The International Criminal Court at the Hague has been on an indictment spree lately. We still recall vividly the Court’s bold reinterpretation of “crime against humanity” to encompass the rescue and sheltering on Russian territory of children and young adults from the Donbas. What impressed most normal observers as a praiseworthy wartime humanitarian gesture par excellence was the pretext for probably the most preposterous of the politically motivated indictments that the ICC had ever issued. The most recent of such indictments, the illegal abduction and forced transfer to the Hague of the former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, was another high…
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Churchill observed once in his inimitable condescending style that Balkan peoples have more history than they know what to do with. Judging by the current events, Churchill was perhaps more right than even he could have suspected. Where to begin? Perhaps Romania would be a good start. In that NATO/ EU member and proving ground of Western democracy, the unsuitable Presidential candidate Calin Georgescu, who was winning in the election, was unceremoniously banned on trumped-up charges from participating in the political process. What then was the point, one might ask, of shooting Nikolae and Elena like dogs? What most naively…
For those unfamiliar with this colourful American idiom, “eating crow” means “to undergo the humiliation of having to retract a statement or admit an error.” It is a rough equivalent of the Biblical practice of putting on a sackcloth and covering oneself with ashes. Something of the sort has indeed happened with two major collective West narratives, the war in Ukraine and the “genocide” Xinjiang. The Ukraine narrative maintained that the conflict that started in February 2022 was an unprovoked act of “Russian aggression.” The equally bogus Xinjiang narrative rested on the groundless premise that the Chinese government was conducting…
A huge, heavy ship, loaded to the brim, is turning around in narrow straits amid perilous waters. Thus, the world is performing a rare volte face under the daring captainship of Donald Trump and his breakneck mates Elon Musk and JD Vance. They couldn’t have cut it any closer – already we felt the breath of our doom. Whether the peril be nuclear mushrooms or pandemics crafted in Pentagon biolabs, or some other totally unpredicted collapse concocted by Schwab and his ilk – our new captain seems to recognize Scylla and Charybdis. Our fragile life was about to collapse when…
Defying two of the three Great Powers with the greatest influence over Serbia was an epic error of judgement, hence Vucic’s unbelievable claim about some vague “mistake” being responsible for this Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic claimed that his country mistakenly voted in support of an anti-Russian resolution at the UNGA, the explanation of which was accepted by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, but there’s much more to this scandal than observers might think. UNGA votes aren’t made by mistake, but they’re also only symbolic since all that matters is what the UNSC decrees. In any case, Serbia already voted for several anti-Russian resolutions, none of…
No, no, not this Brigitte! It goes almost without saying that the “elite” referenced here is located in the collective West. It would be exceedingly difficult to associate the leading segment of any other society or civilisation, as a class, with degeneracy. Our archetypal case study are the Macrons, the French power couple situated at the apex of their country’s political pyramid. Our French sources assure us that in France anomalies concerning the birth gender of the allegedly female member of that pair have been suspected for a long time. Those suspicions, however, have had to be voiced sub rosa, because of…
Pieces of the puzzle of Serbian student protests, which are acquiring the character of a full-scale social rebellion, are finally falling into place. The current commotion started when on 1 November 2024, a concrete canopy at the recently remodelled railway station building in the northern city of Novi Sad collapsed, crushing seventeen people and killing fifteen. Not long before, the entire building, including the canopy, was reconstructed by negligent and incompetent “contractors” selected by the ruling authorities. The “reconstruction” job was finally completed with huge budget overruns. The Serbian public intuited immediately that the ultimate cause of the tragedy must…
We highly recommend this interview which George Szamuely conducted with Serbian political analyst Dragana Trifković. It sheds light on the principal issues behind the student and citizen revolt triggered by the corruption and negligence that led to the death of fifteen innocent people in the concrete canopy collapse at the railway station in the city of Novi Sad. George Szamuely asks the right questions and Mrs. Trifković puts in perspective citizen outrage that for the last three months has been shaking to its foundations of the neo-colonial political system in Serbia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnlMUN1fjJY
The political and social crisis convulsing Serbia has deepened since we last referred to this topic (and here). Civil unrest driven by university and high school students is gaining momentum and is now an everyday reality in cities and towns throughout Serbia. On Friday 24 January the students called for a general strike bringing large segments of the country to a standstill whilst demonstrating an impressive level of support for their cause. Initially, the demands of the protesters focused on accountability for the loss of life that occurred on 1 November 2024 at the railway station in Novi Sad when…
Calin Georgescu rightfully has a huge grievance against what passes for “Western democracy.” He is the clear first-round winner in the Presidential elections held in Romania late last year. Yet the even more resounding victory he was projected to achieve in the second round scheduled for early December 2024, was scrapped (as the BBC indelicately put it) following a Romanian Supreme Court ruling that the electoral process was marred by alleged hybrid warfare interference conducted by Russia on Georgescu’s behalf. How do you “scrap” elections in a vibrant democracy such as Romania, which also happens to be a member in…