Sir, - The recent conference in Sarajevo promised that milk and honey would flow into the Balkan states, with the exception of Serbia, for as long as Mr Milosevic is in power. It defies logic that one can talk of a stable Balkans while one of its central states is unstable. For what is expected of Serbia's people is that they rise and overthrow the current government, if necessary, via a civil war. Nothing less is expected from the people of Montenegro, who are being encouraged to break away from the Yugoslav federation. Despite all his rhetoric, Montengro's president, Mr Dfjukanovic, knows perfectly well that his people are split down the middle on the question of independence and that the referendum on this issue could lead to a civil war.
There is nothing surprising in this, since it is US policy to forment discord in any area that happens to be of particular interest at the time, and then to walk in, in the name of peace, prevention of a humanitarian disaster, or whatever other excuse happens to be convenient at the time. Having already intervened in Kosovo, in a situation created primarily by the terrorist activities of the KLA, is is now time to march into Serbia and Montenegro.
And when the Balkans are stabilised (read occupied and incorporated into NATO), what next: the mainly Muslim, oil-rich underbelly of Russia? After all, it is only through formenting trouble in various parts of the world that the American military and her arms conglomerates can be kept in business. In the meantime, the US economic war against the EU continues; allow me to mention just the speculation against the euro, the banana war, the GM foods, and the hormone-fed beef. - Yours, etc., Zivko Jaksic
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