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Wolfgang Effenberger

On December 30, 2021, Presidents Biden and Putin held a telephone conversation that focused on the implementation of the agreement to begin negotiations on the draft bilateral treaty with Washington on granting legally binding security guarantees to Russia that Putin published on December 17, 2021. This treaty provides for guarantees of peace.
On December 17, 2021, Moscow had published a draft bilateral treaty with Washington, which provides for guarantees for peace, as well as a draft agreement on its implementation.(1) Russia's overall intentions are aimed at getting the United States to comply with the United Nations Charter.
In their late December talks, both leaders agreed to engage in a serious and substantive dialogue on these issues. Negotiations are scheduled to take place in Geneva on Jan. 10 and then at the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels on Jan. 12 - followed by negotiations with the OSCE on Jan. 13.

Three days after the hopeful talk between Biden and Putin, protests erupted in western Kazakhstan on January 2, 2022, after the government refused to continue to keep liquefied natural gas fuel prices low through subsidies.(2) The doubling of the price (from 60 tenge/0.12euro to 120 tenge/0.24 EUR per liter of liquefied natural gas) reportedly brought citizens into the streets. Although Kazakh President Qassym-Shomart Toqaev capped gas prices, the country did not calm down. As a result, demonstrators invaded the offices of the ruling party Nur Otan, took control of numerous public buildings in Kazakhstan, partially setting them on fire, such as the mayor's office in Almaty, stormed national television stations, destroyed military vehicles and disarmed soldiers.
On the afternoon of January 5, Reuters news agency and the independent Telegram channel Orda reported that protesters had occupied the airport of the important economic city of Almaty in the south of the country.(3)
On the evening of the same day, Kazakhstan's president asked the Russian-led "Collective Security Treaty Organization" (CSTO) for assistance against a terrorist threat. The security alliance - Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Belarus, and Tajikistan - sent army personnel to the former Soviet republic to protect the government. The very next day, 2,500 troops from the alliance arrived at the now liberated Almaty airfield. Given the volatile situation in Ukraine, this rapid response is hardly surprising. While China supported Kazakh President Qassym Shomart Toqaev and declared that color revolutions inspired by external forces were unacceptable, the West, as expected, expressed concern about the deployment of CSTO troops.
By the night hours of January 7, the city center and all administrative buildings in Almaty, except one of the hospitals were already completely under the control of state security forces. In all, there were dozens of deaths on both sides, about 1,000 injured, and about 4,000 arrests.(4)
On suspicion of treason, the former head of Kazakhstan's domestic intelligence service, Karim Massimov, was arrested after being fired earlier in the violent protests.(5)
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A picture of Joe Biden being flanked by Massimov and his son Hunter can be found on the web.

On January 7, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken commented on the tense situation in Kazakhstan. In doing so, he questioned the role of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and warned Kazakhstan's leaders against assistance from Russia:
"One lesson of recent history is that once the Russians are in your house, they are sometimes very difficult to get rid of."(6)
A few hours later, the Russian Foreign Ministry called this statement by Blinken "boorish" and "poisonous," defending the CSTO mission in Kazakhstan and calling it entirely legitimate. At the same time, Russian diplomats pointed out to the U.S. Secretary of State their lessons of history:
"When U.S. people show up at your house, sometimes it's hard to stay alive without being robbed and raped." (7)
That, he said, is the lesson of the U.S.'s 300-year history. The original inhabitants of the North American continent, the Koreans, the Vietnamese, the Iraqis, the Panamanians, the Yugoslavs, the Libyans, the Syrians, and many other unfortunates in whose homes this uninvited guest has found himself, have had this experience.(8)
On January 9, the Kazakh Interior Ministry announced that more than 5,000 people had been arrested during the severe riots countrywide. Among other things, they are accused of destroying more than 100 shopping malls or bank buildings, Acting Interior Minister Erlan Turgumbayev told TV station Chabar 24.(9) During the riots, some 400 vehicles were destroyed, most of them police cars, he said. President Kasym-Shomart Tokayev ordered a day of national mourning for Monday, January 10, 2022. The nationwide state of emergency is to last until January 19.
China's early assessment that the violent protests were an attempt at a "color revolution" seems to be an understatement. The targeted attack on the state and the willingness to use brute force at a very early stage suggests a managed coup attempt. As in Ukraine, nationalist groups were at work, carrying out the actions well prepared. It cannot be ruled out that they were supported by former Afghanistan fighters.
Who would have an interest in overthrowing Kazakhstan? Kazakhstan's northern border with Russia is over 7,000 kilometers long, and its southeastern border with China is just under 1,600 kilometers long. Thus, the situation in Kazakhstan is critical to both the internal and external security of Russia and China. For a war against Russia and China, on the other hand, Kazakhstan is a strategically important "aircraft carrier."
The U.S. long-term strategy document TRADOC 525-3-1, Win in a Complex World 2020-2040 (2014), identifies the threat posed by Russia and China first - a threat that must be dismantled. What the dismantling of a threat to armed forces means probably needs no further explanation.
After the dissolution of the Warsaw Treaty Organization and the Soviet Union, the United States produced TRADOC Paper 525-5, "A Concept for the Evolution of Full-Dominance Operations for the Strategic Army of the Early Twenty-First Century," in August 1994.
(A Concept for the Evolution of Full-Dominance Operations for the Strategic Army of the Early Twenty-First Century).(10)
According to this script, the transition from the 20th to the 21st century was to occur over two decades (from 1990 to 2010) using the steps of Turmoil, Crisis, Conflict, and finally War. This procedure could be observed from Iraq to Ukraine. Instruments for the provoked overthrows are the dynamic forces (Dynamics Forces at Work) with the goal of geostrategic alignment. For this policy, the Operations Other Than War tool was created (Figure 1-2- Operating Enviroment and Missiosn of U.S. Forces):

With the alternative operations (upper circle OOTW), it can then go to the regional conflicts (left circle) and even to a major war (right circle). And all three circles have a common intersection! Operations preceding a war include:

Civil Support (Civil Support)
Disaster Relief
Peace Operations
Counterinsurgency
Arms Control
Counterterrorism
Environmental Operations
Noncombatant Evacuation.

The war entry options listed in OOTW are quite serious. Figure 2-3 (Scope of Future Operations) shows this spectrum for future operations:

These range from relief operations in Somalia/Bosnia/Northern Ireland to combat (against infantry) in Afghanistan up to combat between complex adaptive forces and armored mech forces as in Iraq (Operation Desert Storm).

For 30 years, the U.S. has tried by all means to implement its unipolar world concept. After the 2014 upheaval in Ukraine, Russia refused to be provoked and instead, in an unusual move in mid-December 2021, conveyed its wishes to the U.S. and NATO in two treaties ready to be signed.
John Herbst, who was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine during the 2004 Orange Revolution, makes clear, "Moscow's demands are simply unacceptable."(11)
On January 10, 2022, talks between U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and her Russian counterpart Sergei Ryabkov will begin in Geneva, Brussels, and Vienna. Ahead of the Russian-U.S. talks, John Herbst has called for faster arms deliveries to Ukraine. The former U.S. ambassador to Kiev believes the crisis in Kazakhstan could save Ukraine.(12)
Now, however, the coup appears to have been put down; thus, Putin may even enter the negotiations stronger.
Let us hope that the talks will serve peace.

Notes

1)“Draft Treaty betweeen the USA and Russia on Security Guarantees“ Voltaire Network vom 17 December 2021https://www.voltairenet.org/article215162.html
2)https://de.rt.com/international/129474-wie-proteste-in-kasachstan-gewalttaetig-wurden/
3)https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/kasachstan-demonstranten-besetzen-flughafen-in-almaty-a-b6812d2e-3d0a-4450-aaf5-6cfed6e9fb36
4)https://de.rt.com/asien/129430-live-ticker-zur-krise-in-kasachstan-ausnahmezustand-ganzen-land/
5)https://www.n-tv.de/der_tag/Kasachstan-Ex-Sicherheitschef-wegen-Landesverrats-festgenommen-article23044603.html;
https://azertag.az/de/xeber/Kasachstan_nimmt_ehemaligen_nationalen_Sicherheitschef_wegen_des_Verdachts_des_Hochverrats_fest-1970488
6)https://de.rt.com/asien/129628-russland-weist-us-kritik-an/
7)https://de.rt.com/asien/129628-russland-weist-us-kritik-an/
8)Vgl. ebd.
9)https://www.nzz.ch/international/putin-laesst-in-den-ukraine-gespraechen-mit-biden-kaum-spielraum-ld.1663573
10)https://www.help4you.info/pdf/19940801_TRADOC_Pamphlet_525-5.pdf
11)https://www.nzz.ch/international/putin-laesst-in-den-ukraine-gespraechen-mit-biden-kaum-spielraum-ld.1663573
12)https://www.nzz.ch/international/putin-laesst-in-den-ukraine-gespraechen-mit-biden-kaum-spielraum-ld.1663573

Is there a chance for peace in Europe?

Thursday, 06 January 2022 00:00 |

Wolfgang Effenberger

At the end of the year, on Dec. 30, 2021, Paul Craig Roberts, U.S. economist, publicist and former deputy Treasury secretary during the Reagan administration, addressed the world with the cautionary article
"The old year has departed and war awaits us in the new year".
On the same day, Presidents Biden and Putin held a telephone conversation that centered on the implementation of the agreement to begin negotiations on the granting of legally binding security guarantees to Russia sought by Putin on Dec. 15, 2021.

The subsequent announcements made by the Kremlin and the White House are revealing. Here, you should reach your own conclusions:

The Kremlin:

"Vladimir Putin explained the basic approaches underlying the Russian drafts of the treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America and the agreement between the Russian Federation and the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He stressed that the negotiations must lead to solid legally binding guarantees that rule out NATO's eastward expansion and the deployment of weapons that threaten Russia in the immediate vicinity of its borders. Vladimir Putin also stressed that a nation's security can be guaranteed only if the principle of indivisible security is strictly observed.
Both leaders expressed readiness to engage in serious and substantive dialogue on these issues. It was confirmed that the negotiations will be held first in Geneva on January 9 and 10 and then in the framework of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels on January 12. On January 13, the negotiations are also to be held at the OSCE. The presidents agreed to personally monitor these negotiations, especially the bilateral ones, in order to achieve results quickly.
In this context, Joseph Biden stressed that Russia and the U.S. share a special responsibility for ensuring stability in Europe and around the world, and that Washington has no intention of using offensive weapons in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin responded at length to the possibility, mentioned again by Joseph Biden, of imposing "large-scale" sanctions in the event of an escalation of the situation around Ukraine. He pointed out that this would be a grave mistake that would risk a de facto complete breakdown of relations between Russia and the United States."(1)

The White House:

"President Biden called on Russia to de-escalate tensions with Ukraine. He made clear that the United States and its allies and partners will respond decisively if Russia further penetrates Ukraine.
President Biden also advocated for diplomacy, beginning early next year with the bilateral Strategic Stability Dialogue, at NATO through the NATO-Russia Council, and at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. President Biden reiterated that substantive progress in these dialogues is only possible in an environment of de-escalation, not escalation."(2)

Ten days earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivered in Brussels his Christmas/New Year's address:

"I would also like to take this opportunity to thank our veterans. Especially those who have served in Afghanistan. There have been no terrorist attacks on our countries organized from Afghanistan for over twenty years. We have to thank you for that. And I pay tribute to all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom."
Remember: On Oct. 7, 2001 - 25 days after 9/11 - the U.S., along with the U.K., attacked Afghanistan - although to this day there is no evidence of Afghanistan's complicity. And at the end of October 2001, warlord Rashid Dostum had 3,000 captured Taliban locked in 10 containers and than left to die in agony in the desert. Up to this day, no one has been held accountable for this.

Back to Stoltenberg:

"As we look to the new year and our summit in Madrid, we are adapting our alliance to meet a more dangerous and competitive world.
We stand ready to meet any threat and any challenge.
On land, at sea, in the air, in space, and in cyberspace."(3)
Two weeks earlier, Stoltenberg welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Brussels.
"Dear Volodymyr, it is good to see you again. Welcome to NATO. Ukraine is a highly valued partner of our Alliance...We have talked about Russia's considerable military buildup in and around Ukraine. ...There is no justification for this buildup. It is a provocation. It is destabilizing. And it undermines security in Europe."
At this point, it is worth recalling NATO's major maneuver Defender 21: a multinational, multiphase NATO military exercise that began in March 2021 and ended with the exercise in Georgia in August. It covered more than 30 areas in Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Kosovo and other countries. The focus was around or in the Black Sea.

Back to Stoltenberg Dec. 16, 2021:

"We call on Russia to return to diplomacy. To de-escalation. And to respect Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Any further aggression against Ukraine will have serious consequences. ... Since Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, we have carried out the largest strengthening of our collective defense in a generation."
Against this background, Willy Wimmer stated on Jan. 3, 2022: "I want to draw explicit attention to the fact that any negotiated solution is still possible. However, the order of negotiations, first Rus/US, then

Rus/NATO, then OSCE is not designed for a solution, as the chicken pile per se cannot serve that." According to W. Wimmer, the key questions are:

Will they succeed in strangulating Russia?
Will the U.S. continue to be prevented from a hostile takeover of Russia?
In U.S. President Biden's statements, Wimmer recognizes the intention: "Action by Ukraine on its territory against separatists, defense of Russian compatriots by Russian forces on Ukrainian territory, advance of Russian forces to Lviv. No NATO tanks would roll into Kiev, but the NATO embargo war against Russia would go "nuclear."(4)
The operational tools for war in Europe have been on the table since the fall of 2014. Following the Western-orchestrated coup in Kiev in late February 2014, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) pamphlet 525-3-1 "Win in a Complex World: 2020-2040" was adopted in October 2014. It identifies Russia and China as the primary threat.

On December 4, 2014, Resolution H. Res. 758 passed overwhelmingly (only 10 votes against) the U.S. Congress.

