame for everything. Usual suspects. In truth Serbs have been bombed, ethnic cleansed (we have, by far, the largest number of refugees, and vast areas in Bosnia, Croatia, Occupied territories of Kosovo and Metohija have been cleansed of Serbs) and harassed. Islamic jihadists, you supported, who cut of Serb's heads. You put a blind eye when Shqiptars in Kosovo and Metohija harvested and sold Serb's organs, burned and destroyed our churches, ancient monasteries and graveyards.  However, you are forgetting one thing - Serbs are the biggest nation from Vienna to Constantinople. On the long run, we have never lost a war. We do remember, and we shall never forget your day of infamy when you started terrorist war in 1999. You are messing with the wrong nation, but soon you will learn. We beat you in 1999, we'll beat you again! In "virtual" and every other battlefield of your choice! With Vladimir Vladimirovich, or without him! Don't blame Putin for your stupid mistakes. Just stick to your Balkan's Bad Company (the very same friends of Nazi Germany during the WWII) and please don't wright geopolitical analyses, any more! Even if they were in The American National Interest!  "Separatist movement in the Republika Srpska"!? You ARE stupid, aren't you?  You supported all the separatist movements in former Yugoslavia in order to dissolve the state, founder and member of UN! And now you are bothered by "separatist movement in the Republika Srpska" in small Yugoslavia what Bosnia and Herzegovina is? What's your nick name - J.J. Carafano - mister "Double Standards"? The separatism is allowed for everybody else at Balkans, but it is a big NO for Serbs!  A story of American support and introduction of Islamic extremists and terrorists in Serb's Autonomic Province of Kosovo and Metohija, and in Bosnia, I won't dignify you, even, to start with.  Don't blame on Russians, you people destabilized Balkans 25 years ago!  Now J.J. say what you gotta say ...

LEARNING FROM THE NEIGHBORS... SERB'S ARE FED UP OF SERVILITY OF THEIR POLITICIANS

Proclamation of the Illiberal Hungarian State

By Orange Files

One of our "leading" politicians stated, not too long ago, that what "we" didn't know, "we" asked the Germans! The same guy has a habit to call Serbs "ignorant"! However, we has no urge to asking the Germans a single thing. In short - WE ARE FED UP BEING PUT DOWN BY SERVILE IGNORANT. We need thinkers, not listeners of the Germans, Americans, and who knows  who else. Luckily for our northern neighbors, it seems that they have no similar problems, in that department, as we do... Maybe, Serbian voters could learn a thing or two, not from the Germans, but from our northern neighbors, and to find ourselves worthy and vise political leaders. On July 26, 2014, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán proclaimed during his annual speech at the Tusványos Summer University and Student Camp (Tusványos Nyári Szabadegyetem és Diáktábor) in Tusnádfürdő (Băile Tușnad), Romania that “the new state that we are building in Hungary is an illiberal state, not a liberal state.”

IS TRAMP GOING TO REPEAT ALL THE U.S. MISTAKES AT THE BALKANS?

Obama’s Sanctions on Dodik Signal the Last Desperate Gasp of a Failed Policy?

Author James George Jatras Source

James George JATRAS.  Analyst, former U.S. diplomat and foreign policy adviser to the Senate GOP leadership. The United States, impersonated by Barack Hussein The Second, imposed sanctions on Serb political leader Milorad Dodik about 10 days ago for "actively obstructing efforts to implement the 1995 Dayton Accords that ended the more than three-year war in Bosnia and Herzegovina".  It is a precedent that the outgoing President is acting just a few days before the termination of its mandate. By that move Barack Hussein The Second left a cuckoo egg to a new President Trump, and stayed on course of failed globalist anti-Serb policy, whose first victim was free America, which have been forced to serve the globalists as their armed fist, ever since. Jatras is trying to showcase a fraction of the failed US policy at the Balkans in a very good analysis.   This article is transmitted here in a hope that the new US Administration gonna be strong and justly enough to liberate America and all the freedom-loving people of the World of the terror of globalists and their servants.

GEOPOLITICS - BALKANS ON THE CROSSROAD?

