Kosovo and Metohia: The Struggle will Get Fiercer
Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) - September 1, 2007

By: Gen. Leonid IVASHOV

Despite its territorial locality, the Kosovo problem continues to be in the focus of attention of international community, affecting the character of interaction of the United States, Russia and Europe and threatening to provoke a serious aggravation of the Russian-U.S. relations.

What is the most profound reason of this battle that promises the emergence of new dividing lines in the European and global politics?

Had something of the kind happen somewhere in Africa, everyone would have long forgotten all about it, whereas the Kosovo problem has come to the fore, and keeps exciting the whole world. My explanation is that what is being modelled in Kosovo and Metohia in the most critical form are the models of the mankind’s development, where the interests of different civilisations clash and where strategies of the action of different power centres are taking shape. The main players on the Kosovo field include the international financial capital that is using the United States as its high-power battering-ram, Europe that is now under the U.S. control, NATO as a military arm of the U.S., as well as European capital and Russia that is getting its feet on the ground, no longer willing to toe the Western line.

The clashes of the parties each with their own positions indicate the disappearance of the illusionary end of the “cold war”, thus refuting the lies about the existence of the unipolar world. The departure of the Soviet Union from the global political arena was trumpeted as a victory of the West, and “Western values” were proclaimed as universal for all the nations, states and civilisations. Understandably, there can be no diversity of traditions, faiths, socio-economic development models and models of interrelation between the state and society. Everything here is flatly uniform and everyone obeys the power of money.

Serbs who retain their sense of national pride refused to live in this generally faceless and spiritless ghetto. Quite like us, Russians, they are unwilling to turn into bio-robots whose only dream is food and pleasure. Quite like us, they wish to be human beings saving their souls and memories of their history, speaking to God rather than mammon.

However, new lords of the world, oligarchs of the global empire of capital are unwilling to see disobedient nations and states choose an independent way of development, denying the Judaic-Protestant standards that are actually nothing but surrogates of spiritual and moral values.

That is why the Greater Yugoslavia was thrown into war, broken down to pieces and placed under the control of oligarchs. The leaders of Serbian resistance movement were taken into custody by the illegal Hague tribunal. Slobodan Milosevic was murdered, and genocide against Serbs started. It all happened due to the fact that in the late 1990s Serbs became a symbol of unbroken spirit and an example of the struggle waged by Slavs for the preservation of their national identity.

A wide arsenal of techniques and means was used in the fight for the subjugation of Serbs, including secret operations of special services, mass brain-washing of Serbs, the creation and funding of the “fifth column”, building up of separatist sentiment, formation and arming of gangster groups, the use of economic sanctions and political isolation, encouraging drug trafficking, and finally, an overt military aggression. That was followed by the adoption by the UN Security Council of Resolution 1244. Paradoxically, it was voted for with an eye to achieve results that were the total opposite of what had been intended. International peace-keepers and the UM mission did their best to actually separate Kosovo and Metohia from Serbia, tearing its spiritual heart out of the body of the Serbian people.

Everything seemed to be ready for the legal reinforcement of what had been done, for the mortification of Serbs before the whole world and establishing of a pro-American regime in Serbia, and of the Albanian Fascist rule in Kosovo. But things did not work out that way. The political forces in Serbia, (with the exception of the “fifth column” represented by Liberal Democrats) enjoying the support of the nation rejected the capitulation. They still continue their struggle. Russia has been adamant in its refusal to resort to treason the like of that committed in its time by the then Russian premier Viktor Chernomyrdin. Europe is currently making attempts – feeble as they are – to identify something to substitute for the plan worked out by Ahtisaari, who, according to mass media, has been bought by Americans with the money of Albanian Mafiosi. Europe is on the lookout for a compromise, and that was exactly how the German EU representative W. Ischinger has described the idea of the division of Kosovo into an Albanian and a Serbian zones.

