Tag "Yugoslavia"
Comparing the Ukraine and Yugoslavia + Open Thread
Dear friends, I get a lot of comments saying that what is taking place in Novorussia is similar to what happened in Yugoslavia. I categorically disagree with that and I wanted to draw your attention to the fact that I addressed exactly this issue in some detail in the latest Saker Podcast #5 which you can get from here: https://sites.google.com/site/sakerpodcast/home. Speaking of Yugoslavia, I also addressed the Srebrenica “genocide”
The Šešelj Case: Justice At Last?
by Stephen Karganovic After almost twelve years of extra-judicial agony at the Detention Unit of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague, on November 12 Serbian political leader Vojislav Šešelj returned home to Belgrade. True, the circumstances of his release (regarded as “provisional” in the terminology of the Tribunal which incarcerated him) leave quite a few more questions than they provide answers. To state just a
Analogies between Yugoslavia and the Ukraine
by Stephen Karganovic Similarities in the way the Western coalition is handling the Ukrainian crisis that it engendered and brought to the point of savage conflict and the strategies that the same actors pursued in the nineties to lay the foundations for a brutal civil war and stoke the conflict resulting in the destruction of the Former Yugoslavia are being closely analyzed by Russian experts. Reasons for such close attention
NATO’s Kosovo War, 11 Years Later
By Ambassador James Bissett for Balkan Studies Eleven years ago NATO opened its bombing campaign against Serbia, illegally and without provocation. It started on March 24, 1999, and continued for 78 days and nights. It was the most intensive air offensive suffered by any country since the end of the Second World War. Over a thousand people were killed and the civilian infrastructure of Serbia was destroyed, but it proved
Full Circle: NATO Completes Takeover Of Former Yugoslavia
by Rick Rozoff for Stop NATO In 1991 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was a nominally defensive military bloc with sixteen members that, as the cliche ran, had never fired a shot. In 1991 the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the only simultaneously multiethnic and multiconfessional nation (entirely) in Europe, consisting of six federated republics with diverse constituencies. By 2009 NATO had grown to 28 full members and at
