Milosevic Murder Is Flashpoint

Image: Depiction of 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo

(Conspiracy Nation, 03/28/06) -- The 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo was the flashpoint which ignited the First World War. An article by Jeffrey Steinberg draws a parallel between the murder of the Archduke and the de facto murder of Slobodan Milosevic.

Following Milosevic's suspicious death on March 11th, the Russian tide seems to have turned. In the former Soviet republic of Belarus, tried-and-true Western destabilization tactics failed miserably with Alexander Lukashenko's re-election. In the Ukraine, the "Orange Revolution" government has been humbled. The hibernating Russian Bear seems to be awakening.

However the awakening of the Russian Bear is itself part of a larger plot, according to Steinberg. Milosevic was tacitly murdered "to create a grave crisis in relations between the United States and Western Europe on the one side, and Russia and Asian powers on the other." ("LaRouche: Milosevic Murder To Trigger East-West Conflict")

Kosovo, part of the former Yugoslavia, is "a crucial junction in the drugs-and-weapons trade in Eurasia." What Berkeley professor Peter Dale Scott calls "the Drug Meta-Group" is entrenched there. Inevitably, along with illegal narcotics, there is a Black Market in weapons. It is likely more than coincidence that only days before Milosevic's death, a shake-up occurred in Kosovo and a Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander was installed as the new Prime Minister.

In 1991, following the break-up of the Soviet Union, there had been hope that the West would nurture the newly-emerged republics toward revitalized economies. Instead, greed-impassioned vultures descended upon the region and plundered it. What Steinberg calls a "London-Paris Synarchist axis" provoked Balkan crises, so as "to sabotage the opportunities for a new, post-Cold War era of East-West cooperation."

Russia has an historical connection to what it calls "the Near Abroad." This includes, tangentially, the Balkans, writes Rachel Douglas. ("Hot Spots Flare in Russia's 'Near Abroad'") She lists regional tinder boxes experiencing flare-ups. Among them are Belarus, Ukraine, and Kosovo. In Belarus, there seems to have been "an American-backed plot" to overthrow President Alexander Lukashenko. In Ukraine, it is alleged that CIA-friendly Victor Yushchenko of "Orange Revolution" fame permitted his government to collude with the West for secret prisons. Russian president Vladimir Putin has frowned upon a push for Kosovo autonomy. It adds up to a precipitated crisis of some sort, if Steinberg (op. cit.) is correct.

These Russian developments occur concurrent with a startling shift in U.S./Iranian relations. "While the whole world focuses, even obsesses, over the bellicose propaganda rantings of both the US and Iran, there are signs that a completely different trend is underway," wrote Michael C. Ruppert yesterday. (http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/032706_rapprochment_summary.shtml) In "Rapprochement?", Ruppert headlines that "Not Only Will the US Not Attack Iran, It Looks Like the Biggest Thaw in US/Iranian Relations Since 1979 is Suddenly and Inexplicably Underway".

Ruppert is stunned. "What gives?" he asks. The answer could be a sudden shift in alliances, flowing from an awakening Russian Bear, stirred up by hornets from the London-Paris Synarchist axis.

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