Their task is the destruction of Russia
James George Jatras is a director of a public initiative firm (headquartered in Washington, DC). Before starting work in the private sector, he worked as a senior foreign policy advisor for the leadership of the Republican Party in the US Senate. Before that, he was a diplomat of the US Foreign Service, within which, among other things, he worked in the service of relations with the former Soviet Union. Now Jatras is the head of the American Council on Kosovo, one of the organizations in the USA, which surprisingly takes a pro-Serbian position. - Kosovo gained its independence, thanks to the military machine of NATO. All the time past after the NATO bombing, we observe how Western countries continue to put pressure on unstable Serbia. Not so long ago, Montenegro departed from it. What do you think about the future of Serbian statehood?
- I will correct a little: Kosovo did not become independent. As long as Serbia does not recognize the amputation of Kosovo and Metohija, this area is a sovereign Serbian territory occupied by NATO forces.
Even with a pro-Western government in Belgrade ready to make any concessions, and the Muslim Albanian mafia administration in Pristina, their patrons in NATO and the EU are not able to consolidate the fraudulent Kosovo “state”. An impressive part of the world recognizes the correctness of the positions of Serbia: Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, South Africa, Mexico, Nigeria. Vietnam, Ethiopia, Thailand, Congo, Egypt. Almost all of South America and Africa, not to mention EU member states, such as Spain, Romania, Cyprus, Slovakia and Greece. Even such puppets of Washington as the Iraqi authorities or the Saakashvili government in Georgia are not so stupid as to recognize the independence of Kosovo.
Serbia needs a patriotic government that will energetically defend national interests, and not cooperate with countries eager to divide Serbia. If such a government emerges, Kosovo costs can be recovered by engaging in dialogue with states that were either deceived or too intimidated not to recognize the sovereignty of Kosovo.
The pressure on Serbia will undoubtedly continue, and even intensify after the election of President Tomislav Nikolic. As Diana Johnson [an American journalist] noted, Serbia is "Half-occupied state" : “Western politicians and the media need Serbia only as a negative example of“ nationalism ”, with which NATO and the EU are fighting, famous for their noble“ anti-nationalism ”. In an era when the EU may make the slightest critical remarks about an ethnic or religious group lead to legal proceedings and accusations of “inciting hatred”, Serbs are always on hand to allow different multipliers, journalists and directors to stigmatize them as pariahs . Europe, of all Serbian exports, values most of all the “war criminals and creators of the genocide” before the Hague Tribunal. This is a consoling humanitarian ambition of Europe. ”
This campaign will end only when Serbia refuses not only Kosovo and Metohija, but also Sanjak and Vojvodina, and, above all, abandons its identity as the Orthodox people of Europe.
The victory of Nikolic showed that this has not happened yet, and Serbia needs additional “therapy” from NATO and the EU.
- Patriotic Serbian media often speak of the “fifth column” of the West among the country's political elite. What, in your opinion, is the depth of penetration of Western influence into the Serbian political scene?
- The penetration of the West into the political scene of Serbia goes both in depth and in breadth. The word “West” does not mean here a traditional American or European nation, among whose representatives there are quite a few people who have so distrusted their own government that they instinctively profess pro-Serbian views. They understand that those whom our governments hate can actually be quite decent people.
By the word "West" we mean a narrow layer. "Foreign policy professionals" ready to impose on all progressive values - the rights of sodomites and all in the same spirit. So does the fund "Open Society" Soros, who works closely with the government circles of the West.
The penetration of the West goes far beyond political parties, including NGOs as well (theoretically, these are non-governmental organizations that receive funds directly or indirectly from the governments of the EU and the USA. So they should be more accurately called "Governmental non-governmental organizations" ) and the media. NGOs and the media play the role of “coupling” the model, first proposed by the Comintern. In the US, no matter who is in power, Democrats or Republicans, then it’s about "Promoting democracy" our “Demintern” - a structure with its own bodies, both within and between governments. It is still a miracle that the Serbs did not give up completely!
- What is your opinion on similar actions against Russia?
The destruction of Russia is an important element on this agenda. United States, or rather "Ersatz USA" represented by our modern elites will not tolerate any obstacles on their way to sole rule as the only one after the Cold War "Superpowers" and "avant-garde of progressive humanity". All others, and among them Russia, as a relatively strong military power on the planet, are considered as satellites or enemies.
Since Russia under Putin does not want to be a satellite, as under Yeltsin, she means an enemy. The same is with China, but here Washington has a different approach due to the important economic role of this country. I want to emphasize that this is our problem. Not Russia has created it. This is the problem of the American pseudo-elites with their vision of a new ideological progressive order with headquarters in Washington.
As Minister Lavrov said, American politics is very similar to Bolshevism and Trotskyism. This is not the original problem of the American people, which, although spoiled by anti-Russian propaganda, is still not completely. Some right and left American politicians are trying to resist. For example, left Democrat Congressman Dennis Kucinich, former right-wing presidential contender Patrick Buchanan, or Republican Ron Paul, is a libertarian. Interestingly, the two leading commentators for one of the most influential conservative magazines American Conservative (The American Conservative) are Orthodox, and they often write about international politics, including Serbia and Russia.