On the same day, Congressional legend Ron Paul commented on it on his homepage with the article "Reckless Congress 'Declares War' on Russia"(5):

"Today in the U.S. House of Representatives, in my opinion, one of the most evil pieces of legislation was passed".
With H. Res. 758, a resolution was introduced that, literally, "strongly condemns the actions of the Russian Federation under President Vladimir Putin as a policy of aggression against neighboring states aimed at political and economic dominance."(6)
And since the fall of 2014, among other measures, the infrastructure for a military confrontation in Eastern Europe has been expanded (this includes the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) in the military and infrastructural fields, launched by the EU in 2017). Rail links alone from Rotterdam/Bremerhaven/Hamburg to Kiev via Görlitz have been expanded far beyond normal transport needs.(7)
Paul Craig Roberts, as the title of his article indicates, sees an imminent threat of war. For him, NATO officials have given Putin's concern for Russia's security a long nose. He no longer makes out intelligence in the Western world as everyone vies to show how tough they are on Russia. Roberts interprets Putin's statement to mean that Russia no longer has a fallback position, that Russia has reached the extent of its ability to avoid war. "We simply have no room to retreat" means that Russia has done everything it can to avoid war and that Americans must now get off Russia's doorstep. According to Roberts, Putin is relying on Biden to show awareness and responsibility and to work for peace by acknowledging Russia's legitimate security concerns. "But what if," Roberts says, "Biden is just a figurehead and the military and security complex is calling the shots, intent on profit despite the risk that Putin will not relent?"(8)
What if Washington's interest is limited to destabilizing Russia in the interest of U.S. hegemony, and if Russia's security is precisely what Washington intends to undermine and not respect?
"2022 could be the year Washington's power is broken, Russia takes Ukraine in an act of self-defense, and China takes Taiwan as a demonstration of who is in charge in Asia.
2022 could also be the year the Western world goes down in a nuclear war."(9)

Notes:

1) http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67487
2) https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/30/statement-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-on-president-bidens-phone-call-with-president-vladimir-putin-of-russia/
3) https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_190293.htm
4) Willy Wimmer: Ticken die Uhren nach Genf anders? Vom 3.Janaur 202
5) http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/december/04/reckless-congress-declares-war-on-russia/
6) https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-resolution/758/titles
Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul (born 1935) is an American physician and politician, a member of the Republican Party and was a member of the United States House of Representatives between 1976 and 2013 (with interruptions). He was a Libertarian Party candidate in the 1988 U.S. presidential election and a contender for the Republican nomination in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.
7) https://www.lr-online.de/lausitz/weisswasser/neue-verkehrsader-an-neuer-bahntrasse-wird-weitergebaut-38162246.html
8)Paul Craig Roberts: AS THE OLD YEAR CLOSES, WAR AWAITS US IN THE NEW YEARhttps://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/12/30/as-the-old-year-closes-war-awaits-us-in-the-new-year/
9) Ebda.

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FALCOACCAME ci ha lasciato.

Tuesday, 21 December 2021 00:00 |

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Enrico Vigna, 14 dicembre 2021

Il 13 dicembre si è spento Falco Accame, ex deputato socialista e ammiraglio. Aveva 96 anni.

Con profonda commozione, a nome del Civg (Centro Iniziative per Verità e Giustizia) di cui è stato e rimarrà, con nostro grande onore, Presidente onorario, e del Forum Belgrado Italia di cui era parte, intendo salutare con queste righe, la scomparsa di un grande uomo, socialista e sinceramente democratico, eticamente integerrimo e instancabile combattente di mille battaglie per la verità e la giustizia. Un uomo semplice ma culturalmente profondo, che fino all’ultimo ha continuato ad essere “partigiano”, schierato cioè nelle battaglie, anche se impossibilitato a muoversi.
Ho avuto l’onore di essergli stato al fianco in questi ultimi trent’anni, in tantissime battaglie per i popoli aggrediti o calpestati, dalle protervie o arroganze imperiali e imperialiste. Falco aveva un profondo senso dello Stato, un profondo senso dei valori etici e della giustizia sociale, fermo difensore della nostra Costituzione nata dalla Resistenza, sempre al di là di logiche delimitanti, continuamente rivolto verso gli interessi dei ceti popolari, degli umili, degli ultimi.
Un socialista, non di partito, un socialista di valori sociali.
Dalle coraggiose scelte di continuare le battaglie con la Fondazione del generale Nino Pasti, suo grande amico e compagno, contro la NATO e tutte le guerre, alle migliaia di interpellanze, con cui investiva le commissioni difesa di qualsiasi tendenza e colore, sia quando era un parlamentare, ma anche dopo dall’esterno, nella battaglia per svelare il criminale uso delle armi all’uranio impoverito, che ha distrutto paesi, popoli ma anche militari italiani.
Sempre in prima linea in qualsiasi lotta contro le guerre. Nel 1999 fu uno dei pilastri del Tribunale Internazionale Ramsey Clark per i crimini di guerra NATO contro la Jugoslavia e fu sempre a disposizione per qualsiasi iniziativa di denuncia, lotta e solidarietà contro la NATO e la fianco di popoli aggrediti o oppressi, senza MAI un tentennamento o calcolo di utilità o opportunità.
Questa suo essere integerrimo e non disponibile a compromessi o accomodamenti, oltre ad essere emarginato dal suo Partito, aveva anche accumulato un forte rancore ed ostilità dagli apparati politici e dei Servizi di intelligence vari. Alla fine degli anni ’90, fu trascinato nello scandalo Mitrokhin, con l’accusa ai 261 indagati, di essere presunte spie italiane al servizio dell'intelligence russa. Una vera e propria resa dei conti verso coloro che non si allineavano a verità precostituite o funzionali alle politiche nazionali verso i paesi dell’allora campo socialista internazionale. Accame riteneva questa accusa talmente ridicola e irreale, che spesso al telefono rispondeva ironicamente con «…Pronto, sono la spia venuta dall’Est…».
Quando nove anni fa gli proponemmo di aiutarci nella costruzione del CIVG, non ebbe un attimo di dubbio a dare il suo nome e contribuire con articoli, materiali, consigli, sollecitazioni anche di spinta a fare, e spesso in dibattiti pubblici o televisivi si presentava coma Presidente del CIVG. Per noi questo era e resta un grande onore.

Il figlio Carlo in una nota, lo ricorda come autore di numerosi libri e Dossier sull’uranio impoverito, sul caso Moro, sulle questioni militari e della NATO, anche Presidente onorario del Centro di iniziative per la verità e la giustizia (Civg) e vice-presidente del Comitato Seagull per la sicurezza in mare…Durante la sua vita ha sempre amato capire la molteplicità di elementi che generano la “realtà”, approfondire, analizzare partecipando attivamente alla vita pubblica del paese con articoli, proposte di legge, dibattiti, manifestazioni. A 96 anni forse era venuto il tempo di lasciarci perché sentiva di non essere più in grado di combattere contro le ingiustizie» ha scritto.
Riporto la lettera inviata all’incontro costitutivo del CIVG tenuto il 22 settembre 2012:
Ai presenti ed aderenti all’incontro di costituzione del Centro Iniziative per la Verità e Giustizia, mando un saluto ed un plauso per questo tentativo di costruire un percorso collettivo sulla base di un programma serio e concreto, che vada al di là dei limiti e delle grettezze del tempo in cui viviamo e che ci circonda: guerre, corruzione, sfascio sociale, morale e politico.
Dall’alto della lunga esperienza di battaglie e lotte democratiche e civili, senza mai accettare accomodamenti o patteggiamenti di “opportunità personali”, avendo letto, condiviso e anche contributo con alcuni suggerimenti e indicazioni nel merito, circa le tematiche di lavoro proposte,
Auguro un buon lavoro nell’impostazione concreta per il raggiungimento degli obiettivi prefissati, che condivido e approvo, dando una mia disponibilità, per quanto mi è possibile, a sostenervi e collaborare sulle tematiche che hanno contraddistinto e contrassegnato la mia esistenza politica e civile, dalle questioni della pace e militari, a quelle dell’uso dell’uranio impoverito, su cui sono tuttora impegnato.
Fraterni saluti. Deputato, Ammiraglio Falco Accame - Roma, 20 Settembre 2012
Da www.civg.it : Deputato Ammiraglio Falco Accame
Presidente Onorario del Centro Iniziative per la Verità e Giustizia

Falco Accame è stato ufficiale superiore di marina e ha rappresentato l'Italia all'Unesco, al Congresso mondiale sulla percezione della minaccia del 1973 e si è distinto per le molte battaglie di denuncia dei retroscena affaristici e antidemocratici dell'organizzazione militare.
Nel luglio 1975 Accame si è dimesso dal comando della nave Indomito per protestare contro la gestione autoritaria del potere nelle Forze Armate.
Eletto alla Camera dei deputati nel 1976, nelle liste del Partito Socialista, è stato presidente e vicepresidente della Commissione Difesa nonché membro della commissione parlamentare di inchiesta sulle commesse militari.
Eletto anche come consigliere alla Regione Liguria e al Comune di Roma, è stato consigliere nazionale di Lega Ambiente.
Come Presidente della Fondazione Internazionale per la Pace Nino Pasti, ha rappresentato in Italia il Tribunale R. Clark per i crimini di guerra della NATO nella ex Jugoslavia.
Presidente dell'Associazione nazionale familiari delle vittime delle Forze Armate (Anavafaf).
Vice presidente del comitato Seagull per la sicurezza in mare e membro del comitato per la difesa e il rilancio della Costituzione.
Autore di numerosi saggi e articoli, è particolarmente attivo nella denuncia del ruolo poco chiaro esercitato in Italia dai servizi segreti alla dipendenza degli Stati Uniti e dei cambiamenti in atto nell'istituto militare, per renderlo più adatto a un ruolo aggressivo dell'Italia in ambito Nato sulla scena internazionale.
Compagno di Nino Pasti in molte battaglie di denuncia dei retroscena affaristici e delle finalità antidemocratiche dell’organizzazione militare, Accame è stato ufficiale superiore di marina e in questa veste ha diretto il gruppo di Ricerca Operativa Interforze e ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Unesco al Congresso Mondiale sulla percezione della minaccia del 1973. Nel luglio 1975 Accame si è dimesso dal comando della nave «Indomito» per protestare contro la gestione autoritaria del potere nelle forze armate.
Nell'ottobre 1999 viene reso pubblico il dossier dell'ex agente del Kgb Vasili Mitrokhin. Tra i politici presuntamente contattati dai servizi sovietici c'è anche Accame. Nel 1977 il Kgb lo avrebbe spinto a presentare un'interrogazione contro la presenza di sottomarini statunitensi in Sardegna. Quando è scoppiato lo scandalo Mitrokhin, Accame ha ostentato sicurezza ed ironia, definendo ridicola l'intera situazione. Alle telefonate dei giornalisti rispondeva: "Pronto, sono la spia venuta dall'Est".
Nella vicenda dell'uranio impoverito ha preso immediatamente posizione, facendone una battaglia che dura tuttora, chiedendo verità e giustizia. Non ha mai nascosto le sue critiche al lavoro della Commissione d'inchiesta guidata da Franco Mandelli.
Dotato di grande cultura e con un patrimonio acquisito di conoscenza documentale, Accame è stato un parlamentare molto attivo e incline alla polemica, sia nei confronti dei vertici militari che dei suoi stessi compagni di partito. Negli ultimi anni si è dedicato soprattutto allo studio delle nuove strategie di difesa non violenta e nella lotta per la pace. Un modo per coniugare la sua antica vocazione militare con la sua passione per i diritti civili.

Ci ha lasciati un grande combattente, un uomo tutto di un pezzo, un uomo che non solo scriveva, parlava, disquisiva, ma ogni giorno della sua intensa vita, ha fatto la sua parte, si è schierato e si è battuto, e come diceva Ramsey Clak, ex Procuratore degli Stati Uniti e presidente dell’omonimo Tribunale contro la Nato, divenuto poi suo amico e compagno di battaglie: “….“ La misura della vostra qualità come persone pubbliche, come cittadini, sta nella differenza tra ciò che fate e ciò che dite”.
Il mio ricordo è racchiuso in una sola parola: GRAZIE per ciò che ho ricevuto, come insegnamenti ed esempio etico, sociale e politico.
CIAO Falco, vola alto come nella tua vita. Enrico Vigna e tutto il CIVG

FALCOACCAME has left us.

Tuesday, 21 December 2021 00:00 |

Enrico Vigna, 14 december 2021

falco Falco Accame, a former socialist deputy and admiral, passed away on 13 December. He was 96 years old.
With deep emotion, on behalf of the Civg (Initiatives Center for Truth and Justice) of which he was and will remain, to our great honor, Honorary President, and active member of the Belgrade Forum Italy of which he was a part, I intend to greet with these lines the disappearance of a great man, socialist and sincerely democratic, ethically upright and tireless fighter of a thousand battles for truth and justice. A simple but culturally profound man, who continued to be a "partisan" up to the last, that is, deployed in battles, even if unable to move.

I had the honor of having been at his side in the last thirty years, in many battles for the peoples attacked or trampled on, by imperial and imperialist arrogance. Falco had a profound sense of the State, a profound sense of ethical values and social justice, a firm defender of our Constitution born from the Resistance, always beyond bounding logics, continually aimed at the interests of the working class, the humble, the least. A socialist, not from a party, but a socialist of social values. From the courageous choices to continue the battles with the Foundation of General Nino Pasti, his great friend and comrade, against NATO and all wars, to the thousands of interpellations, with which he invested the defense commissions of trend and color, both when he was a parliamentarian, but also later from the outside, in the battle to unveil the criminal use of depleted uranium weapons, which destroyed countries, peoples but also Italian military personnel. Always at the forefront of any fight against wars. In 1999 he was one of the pillars of the Ramsey Clark International Tribunal for NATO War Crimes against Yugoslavia and was always present for any initiative of denunciation, struggle and solidarity against NATO and the side of attacked or oppressed peoples, without NEVER hesitation or calculation of utility or opportunity. This of him being upright and not willing to compromise or accommodation, as well as being marginalized by his Party, had also accumulated a strong resentment and hostility from the political apparatuses and various intelligence services. In the late 1990s, he was dragged into the Mitrokhin scandal, accusing the 261 suspects of being alleged Italian spies in the service of Russian intelligence. A real reckoning towards those who did not align themselves with pre-established truths or functional to national policies towards the countries of the international socialist movements. Accame he considered this accusation so ridiculous and unreal that he often answered ironically on the phone with «... Hello, I am the spy from the East ...».

When nine years ago we proposed to him to help us in the construction of the CIVG, he did not have a moment of doubt to give his name and contribute articles, materials, and often in public or televised debates he presented himself as President of the CIVG. For us this was and remains a great honor.

In a note, his son Carlo remembers him as the author of numerous books and dossiers on depleted uranium, on the Moro case, on military and NATO issues, also honorary president of the Center for Truth and Justice Initiatives (Civg) and deputy -president of the Seagull Committee for safety at sea ... During his life he has always loved to understand the multiplicity of elements that generate "reality", to deepen, analyze by actively participating in the public life of the country with articles, bills, debates, demonstrations . At 96, perhaps the time had come to leave us because he felt he was no longer able to fight against injustices ", he wrote.

I report the letter sent to the constitutive meeting of the CIVG held on 22 September 2012:
To those present and adhering to the meeting for the establishment of the Initiatives Center for Truth and Justice, I send greetings and applause for this attempt to build a collective path on the basis of a serious and concrete program, which goes beyond the limits and narrow-mindedness of the time in which we live and that surrounds us: wars, corruption, social, moral and political ruin. From the top of the long experience of democratic and civil battles and struggles, without ever accepting settlements or settlements of "personal opportunities", having read, shared and even contributed with some suggestions and indications on the merits, regarding the proposed work issues, I wish you a good job in the concrete setting for the achievement of the set objectives, which I share and approve, giving my willingness, as far as possible, to support you and collaborate on the issues that have distinguished and marked my political and civil existence, from issues of peace and military, to those of the use of depleted uranium, on which I am still engaged.

