In 2004 in Belgrade, arranging his appearance as a witness for the defense of Slobodan Milošević in The Hague with Admiral Elmar Schmaehling, head of the counterintelligence service of the Bundeswehr in 1982-83 (who in this capacity participated in weekly meetings of the heads of secret services with the chancellor and therefore was aware of all Western politics), I asked how it happened that in the early 90s there was such a radical reversal of Western policy towards Yugoslavia, with which the West had maintained excellent relations until then.
Elmar explained to me that these “excellent relations” existed only at the public political level, while at the level of secret services and hybrid warfare they did not differ at all from the attitude towards the countries of the Eastern Bloc, moreover, the West “raised” emigrant fascist and quisling groups and organizations from these countries, to be used at the right moment.
After leaving the service in 1990 with a sincere conviction that it was not in Germany’s interests to engage in such Anglo-American politics, Elmar became a well-known anti-war activist and fighter against Western militarism and the aggressive policies of NATO. In his own country, he was deprived of his pension and all privileges, he was marginalized, he was even tried. He died quietly on March 1 last year.
His testimony in The Hague was never heard, because on March 11, 2006, President Milošević was killed by the NATO tribunal. Russia refused to accept the tribunal’s report on his death.
But the participation of fascists, terrorists and Islamic extremists in the breakup of Yugoslavia and wars in the former Soviet republics under the auspices of NATO has happened.
Modern Europe and current international law exist thanks to the victory over fascism, in which Russia played the greatest, and Serbia a big role.
Therefore, we show zero tolerance for fascism and Nazism. And we believe that this should be the case all over the world.
NATO responded to the Serbian struggle against fascism with a crime against peace – the 1999 aggression, the only war fought by the entire NATO alliance in its history, and the largest (unpunished) crime against Europe since World War II.
Serbia, although it managed to withstand the military aggression of NATO and its fascist minions, found itself for 12 years under the yoke of the “color revolution” – a hybrid military operation of NATO. Thus, the only center of resistance in Eastern Europe was eliminated, and NATO soon expanded to other countries, intensifying subversive activities in the former Soviet republics.
All newly elected American presidents in 1950-1990 made the ritual statement: “The United States guarantees the independence of Yugoslavia.” And then suddenly this statement disappeared and a similar one appeared: “The United States guarantees the independence of Ukraine.” That Ukraine is the largest time bomb in “NATO-Europe” was known from the very beginning. But because of its size and effects beyond the control of the West, I hoped (and not only me) that it would never be put into action.
And yet it happened in 2014, probably as a desperate response to the strategic reversal that the world has experienced thanks to the rise of Russia and China. The Nazis in Ukraine after the bloody “color revolution” in the presence of Victoria Nuland were brought to power. Russia patiently tried to avoid the worst for eight years, the West turned a blind eye, and the Nazis killed 14,000 civilians.
In Washington, the same team is now in power as in 2014. The refusal by the United States and NATO of serious negotiations on security guarantees, their growing military presence in Ukraine and the growing supply of weapons, the Western media campaign against Russia, the threats of the seizure of Donbass “according to the Croatian scenario” and the production of nuclear weapons in Ukraine forced Russia into a special military operation that has two goals: demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.
Ukraine has become a victim of NATO, just like Yugoslavia once did. And with predictable boundless hypocrisy. Fascists who kill Serbs and Russians are “freedom fighters”, Serbs and Russians who defend themselves against fascists are “aggressors” and “monsters”, and NATO is a “benevolent defense alliance” conducting “humanitarian interventions”.
The scope of the NATO hype and “sanctions” against the Serbs in the 90s, and now against the Russians, is enormous. However, now they are bigger than ever, they have turned into hysteria because NATO knows it cannot defeat the Russians. And that the time has already come for the New World, in which Russia and China are leading, and which was initiated by Serbia. A world in which there is no place for fascism, terrorism and “color revolutions”. Time for a just multipolar system. Community of common destiny for mankind. A world of cooperation, not confrontation.
Source: Serbian newspaper Politika, March 12, 2022
Vladimir Kršljanin is Secretary of the Milošević Committee, Vice President of the International Slavic Academy and High Advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia