Tag: Southern Europe

Macedonia: Europe’s Camel Doesn’t Want To Be A Domino | New Eastern Outlook

Does anyone remember Clinton’s War?  That would be Bill not Hil………let me help….

The year is 1992 and hostilities break out In a former Yugoslav state of Bosnia…….it lasted until 1995 and some say it was the worse conflict in Europe since WW2……(Google it)…..and then in 1998 Kosovo exploded into all out war and of course the US and NATO had to intervene on whatever reason they chose at the time…….

All this happened in Southern Europe in the region called “The Balkans”……

I bring up this short history lesson because there is a situation forming in Macedonia that could return the region to war status…….

For a little background to the situation…….

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/05/21/mace-m21.html

Hostilities are brewing and more attention should be paid to the possibility of an explosion of violence…..some of which are just beginning…..

There is more to the story……read it and worry!

 

Macedonia: Europe’s Camel Doesn’t Want To Be A Domino | New Eastern Outlook.

Circassian Genocide: 150 years later

Yep another of Chuq’s famous history lessons……

Everyone has heard about the Holocaust where the Nazis tried to kill off the Jewish population, a genocide….there have been others throughout modern history as well….like the Armenian genocide committed by the Ottomans in the early 1900’s…

But have you ever heard of the Circassians?

Now you have…….learn something before the weekend so that your week has not been a total bust!

 

Circassian Genocide: 150 years later | Caucasus | Worldbulletin News.

Remember Ukraine?

View from a tortured keyboard of Chuq

Funny thing happened on the way to an election…….a subject that garnered many hours of airtime back in the day is all but forgotten.  Russia’s deal with Ukraine has all but gone from the media….well the American media…….does that mean it is no longer a problem of which to  worry?

Think again!

If you thought Ukraine was in for a better summer than last year, think again. “Vladimir Putin’s drip-drip invasion continues” and “a summer offensive is inevitable,” write Michael Weiss and James Miller at the Daily Beast. They back up the claim with news from Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko that Russia has 50,000 troops on the border and more than 40,000 separatist fighters in Ukraine for “a combined 50% increase in possible invaders over July of last year.” Plus, in less than three months, Ukraine says it has lost 28 towns to Russian-backed separatists. Ukraine has deployed three tanks in government-controlled territory in violation of a ceasefire signed in Minsk, but 30 separatist tanks have also been spotted moving toward the front lines.

Separatists claimed the movement was linked to military parades in honor of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, but the tanks haven’t retreated since. There’s also “the presence of advanced Russian surface-to-air missile systems near the contact line in blatant violation of the Minsk agreement,” a diplomat says. A NATO commander said last month Russia was perhaps using the ceasefire to train and equip separatists and to “reset and reposition” their forces. Others note the separatists appear ready to “launch an all-out offensive against the Ukrainian military on little notice and without direct military assistance,” Weiss and Miller write. Meanwhile, Ukraine announced today it has captured two Russian soldiers in Ukraine and plans to prosecute them for “terrorist acts,” Reuters reports. Russia denies it has soldiers in the country.

This is a slow simmering pot that will eventually boil over and as usual the US will be caught with its pants down and its wanker in its hand……..

Then what?

Just wondering.

 

The Murderers of Kiev by Justin Raimondo — Antiwar.com

In the last year or so Ukraine has been big news….that is until something new comes long and then it gets pushed to the back burner to smolder……and yet most Americans could care less……their only interest is to bash Russia without knowing the whole context……

We have heard the hawks in Congress thump their chests and rattle on…….and then there is thee MSM that has its experts to confuse the situation and then there is the admin that trots out a couple of think tank cronies to ‘explain’ the situation.

All the while Americans hate Putin and love whats- his -name, the head dude in Ukraine.  (BTW his name is Poroshenko)……..

There has been so much history in the last 2 years……

So much has happened and would take me a week to write about it…..so if you are interested.this is the beginning of the most recent crisis….

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/03/06/ukraine-russia-timeline-obama/6127545/

Now that is out of the way….it seems that opposition leaders to Poroshenko have this nasty habit of committing suicide…..far too many to be a coincidence…..

 

The Murderers of Kiev by Justin Raimondo — Antiwar.com.

Birth Of A Nation

Nope not talking about the movie from the 20’s, which was a bit racist, but the birth of a real live nation……awhile back I wrote a post about this Israeli dude that was pissed at the nation of Israel and started his own country on his little slice of land……..An Israeli man has been ruler of his 3.5-acre “country” for more than 40 years……

I liked the idea……had enough of BS from your government then declare your own country….(did not someone make a movie about something along these lines?)

It seems there is another brave soul that has had enough……

There is a staggering amount of bloodshed associated with nationhood movements in the Balkans, but a Czech politician says the new country he has declared is a peaceful—and real—project. On Monday, Vit Jedlicka appointed himself president of Liberland, which sits on 2.7 square miles of what he says is unclaimed territory between Serbia and Croatia on the south bank of the Danube, reports the BBC. The population currently stands at seven, but application for citizenship can be made through Liberland’s website, which says more than 20,000 people have already applied. People with respect for others and for private property are welcome, the website says, and people with Communist or Nazi pasts are not.