Falco Accame was senior naval officer and represented Italy at Unesco, at the 1973 World Congress on Threat Perception and distinguished himself for the many battles to denounce the business and anti-democratic background of the military organization. In July 1975 Accame resigned from command of the Indomito ship to protest the authoritarian management of power in the Armed Forces. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1976, on the Socialist Party list, he was president and vice-president of the Defense Commission as well as a member of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into military orders. He was also elected as a councilor to the Liguria Region and the Municipality of Rome, and was the national councilor of the Lega Ambiente. As President of the Nino Pasti International Peace Foundation, he represented the R. Clark Tribunal for NATO War Crimes in the former Yugoslavia in Italy. President of the National Association of Families of the Victims of the Armed Forces (Anavafaf). Deputy chairman of the Seagull committee for safety at sea and member of the committee for the defense and revitalization of the Constitution. Author of numerous essays and articles, he is particularly active in denouncing the unclear role exercised in Italy by the secret services to the dependence of the United States and the changes taking place in the military institution, to make it more suitable for Italy's aggressive role in the field born on the international scene. Companion of Nino Pasti in many battles to denounce the business background and the undemocratic purposes of the military organization, Accame was a senior naval officer and in this capacity he directed the Joint Forces Operations Research group and represented Italy at Unesco at 1973 World Threat Perception Congress. In July 1975, Accame resigned from command of the ship "Indomito" to protest against the authoritarian management of power in the armed forces. In October 1999, the dossier of former KGB agent Vasili Mitrokhin was made public. Among the politicians allegedly contacted by the Soviet services is Accame. In 1977 the KGB would have pushed him to present a question against the presence of US submarines in Sardinia. When the Mitrokhin scandal broke out, Accame flaunted confidence and irony, calling the whole situation ridiculous. To phone calls from journalists he replied: "Hello, I am the spy from the East". In the case of depleted uranium he immediately took a stand, making it a battle that continues to this day, demanding truth and justice. He never hid his criticisms of the work of the Commission of Inquiry led by Franco Mandelli. Endowed with great culture and with an acquired patrimony of documentary knowledge, Accame was a very active parliamentarian and prone to controversy, both towards the military leaders and his party comrades. In recent years he has mainly devoted himself to the study of new non-violent defense strategies and the struggle for peace. A way to combine his ancient military vocation with his passion for civil rights.

He left us a great fighter, a man of one piece, a man who not only wrote, talked, debated, but every day of his intense life, did his part, took sides and fought, and as he said Ramsey Clak, former United States Attorney and president of the homonymous Tribunal against NATO, who later became his friend and companion in battles: "...." The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, lies in the difference between what you do and what you say ".
My memory is contained in a single word: THANK YOU for what I have received, as teachings and ethical, social and political example.

Appeal of the National Council of the Peace Movement - France For a European mobilisation on 8 and 9 January 2022

Friday, 17 December 2021 00:00 |

frr "For a Europe truly acting for Peace, climate, nuclear disarmament,
social justice, human rights and a dignified welcome for migrants".

On 12, 13 and 14 January 2022 the 27 defence ministers and 27 foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) will hold a summit in Brest (France) on defence and security issues. This summit is also likely to address the military aspects of the Ocean Summit to be held in February 2022 in Brest.

This meeting is therefore of crucial importance for the definition of the EU's strategic orientations in these areas and thus for peace we need.

According to initial public information, the following issues are likely to be discussed at the summit :

- The European "Strategic Compass" project discussed at the last
Council of Ministers of the European Union
- The creation of an EU rapid reaction force/external projection force
- The increase of national military budgets as requested by NATO
- Increase of the European Defence Fund
- The establishment of a maritime military presence in the Indo-Pacific region
- The implementation of a new SCAF air system for a minimum of 80 billion euros.
- The development and strengthening of Frontex

All these orientations will be defined, in compliance with the European treaties, and therefore in compliance with the strategic orientations of NATO as provided for in Article 42 of the Lisbon Treaty.

It is therefore the moment to act and to put forward proposals for Peace

Against the preparations for war that will undoubtedly be on the agenda of the European summit of 12, 13 and 14 January 2022 in Brest, let us contribute to the success of the demonstration of 9 January 2022 in Brest in the early afternoon.

To face the logic of war and militarisation let us demand:

- A Europe of Peace and stop the militarisation of the EU
- Means to fight against global warming and to protect life on the planet.
- The reduction of military expenditure and the satisfaction of social needs (education, hospitals, climate, public transport, wages, etc.)
- The elimination of nuclear weapons through the respect of article 6 of the NPT and the implementation of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty (NWT) which entered into force on 22 January 2021.
- The withdrawal of US atomic weapons from European soil (Germany, Italy, Belgium).
- The end of the EU's subordination to Nato (23 EU states are members of Nato).

The National Council of the french Peace Movement supports all the initiatives already planned by its committees and local collectives, particularly in the west of France.
It calls on all its committees to do their utmost to participate in the public demonstration in the streets of Brest on 9 January in the early afternoon or to organise actions in their town for committees that are too far away.

The National Council of the Peace Movement calls on partner or friendly organisations and movements in each country i Europen to contribute to the success of the two days of 8 and 9 January 2022 by being present in Brest on 8 and 9 January and/or by setting up public actions to give a
"European dimension to our common demand for a "Europe that really acts for Peace, climate, nuclear disarmament, social justice, human rights and a dignified welcome for migrants".

Le Conseil National du Mouvement de la Paix le 13 décembre 2021
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JOINT STATEMENT OF WORLD POLITICAL PARTIES, SOCIAL ORGANISATIONS AND THINK TANKS ON MAKING INDEPENDENT EFFORTS TO EXPLORE THE PATH TOWARD DEMOCRACY AND WORKING TOGETHER TO PROMOTE COMMON DEVELOPMENT

Monday, 13 December 2021 00:00 |

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Democracy represents an important achievement of humanity in the advancement of political civilisation, and development an eternal pursuit throughout human history. People of different countries and regions, through their unremitting explorations, have brought about distinctively varied forms of democracy and development paths, presenting a magnificent spectacle of flourishing human civilisations.

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Political parties, as they are in a position to build, preserve and develop democracy, have been charged with the important mission to realise democracy and promote development. In view of the above, we, the 351 political parties, social organisations and think tanks from 140 countries and regions, issue a joint statement to the whole world as follows:

I. We are of the view that the world we live in is a diverse and colorful one. Diversity is what defines the fascinating feature of human civilisations, and indeed the source of vitality and dynamism for the development of the world. The ways and means of realising democracy are varied. Since different countries and regions may not necessarily share the same history, culture, social system and development stage, there does not exist any system of democracy or pattern of development that is applicable to all countries. The practice of judging the rich variety of political systems around the world by a single yardstick, or observing the colorful political civilisations of the humanity from a monochromatic sight, is in itself undemocratic. Nor is it conducive to development.

II. We are of the view that the best way to evaluate whether the political system of a country is democratic and efficient is to observe whether the succession of its leading body is orderly and in line with the law, whether all people can manage state affairs and social, economic and cultural affairs in conformity with legal provisions, whether the public can express their requirements without hindrance, whether all sectors can efficiently participate in the country’s political affairs, whether national decisions can be made in a rational, democratic way, whether professionals in all fields can be part of the team of national leadership and administrative systems through fair competition, whether the ruling party can serve as a leader in state affairs in accordance with the Constitution and laws, and whether the exercise of power can be kept under effective restraint and supervision.

III. We are of the view that the judgement on whether a country is democratic hinges on whether the people can become the real masters of the country. While it is necessary to observe whether the people can enjoy the right to vote, it is even more important to observe whether their right of extensive participation is guaranteed. While it is necessary to observe what verbal promises the people get during election campaigns, it is even more important to observe how many of the promises are fulfilled after elections. While it is necessary to observe what political procedures and rules are stipulated in regulations and laws, it is even more important to observe whether these regulations and laws are rigorously enforced. While it is necessary to observe whether the exercise of power follows democratic rules and procedures, it is even more important to observe whether the exercise of power is truly subject to the supervision and restraint by the people.

IV. We are of the view that democracy is the right of all peoples, rather than an exclusive privilege of the few. The judgement on whether a country is democratic or not should be made by their people. We stand opposed to acts that interfere in the internal affairs of others in the name of democracy.

V. We are of the view that the point of departure as well as the goal of the development of human society should be to improve people’s wellbeing and to achieve well-rounded human development. The promotion of democracy should focus on the continuous realisation of people’s aspiration for a better life and the upliftment of their sense of fulfillment, happiness and security. Currently, countries need to especially strengthen cooperation in the fields of poverty alleviation, food security, COVID-19 response and vaccines, development financing, climate change and green development, industrialisation, digital economy and connectivity, and to accelerate the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, so that concentrated efforts are devoted to solve problems of the greatest, most immediate and most practical concern to the people. All countries and all peoples of the world deserve the opportunity and right to development. Efforts need to be made to promote inclusive development and ensure that no country is left behind.

VI. We are of the view that to make international relations more democratic is the trend of the times and the only way to realise this lies in putting true multilateralism into practice. As mankind is faced with various challenges and global issues, the effective response thereto can only be found in more inclusive global governance, more effective multilateral mechanism and more proactive regional cooperation. Better performance in the practice of multilateralism can always lead to better answers to the common problems facing humanity.

VII. We are of the view that efforts to build a human community with a shared future point the right direction to the development and progress of civilisation. The shared human values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom must serve as guidance in the endeavour to build such a community with a strong sense of responsibility for the future of humankind, so that countries with different social systems, ideologies, histories, cultures and levels of development can share interests, rights and responsibilities in international affairs and work together to build a better world.

Deeply aware of the joint mission placed on our shoulders to promote democracy and improve people’s livelihood, we undertake to work hand in hand to rise above all kinds of differences, promote exchanges and mutual learning, enhance mutual understanding and build broad consensus, so that we continue to make our due contribution to the people’s wellbeing, national development, world peace and human progress.

Obiettivi e personale occidentali in Serbia

Friday, 10 December 2021 00:00 |

Scritto da Zivadin Jovanovic
09 novembre 2021

ziv-jov-dodela È indiscutibile che gli Stati Uniti, il Regno Unito e la Germania abbiano interessi geopolitici strategici nei Balcani e soprattutto nei confronti della Serbia, che, come dimostra la storia recente, sono contrari agli interessi vitali della Serbia e del popolo serbo (sovranità e integrità territoriale, diritti della RS, politica esterna e interna indipendente).

Nell'attuare la loro strategia, la cui essenza è il dominio, applicano vari metodi e mezzi, dall'adulazione e "incoraggiamento" al ricatto, alla divisione, alle sanzioni e alla forza militare. Incorporare il "popolo serbo” utilizzando personale compiacente nelle strutture governative, da un lato, e prevenire il posizionamento degli avversari, dall'altro, è parte integrante della tecnologia del dominio. L'interferenza più diretta nell’organico della struttura serba inserendone dei filo –occidentali, è avvenuta durante il colpo di stato del 2000, quando gli americani e gli ambasciatori dei “cinque” inserirono nella struttura del governo elementi filo-occidentali riempiendo alcuni dipartimenti statali; (ricordiamo i famosi incontri nel "Businessmen's Club", a Dedinje). È noto anche il “contributo” del generale Nato, consigliere del ministero della Difesa per la riforma dell'Esercito serbo. Il “contributo del generale NATO” ebbe l’effetto di far ritirare tutti i generali e gli ammiragli, che parteciparono alla difesa del paese contro l'aggressione della NATO nel 1999, così facendo assicurarono che posizioni importanti nell'esercito fossero occupate da persone che erano loro fedeli. Così, l'esercito serbo, fu rovinato, disarmato e umiliato, l'intero sistema di difesa fu distrutto e il paese fu privato dei migliori capi militari. Questa scelta, che costituì un cambio totale del personale sia civile che militare, fu sperimentato in quasi tutti i compartimenti dello stato serbo, compresi gli affari esteri, la sicurezza dello stato e l'economia. Sebbene siamo un paese militare neutrale e indipendente, i consiglieri dei paesi della NATO sono stati portati in molte istituzioni. I ministri degli esteri, apertamente filo-occidentali e filo-NATO, hanno letteralmente espulso i diplomatici più professionali, abolito il servizio di intelligence straniero (SID) e le comunicazioni criptata con il DCM, spiegando che non ci sono segreti in uno stato "democratico" (leggi - filo-occidentale)! Un tale grado di umiliazione e adulazione collaborativa non è mai stato registrato nella storia secolare dello stato serbo. WikiLeaks è piena di testimonianze sul comportamento ambiguo e falso dei nuovi quadri, ormai apertamente filoamericani, che ebbero atteggiamenti e pratiche orientate al più bieco servilismo nei confronti degli invasori Tutto era camuffato da “difesa reale della Serbia”, da "democratizzazione", "europeizzazione", "vita migliore", "prevedibilità", "politica responsabile" e altre frasi ipocrite.
È stato più volte affermato che grandi potenze, come USA, Regno Unito e Germania, non cambiano strategia e geopolitica pur se cambiano i loro governi); il loro apparente cambiamento è solo un espediente tattico e temporaneo e mutano subito quando incontrano ostacoli più seri. Potremmo dire, con qualche semplificazione, che i loro obiettivi geopolitici e strategici sono sempre gli stessi: ieri e oggi.
In una parola: "Restraint", cioè l'indebolimento del fattore serbo nei Balcani perseguendo l’obbiettivo di approfondire e consolidare le divisioni esistenti tra il popolo serbo e la Serbia come Stato ed intensificare i preparativi per una nuova frammentazione dei popoli e dei territori cercando di cambiare la coscienza del popolo serbo e portandolo ad abbandonar i valori nazionali, culturali, morali e spirituali, operando una revisione della storia a danno dei serbi ed in più di ottenere una revisione o, possibilmente, una abrogazione della risoluzione 1244 del Consiglio di sicurezza dell'ONU e dell'accordo di Dayton-Parigi, con conseguente riconoscimento dell'indipendenza del Kosovo e Metohija e creazione di una BiH unitaria abolendo i diritti acquisiti del popolo serbo e attuando il predominio del fattore musulmano. Il progetto è poi quello di cacciare Russia e Cina dalla Serbia e dai Balcani e portare la Serbia ad aderire alla NATO.

