Before 'Sarajevo Safari' there was the Krajina Safari- wealthy🇩🇪 businessmen driving down from Munich to 🇭🇷 for “weekend hunting” taking shots at Serbs on the front line before returning to their desks on Monday. Two British UNPROFOR soldiers discussed this shocking incident.🧵
It’s just fucking infuriating that Wemby is getting this whistle when he hasn’t won shit yet and Jokic gets abused with no calls after 3 MVPs and a title.
MI6 veteran Julian Braithwaite's wife Biljana (@BB_Braithwaite) oversees the AIRE Center, which trains lawyers to conduct lawfare operations against politicians, NGOs and businesses the British don't like in the former Yugoslavia:
Western “democracies” are not addicted to war by accident. Capitalism requires empire: cheap labour, cheap land, cheap lives. When the Global South seeks sovereignty, it is bombed back into affordability. This is not foreign policy failure, it is the system functioning as designed.
I confronted this woke liberal when she was protesting with her 2 friends against my film about Serbs in Bosnia, which they haven’t seen at that point. She showed complete lack of knowledge of Bosnian history, claiming that the “Serbs have never struggled in Bosnia”, even though thens of thousands of Serbs were killed or executed by Austro-Hungarian authorities during World War I, with thousands more imprisoned in camps such as Doboj, Arad, while hundreds of thousands of Serbs in Bosnia were killed by Croat & Muslim fascists during World War II. Tens of thousands were killed by Muslim forces in the 1990s as well, many having their heads cut off by mujahideen jihadists imported by Bosnia’s president Izetbegović. So, I really wouldn’t take this person seriously, she’s a leftist radical activist with an agenda, without any interest in the truth.
First of all, Slavs absolutely had empires: the Russian Empire, major Slavic dominance within Austria-Hungary, the Kingdom of Serbia, and more.
But that’s not even the real point.
Slavs built something BETTER than any empire.
They built powerful multinational socialist republics that united dozens of ethnic groups under a common political and economic project focused on industrialization, mass literacy, scientific advancement, and collective development.
The USSR went from semi-feudal backwardness to defeating Nazi Germany, the most technologically advanced imperial war machine in Europe.
Yugoslavia united South Slavs who had been divided for centuries under foreign empires, built an independent socialist federation, and defeated German-backed fascist forces in the region.
They did not rely on colonial plunder to project power. They transformed their own societies into industrial powerhouses and crushed one of the most powerful Western imperial forces in history.
So you can repeat the line that they “never had an empire” all you want. The historical reality is that they built something superior to anything Western imperialism ever produced.
Michael Parenti's savage breakdown of Yugoslavia's destruction by the US empire remains absolutely unmissable, vital listening 25 years later:
https://t.co/waYkNNrRsX
I just learned that the United States lost a hero of the working class yesterday: Michael Parenti, at the age of 92.
He adamantly defended the Serbs in the U.S. during the wars, when almost no one else would.
Political scientist and academic historian Michael Parenti 🇺🇸 passed away yesterday, aged 92.
— “The propaganda campaign to demonize the Serbs 🇷🇸 fits the policy of Western powers. Serbs were not trying to conquer new territory, but merely to hold onto what was already theirs.”
We just lost a giant. Michael Parenti was the blueprint. He never compromised his values. Never sold out to either capitalist party. His books Inventing Reality and Blackshirts and Reds are classics. He helped wake up an entire generation to the evils of capitalism & imperialism.