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A Long Planned Destruction of Serbia

Few days ago, we cited a brief excerpt from the exceptional book "Media Lies and the Conquest of Kosovo" by the French investigative reporter Michel Collon, which shows that United States had a thoroughly worked out military plan and chosen targets for air attacks on FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) long before US-led NATO claimed it was forced to react to the alleged impeding "humanitarian catastrophe" in Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohia.

In addition, Lars Johansson posted an important part of the transcript from the Kangaroo trial of late President Slobodan Milosevic, a testimony which confirms that “the National Security Council of the United States, back in 1997, adopted a decision to carry out a military operation against Yugoslavia.”

The same Hague witness also testified on November 22, 2004, that “the plan of that operation was aimed at conducting a very powerful psychological war against Yugoslavia aimed at disrupting the negotiations and informing the international community about what was going on in Kosovo as well as to prepare the international public for the impeding military operation.”

The enlightening interview with the Serbian Academy historian Slavenko Terzic (translated here), revealed that the Western power centers' orchestrated destruction of Serbia, witnessed during the past two decades, is a clear-cut attempt to revise the results of both World Wars and the First Balkan war. Professor Terzic's assertion, backed by astounding historical parallels, was further supported by the testimony of a Bundestag parliamentarian Willy Wimmer in the beginning of 2000.

Carrot Rotten to the Core: Serbia Will Never be Allowed to Join the EU

The New Serbian Political Thought on Friday published an article by Aleksandar Pavic, who wonders why the EU-advocates in Serbia keep deceiving Serbian people with the promises of EU integrations when they are familiar with the content of a letter by Willy Wimmer, German Bundestag MP and a conservative politician, published eight years ago and republished in Serbian translation in the Belgrade weekly NIN more than a year ago, which clearly demonstrates that Serbia has been permanently set aside as a country that will never be allowed to join the Union, no matter what it does or doesn't do.

Much more than that, Mr. Wimmer who, at the time when he wrote the said letter, was a defense policy spokesman of the German conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has confirmed Dr. Terzic's thesis that the results of the World War are to be reversed for Serbia, that the country was scheduled for dismemberment by the US State Department and NATO, and that it is meant to be used for housing the US military basis, while at the same time serving as a tool for sinking the United Nations, the international law, for NATO's encirclement of Russia and to, once and for all, enshrine the "might is right" principle on the international political scene.

At a State Department/American Enterprise Institute conference at the highest level held in Slovak capital, Bratislava, German Parliament member and OSCE Assembly vice president had also learned “that 'Operation Horseshoe' - the plan allegedly conceived by the Serbs to drive the Albanian population out of Kosovo in 1999 - was a propaganda invention; that the purpose behind the Kosovo war was to enable the USA to [...] establish a US military presence in the Balkans with a view to controlling the strategically important peninsula, [...] that the American aim was to draw a geo-political line from the Baltic Sea to Anatolia and to control this area as the Romans had once controlled it.”

Furthermore, “ Wimmer had a distinct impression that everyone agreed (and could have cared less) about the fact that NATO humanitarian attacks are illegal under international law, and were done very deliberately, in order to establish the precedent for future 'humanitarian' actions without a UN mandate.“

Serbia to be Dismembered, Used to Destroy the International Law

May 2000 letter by Willy Wimmer to then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, as translated by Andrej Grubacic (from German)

Last week I had the opportunity to attend a conference in Bratislava, the Capitol of Slovakia, organized by the American State Department and American Enterprise Institute (Foreign Policy Institute of the Republican Party). The main subject of the meeting was the Balkans and the process of NATO enlargement.

The conference was attended by high political officials, as indicated by the presence of numerous regional prime ministers, as well as ministers of foreign politics and defense. Among the many important topics discussed, a few deserve special emphasis:

1. The organizers of the Conference (US State Department and American Enterprise Institute) demanded a speedy recognition of Kosovo, according to international law.

2. It was explained by the organizers that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia must be kept out of every rule-of-law organ, and especially out of the Helsinki accords.

3. European rule of law is a hindrance to NATO. The American system of law is therefore more suitable for Europe.

4. The war against Yugoslavia was fought to rectify an incorrect decision of General Eisenhower during World War II. In this manner, because of the strategic reasons demanding the stationing of US soldiers in this region, the faulty determination has been corrected,

5. The European allies took part in the war against Yugoslavia in order to, de facto, overcome the dilemma which presented itself after the acceptance of the "new strategic concept" of the Alliance in the April of 1999, and to overcome the inclination of the Europeans to secure a previous mandate of the UN or the Organization for European Security and Cooperation.

6. Europeans allies may legalistically reason that this war against Yugoslavia, which was outside the treaty's domain, was an exception. However, it is clear that this is a precedent, which they can and will call upon at any moment.

7. NATO should now fill the area between the Baltic and Anatolia, as it was filled by Roman forces during the height of the Roman Empire.

8. In addition, Poland must be surrounded from the north and the south by democratic neighbor states; Bulgaria and Romania should provide the territorial connection to Turkey; in the long run, Serbia must be kept out of European development (probably to further the safety of the American military presence).

9. North of Poland it is important to establish complete control of all access routes from St Petersburg to the Baltic Sea.

10. In each process, the right for people's self determination should be given priority before all other regulations or rules of the international law.

11. The statement that NATO's war against Yugoslavia was a violation of all relevant regulations and rules of international law did not encounter any opposition.

After this conference, where the discussion was very open and candid, we cannot avoid the long lasting importance of the conference conclusions, especially taking into account the professional rank and competence of its participants and organizers.

The American side seems to be conscious, that in order to pursue its interests, it needs to undermine the rule of law developed as a result of the two World Wars. Power must be above justice. Where international law stands in the way, it must be removed. When a similar development was embraced by the League of Nations, the Second World War was not far away. A way of thinking that puts self-interest in such an absolute position can not be called anything but totalitarian [...]

In the light of all the above, the latest statement by the US State Department's Daniel Fried, barked from the KLA-cutthroats' stronghold—Pristina—that "Serbia's path to closer ties with the rest of Europe remains open", and apparently, solely dependent on Serbia's willingness to give up 15 percent of its territory, is nothing less than sadistic.

"The only barriers between Serbia and its European future are those it places for itself. They can block their own road, no one will block the road for them," Fried mocked his victim.

Recommended: It Began With a Lie, by Dietmar Henning (WSWS.org); Conservative German Politician Lauches Fierce Attack Against NATO War, by Rainer Rupp (AntiWar.com); The Militarism of German Foreign Policy and the Dismantling of a State, by Cathrin Schütz (Neues Deutschland and CounterPunch.org); General Leonid Gregory Ivashov Testimony, from ICTY transcripts (Lasses Weblog); The Blair Years, slide show by Peter Brookes (UK Times-Online); Condi Rice Freaks Out (YouTube)