Gli Stati Uniti, il Regno Unito e la Germania, con la loro pratica decennale, dimostrano di non accettare la Serbia come Paese europeo sovrano, indipendente ed egualitario. Resta inteso che negheranno pubblicamente tali valutazioni, e metteranno in risalto le amichevoli intenzioni, i "valori comuni", le potenzialità della Serbia, il valore delle donazioni e degli investimenti, il volume degli scambi commerciali e molto altro. Tuttavia, in pratica, per loro, la Serbia è un paese a sovranità limitata, senza confini riconosciuti, in cui è diventata membro dell'ONU, dell'OSCE e di altre organizzazioni internazionali. A loro avviso, alla Serbia non deve essere consentito di perseguire una politica estera indipendente e un partenariato strategico con Russia e Cina. Invece di scusarsi per l'aggressione illegale nel 1999 per le vittime umane e per compensare i danni di guerra, quei paesi stanno facendo pressioni sulla Serbia perché riconosca che, è solo sua la responsabilità per tutto ciò che è successo!

Per imporre questa geopolitica del dominio e perseguire, i loro interessi e i loro obiettivi, cercheranno, in futuro e in vari modi, esecutori e personale per inserirlo in tutte le importanti istituzioni e domini nella gestione dello stato serbo. Non credo che le liste dei quadri idonei a ciò, siano poco numerosa, in quanto i responsabili a questo scopo delle nazioni occidentali, hanno una ricca esperienza e un elaborato sistema di preparazione, selezione e schieramento di vassalli capaci.
Con la politica del "ritorno nei Balcani" e dell'"espansione verso est", "il personale" in Serbia sta senza dubbio diventando una grande sfida per i servizi occidentali. Il problema nasce dal fatto che l'attuale livello di interferenza è stato difficile da sopportare e che è stato esposto in modo significativo in pubblico. Ricordiamo la vicenda "con elementi di estraneità", poi, le dichiarazioni pubbliche di rappresentanti del governo che ci sono agenti stranieri nel governo, che funzionari di alcuni servizi hanno fatto cose inammissibili "in collusione con servizi occidentali" e simili.

Un altro problema è che le potenze occidentali non accettano nuove realtà nel fissare i propri obiettivi, sfere di influenza, mezzi e modi per raggiungerli. Riguardano, in primo luogo, i mutati equilibri di potere sulla scena mondiale ed europea con la comparsa di nuovi, inevitabili fattori globali, e poi, almeno in parte, il mutato programma della politica estera e degli interessi economici esteri della Serbia oggi; considerando il fatto che esiste una tendenza, in alcuni quadri dirigenti serbi a schierarsi, quasi completamente, con gli interessi e la strategia dell'Occidente (NATO, UE). La Serbia vuole certamente buone e migliori relazioni con l'Occidente, ma non a costo di indebolire il partenariato strategico con Russia, Cina, India o con altri paesi di crescente potenza. Il potenziale di ricatto su cui l'Occidente ha fatto affidamento a lungo nella sua politica nei confronti della Serbia e del popolo serbo non è oggi lo stesso di 20 anni fa. Anzi, il tempo e le relazioni odierne indicherebbero piuttosto che l'Occidente riconosce più apertamente le proprie carenze e gravi errori in relazione alla Serbia e al popolo serbo, piuttosto che rilanciare metodi anacronistici della Guerra Fredda e dell'ordine unipolare. Accettare la Serbia e il popolo serbo come un partner importante e indipendente nei Balcani, riconoscerne gli interessi vitali e, soprattutto, la sovranità e l'integrità territoriale, correggere gli errori del passato, è l'unico modo giusto per stabilire una fiducia reciproca e una cooperazione globale.

Le forze e i servizi stranieri possono ancora provare a "incorporare" i "loro favoriti" nelle strutture delle istituzioni serbe in conformità con i loro obiettivi e interessi, anche se ciò sarà sempre più difficile. Tuttavia, ancora più importante è la questione di quale sarà la politica del personale serbo. Deve essere guidato da conoscenze e competenze e non da lealtà di partito o personali. Le barriere più efficaci contro l'interferenza e l'influenza straniera sono: in primo luogo, una strategia coerente di indipendenza, sovranità, integrità territoriale e processo decisionale autonomo; secondo, risolvere le questioni aperte attraverso il dialogo, pacificamente, sulla base del diritto internazionale, degli accordi validi e delle decisioni del Consiglio di sicurezza dell'ONU; terzo, buon vicinato e apertura alla cooperazione con tutti i paesi e integrazioni sulla base dell'uguaglianza e degli interessi reciproci; e, quarto, la selezione dei più capaci, il personale più professionale e fedele alla Serbia per raggiungere gli obiettivi dichiarati. Per ora la tendenza attuale è ancora quella di eleggere individui in posizioni di responsabilità nello Stato legati a interessi vari e lobby, ciò è estraneo, controproducente e incompatibile con il principio di indipendenza. Dobbiamo lavorare affinché il personale abbia competenza, professionalità e sicurezza.

Belgrado, 8 novembre 2021

da Politika

Traduzione a cura del Forum Belgrado Italia/CIVG

Source: www.civg.it

The world on the brink of war

Friday, 10 December 2021 00:00 |

Wolfgang Effenberger

On Friday 3thrd December 2021, the seventh round of the mentioned talks over the ongoing talks between Iran and the group 4+1 (Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China) in Vienna has ended after five days of continued negotiations including two days for "sanctions removal working group" and "nuclear working group".
Based on reports, Iran has delivered two documents to the group 4+1 containing Tehran's conditions to pave the ground for further cooperation to settle both sides' concerns. In response, representatives of the group 4+1 nations have preferred to go back to their capitals for more consultations.
On July 14, 2015, after years of persistent negotiations, the E3 (Germany, France, UK) +3 (US, Russia, China) and Iran were able to resolve the dangerous conflict over Iran's nuclear program through negotiations with the Vienna Nuclear Agreement (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPoA) - apparently a stellar moment for diplomacy (German foreign ministry ).
But only 9 month ago, in October 2014, the demons of 1914 had reared their ugly head again: The U.S. long-term strategy paper "TRADOC 525-3-1 Win in a Complex World 2020-2040" highlighted emerging threats:

„While the United States must assess new and emerging threats, many current operational challenges will exist into the future. Harbingers of future conflict include competing powers (e.g., China and Russia), regional powers (e.g., Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)), transnational terrorist networks (e.g., al Qaida, its affiliates, and transnational criminals), and cyber threats. The following are examples only and illustrate a limited number of threats for which future Army forces must prepare.

China

China’s goal over time is to expand its influence to establish stability along its periphery.While China prefers to avoid direct confrontation with the U.S., it uses civilian assets to challenge actions such as U.S. surveillance flights. Moreover, China’s behavior has created friction with regional neighbors including U.S. allies and partners

Russia

Russian annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and use of conventional and unconventional land forces in Ukraine suggest that Russia is determined to expand its territory and assert its power on the Eurasian landmass. Russia deployed and integrated a range of diplomatic, information, military, and economic means to conduct what some analysts have described as “non-linear” operations. Russia conducted operations to pursue its war aims below the threshold that would elicit a concerted North Atlantic Treaty Organization response. In addition, Russia used cyberspace capabilities and social media to influence perceptions at home and abroad and provide cover for large-scale military operations. While the long-term results of the incursion into Ukraine are not yet certain, Russia demonstrated the centrality of land forces in its effort to assert power and advance its interests in former Soviet states. Without a viable land force capable of opposing the Russian army and its irregular proxies, such adventurism is likely to continue undeterred.

Iran

Iran's management of its nuclear aspirations will shape its role as a rising power in the Middle East. Iran, empowered by expanding sectarian conflicts in the greater Middle East, poses a hybrid threat to U.S. interests and allies in the region. As it continues to apply pressure on the region to erode and supplant U.S. power, Iran uses combinations of economic and diplomatic overtures with irregular forces to advance its interests. Iran develops partnerships with disenfranchised populations, religious factions, and criminal elements to create disorder focused on subverting the influence of the U.S. and partner nations. Iran avoids direct military confrontations while developing advanced capabilities and pursuing comprehensive military modernization. Iran’s modernization efforts include the use of automated systems on land, sea, and air; ballistic missiles; and the development of nuclear capability.“
In the meantime, the dangers arising from the rearmament and the confrontation between the "West" (USA, NATO, EU) and Russia and China, which is becoming more and more evident, are becoming more and more apparent.

On November 8, 2021, for the first time since the end of the Cold War, the 56th U.S. Artillery Command was reactivated - a major United States Army unit based in the Mainz-Kastel district of the city of Wiesbaden, reporting to a two-star general. The commander, Major General Stephen Maranian, stated on November 3, 2021, "The reactivation of the 56th Artillery Command will provide U.S. forces in Europe and Africa with significant capabilities for multidomain operations...It will also enable synchronization of joint and multinational fires and effects, as well as the employment of future ground-to-ground long-range fires."
On November 10, 2021, under the headline "Dark Eagle has landed," the British newspaper The Sun reported on a U.S. nuclear force reactivated with hypersonic long-range Dark Eagle missiles in Germany for the first time since the Cold War.

The U.S. activates a nuclear unit in Germany. (Screenshot via The Sun)

According to the U.S. Army, Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) are intended to ensure that joint forces [Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Space Force] can "meet and defeat a near-equal adversary capable of attacking the United States in all domains [air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace], both competitively and in armed conflict." The concept also describes how U.S. ground forces will be able to meet and defeat adversaries in the future. The concept goes on to describe how U.S. ground forces, as part of the joint and multinational team, can deter and defeat highly capable, peer adversaries in the 2025-2050 timeframe. To that end, multi-domain operations are intended to provide commanders with numerous options "for conducting simultaneous and sequential operations using surprise effects and the rapid and continuous integration of capabilities across domains to plunge the adversary into multiple dilemmas to gain physical and psychological advantage as well as influence and control over the operational environment."

The Sun reportet on 4. August 2021:

Today, we are witnessing a throwback to one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, when in the early 1980s the rearmament resolution was rushed through and the obsolete Pershing I missiles were replaced by the Pershing II. The increase in range from 800 to 1200 kilometers was not dramatic for the layman, but it was for the experts in the Kremlin. Because now the bunkered command posts around Moscow could be taken out in just a few minutes. Reagan's dream of a decapitation strike had become reality. In Washington, the vision "Victory is possible" haunted the halls of the Capitol.
The reactivation of the 56th U.S. Artillery Command is logical and the threat to Russia posed by Germany is compelling. The consequences of a Third World War for Germany and Russia will far exceed all the suffering and misery of the 20th century.

It is time to finally form a community of nations born of the will for peace.
This will only be possible, When people stop being frightened, when they start questioning the harmless mask of „defense“policy and say goodbye to a one-sided culture of remembrance, which in reality is the cloak of forgetting and a hotbed of appeasement.(10) At this point I would like to remind you of Joseph Fischer, who justified the war of aggression against Serbia, which was contrary to international law, with "Never again Ausschwitz".

Without truthfulness towards history there can be no sustainable peace. For a peaceful coexistence of the European states in the Council of Europe, the imperial plans of a small plutocratic US/UK elite must be stopped.

https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/aussenpolitik/laender/iran-node/wiener-nuklearvereinbarung-atomprogramm-iran/202458
(https://usacac.army.mil/sites/default/files/publications/Army%20Operating%20Concept%202014%20%28TP525-3-1%29.pdf, p. 10-12)
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/us-army-reactivates-56th-artillery-command-in-europe
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16695568/us-nuclear-germany-eagle-hypersonic-missiles-moscow/
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/IF11409.pdf
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/IF11409.pdf
Chris Bradford: Biggest US Navy war games in 40 years to prepare for WW3 across 17 times zones amid tensions with Russia, China and Iran 4 Aug 2021 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15777064/biggest-us-navy-drills-40-years-world-war-three/

FORUM IN BEIJING - Zivadin Jovanovic

Thursday, 09 December 2021 00:00 |

FORUM IN BEIJING
Strengthening People-to-People Exchanges and Cooperation,
Promoting Solidarity and Development December
9th 2021
Beijing Time: 15:30-17:00
Belgrade Time: 8:30-10:00

Zivadin Jovanovic,
President of the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals

Honorable Mr. Speaker,
Dear Friends,
First of all, I would like to express sincere thanks to our host, the Secretariat of Silk Road NGO Cooperation Network (SIRONET) for the kind invitation. It is, indeed, great honor for me to be able to participate and to convey the best wishes of the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals and of the Silk Road Connectivity Research Center (COREC), for successful work of this important Forum.
I take this opportunity to once again congratulate historic Jubilee of 100 years of the foundation and tremendous achievements of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Under the leadership of CPC, China has fulfilled the First Century Goal of building moderately prosperous society glorious in all aspects. We are convinced that China will be equally successful on a new journey toward the Second Century goal to build a modern socialist country.
Steady people centered CPC strategy made it possible to eliminate poverty, uplift living standard of people and, at the same time, build Chinese economy second largest in the world. It is globally recognized that the policy of opening up and reform has been of crucial importance for all magnificent achievements. Building scientifically system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, pursuing unique overall social, economic, scientific, technological and cultural development and maintaining stability, in parallel, has become well of inspiration for many developing countries faced with challenges similar to those of China in the past century.
Today China is the global leader of peace, inclusive global development and the New Multi-polar World Order based sovereign equality and noninterference in internal affairs.
Dear Friends,
The theme of our today’s forum - Strengthening People-to-People Exchange and Cooperation, Promoting Solidarity and Development, generally speaking, has always been important. In this era of historic global changes, growing interdependence, challenges and serious crises, however, the need for people-to-people connectivity has become one of the essential preconditions for achieving sustainable common wellbeing and prosperity of the whole humanity. China’s understanding of solidarity and global development is reflected in many fields and aspects. China has been the only country in the world providing global assistance to other countries and nations all. While some of the richest countries have shown inward and even egoistic approach, China acted openly sending doctors, vaccines and equipment to every corner of the world while successfully continuing fight for prevention and control of pandemic at home. The best illustration of China’s attitude toward global development is the global BRI initiative supported by 120 countries and 40 international organizations, 16+1 format of cooperation and greatest contribution to the UN 2030 Development agenda.

Dear Friends,
Olympics have always been symbol of peace, togetherness, mutual understanding and friendship. Some Western countries, however, are trying to abuse the forthcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing for narrow political purposes and meddling in internal affairs of China, thus trying to sew misunderstanding discord and divisions. Our answer is – such attitude is unacceptable, counterproductive. The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will be the great global contribution to People to people exchange.

