Geopolitika — U.S. provokes instability in Balkans

Donald Trump issued message to Congress of the United States on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to the Western Balkans.

There is noted:

The threat constituted by the actions of persons engaged in, or assisting, sponsoring, or supporting (i) extremist violence in the Republic of Macedonia and elsewhere in the Western Balkans region, or (ii) acts obstructing implementation of the Dayton Accords in Bosnia or United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of June 10, 1999, in Kosovo, has not been resolved. In addition, Executive Order 13219 was amended by Executive Order 13304 of May 28, 2003, to take additional steps with respect to acts obstructing implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement of 2001 relating to Macedonia.

The acts of extremist violence and obstructionist activity outlined in these Executive Orders are hostile to United States interests and continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. For this reason, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency with respect to the Western Balkans.

Besides that American media anounced 400-mile road march that will take them deep into the Balkans to Macedonia as part of Exercise "Saber Guardian".

In fact it means occupation of this country.

NATO is actually a thinly disguised US occupation of Europe at the invitation of the comprador elite that profit from it and made acceptable to the people through manufactured consent by means of propaganda.

Ka-ching.

Taking in the big picture, the US acting against the strategic and economic alliance of Russia and China, the only adversary capable of challenging the US both militarily and economically in the foreseeable future. The US must retain the European states as vassals to avoid a Russo-Chinese economic bloc that includes Europe, effectively replacing the US on the world stage and driving the US back to the Western hemisphere. This is a do or die mission. Very dangerous for peace.

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U.S. provokes instability in Balkans

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Good strategic analysis. But Wight leaves out China, which is the elephant in the room.

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US Foreign Policy - 'Rome Has Spoken; the Matter Is Finished'

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Leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) Martin Schulz has criticized the latest US sanctions against Russia and called on Angela Merkel to oppose them.

"We have seen that the US is pursuing a course in energy policy that is dangerous and is directed against Germany," Schulz told the Federal Association of German Industry (BDI)."Our energy supply also depends on constructive cooperation with Russia," he said, and called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the issue with President Trump at next month's G20 summit in Hamburg.

"We have the right to defend the industrial interests of the Federal Republic of Germany and Europe," Schulz said....

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Joaquin Flores — Psychology of the Balkans War over Pipelines: Greece, Bulgaria and Beyond

Overview

The present war in Ukraine and events in Transnistria are already serious indications that the Balkans and West Black Sea regions are correctly forecasted to be theatres of instability in the coming period. Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Serbia are critical pieces.

Indisputably, the conflict in Ukraine greatly involves the future of Eurasian natural gas pipeline projects. These cannot be considered geopolitically distinct from Russia-Turkey bilateral relations nor from the pipeline 'cold war' presently taking place in the Balkans. As a general rule, it the Ukraine war demonstrates that between the major power blocs, outright war is indeed 'an option'.
In analyzing the events, the debate primarily surrounds the viability and status of Turkish Stream/South Stream on the one hand, and 'TANAP/TAP' backed by the Atlanticist network.…

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Psychology of the Balkans War over Pipelines: Greece, Bulgaria and Beyond
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Destabilization in the Balkans.

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All Quiet On the Western Economic Front?

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)



Glossing over the horrors - and rank stupidity - of Economic Trench Warfare.

Bill Mitchell's latest blog entries discussing the long run-up to the euro thoroughly remind us of a very simple yet unbelievably profound and neglected fact.

The entire western world, from Breton Woods to today, was completely intent upon "stabilizing" the Fx rates of their fiat currencies .... even though they all had originally admitted, circa 1933, that fiat currency Fx (foreign exchange rates) should float!

Insanity defined. Or rather, all nations worldwide never WERE in-paradigm!

The outcome is that our entire world economy is run to satisfy a narrow list of either oligarch, bank or industrial lobbies? And has been since the close of WWII? Pitiful! The remnants of feudalism & mercantilism still endure.

We've all been hearing of fiat currency, managed Fx rates, Breton Woods, monetary policy, and Class Warfare all our lives, as though they're independent variables. Yet the utter idiocy of presenting them as such never sinks in until someone has the temerity to call BULLSHIT! That hasn't happened since before WWII? We're still seeing the efforts of a prolonged effort to hush up an Inconvenient Truth?

