Re: Rechurned Ideas of 1980s Serbian Intelligentsia

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In a message dated 02/10/2000 7:24:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
dave_bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes disparigingly of the statement, in the piece
entitled ":"ANGEL OF MERCY" (See: Louis Proyect's 2-9 post "Forwarded from
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic (non-subscriber)" - Dave writes :

"Also, try this, from the last paragraph of the post
 for a reincarnation of Jewish/Bolshevik conspiracy crap."

He then quotes from "Angel of Mercy" the following apparently monstrous
remark:

 >>Our source maintains that none of the members of UCK
/ KLA, not even Hasim Taci, who had received his training from fellow
criminals in German underworld, would be willing to risk their lives in
realization of new projects of American and German geostrategists. These
projects include plans for subjugating Russia and cutting its population
down to between 30 and 40 millions of Russians by year 2010."

My comment: How does the statement that German and US strategists want to
subjugate Russia and depopulate it (the latter has in fact been losing
population, by the way, throughout the 90s) relate to the old charge made
originally by the Black Hundreds that Bolshevism was a Jewish plot (Elders of
Zion)?  The parallel would be there if the writer argued (as some
unfortunates do) that shadowy Jewish figures are behind the US and Germany.
Absent such a wrong and very hamrful argument, this writer is arguing that
the US and German have a nightmarish plan.  Do Imperialists not make
nightmarish plans?  Or do you think they have fashioned a DIFFERENT
nightmarish plan?

Did the the US and Germany wage war in Yugoslavia without design?  Is their
current "prediction" of civil war in Montnegro coincidental to the recent
assassination of the leader of the Milsoevich-allied party there - a man who
advocated Russian-Belarus-Yugoslav military alliance (with obvious
implications in terms of a China.)? Does the IMF's systematic destruction of
the economies of Russia and Bulgaria (the two with which I am familiar) an
accident?  Below is an article about opinion in China, where it would appear
many share my (and the Yugoslav government's) paranaoia about the US elite's
conspiracies aimed at world domination.

Best regards,
Jared


CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2000


OPINION

China's westward view: a sinister, scheming US

Richard Hottelet

In international relations ignorance is not bliss, it's trouble. China
baffles the
United States, but apparently not half as much as the other way around.
Frustration results, leading to demonization on both sides.

In a most unusual way, American scholar Michael Pillsbury, has set about
analyzing what makes the Chinese leadership tick. The result appears in a
study, "China Debates the Future Security Environment," for the National
Defense University (NDU) in Washington.

The secrecy of Beijing's operations is hard, if not impossible to crack.
What Dr.
Pillsbury and his colleagues have done is to select more than 600 excerpts
from
papers published by 200 Chinese experts between 1994 and 1999. They include
military officers and civilian analysts in Army and other government research
institutes. They reflect, as they probably help to form, the intellectual
climate in
which policy is made.

It is an odd, even bizarre, picture the Chinese have of the US.

They revile the US as ruthlessly using its superpower strength to do whatever
it wants, grabbing natural resources as, for instance, the oil of Central
Asia -
despoiling Russia and denying China access to this energy pool. It seeks to
weaken China and is ready, together with India, to detach Tibet and Xinjiang,
where it would try to set up no-fly zones as it has in Iraq.

Nor is Washington any more considerate of its allies, in the view of these
Chinese experts. For them, the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo reveal the
American struggle with the EU to dominate Europe and to redivide the former
Soviet sphere of influence. American strategy is marked by diabolical cunning:
such as tricking Saddam Hussein into invading Kuwait so that the US could
dismantle Iraq's growing power. Its phony "star wars" scheme drove the Soviet
Union to bankruptcy. Now they see America's theater missile-defense plan as a
design to drag China into a similarly disastrous arms race.

One of Washington's most sinister devices, in the Chinese view, is its
profession of "peaceful evolution," designed to undermine China through
friendliness, exchange programs, and such.

However, they see American power declining. In fact, they suggest, it barely
won the Gulf War. One Chinese scholar wrote, the US even seems to be
"ceding skyscraper supremacy to the East" (referring undoubtedly to the
world's tallest buildings in Kuala Lumpur).

The Chinese consensus is that in 20 or 30 years a new multipolar world will
see
a balance of equals: the US, China, Japan, Russia, and Europe. China will then
play a chess game of statecraft with coalitions and alliances in pursuit of
its
goals.

Meanwhile, these Chinese scholars see a turbulent transition period of local
wars in which China will be forced to defend its borders - especially if
Taiwan
declared its independence and the US, Japan, and others intervened. This calls
for resource allocation now, they conclude.

There are three schools of Chinese strategic thought. One, a minority view,
urges development of radical new weapons to leapfrog US superiority. A
second group, including most high military commanders, wants preparation for
local war with improved training, weapons, and equipment and complains
about not getting the necessary money and technical support. The third, which
probably gets the greater part of China's defense investment, endorses Mao
Zedong's concept of People's War. It prefers to maintain the world's largest
standing army and a national mobilization for wartime defense industry - the
status quo.

Overall, the thrust of China's strategic thinking is defensive. But it is
hard to
see where this leads in concrete terms. The authors of the quite remarkable
NDU study report that some of the Chinese experts interviewed thought part of
the material was drivel, but declined to put their dissent in writing.

What emerges is a picture of confusion, short-term thinking, and a decision
process befuddled by dogma. This may not be totally unfamiliar in
Washington, but it leaves China inscrutable as ever.

  Richard C. Hottelet, a longtime foreign correspondent for CBS, writes on
world affairs.

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