The US attempts to take the Kosovo problem away from the UN Security Council, handing its solution over to the international Contact Group, have stumbled upon the firm position of the Russian Foreign Ministry that stated that “the suspension of the activities over Kosovo at the UN Security Council does not signify the removal of this subject from the framework of activities of the United Nations. The final decision as to Kosovo status should be made by the UN Security Council based on the agreements between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians.”

What this means is Serbs have won a temporary victory, and they continue to fight. This fight is going to become more and more fierce each and every day. Serbs should not disregard the fact that the arsenal of hostilities they are facing will be extending from the political pressure all the way down to the attempts to strangulate Serbia by economic sanctions, terrorist attacks and armed provocations.

The United States and the financial oligarchic circles above it would hardly agree to lose control over the Balkans. The pro-American enclave in Kosovo provides for the concentration of U.S. armed forces in the region and the development of its military base Bondsteel; acting hand in hand with the U.S. military contingent in Bosnia, Hercegovina and Bulgaria this would ensure them control of the transit of hydrocarbons, carrying out operations in the southern and south-eastern directions and, when necessary, deploying any type of weapons, including the elements of the U.S. anti-missile system in Kosovo now under its control.

Indeed, such an ally of Washington as Agim Ceku is tied up to Americans by the blood of hundreds of murdered Serbs, supplies of drugs and smuggling weapons to Europe and elsewhere. Leaning on his assistance, the U.S. can finally make true its idea of creating the “Great Albania” presenting Europe with a never-healing wound and a criminal nursery for years to come. Implementation of the project “Great Albania” would become a source of chronic instability for Europeans similar to Iraq and Palestine in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Cashmere in the Near East and South Asia, the Caucasus and the Baltic states on the space formerly taken by the USSR.

The U.S. control over the Balkans would become for Russia an obstacle in pursuing its policies of mustering the forces of the Slav civilisation, facilitating the process of destruction of historical ties with Serbia and other Moscow’s allies. On top of that Americans and Britons would aggressively play the card of “the civilisations clash”, that is the standoff among the Islamic, Orthodox Slavic and Western Christian worlds.

The setting up of a gangster state based on the Kosovo enclave meets the interests of the world’s oligarchate that is striving to consolidate the power of money and criminal organisations globally.

Kosovo and Metohia are now the most important joint strong point in the fight for a just world order; for the preservation of national statehood as the basis of development of international relations and for the prospects of people retaining their Russian, Serbian, German or French identities.

Who will win? No doubt the victory will be Serbian.

First, the winners in civilisation clashes are they whose historical roots are deeper, whose culture is richer and whose spiritual foundations are firmer. Americans, their masters and satellites have neither the former, nor the latter two. Theirs is the mammonish, spiritless and perverted civilisation that has no future. The wars in the Balkans, the Middle East and Afghanistan have smoothly transformed into the battle for the spiritual and moral values, which the opposite side is lacking.

Second, there exists an ethnic category of Chimera, described in great detail by L.Gumilev. Worming into the body of another ethnos (or state) the chimera begins destroying it as a worm or a virus killing the healthy body. Kosovo Albanians Ceku, Taci, Pakkoli and their likes have already found their way into the bodies of Europe and the United States, and their systems that suffer from lack of energy required for the simple reproduction are getting more and more sick.

Third, the time of the Western dominance in the world politics and economy is getting near the end. Super-big dynamically developing Oriental countries are overtaking the historical initiative in the development of mankind. Russia is also turning its face on the East. The Russian society is more and more consistently and consciously clearing itself of the Yeltsinist-Chubaisit ideology of negation of the Russian tradition and neglect of its history. And that means that Russia will stand firmer on the side of Serbs and their just cause.

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General Leonid Ivashov is the vice-president of the Academy on geopolitical affairs. He was the chief of the department for General affairs in the Soviet Union’s ministry of Defense, secretary of the Council of defense ministers of the Community of independant states (CIS), chief of the Military cooperation department at the Russian federation’s Ministry of defense and Joint chief of staff of the Russian armed forces.

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