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avgust 20, 2008
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"Do not Sell the Hide of the Bear Until the Bear
is Dead."
Sean Gervasi, first warned of the potential for NATO to serve as the military security
force for this globalist New World Order while at the 1996 Prague Conference on the
Enlargement of NATO. His paper, "Why is NATO in Yugoslavia," demonstrated that Yugoslavia stands at the crossroads of a oil trade and
transportation route combining Emperor Charlemagne's dream of a great European waterway
with the fabled Silk Road.
The importance of joining the two trade routes was also summed up in 1997 by William
Ramsay, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy, Sanctions, and Commodities:
"We think oil and gas pipelines, roads, railways and fiber optics can make this 21st
century Silk Road a superhighway linking Europe and Central Asia." This optimism is based largely on reports by the US Geological Survey
(USGS) that Caspian Sea oil reserves are estimated to 100-200 billion barrels.
Regional natural gas reserves are estimated to be three times larger with those of the
United States. In comparison, the Kuwait oilfields recaptured from
Iraq during the Gulf War have been estimated to contain 94 billion barrels of oil.
US Energy Secretary Pena best conveyed the urgency of opening this route in a November
1997 visit to the Caspian Sea region. He stated that "the next 12 to 18 months are a
crucial period in Caspian development." On September 8, 1998 the TRACECA (Transport
Corridor Europe Caucasus Asia) program was implemented at Baku to provide sustainable
access to Trans-European and Trans-Asian transport networks. The European Union next
initiated the INOGATE program designed to promote the security of energy supplies and
internationalize trade routes. On April 24, 1999, the Silk Road Declaration was designed
to "promote the effective use of the international transport corridor Europe—the
Caucasus". Coincidentally, the first secure pipeline from the Azerbaijan Caspian Sea
port of Baku to the Georgian Black Sea port of Suspa was ceremonially opened in December
1998 and the first oil tanker, destined for Spain, was loaded in March of 1999. Georgia
has thus emerged as the beachhead for Western oil consortiums seeking to transport the
vast oil reserves to European markets.
The excitement over exploiting these vast oil and gas reserves has been dampened by
civil wars along the Russian pipeline route and congested freighter traffic through the
narrow Strait of Bosporus. Turkey, fearing an Exxon Valdez type oil disaster, also limited
the number of oil tankers passing through the Bosporus. The TRACECA program has planned
oil pipelines between Bulgaria-Greece, Bulgaria-Macedonia-Albania, and Azerbaijan-Southern
Turkey to circumvent the Bosporus bottleneck. However, none of these
routes solves the problem of how to economically transport oil to Germany and the
surrounding Northern European countries and finished products to markets in the
former Soviet Union.
The importance of Yugoslavia to this twenty-first century superhighway is evident from its
position straddling the Danube along the Danube-Main-Rhine canal connecting the Black Sea
with the North Sea. Remarkably, Yugoslavia was
the only country west of the Ural Mountains that was quietly, but deliberately, excluded
from the TRACECA and INOGATE programs. It is obvious that Yugoslavia was perceived
as an island of nationalism in a sea of pan-European globalism. Somehow
Yugoslavia would have to be pacified and assimilated to ensure a safe economic climate for
"free trade"!
This promotion of "free trade" by high interest loans in the 1980s, followed by IMF-ordered
economic austerity measures was the root cause of the Balkan wars according to the
Canadian economist Michael Chossudovsky. The massive economic crisis
from these economic policies, including the loss of approximately 2 million jobs by the
end of 1980, had ignited ethnic hatreds, exacerbated by authoritarian leaders, leading to
brutal wars of ethnic cleansing by Croat, Muslim and Serb forces beginning in 1991.
The Reverend Jesse Jackson once remarked in a presentation to 11 African heads of state at
Liberville, Gabon, "They no longer use bullets and ropes. They use the World Bank and
the IMF." In reality, atrocities attributable in the Balkan wars, by Croat, Muslim
and Serb forces were approximately proportional to their respective populations and had
their roots in IMF policy. Most people in the region never realized that the true
"butchers of the Balkans" of the late twentieth century were the IMF and World
Bank leaders who inflicted pain and suffering with a pen.