There is particular a reason today, to say that the contemporary world is not in need of divisions, new alignments exclusive clubs, power politics. The world and humanity are in need of understanding, partnership and solidarity in solving common challenges, such as, Covid 19 pandemic, climate changes, looming socio-economic crisis, massive migration and terrorism. Everybody should understand that every country has the right to freely choose own socio-economic system, internal and foreign policy. Nobody has the right to prescribe what is democracy and what is not. Democracy is not export commodity. It cannot be imposed by force or blackmail. More than ever, we need intensification of direct exchange and contacts in the fields of health, culture, education, science, sports, publishing. Geographic distances remain relevant for transport, logistics and physical connectivity, in general. Otherwise, as human beings, as inhabitants of the “global village”, we all are each other’s neighbor. Thus, in order to facilitate mutual understanding, to rid ourselves of any possible prejudices, to live and work in harmony, to free the space for interaction, creativity and synergy - we need to know each other much better. Therefore, there exist the vast field for activity and the need for appropriate contributions of different associations, think-tanks, scholars and research organizations. Our host CIRONET has already achieved remarkable results in initiating, uniting and coordinating the NGO activities not only within China but also on international level. This role has been all the more important in the period of Covid 19 pandemic which has appeared and continues to be, quite unexpected and unusual challenge. We fully support strengthening of such role of CIRONET and adaptation to the future realities.
The Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals and COREC have been cooperating with many other associations and think tank organizations in Serbia, Europe, Asia, America and China interested in strengthening People to people Exchanges and cooperation, promoting solidarity and Development, especially those from the countries along the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and within 1+16 cooperation format. Belgrade Forum is also one of founding members of SRTA (Silk Road Think Tank Association) established in 2016 in Shenzhen. Pandemic Covid 19 has adversely affected intensity of contacts but has not changed the substance and continuity of cooperation. Our positive approach to this cooperation has been reflected in our participation to various national and international conferences and forums (Tianjin, Heinan, Boa, China; Lichtenstein; Frankfurth, Germany; Belgrade, Serbia; Torino, Italy), in continuity we presented in national, Chinese and international mass media, in serving as a focal point and reference source to researchers of BRI. In addition, we have been publishing the works facilitating spread of knowledge, understanding and cooperation with China. COREC has already published the book titled “Connecting in Chinese Way”, authored by Ambassador Aleksandar Jankovic. Another two books - first titled “About Socialist System with Chinese Characteristics”, authored by Chinese scholar He Jiting, and second, titled “Strategic Partners: Serbia and China”, by Belgrade Forum, are in preparations.
We believe that we will be able to continue and further strengthen our cooperation in the field of people to people exchange. Two cultural centers, Serbian in Beijing and Chinese in Belgrade, will certainly encourage this process while no visa system established between our two countries a couple of years ago, has already removed one administrative braking device.

Dear Friends,
In closing, please allow me to say a few words on Serbia – China relations.
Serbia and China are guided by the same principles and objectives in international relations: peace, win-win cooperation, noninterference, inclusive development and multipolar World Order based on sovereign equality. The two countries have been traditional friends, developing mutually beneficial cooperation in many fields. During the historic official visit of the President Xi Jinping in June 2016 the two countries signed the document on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership which has been the basis for enlargement and further strengthening of bilateral and multilateral cooperation. Up to now China has committed over 6 billion of USD in modernization of Serbia’s infrastructure, industry, water purification, food production, health protection, security and defense. Two Chinese companies have become two largest exporters from Serbia – Steel factory “Hesteel”, Smederevo and “Zijin”, Bor. Serbia remains very active partner in the global Belt and Road Initiative and in CEEC+China cooperation format, since their inception. Two countries support each other in the UN and other international forums. Serbia. It is of strategic importance that China as the permanent member of UN SC is one of the steadiest supporters of Serbia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and solution of the status of the Province of Kosovo and Metohija in accordance with international law, especially, on the basis of UN SC resolution No. 1244, and that Serbia is firm in supporting One China Policy. Serbia is grateful to China for the large and unselfish assistance in preventing and controlling the Covid 19 pandemic, in terms of sending doctors, providing laboratories, vaccines, equipment and even medical factories. This was proof in practice as to how China views solidarity.

Thank you.

Why We Should Oppose the Democracy Summit

Wednesday, 08 December 2021 23:26 |

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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 2, 2021

The exclusion of certain countries from the U.S. “democracy summit” is not a side issue. It is the very purpose of the summit. And excluded countries have not been excluded for failing to meet the standards of behavior of those that were invited or the one doing the inviting. Invitees didn’t even have to be countries, as even a U.S. backed failed coup leader from Venezuela has been invited. So have representatives of Israel, Iraq, Pakistan, DRC, Zambia, Angola, Malaysia, Kenya, and — critically — pawns in the game: Taiwan and Ukraine.

What game? The weapons sales game. Which is the whole point. Look at the U.S. State Department website on the Democracy Summit. Right at the top: “‘Democracy doesn’t happen by accident. We have to defend it, fight for it, strengthen it, renew it.’ –President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.”

Not only do you have to “defend” and “fight,” but you have to do so against certain threats, and get a big gang in on the fighting to “tackle the greatest threats faced by democracies today through collective action.” The representatives of democracy at this amazing summit are such experts at democracy that they can “defend democracy and human rights at home and abroad.” It’s the abroad part that may make you scratch your head if you’re thinking of democracy as having anything to do with, you know, democracy. How do you do it for some other country? But keep reading, and the Russiagate themes become clear:

“[A]uthoritarian leaders are reaching across borders to undermine democracies — from targeting journalists and human rights defenders to meddling in elections.”

You see, the problem is not that the United States has long been, in reality, an oligarchy. The problem is not the U.S. status as top holdout on basic human rights treaties, top opponent of international law, top abuser of the veto at the United Nations, top incarcerator, top environmental destroyer, top weapons dealer, top funder of dictatorships, top war launcher, and top coup sponsor. The problem is not that, rather than democratizing the United Nations, the U.S. government is attempting to create a new forum in which it is, uniquely and even more than before, more equal than everybody else. The problem is certainly not the rigged primary election that Russiagate was concocted to distract from. And in no way whatsoever is the problem the 85 foreign elections, counting just those we know of and can list, that the U.S. government has interfered in. The problem is Russia. And nothing sells weapons like Russia — though China is catching up.

The oddest thing about the democracy summit is that there will not be a democracy in sight. I mean not even in pretense or formality. The U.S. public votes on nothing, not even on whether to hold democracy summits. Back in the 1930s the Ludlow Amendment almost gave us the right to vote on whether any war could be started, but the State Department shut that effort down decisively, and it’s never returned.

The U.S. government is not just a system of elected representation rather than a democracy, and a highly corrupted one that fundamentally fails to represent, but it’s also driven by an anti-democratic culture in which politicians routinely brag to the public about ignoring public opinion polls and are applauded for it. When sheriffs or judges misbehave, the main criticism is usually that they were elected. A more popular reform than clean money or fair media is the anti-democratic imposition of term limits. Politics is such a dirty word in the United States that I received an email today from an activist group accusing one of the two U.S. political parties of “politicizing elections.” (It turned out that they had in mind various voter-suppression behavior, all too common in the world’s beacon of democracy, where the winner of every election is “none of the above” and the most popular party is “neither.”)

Not only will there be no national democracy in sight. There will also be nothing democratic happening at the summit. The handpicked gang of officials will not vote or achieve consensus on anything. The participation in governance that you could find even at an Occupy Movement event will be nowhere to be seen. And neither will there be any corporate journalists shrieking at them all “WHAT IS YOUR ONE SINGLE DEMAND? WHAT IS YOUR ONE SINGLE DEMAND?” They already have several completely vague and hypocritical goals on the website — produced, of course, without a shred of democracy being employed or a single tyrant being harmed in the process.

Not wishing to impose thousands of pages on you, let me select at random just one of the invitees to the Democracy Summit as identified by the U.S. State Department: the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Here’s is just a bit of how the State Department describes the DRC in the last year:

“Significant human rights issues included: unlawful or arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings; forced disappearances; torture and cases of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary detention; political prisoners or detainees; serious problems with the independence of the judiciary; arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy; serious abuses in an internal conflict, including killing of civilians, enforced disappearances or abductions, and torture and physical abuses or punishment, unlawful recruitment or use of child soldiers by illegal armed groups, and other conflict-related abuses; serious restrictions on free expression and the press, including violence, threats of violence, or unjustified arrests of journalists, censorship, and criminal libel; interference with the rights of peaceful assembly and freedom of association; serious acts of official corruption; lack of investigation and accountability for violence against women; trafficking in persons; crimes involving violence or threats of violence targeting persons with disabilities, members of national, racial, and ethnic minority groups, and indigenous people; crimes involving violence or threat of violence targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex persons; and existence of the worst forms of child labor.”

So, maybe it’s not the “democracy” or the human rights. What could it be that gets you invited to these things? It’s not anything. Of 30 NATO countries, only 28 plus various countries targeted for addition, made the cut (Hungary and Turkey may have offended someone or failed to buy the right weapons). The point is simply to not invite Russia or China. That’s it. And both have already taken offense. So success is already achieved.

Source: https://worldbeyondwar.org/why-we-should-oppose-the-democracy-summit/

An interesting letter on the East-West conflict by Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Jochen Scholz

Wednesday, 08 December 2021 22:23 |

⁶ https://www.nato.int/docu/comm/49-95/c900706a.htm

Jochen Scholz ¹ was a professional officer in the German Air Force until 2000. During his career he worked for many years in NATO committees, multinational NATO staffs and in the German Ministry of Defense. Later, Scholz was active in the peace movement and since then has also repeatedly spoken out critically on current developments. Now Jochen Scholz has written a letter to a member of a regional german parliament, which contains an immense number of interesting facts about the build-up to the East-West conflict. We are pleased to be able to publish this piece of writing for our readers.

The reason for my mail to a member of a regional parliament was, on the one hand, his letter to the editor of the FAZ ² , which shows that he has adopted the propaganda in the German mainstream press about aggressive Russia and is obviously completely clueless as to why relations between Germany and the Russian Federation are so desolate. Second, to clarify what to make of the NATO Secretary General's claim of a military threat to Ukraine from Russian troops, as recently voiced by retired Lieutenant General Brauß ³.
Brauß was NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Defense Policy and Force Planning from 2013 to July 2018. Today, he is a "Senior Associate Fellow at DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations), working in the fields of European security and defense, NATO development, and NATO-EU cooperation." ⁴

Some notes and clarifications have been added to the original mail for better understanding

Dear Mr..
Looking at your professional and political background, I am somewhat surprised at the vehemence with which you obviously hold Russia responsible for the security situation in Eastern Europe. That is courageous. However, one should never forget to ask what is action and what is reaction and, above all, not to confuse the two.
Let me give you a few pointers on this.

1. the telephone conversation between President Bush and Chancellor Kohl in May 1990 ⁵

2. the promised implementation (transformarion of NATO into a consultative body) at the following NATO summit in London ⁶

3. the Charter of Paris in the same year ⁷

4. And what happened next? With the Wolfowitz Doctrine, also known as the "No-Rivals-Plan", all agreements were turned into their opposite ⁸

All further strategy documents since that time have gone in the direction taken at that time.

NATO's eastward expansion today sees the alliance on the Russian border. Former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Jack Matlock, who participated in all the reunification negotiations in Moscow, commented, quote:

"I'm sure if Bush had been reelected and Gorbachev had remained president of the USSR, there would have been no NATO expansion during their tenure. There was no way to commit successors, and when Gorbachev was deposed and the USSR broke apart, their arrangements became moot." ⁹

The essence of NATO's eastward expansion was and still is evident from Willy Wimmmer's letter to then-Chancellor Schröder. He discusses the contents of the Bratislava conference in 2000, which was held on behalf of the State Department by the American Enterprise Institute, whose working group "Project for the New American Century " ¹⁰ published the strategy paper "Rebuilding America's Defenses" ¹¹ a few months later, to which only neocons contributed. Ten individuals from the working group served in the George W. Bush administration beginning in 2001, including Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz. The implementation of the Bratislava intentions occurred in 2002, and NATO was expanded to include the three Baltic states, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Slovakia.

Willy Wimmer's letter can be found here ¹² on pages 7 and 8.

Fifteen years after Bratislava, George Friedman, then head of the private intelligence agency STRATFOR, gives a talk at a Chicago think tank, puts on this slide in the subsequent press conference and declares as a constant goal of American foreign policy to prevent a prosperous German-Russian coexistence.¹³

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(Note: this excerpt from the subsequent press conference was edited by the authors for clarity with the yellow statements, the graphic appears from minute 11:10).

A year earlier, Friedman had already used the graphic in this STRATFOR article ¹⁴ under the title "THE NEW CONTAINMENT," thus reactivating the name for the strategy of containing the Soviet Union, the "Truman Doctrine" ¹⁵ which marked the beginning of the Cold War in 1947.
In this respect, one can imagine that after President Putin's 2001 speech in the German Bundestag ¹⁶ all alarm bells went off on the other side of the Atlantic.

Friedman's remarks could be called Continuity of History and Strategy, in reference to another term (Continuity of Government)

You are complaining about the development of Russian hypersonic missiles. Well, who unilaterally terminated the ABM Treaty in 2001 and at the same time started to deploy the AEGIS missile defense system in Eastern Europe and on ships? Should Russia have stood by, exposed itself to the U.S. blackmail calculus? A calculus that U.S. political scientists Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press describe as follows on page 22 of the analysis below ¹⁷, which also appeared in the leading U.S. foreign policy journal Foreign Affairs:

"Although both criticisms are cogent, even a limited missile shield
could be a powerful complement to the offensive capabilities of U.S. nuclear
forces. Russia has approximately 3,500 strategic nuclear warheads today, but if
the United States struck before Russian forces were alerted, Russia would be
lucky if a half-dozen warheads survived. A functioning missile defense system
could conceivably destroy six warheads. Furthermore, the problem of differen-
tiating warheads from decoys becomes less important if only a handful of sur-
viving enemy warheads and decoys are left to intercept. Facing a small
number of incoming warheads and decoys, U.S. interceptors could simply tar-
get them all."

To the point: Neutralizing Russia's second-strike capability through the missile defense system.
When the two authors presented their 2006 study at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam in 2007, not a single journalist from our major national newspapers was present.

A leap into the year 2021, as far as Russian troops on Ukraine's eastern border are concerned.
Do you know this decree of the National Security Council of Ukraine from March 2021? ¹⁸

"On the strategy of evacuation and reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
In accordance with the provisions of Article 4 of the Law of Ukraine "On the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine", the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, having considered the draft Strategy of de-occupation and reintegration of the Timorese occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, has decided:
1. recommendation of the draft strategy for de-occupation and reintegration of the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
2. requesting the President of Ukraine to approve the Strategy for Deconcentration and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol.
3. the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to develop and approve within three months a plan of measures for the implementation of the strategy for the evacuation and reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council O. Danilov".

Russia should not be allowed to react to this, especially since you can be sure that such decisions are not made in Ukraine without Washington's and London's approval or acquiescence?