A Time of Change in the Western Balkans

By Slavisa Batko Milacic

The people of Balkans have been under globalist's experiment for 25 years. All possible intelligence services had practiced in the Balkans. Special war became a way of living of the Balkan nations, especially the Serbs. In such a schizophrenic situation, a special feeling has been developed for the rumors, conspiracy theories, reading between the lines, all of which are commonly appeared to be true. Donald Trump is the long expected news within Serb population. Suffering injustice, double standards, satanization, open aggression, occupation from their former Allie, Serbs were the only nation at Balkans cheering for Trump. 92% of Serbs wanted D. Trump to enter the White House! It is understandable that expectation are high, now. To my personal opinion nothing gonna change for Serbs. However, there are some other opinions, as well. [LG]

EU THE BEACON OF FREEDOM OR THE DUNGEON OF NATIONS?

Radical European Politics
or New Colonialism?

by  BOGDANA KOLJEVIC

To what extent has EU become a par excellence example of cancellation of rationality, equality and freedom has been extensively analyzed by Habermas, most notably in his work The Crisis of the European Union. Here the thesis about different aspects of democratic deficit, as well as the qualification that the Union has stepped into a post-democratic era, is convincingly elaborated. Drawing the key argument about monopolization of the European project by self-proclaimed elites – that has produced bureaucratization and moving away from European citizens – Habermas, however, concludes that a systemic turn is necessary for the future of the Union i.e. that one should not give up on this cause of European unification for that would mean “departure from participation in world history.”[1]

THE LATEST: EUROPE REJECTS TO SUBJECT ITSELF TO USA

German Economy Minister:

"TTIP Talks Have Failed"

by FRANK JORDANS Associated Press

In the latest blow for Obama's global trade agenda, German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said that free trade talks between the European Union and the United States have failed, citing a lack of progress on any of the major sections of the long-running negotiations. "In my opinion the negotiations with the United States have de facto failed, even though nobody is really admitting it" ZDF quoted the minister, according to a written transcript of the interview to be aired on Sunday. “[They] have failed because we Europeans did not want to subject ourselves to American demands.”

NATO CONSPIRACY - THE COLD WAR IS NO LONGER COLD

Warsaw Communiqué
Conspiracy by NATO Leaders to Commit Acts of Aggression against Russia

by
Christopher Black 

I have been a defence lawyer most of my working life and am not used to gathering evidence for a prosecution, but circumstances impelled me to open a file for the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, or perhaps some future citizen’s tribunal, in which is contained the evidence that the NATO leaders are guilty of the gravest crime against mankind, the crime of aggression. I would like to share with you some brief notes of interest from that file, for your consideration. 

Article 8bis of the Rome Statute, the governing statue of the International Criminal Court states:

For the purpose of this Statute, “crime of aggression” means the planning, preparation, initiation or execution, by a person in a position effectively to exercise control over or to direct the political or military action of a State, of an act of aggression which by its character, gravity and scale, constitutes a manifest violation of the Charter on the United Nations.

GEOPOLITICS: EURASIAN BLOC IN TURKEY

Erdoğan and the Kemalists
 Against Gülen and the US

On July 15th, at around 23:00, the press reported a military coup d'etat in Turkey. In Ankara, shots rang out, and there were military planes and helicopters over the city. Within minutes, Turkish Prime Minister Yıldırım announced an attempt at a military coup. The main airports of the country were closed and many flights are delayed or canceled. Around midnight, martial law was imposed in the country. Events unfolded rapidly. The world's media, under the control of globalist elites, began to cover events as if the rebels had almost succeeded. Media actively disseminated the rumors that President Erdogan had reportedly fled the country.

In fact, the president was ready to fight to the last minute and urged the Turkish people to take to the streets to defend democracy: "I look forward to all our people on the streets, in the squares. I do not believe that those who attempted the coup have achieved their goal, and they will suffer the most severe punishment,” the Turkish President said. Hundreds of thousands of Turkish citizens came out onto the street. At about two o'clock in the morning, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said that the instigators of the coup were arrested. The head of Turkish intelligence Them Yilmaz confirmed this news. At about four o'clock in the morning, Erdogan addressed the nation and directly pointed out the instigators of the coup.

