Euroslavia?
THE FEARFUL BALKAN INTERMEZZO By Tomislav Sunic
The former Balkan drama is a textbook example of how petty nationalism, once on the loose, can lead to surreal crimes. The past wars amidst similar European peoples, in what was once known as Yugoslavia, have sealed national romance
elsewhere, throwing a bad light on every ethnic group in search of its own mini-statehood. Today, ten years after communist Yugoslavia had crumbled away, its quasi sovereign bits and pieces, i.e. Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, the Kosovo, and
Macedonia, are shamefully looking at their recent past, and are gearing up to enter another multicultural fray: the European Union.
The indictments of Balkan ethnic cleansers by the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague are in full swing and their legal proviso is designed to further strengthen the tenants of the supranational New World Order, including its itinerant semi-kangaroo courts. The results of the past wars in the Balkans seem to have strengthened and already cemented the mandatory multicultural, i.e.
multiracial lessons all over the European Union.
The consequences of the Balkan disarray should not be mistaken for its causes. The safest way to explain away the former Yugoslav conflicts is by putting most of the blame on the former Serb president Slobodan Milosevic, some of the blame
on the former Croat president, Franjo Tudjman, and a little bit of guilt on the former Bosnian president, Alia Izetbegovic. But the movers and shakers behind Yugoslavia’s break-up were not just ex-Yugoslav nationalists, but to a larger extent are the architects of the New World Order and its communist disciple, the late Yugoslav dictator Marshall Josip Broz Tito. The Western-sponsored Yugoslav
communist multiculturalism had led to distorted misperceptions among different and neighboring ethnic groups. Sooner or later this multiethnic Tito-Western styled make-belief unity had to end up in a bloody war.
The Yugoslav multiethnic experiment demonstrated twice in this century that it could not last. In 1941, the first Yugoslavia broke up, with Croats and Slovenes flocking to their ancestral central-European neighbor Germany. Serbs continued to toy partly with the Allies and partly with the Axis. In 1991, Croats and Slovenes again bailed out of the predominantly Serb-oriented communist Yugoslavia. The lesson that follows is that if the forced unity fails twice, there is no reason to believe in the viability of a third reunion. Divorce sounds preferable to a bad marriage.
Yet, the demise of the Yugoslav experiment in 1991 could never be fully shrugged away by the European Union and the apostles of the New World Order. The multiethnic ex-Yugoslavia had for decades squared away with liberal and communist pseudo-academic role models of multiculturalism. In addition, Yugoslavia was a blueprint for the budding and nebulous Soviet-inspired European Union. It had provided intellectual fodder for the disabused leftist intelligentsia all over Europe, which is today converting to the more successful
drama of globalism.
Ex-Yugoslavia went up in sky-high flames in 1991 and could neither be forgiven nor forgotten by the advocates of New World Order. Hence now, a new need has arisen, espoused by left-leaning EU officials and their New York plutocratic acolytes to create a new multi-ethnic laboratory in the state of Bosnia-Hercegovina and in the NATO protectorate of the Kosovo. In fact, the present artificial statelets of Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Kosovo are basically designed and militarily upheld in an effort to demonstrate another third multicultural experiment –which should be used again some day as still more educational homework for ‹peaceful ethnic groups living side by side and happily ever after.” Recent developments though, in the Albanian populated Kosovo, the fractured Macedonia, as well as the ongoing turmoil in the Croatian parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina, all point to the impossibility of such dangerous global endeavors.
Most of the blame must be attributed to the Versailles treaty architects of 1919. Little did they understand the ethnic intricacies of the region, let alone foresee the consequences of their New World Order projects. What those world-improvers wanted was the creation of an artificial multiethnic entity that could contain Germany’s access to the South and the East. The unhappy subjects of the
Versailles-created Yugoslavia other than having the common label of “Southern Slavs” had little in common. Subsequently, each ethnic group in the region had to pay a heavy price. The Versailles doctored-up-get-together of Croats, Slovenes, Serbs, and Albanians led to the perception of each ethnic group being the prime victim of the other ethnic group. The decades-long war of misperceptions resulted in the killing fields.
Although the Western media has handpicked the Serb Slobodan Milosevic as the household demon, his Croat nationalist counterparts do not fare better. A number of high-ranking Croat military officers were hailed as heroes not too long ago, but are now scheduled for The Hague War Crimes Tribunal hearings. The new leftist-liberal governments in Croatia and Serbia pay loud lip service to Brussels bureaucrats, yet appear unable to grasp the trap of the New World Order
To counter mass psychosis, which has been a hallmark of the Balkans throughout centuries, all eyes are riveted on the magic wand of the European Union. The official opinion among the new ruling classes in Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia, or Bosnia is that the EU is the rich men’s club that will henceforth dispense enormous wealth to everybody. On top of all this, EU officials have enough of their local nodmen in the Balkans willing to sign any paper in order to implement some feel-good semblance of paper stability.
Although the Versailles-sponsored multiethnic Yugoslavia failed, ironically, the Brussels-based Euroslavia, appears now to be the far more dangerous game in town. The tired Balkan masses, in what used to be once communist multicultural Yugoslavia, think that the road to Brussels is the quick way to heavenly bliss. Yet the vaunted European Union may soon face the storms of its own violent
balkanisation
I don’t know who Mr.Sunic is. He is described as an ‘author who writes from Europe’ which is not very helpful.
I also possess no more than a sketchy knowledge of the recent tragic history of the Balkans and, judging from his name alone, I assume that Mr.Sunic is vastly better equipped than I to speak on these matters. (I am also aware that we have a redoubtable Balkan Blogger in the shape of Natalija Radic)
I will say, however, that from the bottom of this particular fishtank, the dark forebodings in the above article do have the ring of prescience about them