But the commanding posts are still in the hands of the “progressive imperialists” and Russophobes who are twenty years old on the unipolar world, although the merits of such a world are dubious. Russia did not create this problem, but it does nothing to resolve this problem. Moscow extends a hand to Washington, but Washington adheres to the issue of cooperation with Moscow of selective tactics (for example, in Afghanistan, where Russia helps us, but not in the expansion of NATO, missile defense or Kosovo, where, we believe, Russia has no right to have its own interests ). Russia has the opportunity to take US tactics (and the USSR, no matter how ironic it may sound), and support healthy forces in American society through open sources like those that Washington uses inside Russia.
- What will the victory of Tomislav Nikolic in the presidential elections bring to Serbia?
“It is interesting to see what Nikolic can and cannot do.” Many in Washington and Europe think that they can easily make him go the same way as Tadic. Is that a little different methods. They even think that Nikolic is ready to do this, because the widest opportunity for this is open to him. And it depends on him to show that they are wrong.
It is important whether he can form a patriotic government, or will he be only the formal head of state. And it depends already on whether the socialists Ivica Dacic will want to enter into a coalition with the Tadic democrats and ethnic minority parties. Earlier, Dacic said he would do just that. But after the victory of Nikolic, which, according to Dacic, changed the political landscape in the country, negotiations are still underway. The social-progressive coalition, especially if together with the Democratic Party of Serbia Vojislav Kostunica, will be strong and patriotic, moderately pro-European, but anti-NATO and pro-Russian. Dacic said he wanted to think. Undoubtedly, they are putting pressure on him; people from Washington, Brussels, London, and Berlin are tempting him to reunite with Tadic. I hope Moscow is also working hard to ensure that it is united with Nikolic.
- Is it possible to consider the Serbian question as an example of the Western strategy of crushing the Orthodox Slavic geopolitical area from Russia to the Balkans?
- In addition to what I said above about Washington’s policy against Russia as a separate state, there are a number of broader aspects of the geopolitical and moral-spiritual order.
For geopolitical reasons, Washington should not allow Russia’s victory on Kosovo (as well as Syria), because then the United States will be bound by legal methods, for example, by the veto of the Russian Federation in the UN Security Council. This is tantamount to perceiving Russia not as a global, but as a regionally dominant power with its own interests. Since the zone of our interests covers the entire planet, and extends not only to the border between Estonia and Russia, but further, to the inner regions of Russia itself, this is unacceptable for us.
At the same time, we, or rather, our pseudo-elites consider it necessary to dictate their conditions in the moral and spiritual terms. This means antipathy towards all traditional manifestations of Christianity, including conservative Catholicism and Protestantism within the country regarding abortion and same-sex marriage. But this especially means hatred of Orthodoxy (I call it Orthodox phobia), since Orthodoxy is the most traditional form of Christianity with respect for the religious structure, doctrine, worship of the Apostolic Church, and because Orthodoxy is the largest reservoir of traditional Christian values in the modern world.
It turned out that Western modernization and consumerism caused Christianity much more harm than communism!
Russia is the largest Orthodox power, and even a defender of Orthodoxy at the state level, and this is a problem for our elites. It is sometimes thought that Washington’s Russophobia is a relic of his resistance to communism. On the contrary, our elites loved communism for its hostility to public values, especially Christianity, and for its "Progressism". But to their horror, Russia once again turned to conservative values, conscious of its religious and national heritage.
This explains why the United States, with all its rhetoric. "Fight against terrorism" (although it has no religious content, unlike jihad, when Serbs were beheaded in Bosnia and Kosovo, and Russians were in Chechnya), they always supported jihadists who were attacked by the Orthodox.
First, in Afghanistan, in 1980-s, together with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, we supported the anti-Soviet jihad Bin Laden, were the midwife al-Qaida and the Taliban. Later we sponsored al Qaeda cells and Iranian protégés in Bosnia and Kosovo in the Balkans, where “the creation of two Muslim states in the heart of Europe” was recorded by American authorities as achievements.
Then Afghanistan came again, followed by Iraq, and there, and NATO intervention in Libya. Now, together with Saudi Arabia and Turkey, we want to bring the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Syria, which is a threat to the Orthodox population of this country.
A couple of years ago I said that the current situation coincides with the West’s vision of its relations with the East during the time of the last great Islamic offensive against Europe, when the dying Byzantium, Bulgaria and Serbia faced the invasion of the Ottoman Porte in the 15th century. The West was then frank: "We will help if you deny Orthodoxy in favor of Catholicism."
I described it in a simplified way, but the difference here is only that the West now is not a Roman Catholic monolith, as it used to be, but the most important requirement for the Orthodox East remains: “If you do not accept the Western humanity in political, social, spiritual and economic form (this collective "religion" of the Enlightenment), we will leave you to be devoured by the wolves. "
And the West will help the wolves, as he did in Kosovo.
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