JUST HOW BADLY COULD CHINA HURT AMERICA IN BATTLE?

by Kyle Mizokami

ast month's confrontation at sea [the article was written in November 2015] between the People's Republic of China and the United States made one fact all too clear: The two countries have very, very different national interests in key strategic areas.

The United States, the dominant power in Asia and the Pacific, would rather retain the status quo while the rising power China wants to carve out its own sphere of influence in the South China Sea. These interests are for the most part mutually exclusive — that is, China's gain must come at a cost to the United States, and vice-versa.

While neither country is interested in war, the two sides are beginning to use military forces — such as the USS Lassen — to get their point across. This leads to an interesting question: If the two countries were to go to war tomorrow, just how much could China hurt the U.S.?

We all know the United States has the world's most powerful conventional and nuclear forces. And war with China is a long, long way off. But for all of the talk of China as a rising military power, modernizing its armed forces with more powerful, more efficient weapons, how much damage could China inflict on the United States?

THE NEXT BALKAN WAR

Europe is facing a new, potentially violent crisis as territorial and ethnic tensions reignite in the troubled south-east of the continent.

BY TIMOTHY LESS

The director of the Nova Europa political risk consultancy

fter some years of peace, the western Balkans are again descending into instability. Across the region, people are taking to the streets, demanding the resignation of governments. Thousands are fleeing abroad in search of jobs and opportunities. A violent strand of Wahhabism is taking hold among the region’s Muslim population. Perhaps most worryingly of all, the threat of disintegration is returning, as malcontent minorities try to divide their states.

Bosnia has long been the most dysfunctional state in the region, wasted by civil war in the 1990s and afflicted by ethnic divisions ever since. The Serbs and Croats have never abandoned their goal of separation. Milorad Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska (Bosnia’s Serbian “entity”), is being squeezed by political rivals at home and investigated by police in Sarajevo for alleged money laundering. To shore up his position, he has threatened a referendum on independence for Republika Srpska, scheduled for 2018.

HYBRID WARS 4. IN THE GREATER HEARTLAND (IV)

(Please read Parts I, II, and III prior to this article)

The US’ History Of Regional Revolution Attempts

The most significant destabilizing scenario that could ever occur in Central Asia is an “Arab Spring”-like event that ravages the region and irreversibly upsets its existing political balance. The interesting aspect about this possibility is that it was actually attempted twice before, and furthermore, this was even before the “Arab Spring” ever happened. Before delving into the details and reexamining some overlooked aspects of history, it’s important to remind the reader that the US has always been endeavoring to initiate region-wide transformations of power.

HYBRID WARS 4. IN THE GREATER HEARTLAND (III)

(Please read Part I and Part II prior to this article)

Turkmenistan:

The threat facing Turkmenistan is less of a Color Revolution than an Unconventional War. The catalyst for this conflict would be a terrorist invasion coming from Afghanistan that unexpectedly sweeps northwards along the Murgab River. Such an offensive doesn’t even have to reach the national capital in order to be successful, since all that it really needs to do is capture the city of Mary, the capital of the resource-rich Mary Region. This part of the country contains the lion’s share of Turkmenistan’s gas reserve, which includes the massive and decades-long functioning Dauletabad Field and the newly discovered Galkynysh Field, the latter being the world’s second-largest find.

HYBRID WARS 4. IN THE GREATER HEARTLAND (II)

(Please read Part I prior to this article)

“The Eurasian Balkans”

As promising of a potential that the Greater Heartland has in fulfilling what seems to be the world’s inevitable multipolar destiny, it runs the risk of being held back by the adroit manipulation of its “Eurasian Balkan” socio-political vulnerabilities. To bring the reader up to speed real quick, this is the idea first espoused by Zbigniew Brzezinski that the mass of territory spanning from North Africa to Central Asia is riskily threatened by large-scale fragmentation along identity-based lines (ethnic, religious, historical, etc.), mirroring on a much larger scale the demographic “irregularities” that intensified the fratricidal Balkan Wars of the early 1990s.

