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(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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