The closest we ever came to distributed capitalism was when Hoover's & FDR's gov planning offices were allowed to run supreme, from 1929-1945? And apparently, that was ONLY in the USA!

Even after Nixon & Connolly closed the last faux, inter-gov gold-window in 1973, there was only a brief period until Reagan & Greenspan ramped up gold-oriented monetary policy again, to "stabilize" floating Fx rates. 

Why doesn't every organized nation consider the local unit of sovereign organizational accounting as THEIR currency, and everyone else's problem?

Ever seen a group of people even think about "stabalizing" their inter-personal blood pressures, fat reserves, or body temperatures? Standardizing intrinsic organizational variables across independent enties is specious and counterproductive. The only group that wants stable Fx rates are the merchant lobbies and personal hoarders. The vast bulk of every population would prefer to stabilize domestic organizational capabilities, and let the tiny merchant class fend for itself by being more, not less, agile.

You really can't make this up! We are capitalists in name only, and in reality still submit to a feudal, class-based system of rule by merchants. The recent national practice of bailing out bankers alone, but not the Middle Class puts paid to that premise!

And at the heart of all this idiocy, the entire field of orthodox economists are economists in name only! They're ignorant charlatans totally bereft of Situational Awareness! Data without context is meaningless, which makes data-dealers oblivious to context equally meaningless.

I wonder how much of today's insanity is simply the momentum of an academic, Luddite backlash to the pragmatic threat of planners like Marriner Eccles and the rest of the FDR Braintrust, and the theoretical threat of Douglas/Kalecki/Lerner/Keynes et al.

In retrospect, the last 80 years now looks like one, sordid period of trench warfare between social classes.

Middle Class rebellion was gathering steam from the 1890s on, with Upper Class resistance triggering two World Wars. Starting with Breton Woods, a counter-offensive by the upper looting class began rolling back much of the gains of the Middle Class. Why? Only because the Middle Class snatched defeat from the jaws of victorious progress, by sending the same old Luddite, Upper Class Looters to negotiating tables like Breton Woods!

Our Middle Class has to cease, forever, the practice of deferring to the very class of imbeciles we're constantly trying to get rid of. It's self defeating.

Today we're left with a stark question. Will the class warfare and very existence of class hegemony finally dwindle and disappear, like slavery and racism? Or, will we have some more, very ugly episodes of economic trench warfare to go through?

So far, it's seemingly All Quiet On the Western Economic Front? Nevertheless, today's economic attrition rate in the trenches is horrendously reminiscent of history, especially throughout the Balkans, all over again, even though the war is entirely economic, and not yet physical. There wasn't even a Christmas Truce this year.

As an analogy, maybe someday in the future, historians will unearth the frozen remains of Balkan economies, and finally offer them as a stark warning against class warfare? Better late than never?

Worse, the Upper Looting Class is still intent on repeating Churchill's crime, by extending an Economic Blockade in an insane attempt to permanently remove the Middle Class' capacity to reduce human Output Gaps. In the idiot savant minds of merchants and the wealthy, Luddite families they spawn, increasing Aggregate Demand constitutes rebellion?

"Structural Adjustments" are a euphemism for "A Very Perfect Instrument" of economic blockade of the Middle Class by the Upper Looting Class.

When will the 99% worldwide simply stop cooperating with the 1%? The most productive thing for all humans to do is to simply stop the mindless class warfare, and instead turn to return-on-coordination. Who would have thought that something as simple as letting floating-Fx Fx actually float would be so instrumental? Overtaxing and under-funding the Middle Class is just one, mindless consequence of merchant lobbies insisting on trying to manage floating-Fx. You really couldn't make up this degree of stupidity.

The Upper Looting Classes of faux sophisticates are still looting the very nations that support them. For human culture to advance, it sure seems like the brief window of "Permanent War Chiefs" has to end, forever, and any form of class structure as well. Whatever happened to the simple idea of a pass-through economy and complete meritocracy based on service to aggregate? Why bother with so much personal hoarding?