Undoubtedly, NATO leaders mistook the willingness of the President Slobodan Milosovic's
government to negotiate at the Dayton Accords, following
a short NATO bombing campaign against the Bosnian Serb forces, for weakness. The added ease of
which Franjo Tudjman's US and German trained Croat army was able to capture Krijana in
Operation Storm, killing approximately 10,000 Serbs and
ethnically cleansing some 250,000 Serbs, added to this misconception. It is revealing that Clinton had welcomed Operation Storm, suggesting that
it may open the way to a solution of the Yugoslav conflict.
The new NATO alliance mission: "NATO: Out of Area or Out of Business" apparently had its roots in a new White House strategy of international
relations. According to John Roberts, in his American Spectator article "Roots of
Allied Farce," this strategy was to "realign NATO and OSCE
to deal with new security problems in Europe and urge military intervention under
humanitarian guises."
The tacit goal of pacifying the FRY was evident to anyone who bothered to read Appendix
B of the Rambouillet ultimatum. By signing, Yugoslavia would be submitting to occupation
by 30,000 NATO troops, not only in Kosovo and Metahuji (Kosmet), but also throughout
Serbia and Vojvodina . Morton Abramowitz, United States top advisor in Rambouillet, stated that: "Our intention was to get the UCK people to accept our plan and face
Milosevic with an ultimatum (...) The result was that we never really negotiated. The
contact group just begged UCK to sign, so we could put pressure on Milosevic."
The expected refusal of the Serbs to
relinquish sovereignty provided the justification needed for the immediate coalition
bombing campaign! The Reverend Jesse Jackson later judged that "a diplomacy
with no diplomacy is no diplomacy; that bombing and forcing an enemy to capitulate with no
other dialogue is wrong."
Apparently the bombing campaign was expected to result in the immediate capitulation of
Yugoslavia rather than face the most powerful air
force in world history. NATO Commander General
Wesley Clark went so far as to tell US Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, "Duke,
NATO only wanted to bomb one day and quit." Unfortunately,
Clinton and his advisors did not consider that Slobodan Milosevic would choose to respond
with the Switzerland military strategy of inflicting a Pyrrhic victory on the attacking
forces. The results of the NATO miscalculation are the tragic social costs and the
economic price tag of rebuilding the Balkans. The costs will continue to climb
according to John Pike, a expert for the Federation of American Scientists. He stated,
"These people are also going to be involved in keeping the peace for years, as
opposed to fighting the war for weeks.''
The US Senate voted to prevent reconstruction funding to the FRY as long as Milosevic
remained in power. US Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright confirmed this policy by stating, on June 11, 1999, that Yugoslavia
would be left out of the Balkan reconstruction. The logical
aftermath of this war will thus involve an economic siege of the FRY until the ultimate installation of a leadership that is willing to
relinquish sovereignty to Brussels.
Eventually, the assimilated Balkan economies could be reengineered under OSCE mandates,
IMF and World Trade Organization assistance to meet the needs of globalistic economic
interests. Governments are likely to serve as real estate agents, as
in the case of US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's ill-fated trip to Bosnia along with
dozens of business leaders.
The planned deindustrialization of Serbia, Kosmet and Vojvodina, by the destruction of
key national refinery, communication and transportation assets serves to reduce the sale price of the damaged assets. The control of oilfields in Vojvodina, approximately 5 billion in mineral
deposits and the second largest European deposit of lignite coal (17 billion tons), in
Kosmet, are just secondary prizes.
In this geopolitical worldview, the peoples of the Balkans are just collateral damage
in a war to safeguard the security of a recently opened oil trade route against a
preconceived economic threat by the FRY. A fitting slogan for this
postwar New World Order campaign is "Buy up the Balkans and bring on the oil
barges."
The continued Eastward march of the New World Order and NATO security forces into the
Caspian Sea region has already begun.
The New World Order may ultimately fail to heed an old Russian proverb that roughly
translates as "do not sell the hide of
the bear until the bear is dead."
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