{Due to the possibility of an infringement of the copyrights of the book translated here below, we have been asked to pull our translation from this blog. Hopefully this important geopolitical work will be back up here in its entirety very soon. --mc}
by Duci
[CM/P may well be alone in sensing a break with the
Clintonian (and even pre-Clintonian) past in US foreign and military policies
taking place in these early, still-chaotic, artificial-crisis-ridden days of
President Obama's second mandate, but the choices of John Kerrey and Chuck
Hagel to head the State and War Departments, respectively, seemed to confirm
the Chief Executive’s intentions to rein in the allocation of American
resources (both material and human) for international armed conflicts.
But what has been clear for some time—though seldom
referenced and almost never fully understood—is that all those myriad
expressions of America’s ‘humanitarian’ (though always strictly sectarian)
militarism, be it in the anti-Muslim (read anti-Arab or anti-Palestinian)
crusades to re-colonize Africa and the Middle East, or in the anti-Slavic (read
anti-Soviet or anti-Orthodox Christian) campaigns to privatize Europe and Asia
(and even Africa, again) away from Russian or Chinese influence, did not just
spring full-blown from the head of Barack Obama. Private wars to secure the interests of Private Capital,
though now gone global, had their origins well into the nether reaches of
America’s freakishly sordid Christian anti-Communist (read Fascist) past. And the two signal conflicts that
birthed the now-dominant Private Military Contractor models of war, globalized
Capital’s corporate militias, were ignited, right after the fall of the Wall,
in the Milles Collines of Rwanda and the Balkan Mountains of Yugoslavia.
Yet all critical connections between those two
watershed events—begun with the 1 October 1990 invasion of Northern Rwanda from
neighboring Uganda, led by US-trained officers of the Ugandan National
Resistance Army, supported by thousands of multinational mercenaries (aka,
PMCs), and the May Day 1991 battle at Borovo Selo, a tiny shoe-factory suburb
of Vukovar, where Croatian Special Police (trained by the diabolical Military
Professional Resources, Inc.) tried to swap the Yugoslav flag flying above the
Post Office for the recycled Ustashe checkerboard banner of the newly
resurrected Croatian (Fascist) Free State—and recent conflicts like those in
Syria or Libya, have been washed out by two decades of a flood of toxic,
lobotomizing propaganda in favor of Private Capital’s version of History.
Even the once-proud Brookings Institution can come up
with no more cogent a comparison of the Obama Administration’s policies toward
Syria and Congo (a war which is direct continuation of the 100% US-produced
Rwandan regime change of 1994) than this:
Meanwhile, in Syria, while
Obama is right to fear a slippery slope to
more demanding operations, the most likely scenario for U.S. troops resembles what the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization did in Bosnia in the 1990s.
First, we arm the weaker side. Then we support
it with air strikes. Finally, we help negotiate a peace accord allowing some degree of autonomy for the
various sectarian groups within a weak
federal structure.[1]
Not to say that the spare accuracy of this policy description
would offend any great Brookings alums—like the formidable historian Susan
Woodward, whose “Balkan Tragedy” was an early monument to the demolition of the
Yugoslav Socialist Federation—, but the notion that US and NATO policies in the
Balkans (or Central Africa) were so successful as to recommend them for
repetition in Syria (and Congo), or that they should be just cause for pride on
the part of the old Clinton/Obama1 war- machine in Libya—“It’s also an opportunity to show that
the 2011 Libya mission, of which the president is justifiably proud, was not a
one-off.”[2]—demonstrates the kind of short-term
memory loss that allows many contemporary geopolitical analysts to
describe US diplomatic and military policies—like those expressed in the Wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan—as having begun with George W. Bush and 911 and are now
being seamlessly continued by President Obama.
However, the information being overlooked by scribblers from the
UK Guardian to the Black Agenda Radio (BAR) and NPR is of such crucial
importance in describing the historical continuum between then and now, between
Globalization’s freeing-up of Private Capital from nationalistic regulations to
better ravish the world and Outlaw Waste Capital’s complete devastation of
ever-larger and more developed sections of human civilization, as to make their sniveling and ranting
about the murderous villainy of the US Chief Executive seem like school yard
slams and petty-jealous Oscar-night Tweets.
But fortune is still smiles on us as two very dear friends,
prominent among the Franco-Serb community of Paris (and now Toulon) and former
colleagues of mine at Balkans Infos, Louis Dalmas’ pioneering monthly tabloid,
have courageously guarded the eternal flame of Truth at the memorial for real
victims of Modern Military Wastage.[3]
Gilles Troude and his son Alexis have written a book in French
called “Balkans: un éclatement programmé”, which we have taken it upon
ourselves to begin translating and have given it the working title, “The
Balkans: A Controlled Demolition.”
The book is clear, thorough, concise, and comprehensive in its
description of how Western-backed sectarian movements for autonomy, unto
independence, are meant to break away, bit by bit, smaller regions from larger
sovereignties. First Yugoslavia,
then its constituent federations, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, but,
especially, Serbia and Kosovo, with, eventually, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary
falling into the thresher.
As certainly should be expect, the US was the lead ship in the
attacking armada of privateers that set about to re-colonize this part of the
world for Private Capital. In that
spirit—and with the certain knowledge that Anglophones just have no patience
for words and names they can’t pronounce—we present here-below Section 2 of
Chapter 7 of “The Balkans: A Controlled Demolition”, about the involvement of
the US government, as the principal agency promoting, protecting and defending
the commercial and financial interests of multinational corporatism, in the dismemberment
of the once proud and independent nation of Yugoslavia—and of Southeastern
Europe, in general. –mc]
[2] Ibid.
[3] More than can be said for the Eternal Flame at the
Belgrade Memorial to the victims of the 1999 NATO terror-bombing, which was extinguished in late 2000 on the
order of newly (and unduly) named Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, after
the NATO/EU-hijacked elections of October 5 that ousted sitting president
Slobodan Milosevic.
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