Balkans

Conrad Von Hetzendorf: The General Who Demanded War on Serbia 25 Times in a Year

2020-03-122020-03-12 White Nettle

Since January 1913 until June 1914 (i.e. before the Sarajevo assassination ) he formally demanded 25 times permission to attack Serbia and thus confirm the monarchy as a superpower, in order to prevent the disintegration of Monarchy […]

Balkans

Gavrilo Princip or Franz Ferdinand? Heroes or Villains?

2018-09-042018-09-04 White Nettle

Gavrilo Princip’s house in Sarajevo was destroyed three times and rebuilt twice. The house was first destroyed by Austro-Hungarian forces during World War I, by Croatian Ustasha forces during World War II, and by Bosnian Muslim forces during the 1992-1995 civil war […]

How America Lost its Leadership during the Pandemic 2021-04-16
Attempts by Western countries to maintain a monopoly on vaccines in Europe, despite the fact that citizens are dying in large numbers because of that policy, showed how far American diplomacy is ready in sacrificing people in the Western Hemisphere due to the conflict with Russia […]
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Remembering a Magnum Crimen in the Independent State of Croatia, 1941−1945 2021-04-15
The NDH was internationally recognized by Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Japan, Spain, National China, Finland, Denmark, and Manchuria. It existed from April 10th, 1941 to May 15th, 1945. In the other words, the NDH existed a whole week after the German capitulation as the last Nazi state in Europe […]
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Lukashenko’s Dirty Money 2021-04-15
The four brothers – Bogoljub, Dragomir, Sreten and Zoran and the formation of their clan began during the reign of the Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, after whose fall the brothers, apparently according to long-established schemes, found another patron and business partner – the Belarusian president […]
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The US and China Can Avoid a Collision Course – If the US Gives Up its Empire 2021-04-15
The struggle for military and economic primacy in Asia is not really about our core national security interests; rather, it’s about preserving status, prestige, and America’s neurotic image of itself. Those are pretty dumb reasons to risk war […]
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Mass Grave of History: The Vatican’s WWII Identity Crisis 2021-04-14
When no Croatian official of stature spoke out against the display, Zuroff called on the president to condemn the organizers and remind Croatian society that Sakic brought it shame, not pride […]
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