HYBRID WARS 4. IN THE GREATER HEARTLAND (I)

(Please read Parts I, II, and III prior to this article)

The Crossroads Of The Multipolar World

Halford Mackinder

Redefining The Heartland:

The “Greater Heartland” acquires its premier strategic and economic importance due to being the supercontinental fulcrum of multipolar integration. As was mentioned at the end of Part III, there’s a direct overlap between Russia’s Eurasian Union and China’s New Silk Road, and the countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan presently fall under both connective umbrellas. To those attuned with geopolitical theory, these three states noticeably correlate with the broad territory that early 20^th-century British strategist Halford Mackinder termed the “Heartland”, which he defined as the geopolitical pivot of Eurasia. More contemporary strategists narrowed the region down to the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia, but the author feels that this is presently insufficient to accommodate for the changing dynamics of the evolving world order, and thus proposes a modification of the concept to include Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as well. This redefined version of Mackinder’s original thesis moves the center of geopolitical gravity in a more southwards direction (by contrast, Mackinder’s broad contours included all of Siberia and most of the Russian Far East) in order to reflect more relevant areas of geopolitical competition between the unipolar and multipolar worlds in the context of the New Cold War.

HYBRID WARS 3. PREDICTING NEXT HYBRID WARS

(Please read Part I and Part II prior to this article)

Theoretical Review

Identifying The Targets:

The first two parts of the series introduced new concepts to the Hybrid War theory and successfully tested them on the Syrian and Ukrainian cases. This proved that a certain methodology does in fact exist for explaining and analyzing Hybrid Wars, and excitingly, this rubric can proactively be applied in attempting to predict the places where this form of post-modern warfare could be directed next. To refer to Part I, one must first recall the Law of Hybrid Warfare:

“The grand objective behind every Hybrid War is to disrupt multipolar transnational connective projects through externally provoked identity conflicts (ethnic, religious, regional, political, etc.) within a targeted transit state.”

HYBRID WARS 2. TESTING THE THEORY – SYRIA & UKRAINE

(Please read ‘Hybrid Wars 1. The Law Of Hybrid Warfare‘ prior to this article)

The author’s book, “Hybrid Wars: The Indirect Adaptive Approach To Regime Change” (available for free PDF download here), thoroughly makes the case that Syria and Ukraine are the US’ first victims of Hybrid War, but the scope of the article is to express how the abovementioned innovations not included in the original publication have been importantly at play all along. The purpose is to prove that the newly discovered facets can seamlessly be interwoven into the overall theory and used to enhance one’s comprehension of it as a result, thus positioning studied observers to more accurately project the future battlegrounds in which Hybrid Wars are most likely to be fought.

This part of the research thus follows the theoretical model that was just set out before it, in that it elaborates on the geostrategic-economic determinants that were behind the Wars on Syria and Ukraine, before touching on the socio-political structural vulnerabilities that the US attempted to exploit to various degrees of success. The last part incorporates the idea of social and structural preconditioning and briefly discusses how it was present in each case.

HYBRID WARS 1. THE LAW OF HYBRID WARFARE

After the Fall of Berlin Wall, the events on global geopolitical scene, have been speeding up, dramatically.  We have witnessed the changes in international relations, that were unimaginable not only to general public, but also to a number of political analysts. The stage that was set up after the WWII, exploded right in our faces at the end of the past and at the beginning of the New Millennium, changing life of millions. The "New World Order", "post-modern states", the "jungle of the countries still living in XIX century" (cit. Sir Robert Cooper "The post-modern state and the world order"), all the geopolitical strategic points of view promoting the international relations based on double standards, force, preemptive attack, deception, and most of all limits on states sovereignty imposed by "post-modern" states to "jungle" countries are our everyday life, now. The "new" view appears to be an old one. Second millennium, at its very start, reintroduced the relations known at the start of previous one. There is The Rome, and the barbaric world outside of its limes. In that uni-polar World, the Rome had all the power to impose its will on barbarians using the methods listed above, in the name of "civilization", but in real, grabbing resources, and melting or destroying other societies.