Jedlicka, a member of the Czech Republic’s libertarian Party of Free Citizens, tells Time that Liberland started out as a protest, but is “turning out to be a real project with real support.” Wisely, he says the new country—which has the national motto “To Live and Let Live”—will have no military and will offer only “passive defense” if it meets opposition from its neighbors. In the incredibly unlikely event that Liberland becomes an actual country, it will be the third-smallest in the world behind Vatican City and Monaco, notes Slate, which wishes its “brave citizens” luck whether the project turn out to be “publicity stunt, impossible dream, or future libertarian utopia.

What amazed me is that in this day that there4 was a piece of land not claimed…..

What was behind the ethnic cleansing of Armenians? – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

100 years ago this year there was a situation that has been a bone of contention for all of those 100 years…..

The Ottoman Empire took it upon themselves to remove the Armenians from the territory……some have called it genocide others ethnic cleansing and even others use a milder term…..deportation…….

This may not be of interest to many but maybe try to expand your knowledge of historical events that have helped shape the modern Middle East,,,,,,,,what could it hurt?

 

What was behind the ethnic cleansing of Armenians? – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East.

The World At War….(Not A Documentary)

I do not know if any of you remember the docu-series about WW2 by the same name…..but in today’s world it is a title that is becoming more and more true……AGAIN!

A few years back I wrote a post entitled “Looking For The Linchpin”….it is where I looked at the globe and the different little skirmishes and tried to look at the one that could plunge the world into chaos…..again.  In case you would like to refresh your memory…….

http://lobotero.com/2013/06/13/looking-for-the-linchpin/

After looking at the situations I thought that the area around the Black Sea and Southern Caucuses would be that location…….(Check out the map)……

I may be partially correct for the situation between Azerbaijan and Armenia seems to be a bit hostile these days…….

(Reuters) – At least three Armenian soldiers were killed and four wounded in clashes with troops from Azerbaijan on Thursday near the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, but the two sides gave conflicting death tolls and disputed who was to blame.

Nagorno-Karabakh lies inside Azerbaijan but is controlled by its majority ethnic Armenians and is a regular point of friction between the two neighbors, who fought a war over it in the early 1990s.

Renewed violence this year along the border area has underlined the risk of a wider conflict breaking out in the South Caucasus, which is crossed by oil and gas pipelines.

The separatist region’s defense ministry said in a statement that three Armenian soldiers had died after Azeri commandos attacked their position. “The Armenian side forced the enemy to escape after a two hour clash,” the statement said.

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry accused separatists of triggering the confrontation and said 20 Armenian soldiers had been killed or wounded.

But will it be more than a passing report?

We have India/Pakistan killing each other over Kashmir…….we have the total all out war in Middle East and across North Africa……Ukraine v Russia………and now we have the Saudis all but invading Yemen over some sectarian squabble……..each one is possible the linchpin that could plunge the world into yet another heated conflict that would change the face of the planet.

Could this be the reset that all have dreaded over the decades….A New World Order?

Hide In Plain Sight

If you watch the Hitler Channel…..my bad…..the History Channel then you would have seen the atrocities that were committed by the Nazis…..but at the end of the war many of those that committed these crimes escaped to live here in the US and other countries….some of them were here with the knowledge of the US government……people like scientists and any one else that could have benefited the country in some way…….and then there were those that came here changed the names and went about hiding in plain sight.

Fast forward now to the 90’s and the wars in the Balkans……during this conflict there were many “crimes against humanity” committed by all sides….basically a lot of genocidal thinking.  I bring this up because there is a new report that says we may have people who committed these crimes right here….hiding in plain sight……

A Virginia soccer coach, Vegas casino workers, a dozen Phoenix residents: Hundreds of Bosnians living in the US may be guilty of war crimes, say American officials, and authorities are working to deport at least 150 of them, the New York Times reports. That number could climb past 600, officials tell the Times: “The more we dig, the more documents we find.” The effort was spawned by the 2004 arrest of a construction worker in Boston who was eventually convicted of crimes against humanity; that prompted officials to recognize that many with ties to war crimes during the 1990s were living in the US and doing little to hide themselves, the Times reports.

During that decade, some 120,000 Bosnian refugees sought US visas. Their applications required them to divulge their military histories—but officials didn’t do much to investigate the claims. This month, the US asked members of the global Bosnian community to offer up anything they knew about war crimes, the Times reports. Now, there are about 300 suspects, about half of whom may have been involved in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, which saw Bosnian Serbs execute thousands of unarmed Muslims. Click for the Times‘ full report.

It seems that the US is a prime place for criminals to come and do what they do best…..survive…..or to hide in plain sight.