I could go on citing a plethora of documents that refute your claims of Russia's aggression. However, I do have a few recommendations, however. First, reading Horst Teltschik's book "Russian Roulette" and reading Brzezinski's book "The Grand Chessboard"; then it will become clear why things have turned out the way Teltschik laments.
Secondly, you could drop by Jüchen and ask Willy Wimmer for a private lecture. Finally, in future you should not read FAZ comments and articles by journalists Kohler, Frankenberger, Veser, Busse, Friedrich Schmidt, Ross, Sturm, if they deal with Russia. In other major daily newspapers, too, you will be served exclusively transatlantic one-size-fits-all sauce. The times when Karl Feldmeyer ¹⁹ could still write editorials, like the one attached, are long gone.
The fact that I read this newspaper has other reasons than to inform myself about foreign policy. Namely, the breadth of the offerings in "State and Law," "Events and Figures," "The Order of the Economy," "Educational Worlds," to name a few, and now and then illuminating things in the feuilleton, as these two examples show

Reinhard Merkel²⁰ and Hans-Christof Kraus, the only German scholar who understood the basis of any U.S. strategy regarding the Eurasian continent ²¹

With kind regards

Jochen Scholz

In the light of current events, let us take another look at the situation in Ukraine. If it has not been possible - so far at least - to admit it to NATO, one cannot help thinking that the unresolved conflict over Donetsk and Luhansk should also remain unresolved from the point of view of some Western countries. For then a means is always at hand with which the Russian Federation can be accused of an aggressive policy. The most recent example is the failure to hold a meeting in the so-called Normandy format ²² , which was planned for November 11 and for which the German and French foreign ministers blamed Russia in a joint statement ²³ , without citing its reasons.

If the matter were not so serious, it could be dismissed as a farce. Foreign Minister Lavrov's collar has probably burst. Because after prior announcement to his partners, he made the diplomatic note exchange available to the international public ²⁴.

It is clear from it that the German and French sides had no intention to influence Ukraine to finally comply with its obligations under the Mink II Agreement ²⁵ of 2015 (!), which is applicable international law ²⁶ . This primarily concerns points 9, 11 and 12.
In this respect, Russia does not consider a meeting to be purposeful and thus obsolete. In Lavrov's words, "One gets the impression that this is also an attempt to create conditions for a radical revision of the Package of Measures in order to please Kiev, which has been refusing to comply with it in an official and public manner."

Final remark with regard to the German generalship, for which Lieutenant General Brauß quoted above stands pars pro toto. Since the war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999, which was contrary to international law, it has been clear that the Generals have surrendered their obligations under the German Soldiers' Act in Washingtonington and sin against Stauffenberg ²⁷ every year on July 20 in the Bendlerblock ²⁸ with unctuous words. The prospect of being retired with a decent pension is more unbearable for this group of people than the prospect of being shot was for the officer who tried to kill Hitler in 1944.
When will these functional elites, when will our politicians and scientists in the "think tanks" understand that German and European interests must be directed toward peaceful, orderly conditions on our Eurasian continent, instead of subordinating themselves to Anglo-American interests, which want to prevent just that?

¹ https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=78459
² https://www.britannica.com/topic/Frankfurter-Allgemeine-Zeitung
³ https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article235313842/Nato-Generalsekretaer-Jens-Stoltenberg-Koennen-nicht-annehmen-dass-dies-nur-ein-Bluff-ist.html
⁴ https://internationalepolitik.de/de/user/24884/heinrich-brauss
5 https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/6935350/National-Security-Archive-Doc-18-Memorandum-of.pdf
Quote President Bush: "He [Gorbachev] was also very interested in how NATO might change its doctrine, and I read him Article 2 of the NATO Charter, which Brian Mulroney had brought to my attention, just to show him the political nature of NATO. I think it will be crucial that we take steps at the NATO summit to convince him [Gorbachev] that NATO is changing in a way that does not threaten Soviet security."

⁷ https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/189558/21543d1184c1f627412a3426e86a97cd/charta-data.pdf
https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/0/6/39516.pdf

⁸ http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/world/us-strategy-plan-calls-for-insuring-no-rivals-develop.html
⁹ http://jackmatlock.com/2014/04/nato-expansion-was-there-a-promise/
¹⁰ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
¹¹ https://archive.org/details/RebuildingAmericasDefenses/mode/2up

¹² http://www.nato-tribunal.de/blaetter_wimmer.pdf
Quote from Willy Wimmer's letter to the then Chancellor Schröder on the most important statements of the speakers:
„The European legal order is an obstacle to the implementation of NATO considerations.
hindering. The U.S. legal system is more suitable for this purpose, even when applied in Europe.

The war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had been waged in order to revise General Eisenhower's wrong decision in the Second World War.
A stationing of US soldiers there had to be made up for strategic reasons.
The European allies had taken part in the war against Yugoslavia in order to be able to overcome the de facto dilemma arising from the Alliance's "New Strategic Concept" adopted in April 1999 and the Europeans' inclination towards a prior mandate from the UN or OSCE.

Notwithstanding the subsequent legalistic interpretation of the Europeans, according to which the war against Yugoslavia was an exceptional case of NATO's extended field of activity beyond the treaty area, it was of course a precedent that anyone could and would invoke at any time.
In the forthcoming NATO expansion, the spatial situation between the Baltic Sea and Anatolia must be restored to the way it was in the heyday of Roman expansion.

To this end, Poland must be surrounded to the north and south with democratic
neighbors, Romania and Bulgaria would have to ensure the land connection with
Turkey, Serbia (presumably for the purpose of securing a U.S. military presence) must be
be permanently excluded from European development.
North of Poland, the goal is to maintain complete control over access from St. Petersburg to the Baltic Sea.

In any process, the right of self-determination must be given precedence over all other rules orprovisions or rules of international law......................might shall prevail over right.
Where international law stands in the way, it is to be eliminated….When a similar development hit the League of Nations, the Second World War was no longer far away.
A way of thinking that sees its own interests so absolutely can only be called totalitarian. „

¹³ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ablI1v9PXpI
¹⁴ https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/estonia-azerbaijan-american-strategy-after-ukraine
¹⁵ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman-Doktrin

¹⁶ https://www.bundestag.de/parlament/geschichte/gastredner/putin/putin_wort-244966
English:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/21340

¹⁷ https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/files/publication/is3004_pp007-044_lieberpress.pdf

¹⁸ https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/1172021-37533
It was announced on 26 February by President Zelinskyy
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/zvernennya-prezidenta-ukrayini-z-nagodi-dnya-sprotivu-okupac-66821

19 Karl Feldmeyer, FAZ v. 23. 11. 202, Seite 1 „Das Ende der alten NATO“, Zitat:
„Was immer sonst noch zum Verhalten der Bundesregierung zur Irak-Frage zu sagen ist, das Verhalten der deutschen Bevölkerung zu diesem Thema hat auch deutlich gemacht, daß die Öffnung der Nato für eine Politik der militärischen Intervention für Deutschland spezifische Probleme schaffen kann. Sie gründen nicht nur in der Feststellung des Grundgesetzes, daß die Bundesrepublik Streitkräfte "zum Zwecke der Verteidigung" unterhält, sondern in der Prägung durch die nationale Geschichte. Zwei Weltkriege haben dazu beigetragen, den Begriff "Verteidigung" ganz eng auszulegen. Was andernorts als "präemptive Intervention" bewertet werden mag, kann sich in den Augen der Deutschen als Angriff ausnehmen - und den verbieten UN-Charta und Grundgesetz. Schon Bismarck verweigerte das "praevenire". Für diese Haltung brauchen sich die Deutschen nicht zu entschuldigen, schon gar nicht bei ihren Verbündeten, die einst Opfer deutscher Angriffe waren.“

Karl Feldmeyer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung v. 23. 11. 202, page 1 "The end of the old NATO“, quote:
"Whatever else may be said about the behavior of the German government on the Iraq issue, the behavior of the German people on this issue has also made it clear that the opening of NATO to a policy of military intervention can create specific problems for Germany. They are based not only on the Basic Law's statement that the Federal Republic maintains armed forces "for the purpose of defense," but on the imprint of national history. Two world wars have contributed to a very narrow interpretation of the term "defense." What may be considered "preemptive intervention" elsewhere may turn out to be an attack in the eyes of the Germans - and that is forbidden by the UN Charter and the Basic Law. Even Bismarck refused to "praevenire". The Germans do not need to apologize for this attitude, certainly not to their allies who were once victims of German attacks."

²⁰ http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/die-krim-und-das-voelkerrecht-kuehle-ironie-der-geschichte-12884464.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_2
Quote Reinhard Merkel, Professor of Criminal Law and Philosophy of Law University of Hamburg:
„Did Russia annex Crimea? No. Were the referendum in Crimea and its secession from Ukraine illegal under international law? No. Were they therefore legal? No; they violated the Ukrainian constitution (but that is not a question of international law). But shouldn't Russia have refused Crimea's accession because of this unconstitutionality? No; the Ukrainian constitution does not bind Russia. So were its actions in accordance with international law? No; in any case, its military presence in Crimea outside its leased territories there was contrary to international law. Does it not follow from this that the secession of Crimea, which was made possible by this military presence in the first place, was null and void and thus that its subsequent accession to Russia was nothing other than a masked annexation? No.“

²¹ http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/syrien-und-ihr-denkt-es-geht-um-einen-diktator-11830492.html
Hans-Christof Kraus, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History University of Passau, addresses the Syrian war and places it in the Anglo-American geopolitical strategies that are still valid today, based on Halford Mackinder's Heartland Theory, the title of the article is "And you think it's about a dictator.")
Heartland Theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_History

²² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_Format
²³ https://kiew.diplo.de/ua-de/aktuelles/-/2496302
²⁴ https://bit.ly/3I7XTVk

²⁵ https://www.bpb.de/201881/dokumentation-das-minsker-abkommen-vom-12-februar-2015
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/05/minsk-conundrum-western-policy-and- russias-war-eastern-ukraine-0/minsk-2-agreement

²⁶ https://www.un.org/depts/german/sr/sr_14-15/sr2202.pdf
https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/atf/cf/%7B65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3-CF6E4FF96FF9%7D/s_res_2202.pdf

²⁷ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Claus-Graf-Schenk-von-Stauffenberg
²⁸ http://www.slowtravelberlin.com/widerstand-berlins-german-resistance-memorial/

SERBIA AND CHINA –LASTING STEEL FRIENDS

Thursday, 02 December 2021 00:00 |

Activities - China

Zivadin Jovanovic, The Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals
November, 2021

1. First of all I would like to congratulate friendly people and the leadership of the Peoples Republic of China, historic jubilee of the 50th anniversary of the restoration of all its rights as the sole representative to the United Nations and all other international organizations. It is greatest achievement of the Peoples Republic of China in favor of peace, stability, universality of the UN and democratization of the world relations. Overwhelming support to the General Assembly’s Resolution 2758 reflected global recognition of reality and the truth that PR of China commands immense potentials for peace, equitable development, and maintenance of the law based world order and peaceful coexistence. These premises, in fact, represent basic UN principles and objectives. Thus, the world community adopted and ever since supported the policy of one China and refused any unilateral separatism as the threat to peace and stability. It was the most important step toward achieving universality of the UN since its foundation in 1945.
Today, 50 years after, the world needs again understanding of the new realities as it did in 1971. Cold war perceptions and prejudices are counter-productive.

2. Chinese people have experienced through history horrors of foreign aggressions, occupations and imposed foreign domination. This is why China has been investing tremendous efforts in safeguarding peace and stability in the world. Being the largest contributor to the UN peace keeping operations among the permanent members of UN SC and the second largest funding contributor to the UN and UN peacekeeping operations, China demonstrates in practice her continuous devotion to peace and solution of all international problems by peaceful means. As the permanent member of UN SC China has always advanced principled, constructive and conducive positions for peaceful, just and sustainable solutions of all disputes. We recall that in May 1992 China’s representative had not voted in favor of UN SC inhumane sanctions against FRF of Yugoslavia. Peace and global development are unthinkable objectives without equitable economic cooperation and inclusive development. In this regard, BRICS, Shanghai Organization for Cooperation, New Development Bank and a number of other new international institutions initiated, founded or cofounded by China, clearly illustrate China’s comprehensive approach to safeguarding peace and stability through cooperation and development. Peace through development and win win cooperation without any political, ideological or other preconditions, have become main features of China’s international policy.

3. NATO 1999 aggression against Serbia (FRY) was the peak of moral bankruptcy of the USA led Western Alliance. It was illegal act based on untruths. Illegal, because it was launched without authorization of the UN Security Council, in violation of the UN Charter, OSCE Final Document (1975) and International Law, in general. Based on untruths, because there was nothing of alleged “massive violation of human rights” of Albanian national minority in the autonomous region of Kosovo and Metohija, there was no alleged “massacre of civilians” in Rachak, there was no alleged “horseshoe plan” and so called “Rambouillet talks” were only cover up, alibi, to justify premeditated military aggression against one independent, sovereign, peace loving European country. In fact, NATO aggression was notorious abuse of alleged human rights for geopolitical expansion of NATO to the East. Thousands people (including three Chinese journalists in the premises of Chinese Embassy in Belgrade) had been killed, our economy, infrastructure, schools, hospitals, all destroyed, depleted uranium sewed to poise the soil, waters and air for billions of years. But, they also inflicted irreparable damage to the European and global UN security order established after the end of the Second WW. The time has come for the western powers to recognize historic mistake committed toward Serbia and Serbian people, to apologize for the crimes and pay the war damage estimated at over 100 billion USD.

It is of paramount importance for the UN to reinforce full respect of the international law, particularly UN Charter, to reaffirm the role of the Security Council as the highest authority for peace and security, to upgrade efficiency of preventive measures and, particularly, to stop any abuse of human rights for interfering in internal affairs of other countries.

Humanity of the 21 century is fed up of the policy of force, cold war alignments and perceptions, “theories” of limited sovereignty and exceptionality of any country or nation, reminiscent of not too glorious strategies of “higher races”. Multi polar, equitable and inclusive new world order is irreversible reality providing the ground for democratic, inclusive New World Order.

4. China’s success in eradicating poverty 10 years ahead of the target set up by the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is unique achievement of global importance for humanity. In the period of growing socio economic gaps and poverty, China’s success continues to attract worldwide attention and to inspire new approaches and strategies to future development. No doubt, that the system of socialism of Chinese characteristics placing people’s needs in the very center of development strategy have played primary role. Consequently, eliminating of poverty is historic contribution to human rights, be they of socio economic, political, or cultural. China’s multi millennium culture, deep rooted sense of humanity, justice and solidarity as well as Chinese people’s devotion their glorious identity, creativity and progress, have also contributed to this unprecedented achievement of eliminating poverty of millions of people.

