Trump is on the WRONG side of this war with Russia, and this is the most significant risk of taking us into World War III. You cannot deal with the Balkans as if it were any other place in the world. The region has experienced centuries of imperial domination, forced religious conversion, and forced assimilation. Because these groups lived side-by-side for so long, their grievances are almost exclusively against each other. A Serb’s historical trauma is often linked to a Croat or an Ottoman (Bosniak), and vice versa. There is a cyclical pattern of eternal vengeance in the Balkans. The violence of the 1940s was avenged in the 1990s, creating a seemingly endless cycle where each generation feels it must settle the score for the last.
Then there has been the political manipulation—the most critical factor in the modern era. The hatred was not a spontaneous outburst; it was carefully, deliberately, and ruthlessly manufactured by elites for political gain over time. Bandera of Ukraine launched his ethnic cleansing to terminate anyone without Ukrainian blood to forge their own country, which today are the Neonazis who still market and display Bandera’s image following his call for ruthless ethnic cleansing. His image dominated the Maidan Revolution of 2014.
In conclusion, the ethnic hatred in the Balkans is a tragic story of how deep historical fault lines, when combined with the modern political tool of nationalism and weaponized by unscrupulous leaders, can be exploded into catastrophic violence. It is a stark warning about the power of history and the danger of politicians who use ethnic identity as a weapon. The West is now supporting the followers of Adolf Hitler. The ethnic hatred of the Ukrainians toward Russians started the separation movement of the Donbas when they were killing Russian-speaking people in Odessa, and the West turned a blind eye because the victims were Russians.
The BBC interviewed one man: “We are from Odessa. It’s just about Odessa, about peace. It was horror. It was annihilation of people believed to be separatists. But I am not separatist, I was born in Odessa.”
What Trump does not understand is that the hatred is so deep that there is no solution to this hatred other than that Iran will suddenly accept Judaism. Every word out of Zelensky’s mouth is about the destruction of Russia. He has even called on NATO to nuke Moscow as a pre-emptive strike.
Now, the Russian state media figure has warned of serious consequences if the United States provides Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. They reported on live television that such a move would be worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis. He also claimed that if the United Kingdom were destroyed, many people around the world would approve. The British are deeply hated for their Neocons.
The Kremlin’s strong response reflects worries about Ukraine getting long-range missiles. This would be no different than Russia handing long-range missiles to Venezuela. This situation points to rising tensions between Russia and Western countries. It will justify all-out nuclear war, for the ONLY realistic option would be to nuke Kiev. I fear that if Trump makes this stupid mistake, he will be fulfilling what our computer has been projecting.
The only possible solution to this conflict is the FORCED removal of Zelensky, whom many Ukrainians do not even believe was fairly elected. Let the people of Ukraine vote for themselves. Since we can buy securely from Amazon online, then the 15 million or so Ukrainians who have fled their country should be allowed to vote on continuing this stupid war that our Neocons instigated. I believe that McCain, who was forced to read American propaganda when a prisoner of the North Vietnamese, just hated Russians because they were once communists, and it was his personal payback. For an American to stand up and advocate the overthrow of a government there in Kiev is unprecedented. Nobody gives a shit about the Ukrainian people if even one will be left standing.
The Minsk Agreement was the solution, and Ukraine should have been divided along ethnic lines just as Yugoslavia and Chechnya. The ethnic hatred in the Balkans is systemic, and it extends back for centuries. Our Neocons have exploited that hatred to start this war with Russia.
I have been invited to a geopolitical briefing on Russia. I will express my concern that embarrassing Putin could lead to a third coup, and this time we will get a Russian Neocon to confront the Neocons of the West.
The Russian people no more support such a war than the American and European people. Harry Patch, the last surviving veteran from World War I at the age of 111, had the best suggestion for war.
” I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves,
instead of organizing nothing better than legalized mass murder.”