The primary issue within the information war is transitioning from being Ukraine to being Serbia. The Ukraine proxy war failed a long time ago, when the sanctions proved unable to bring Russia to collapse. Now with the fall of Bakhmut, and the thwarting of Ukraine’s attempt at a counter-offensive, the conflict is entering the same phase that Afghanistan’s entered into after its initial media hype: a war which simply goes on, with the media no longer able to pretend that Washington’s side will win after the next battle. The U.S. media’s recent willingness to report that Ukrainian soldiers fight while wearing Nazi symbols, and then that U.S. officials knew about the plot to destroy the Nord Stream pipeline months in advance, are signs the narrative managers are getting less concerned about defending the Ukraine psyop. A psyop can only stay worth defending for so long, until the arguments in its favor start to look too ridiculous.
They’re beginning to replace it with the Serbia psyop, which is both the next logical step in Washington’s effort to hold back multipolarity and a more difficult narrative for anti-imperialists to counter. Because NATO’s account on the Balkan conflict was created decades ago, and is more deeply built into the official historical records, it’s taken longer for anti-imperialists like myself to understand the extent that we’ve been lied to about Serbia. I used to think Serbia was guilty of crimes against humanity within the Yugoslav conflict, but the U.S. only furthered the conflict with false flags. Then I realized those false flags were the crimes we’ve heard so much about.
This week, the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) said: “The blame for the occupation of Kosovo and Metohija and for the recent violence lies with the USA and its Nato allies. Therefore, we call on you to show international support for the people of occupied Kosovo by organising demonstrations against violence, occupation and the so-called ‘independence’ of Kosovo. Since the Kosovo prime minister visited the US embassy right before the violence began, it is clear that he had permission from his imperialist masters. Therefore, the preferred locations for the protests are, if possible, the US embassies in your country.” There’s a reason why the NKPJ, and the others who share its principled anti-imperialist stance on Yugoslavia, continue to refer to NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia as an act of aggression. If it were merely an opportunistic way of responding to atrocities, then it wouldn’t exactly be aggression, as NATO could truthfully claim to have been fulfilling the humanitarian “responsibility to protect” doctrine. This is not what the bombings were, they weren’t even morally ambiguous. They were an unprovoked and unjustifiable assault, predicated on crimes that were committed not by the Serbs but by NATO’s false flag orchestrators.
Repentant CIA agent Robert Baer has described the purpose of these false flags:
The aim of the propaganda was to divide the republics so they would break away from the motherland Yugoslavia. We had to choose a scapegoat who would be blamed for everything. Someone who would be responsible for the war and violence. Serbia was chosen because in some ways it is a successor to Yugoslavia…everything has been blamed on the Serbs. Many victims buried as Muslims were Serbs and other nationalities. A few years ago a friend of mine, a former CIA agent and now at the IMF, said that [the massacre at] Srebrenica is the product of an agreement between the US government and politicians in Bosnia. The town of Srebrenica was sacrificed to give America a motive to attack the Serbs for their alleged crimes…Srebrenica is political marketing!
The engineers of these deeds knew, long in advance of Milosevic’s eventual posthumous exoneration, that the efforts to attribute Srebrenica and the other war crimes to him wouldn’t succeed. So they poisoned him before the charges against him could be publicly scrutinized, delaying the moment when the true verdict on his case came out. And when it was made public in 2016, the impact of it on how the world perceived Serbia’s supposed guilt within the conflict was minimized due to this passage of time. But that doesn’t mean we anti-imperialists can’t now use Milosevic’s vindication to discredit the narrative NATO is using to try to manufacture a new war in the region.
Don’t believe any leader of a NATO country who says they’re doing the best they can to prevent further conflict between the Serbs and the Yugoslavian breakaway states. If the NATO facilitators and supporters genuinely wanted peace, NATO wouldn’t be keeping troops within Kosovo, then sending them to attack the minority Serbs who’ve been demonstrating for their liberation. Kosovo’s U.S. puppet state and the other imperialist-installed governments within the former Yugoslavia are the real fascists in the region. They’re agents of Washington’s anti-Serb campaign, denying Serbia’s right to its land while subjugating ethnic Serbs. A generation after NATO murdered Yugoslavia, the imperialists continue to regularly meddle in the region’s politics, making sure that the northern part of Kosovo has been taken over by puppet leaders in fraudulent elections. The effect is that the Serbs, however much they’ve been demonized over the decades as perpetrators of oppression, have in reality been made into an oppressed group within the region.
The more ineffective the Ukraine proxy war becomes as a tool for causing destruction, the more prominent the anti-Serbia psyop will become in imperialism’s narratives. NATO’s goal is to bring its instigations of violence west, and the Balkans are evidently the most favorable option out of the other places where the war-makers can do this. The Balkans are where the imperialists have created wars relatively recently, and where narratives already exist to demonize the targeted group. Should the oppression of the Serbs prompt Serbia to invade fascist Kosovo, the idea the narrative managers will present to us next is that Serbia has carried out another “act of aggression.” Even though it would simply be exercising the same right to humanitarian intervention that NATO so often claims to exercise. It would be the same twist of the truth that they’ve used to vilify Russia, which took action in Ukraine not out of imperial ambition but out of moral imperative to save the threatened Russian-speaking communities.
Ukraine has shown how they’ll advance this latest project to cause chaos. Look out for explosions of Serbian infrastructure that the narrative managers outrageously assert have been carried out by the Serbs themselves. Look out for massacres that get blamed on the Serbs, regardless of whether the evidence supports this. Look out for rhetoric about how Serbia retaking Kosovo is a “far right” idea, even though this is a perfectly reasonable notion since Kosovo doesn’t truly qualify as a country. Be ready to reject and counter these kinds of psyops, so that we can further frustrate the empire as it shifts the new cold war into its next stage.
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