5. Success of China in eradicating poverty is shining example of responsible approach to the internationally accepted objectives as well as encouragement to other governments and nations to reinforce their resources and energy in the same direction. China has proved that poverty is not human destiny but the challenge which can be resolved by appropriate strategy, including international coordination and solidarity. Eliminating poverty globally require active, coordinated and comprehensive approach. This includes openness of reach countries to reexamine their relative policies in practice, including redistribution and the level of budget funds for the elimination of global poverty. Generally, there is need for broader understanding that the poverty is often the source of instability, extremism, massive migrations, national and international conflicts. It is disturbing to see such level misunderstanding among political elites of some rich countries who believe that new walls, barb wired and militarized borders, destroyer fleet patrols and alike, are appropriate defense against massive migrations of desperate, hungry people from the war thorn countries and regions, primarily from Africa and Euro-Assia .

6. China is the leader in contributing to the global GDP growth, her contribution being higher than contribution of EU, USA and Japan together. The global Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched by the President Xi Jinping in 2013, supported by 140 countries and 32 international organizations, has further reinforced global role of China in recovering the world economy, reforming the global economic system to be based on equality, openness and inclusiveness.

Serbia and China being comprehensive strategic partners have been developing closest cooperation bilaterally and in international forums supporting one another. Serbia plays important role in the process of realization of BRI and cooperation format CEEC+China, under BRI, since its inception. The results are impressive. First Chinese bridges on European soil has been constructed in Serbia, first high speed railway Belgrade – Budapest (in progress by Chinese, Russian and Serbian companies), first steel factory (Smederevo), first thermo electric factory (Kostolac B), first Scientific - Industrial Park (Belgrade). First water purification factory, first Covid 19 laboratories. Hundreds of kilometers of modern highways in Serbia have been constructed by Chinese companies. In addition, Serbia is the first European country to have signed agreement with China on abolishment of entry visa system.
The newest statistics show that the two Chinese companies operating in Serbia, have become the largest exporters from Serbia – Zijin, Bor Copper and Gold Mining with 805,9 million euro- and HIBIS, Smederevo Steel Factory, with 619,6 million euro, in the period of January-October 2021. The both employ over 10.000 employees.
Thus, Serbia, actively cooperating with China, particularly taking part in the global BRI, as well as in CEEC+China format of cooperation, has intensified reindustrialization, modernization of infrastructure and economic growth, expansion of employment and trade. On the other hand, China has reinforced connectivity with European market, expanded trade and investments, as well as people to people exchange.

7. In the globalized world multilateralism has become the only viable framework for resolving the most important challenges of contemporary humanity. Peace, sustainable development, elimination of socioeconomic gap North-South, poverty, inevitable reforms of global governance and many other challenges are unthinkable without multilateral framework. United Nations have played vital role strengthening multilateralism; therefore it is of ultimate importance to 3further reinforce the UN role.

China has been and continues to be the strong and trusted supporter of multilateralism, strengthening of the role of UN, respect of UN Charter and basic principles of International law. Many strategically important initiatives of China, particularly in the fields of global, open and inclusive development, presented at the UN conferences have been adopted. China played exceptionally important role in overcoming severe consequences of financial and economic crises 2008-2012. In addition, China has been co-founder of a number of multilateral forums such as G-20, BRICS, NDB, AIIB and other regional or universal organizations clearly showing constructive position and full understanding of relevance and the role of multilateralism in the era of globalized world.
Any unilateralism, protectionism or exceptionalism are signs of misreading of new reality and future development needs. As the struggle to contain pandemic Covid 19 has proved, today and in the future, no one should believe to be self-sufficient and omnipotent. The need for openness, partnership and solidarity have become the order of the day.

8. Having regard to multiple crises, fundamental changes in the global relations, accumulation of global challenges and crises, in my opinion, the first and foremost step should be to normalize and intensify the dialogue among the leaders of the most responsible countries, meaning, among the leaders of of the countries - permanent members of UN Security Council. The aim would be to consider and prioritize global challenges with the view of their impact on the security and stability in the world, to find common denominator for the ways to stop further aggravation of the situation.

Some challenges and problems have been already considered at the multiple conferences under the UN auspices such as sustainable development, climate change, Covid 19 pandemic. Common positions have been taken, the documents adopted, but their implementation lags behind of what has been agreed, or is hindered because os some narrow interests. Only dialogue could help removing whatever obstacles and reaffirming common, coordinated action. The fact that only few percent of all anticovid 19 vaccines went to the less developed world must have long ago ignited red light, especially especially in the offices of the leaders western wealthiest countries. The burden of resolving problem of climate change can’t be carried by developing and pore countries but primarily by the most industrialized ones.

The President Xi Jinping’s proposal to build community of the shared future of mankind is visionary one comprising positive and constructive approach to the future, to building the new open and inclusive World Order free of any narrowness, national egoism or double standards. The proposal is based on the profound understanding of contemporary trends and proven experiences that nobody is self-sufficient. As Covid 19 pandemic has shown, nobody, rich or pore, big or small, militarily strong or weak on the planet can claim to be protected, isolated or exempted from calamities. To put it simply, all human beings and all nations are sovereign and equal , regardless of races, religions, or regional origins. Globalized reality calls for connectivity, solidarity understanding of interdependence; inward minded policies have become anachronism. This is why the President Xi Jinping’s conception of community of shared future, does have future.

9. China deserves highest recognition for extraordinary efficiency in putting under control Covid 19 pandemic. Having regard that China I the most populated country on the planet, this success was, at the same time important contribution in the global efforts to control the spread of pandemic to other regions of the world. It is already historic fact that China has been the first country in the world to globally provide direct assistance to other countries of the world in terms of medical personnel, disinfection materials diagnostic equipment, vaccines, masks… The scopes and quality of Chinese assistance, efficiency and perfection of distribution have set new world standards to be proud of.
China was the first country to help Serbia in this struggle which continues without certain terms of ending. First and foremost, we received teams of Chinese doctors and medical personnel for weeks working hand in hand with Serbian doctors and personnel. Providing masks at the beginning was soon replaced by sending machines for mask production. China has helped establishing the two diagnostic centers (Belgrade and Nis) known as “Fire Eyes” with the total capacity of 20.000 diagnoses a day. Finally, delivering of millions of vaccines from China is being replaced now by factory producing Chinese vaccines in Belgrade as the joint venture of China, Serbia and Arab Emirates.

Serbia and China are lasting steel friends.

At arms, the enemy is at the gates

Wednesday, 24 November 2021 00:00 |

ENEMY

Manlio Dinucci

The art of war

NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg met President Draghi on November 17 in Rome to address "the current security challenges" arising from "Russia's military build-up in and around Ukraine". Stoltenberg thanked Italy because it "contributes to our presence in the Baltic Region with the air policing and troops". The Italian Air Force - specifies the Ministry of Defense - has deployed at Ämari airport in Estonia F-35A fighters from the 32nd Wing of Amendola and Eurofighter Typhoon fighters from the 4th Wing of Grosseto, 36th Wing of Gioia del Colle, 37th Wing of Trapani, and 51st Wing of Istrana (Treviso). When Russian planes fly into the international airspace over the Baltic, usually heading for the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the Italian fighters receive an immediate take-off order from the NATO command on alert and within minutes they intercept them. The official purpose of this operation is "to preserve allied airspace". The real purpose is to make Russia appear as a threatening power preparing to attack Europe. This is fuelling a growing climate of tension: the F-35A and Eurofighter Typhoon fighters deployed within minutes of Russian territory are dual-capable fighters with conventional and nuclear capabilities. What would happen if similar Russian fighter jets were deployed on the border with the United States?

The "air policing" on Russia's borders is part of the frenzied U.S.-NATO military escalation in Europe against an invented enemy, Russia, in an increasingly dangerous grand strategic game. It was initiated in 2014 with the US/NATO-directed coup in Ukraine, supported by the EU, in order to provoke a new cold war in Europe to isolate Russia and strengthen US influence and presence in Europe. Russia has been accused of forcibly annexing Crimea, ignoring that it was the Crimean Russians who decided in a referendum to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia to avoid being attacked, like the Russians in Donbas, by neo-Nazi battalions in Kyiv. Those used in 2014 as a strike force in the Maidan Square putsch, triggered by Georgian snipers who fired on demonstrators and policemen, and in subsequent actions: villages put to fire and sword, activists burned alive in the Odesa Chamber of Labor, unarmed civilians massacred in Mariupol, bombed with white phosphorus in Donetsk and Lugansk.

Stoltenberg and Draghi also addressed the issue of the "crisis on the border of Belarus with Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania". NATO accuses Belarus of using, with Russia's support, "vulnerable migrants as tools of hybrid tactics against other countries, putting their lives at risk." Defending the migrants, expressing fear for their lives, are the same US and NATO leaders, including the Italian rulers, who in the last thirty years have led the first war against Iraq, the war against Yugoslavia, the war in Afghanistan, the second war against Iraq, the war against Libya, the war against Syria. Wars that have demolished entire states and broken up entire societies, causing millions of victims, forcing millions of people to forced emigration.

The day after the meeting with Draghi, Stoltenberg attended the 70th anniversary of the NATO Defense College, to which about 15,000 military and civilian personnel from 80 member and partner countries of the Alliance have graduated in Rome since 1951. After being educated in every aspect of "international security," they went on to "hold the highest civilian and military positions," that is, positions of responsibility in the governments and armed forces of NATO member and partner countries. In this university of war, where the most sophisticated strategies are taught, the most important sector is dedicated to Russia. It will now be joined by another. In his celebratory speech, the NATO Secretary-General in fact stressed, " Russia and China are leading an authoritarian push-back against the rules-based international order." Stoltenberg has however forgotten to specify that “the international order must be based on our rules".

(the manifesto, November 23, 2021)

All’armi, il nemico è alle porte

Wednesday, 24 November 2021 00:00 |

Manlio Dinucci

L’Arte della guerra

Il segretario generale della Nato Stoltenberg ha incontrato il presidente Draghi, il 17 novembre a Roma, per affrontare «le attuali sfide alla sicurezza», provenienti dal «rafforzamento militare della Russia in Ucraina e attorno ad essa». Stoltenberg ha ringraziato l’Italia perché «contribuisce alla nostra presenza nella Regione Baltica con il pattugliamento aereo e sue truppe». L’Aeronautica militare italiana – specifica il Ministero della Difesa – ha schierato nell’aeroporto di Ämari in Lettonia caccia F-35A del 32° Stormo di Amendola e caccia Eurofighter Typhoon del 4° Stormo di Grosseto, 36° Stormo di Gioia del Colle, 37° Stormo di Trapani e 51° Stormo di Istrana (Treviso). Quando aerei russi volano nello spazio aereo internazionale sul Baltico, in genere diretti all’exclave russa di Kaliningrad, i caccia italiani ricevono dal comando Nato l’ordine di decollo immediato su allarme e in pochi minuti li intercettano. Scopo ufficiale di tale operazione è «preservare lo spazio aereo alleato». Scopo reale è far apparire la Russia come una potenza minacciosa che si prepara ad attaccare l’Europa. Si alimenta così un crescente clima di tensione: gli F-35A e gli Eurofighter Typhoon, schierati a pochi minuti di volo dal territorio russo, sono caccia a duplice capacità convenzionale e nucleare. Che cosa avverrebbe se analoghi caccia russi fossero schierati ai confini con gli Stati uniti?

Il «pattugliamento aereo» ai confini con la Russia rientra nella frenetica escalation militare Usa-Nato in Europa contro un nemico inventato, la Russia, in un grande gioco strategico sempre più pericoloso. Esso è stato avviato nel 2014 con il colpo di stato in Ucraina sotto regia Usa/Nato, sostenuto dalla Ue, al fine di provocare in Europa una nuova guerra fredda per isolare la Russia e rafforzare l’influenza e presenza degli Stati uniti in Europa. La Russia è stata accusata di aver annesso con la forza la Crimea, ignorando che sono stati i russi di Crimea a decidere con un referendum di staccarsi dall’Ucraina e rientrare nella Russia per evitare di essere attaccati, come i russi del Donbass, dai battaglioni neonazisti di Kiev. Quelli usati nel 2014 quale forza d’assalto nel putsch di piazza Maidan, innescato da cecchini georgiani che sparavano sui dimostranti e sui poliziotti, e nelle azioni successive: villaggi messi a ferro e fuoco, attivisti bruciati vivi nella Camera del Lavoro di Odessa, inermi civili massacrati a Mariupol, bombardati col fosforo bianco a Donetsk e Lugansk.

Stoltenberg e Draghi hanno affrontato anche il tema della «crisi al confine della Bielorussia con Polonia, Lettonia e Lituania». La Nato accusa la Bielorussia di usare, con il sostegno della Russia, «migranti vulnerabili come strumenti di tattica ibrida contro altri paesi, mettendo a rischio la loro vita». A difendere i migranti, a esprimere timore per la loro vita, sono gli stessi responsabili Usa e Nato, compresi i governanti italiani, che negli ultimi trent’anni hanno condotto la prima guerra contro l’Iraq, la guerra contro la Jugoslavia, la guerra in Afghanistan, la seconda guerra contro l’Iraq, la guerra contro la Libia, la guerra contro la Siria. Guerre che hanno demolito interi Stati e disgregato intere società, provocando milioni di vittime, costringendo milioni di persone all’emigrazione forzata.

Il giorno dopo l’incontro con Draghi, Stoltenberg ha presenziato al 70° anniversario del Nato Defense College, al quale si sono laureati a Roma dal 1951 circa 15.000 militari e civili di 80 paesi membri e partner dell’Alleanza. Dopo essere stati istruiti su ogni aspetto della «sicurezza internazionale», essi sono andati a «ricoprire le più alte cariche civili e militari», ossia posti di responsabilità nei governi e nelle forze armate dei paesi membri e partner della Nato. In questa università della guerra, in cui si insegnano le strategie più sofisticate, il più importante settore è dedicato alla Russia. Ora sarà affiancato da un altro. Nel discorso celebrativo, il Segretario generale della Nato ha infatti sottolineato: «La Russia e la Cina stanno guidando una spinta autoritaria contro l'ordine internazionale basato sulle regole». Stoltenberg ha però dimenticato di precisare «sulle nostre regole».

(il manifesto, 23 Novembre 2021)

Armin-Paul Hampel- What Germany did in Kosovo

Friday, 10 September 2021 00:00 |

Armin-Paul Hamper, head of the foreign policy committee of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Bundestag, has for several years been a voice different from Berlin's official position when it comes to Kosovo.

How the war in Bosnia began

Friday, 10 September 2021 00:00 |

Former canadian ambassador to Belgrade James Bissett said: the only party responsible for the war in Bosnia is the USA

Statement of the WPC about the recent developments in Afghanistan

Thursday, 19 August 2021 00:00 |

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The World Peace Council expresses its deep concern about the recent developments in Afghanistan. Twenty years after the US and NATO imperialist aggression and invasion of Afghanistan, the suffering of its people has no ending.

When the US launched their supposed “War on Terror” in 2001, the anti-imperialist peace-loving forces were well aware of the hypocrisy and real goals of the aggression in Afghanistan. The Mujahedin, Taliban and other extremist religious forces, who were created,
funded and directed for more than a decade by the US and its European allies for the purpose of overthrowing the first popular government in the late 1980s, took control of the country for more than 10 years. The internationalist support of the USSR which had brought huge progress in all social fields was twisted and falsified for ideological reasons. In 2001, after having served the imperialist plans, the Taliban then became the “target” of their previous masters.

The adjustment of the foreign policy of the United States and NATO in central Asia had in mind confrontation with Russia and China. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives,
millions were displaced and became refugees. More than two trillion US dollars were spent all these years by the imperialists for military operations of and establishment and funding of willing puppet regimes in Kabul. The lucrative opium business mushroomed and multiplied for the last twenty years.

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These days the Biden administration started the withdrawal of US forces from the country after long negotiations (which started by the Trump administration) with the Taliban forces. The country is being handed over to the “previous enemy” with imminent danger for institutional obscurantism and fundamentalism. The USA is not leaving Afghanistan for the sake of cutting expenses. Their priorities in the Pacific Ocean require such readjustment and redeployment of their military.

Amongst many other issues, the new situation will add new social problems for the people of Afghanistan, particularly for the women of the country. The danger exists for the stronger emergence of religious fundamentalism in the region, heavily armed with the military equipment the US is leaving behind, while concerns for a new wave of refugees are growing.

The WPC expresses its solidarity with the people of Afghanistan, who, for the last 30 years, has never had the freedom to decide upon its future and fortunes. The US/NATO military occupation and the rule of the Taliban are the two sides of the same coin.

World Peace Council Secretariat Athens, 16th August 2021

А letter of thanks from the Chinese think-thank association and congratulations on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the CPC

Monday, 19 July 2021 00:00 |

Dear friends of CNIE,

It is our honor to extend our heartfelt congratulations to you on accession of marking 100 anniversary of foundation of the Communist Party of China. We join you, and the friendly people of China in all your festivities and celebrations of this great jubilee.

Since its foundation the CPC has led the great Chinese nation to liberate and preserve freedom, to defend sovereignty, territorial integrity and dignity, to freely choose and implement socialism of Chinese characteristics, to open up and reform along the way bringing China today to the level of powerhouse of modern economic, social and cultural development of Asia and the world. CPC’s people centered policy made China successful in eliminating poverty in own society and actively engagening in helping other nations to efficiently address this grave problem. This is right approach to human rights based on 1948 UN Universal Declaration and therefore must not be abused for meddling in internal affairs.

Chinese people today stand proud of the fact that China is the first global trading power, the first contributor to the rise of global GDP, the second strongest economy in the world and globally recognized partner in win win cooperation. The shining example of visionary constructive and peaceful international role of China is the global Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched by the Secretary General of CPC and president of China Xi Jinping. Coupled with 17+1 format of cooperation BRI is connecting not only economies but continents, civilizations and peoples thus promoting peace, understanding and values for the whole humanity.

In the present situation of Covid 19 pandemic China has shown the capacity and highest solidarity in practice providing doctors, medical equipment and vaccines to all countries in need, respecting only human merits, without any political, ideological or other shortsighted calculations. This has further reinforced world-wide trust in China as true and steady partner in any difficulties. The CPC’s people-centered internal policy, paired with peace-centered international policy based on the principles of sovereign equality, territorial integrity and non-interference in internal affairs, is broadly recognized and highly respected in the world. China is seen as one of the pillars of the multi-polar world order based on equitable, inclusive and democratic governance without any privileges, dominance or exceptionality.

We are convinced that CPC will continue to lead China and the great Chinese nation in the future on the road of peace and progress, in the interest of China, peace in the world and community of shared future of mankind. In this framework, we will continue to support further strengthening of traditional friendly relations and ever deeper cooperation between Serbia and China being comprehensive strategic partners.

We will be honored to continue good cooperation with CNIE.

With the best wishes,

Zivadin Jovanovic, president Belgrade forum for a World of Equals, Silk Road Connectivity Research Center (COREC)

Statement of the World Peace Council on the recent protest events in Cuba

Tuesday, 13 July 2021 00:00 |

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The World Peace Council (WPC) expresses its serious concern about the recent well orchestrated and paid imperialist plan to create chaos and disorder in Cuba, using as pretext the severe shortages of imported goods and other products of primary necessity, as well as electricity cuts, facts that have to the great extend their root causes in the almost sixty (60) years criminal blockade imposed by the USA on Cuba. Particularly during the last period and in conditions of the global health pandemic, Cuba is being prevented through new and additional measures and sanctions to purchase and import medicine and raw material for medicine as well as technical hospital supplies.

While acknowledging the suffering of the Cuban people the WPC underlines in the strongest way its rejection to any actions of interference and subversive actions which are aiming in the “regime change” by paid elements and mercenaries as we have observed it in other parts of the world with “Color Revolutions”. The Cuban people know too well that the imperialists have never stopped the war against their country, regardless the rotating methods or the changing residents of the White House. These criminal and inhuman policies are being helped by its imperialist allies of the European Union and their agents inside Cuba and in Florida who demanded today even an open intervention under humanitarian pretext as it has been witnessed also in other cases of countries before.

We denounce the cynical interest of those forces that cause the suffering by political and economical sanctions and blockade first and their hypocrisy then for the “poor Cuban people” who have to be taught “democracy and human rights”. Cuba particularly has given lessons of solidarity and dignity many times from the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 on, but this last period during the Covid-19 pandemic, the island of the Revolution has championed one more time with its selfless internationalist aid to peoples in need while it is developing in extremely difficult conditions its own vaccines very rapidly with the commitment to help poor and oppressed peoples of the world as well.

We express our indignation to the imperialist plans to create social discontent and direct it against the sovereign Cuban government. The achievements of the Socialist Cuba constitute an example and source of inspiration for the peoples of Latin America and the world.

The WPC stands in Solidarity with the heroic people of Cuba and its Revolution!

We demand the immediate lifting of the blockade and of all sanctions against Cuba!

End to the imperialist provocations!

Hands off Cuba!

The WPC Secretariat
Athens, 12th July 2021

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NATO wants to close Hungary behind an iron curtain

Friday, 09 July 2021 00:00 |

DECLARATION OF THE HUNGARIAN PEACE COMMUNITY

hung NATO and the European Union have launched a coordinated political attack on Hungary to end our cooperation with China and Russia. They want Hungary to terminate the agreement with Russia on the expansion of the Paks nuclear power plant, and with China on the construction of the Belgrade-Budapest railway line and the establishment of Fudan University in Hungary. The Western system of alliance, of which our country is a member, requires us to cut the threads to the East and fully submit ourselves to the will of NATO. Their attack is hidden under the guise of defending democracy. They claim that they are worried about the fate of liberties and human rights in Hungary. No doubt there are problems with these back home! Not a little! But there can hardly be any doubt that the cause of the problems is not to be found in the building with East of relations and cooperation based on mutual benefits. The West fears that the Hungarian example may become catchy, and it turns out that opening up to the East will bring enormous benefits, including the protection of lives. See curbing the epidemic with oriental vaccines! They complain that the power does not tune the people against the Russians and the Chinese, as do the Poles, Czechs, Romanians and Baltics. They complain that we are ready to restore diplomatic relations with Syria. Most importantly, they complain that we are vetoing Ukraine's integration into NATO. While they fear democracy in Hungary, they pact with Nazis in Ukraine.

No criticism has been made of the law passed on 1 July, which subdivides Ukraine into subordinate and superior ethnic groups and serves as a legal basis for the deprivation of the rights of peoples, nations and national minorities declared not to be indigenous. According to the law, the Hungarian, Ruthenian, Russian, Polish, Romanian and many other minorities that make up Ukraine are no longer considered native. If NATO's real goal was to protect freedoms and human rights, it would not support an Ukraine that crushes them! But since this is not the goal, but the use and exploitation of Ukraine against Russia, it turns its back on its own declared values, and it also unites with Ukrainian extremists in the spirit of the policy of goal sanctifies the tool. Not only does it expose our Hungarians living in Ukraine to atrocities, but it also endangers the peace and security of Hungary with the rearmament of Ukraine, its joint military exercises, and its series of provocations around Crimea. According to the creed of the Hungarian Peace Community, Hungary must live in peace and in good relations with both East and West. We consider a doubtful ally to be one who does not support but hinders us in this matter of destiny for the survival of our nation. The Hungarian Peace Community proclaims the friendship and peaceful coexistence of peoples. We want equal, mutually respectful, mutually beneficial cooperation with the East, not a Western Iron Curtain with the East!

Statement of the WPC about the recent brutal oppression in Jerusalem by Israel

Wednesday, 12 May 2021 00:00 |

wpc The World Peace Council expresses its vehement condemnation of the brutal oppression of Palestinians in the occupied Jerusalem by Israeli security forces and armed settlers. We denounce in particular the attack on Palestinian civilians around the Al Aqsa Mosque and the violent efforts for evictions of Palestinian families in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah of Jerusalem.

The above actions are not only violating basic human rights of the Palestinians of Jerusalem, they constitute also a clear violation of the international Status of Jerusalem as described in the relevant UN resolutions. It is the continuation of the efforts of the Israeli occupation regime to proceed with the Judaization of the city of Jerusalem which is being fully endorsed by the US administrations and tolerated by the European Union.

These actions are aiming at the “ethnic cleansing” of Jerusalem and land robbing which are only comparable with an “Apartheid-style” policy against the Palestinian people.

The WPC expresses its full-hearted solidarity and support to the just cause of the Palestinian people for the end of the occupation of all Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, the dismantling of the settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem. We demand the release of all Palestinian political prisoners from Israeli jails, the right to return of the Palestinian refugees to their homes and we reiterate our demand for the establishment of an independent viable Palestinian State within the borders of pre-4th June 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

End the Occupation Now! Free Palestine!

10th May 2021 The WPC Secretariat

Reclaman en Serbia fin del bloqueo de EEUU a Cuba

Wednesday, 28 April 2021 17:39 |

Belgrado, 27 abr (Prensa Latina) El presidente del Foro de Belgrado por un Mundo de Igualdad, Zivadin Jovanovic, ratificó hoy su adhesión al clamor mundial por el fin del bloqueo de Estados Unidos contra Cuba.

En una alocución mediante video desde la sede de esa institución, quien fuera ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de la República Federal de Yugoslavia (1998-2000) expresó plena solidaridad, amistad y admiración hacia ese pueblo que calificó de fraternal.

Denunció que quienes pretenden ser excepcionales portadores de la democracia, el estado de derecho, la libertad y los derechos humanos desde hace seis décadas mantienen sanciones ilegales y brutales mediante un cerco a ese pequeño país.

Eso ocurre, exclusivamente, dijo, porque 'el pueblo cubano quiere vivir con libertad, independencia y dignidad, porque lucha por la paz, igualdad de derechos y solidaridad y rechaza con decisión todo intento de injerencia externa, arrogancia y dominación desde posiciones fe fuerza', sentenció.

Afirmó Jovanovic que, pese a las incivilizadas sanciones del bloqueo y una propaganda imperialista sin precedentes, el pueblo cubano desarrolló exitosamente su sociedad basada en una política de principios que tiene como centro al hombre y sus necesidades en la economía, educación, salud, ciencia y cultura.

Aseveró que eso es posible gracias a grandes logros en el desarrollo interno, así como a una política de paz, solidaridad y cooperación en igualdad de derechos y el no alineamiento en el plano internacional. 'Cuba se transformó en un faro de libertad, independencia y dignidad para muchos países y pueblos en el mundo', opinó.

El exdiplomático ratificó su adhesión a la demanda de la inmensa mayoría de la humanidad para que se ponga fin sin dilaciones a las ilegales, unilaterales e inhumanas sanciones del bloqueo de Estados Unidos de América contra Cuba.

Jovanovic hizo llegar a Prensa Latina una foto del encuentro que sostuvo con el presidente cubano Fidel Castro, en una ocasión de su manda, to como jefe de la diplomacia de Yugoslavia.

Source: www.prensa-latina.cu

The WPC pays tribute to the veteran militant peoples’ lawyer ROLAND WEYL

Tuesday, 27 April 2021 17:07 |

Roland Weyl

The World Peace Council (WPC) expresses its grief for the passing of the beloved and respected comrade Roland Weyl, a committed Communist French Lawyer, who dedicated his long life to the just causes of the peoples and their rights. In his 102 years of life Roland Weyl championed with modesty in defending hundreds of political activists and social fighters in various countries, the struggles of the people of Algeria, Palestine, Cuba among many others were always in his heart. Roland Weyl was a genuine internationalist who understood like only few others, the moral and professional duty as a people’s lawyer to defend people under oppression and exploitation.

Roland Weyl was known and involved with the WPC for many decades. As a comrade who had the privilege to be present in the foundation of the WPC in April 1949 in Paris he was always a source of precious information and inspiration. He attended many WPC meetings and events and served always as the “liaison” between the WPC and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) of which was co-founder and served for many years as first Vice-President.

The WPC comrades who had the pleasure to meet and know him, remember his expertise and firm stand against NATO in its aggression against Yugoslavia and all other crimes of NATO. He stood clearly against the militarization of the European Union and its arbitrary positions towards the just causes of the peoples.

Roland Weyl, with his humor and intelligence was enlightening and enriching our meetings, he had always a clear class criterion and never abandoned his principles. Our comrade Roland lived a life full of struggles and sacrifices, in the court rooms and in the streets, in clandestine and in legality, always side by side with the poor and the oppressed. His legacy will be remembered and his spirit will prevail in the current and future struggles.

We express our full-hearted condolences to his family and daughter France Weyl, to his fellow fighters for peace and social justice in the “Droit et Solidarité” of France and the IADL.

The WPC Secretariat

22 April 2021

100 year since foundation of CPC

Monday, 26 April 2021 00:00 |

THE BELGRADE FORUM FOR A WORLD OF EQUALS,
CONECTIVITY RESEARCH CENTER

April 2nd, 2021.

Dear friends of CNIE,

In the present situation of Covid 19 pandemic China has shown the capacity and highest solidarity in practice providing doctors, medical equipment and vaccines to all countries in need, respecting only human merits, without any political, ideological or other shortsighted calculations. This has further reinforced world-wide trust in China as a true and steady partner in any difficulties. The CPC’s people-centered internal policy, paired with peace-centered international policy based on the principles of sovereign equality, territorial integrity and non-interference in internal affairs, is broadly recognized and highly respected in the world. China is seen as one of the pillars of the multi-polar world order based on equitable, inclusive and democratic governance without any privileges, dominance or exceptionality.

We will be honored to continue good cooperation with CNIE.

With the best wishes,

Zivadin Jovanovic, president Belgrade forum for a World of Equals, Silk Road Connectivity Research Center (COREC)

Boris Rozin's Article over the attitude of the United States of America toward the war with Russia

Wednesday, 14 April 2021 00:00 |