Before the Bidens "Did" Ukraine, There Was Iraq - and Serbia by James George Jatras!
(2020-10-17 at 17:43:24 )

Before the Bidens "Did" Ukraine, There Was Iraq - and Serbia by James George Jatras!

The United States approaches the November 2020 election with growing apprehension, even dread.

Among the possibilities:

Protracted uncertainty about the presidential contest. Think Florida 2000 but with several states results unresolved for weeks or even months ("Experts held -war games- on the Trump vs. Biden election. Their finding? Brace for a mess");

A disputed outcome, perhaps with Donald Trump and Joe Biden both claiming victory, compounded by a "blue shift," where states are claimed by Donald Trump on election night but flip over to Joe Biden as additional absentee and mail-in ballots conveniently turn up days or weeks later;

Violent civil conflict, spurred on in the streets by goon squads mobilized and funded by a Who is Who of the corporate and foundation establishment; and

A color revolution style regime change operation staged by groups like the Soros-linked "Transition Integrity Project" and managed by people like "legal hatchet man" Norm Eisen, perhaps culminating in a military coup to remove Donald Trump and install Joe Biden in the Oval Office (as detailed by former Virginia State Senator and Judge Advocate General officer Richard Black).

For those who have followed events outside the United States during the past few decades, much of this sounds familiar. We have seen it before - inflicted on other countries.

Now It Is Coming Home to the United States.

As explained by Revolver News, what happens in the United States of America next to a great extent may be a form of blowback from a specific event: the United States-supported 2014 regime change operation in Ukraine:

A "Color Revolution" in this context refers to a specific type of coordinated attack that the United States government has been known to deploy against foreign regimes, particularly in Eastern Europe deemed to be "authoritarian" and hostile to United States of American interests.

Rather than using a direct military intervention to effect regime change as in Iraq, Color Revolutions attack a foreign regime by contesting its electoral legitimacy, organizing mass protests and acts of civil disobedience, and leveraging media contacts to ensure favorable coverage to their agenda in the Western press.

It would be disturbing enough to note a coordinated effort to use these exact same strategies and tactics domestically to undermine or overthrow President Donald Trump.

The ominous nature of what we see unfolding before us only truly hits home when one realizes that the people who specialize in these Color Revolution regime change operations overseas are, literally, the very same people attempting to overthrow Donald Trump by using the very same playbook.

Given that the most famous Color Revolution was the [2004] "Orange Revolution" in the Ukraine, and that Black Lives Matter is being used as a key component of the domestic Color Revolution against Donald Trump, we can encapsulate our thesis at Revolver with the simple remark that "Black is the New Orange."

This hardly should come as a surprise.

The same government agencies and their corporate, NGO, and think tank cronies that are now weaponizing Black Lives Matter, Antifa, other Wokesters, and military putsch plotters here at home to remove Donald Trump have turned regime change abroad into an art form.

Ukraine was one of their signal successes, featuring a cast of characters later key to the failed "Ukrainegate" impeachment.

Another consequence of regime change: corruption.

As the old saying goes, any idiot can turn an aquarium into fish soup, but no one has yet figured out how to reverse the process. Once a country gets broken it tends to stay broken, whether the "breaking" is accomplished by military means (Serbia 1999, Iraq 2003, Libya 2011) or by a color revolution from the streets (Serbia 2000, Georgia 2003, Ukraine 2004-2005 and again in 2014, Kyrgyzstan 2005, Lebanon 2005, Armenia 2018, plus many others of varying degrees of success, and failures in Iran, Russia, Venezuela, China (Hong Kong), and Belarus).

With the target nations institutions in shambles, the dregs take over - in Libya, for example, even to the point of reintroducing trade in sub-Saharan African slaves, whose black lives evidently do not matter to anyone at all.

Iraq: Crush, Corrupt, Cash In

Finally, once regime change occurs and corruption is rampant, another shoe drops: foreign vultures descend on the carcass, profiteers who in many cases are the very same people that helped to create the chaos on which they are cashing in.

Invariably, these carpetbaggers are well-connected individuals in the aggressor states and organizations positioned on the inside track both for the carve-up of the target countrys resources and (the word "hypocrisy" does not begin to describe it) for funds to implement "reform" and "reconstruction" of the devastated target.

The showcase of this scam, pursuant to Colin Powells reported "Pottery Barn Rule" (You break it, you own it) was the money ostensibly spent on rebuilding Iraq, despite assurances from the wars advocates that it would pay for itself.

With the formal costs conservatively set at over $60 billion to $138 billion out of a tab for the war of over two trillion dollars, the lions share of it went to United States and other vendors, including the notorious $1.4 billion no-bid contract to Halliburton subsidiary KBR, of which then-Vice President Dick Cheney, a major proponent of the war, had been a top executive. ("Rand Paul Says Dick Cheney Pushed for the Iraq War So Halliburton Would Profit.")

In Ukraine, Joe Bidens Son Also Rises

The predatory cronyism vignette most pertinent to the Black-Orange regime change op now unfolding before us with the intent of installing Joe Biden in the Oval Office is that of his son, Hunter, and a Ukrainian energy company with a sketchy reputation, Burisma Holdings. (Right at the outset, even some of Hunters associates thought the gig with Burisma was too "toxic" and broke off ties with him.)

Though ignored or dismissed as fake news and a conspiracy theory by Democrats and legacy media (or do I repeat myself?), the facts are well enough known and fit the Iraq pattern to a T: then-Vice President Joe Biden pushed for regime change in Ukraine, which succeeded in February 2014 with the ouster of the constitutionally elected president, Viktor Yanukovych.

In April 2014, Joe Bidens son, Hunter, was brought onto Burismas board (along with a fellow named Devon Archer, later convicted of unrelated fraud) at an exorbitant level of compensation that made little sense in light of Hunters nonexistent expertise in the energy business - but which made plenty of sense given that his dad was not only Veep but the Barack Obama administrations point man on policy toward Ukraine, including foreign assistance money. {NOTE: It now has come out that in 2015 Hunter put his dad, the United States Vice President, in direct contact with Burisma, news the giant tech firms sought to suppress on social media.]

When a troublesome Ukrainian prosecutor named Viktor Shokin seemed to be taking too much interest in Burisma, Papa Joe Biden came to the rescue, openly threatening the western-dependent politicians installed after Ukraines 2014 color revolution with withholding of a billion dollars in United States aid until Mr. Shokin, whom Joe unironically alleged to be "corrupt," got the heave-ho.

As Tucker Carlson nails it, Mr. Shokins ouster followed a direct request from Burismas Clinton-connected PR firm, Blue Star Strategies, to Hunter to lobby his dad to get Mr. Shokin off their back.

Joe Biden did just what was asked. He later bragged: "I said, -You are not getting the billion. I am going to be leaving here [i.e., Kiev] in, I think it was about six hours." I looked at them and said, "I am leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you are not getting the money." Well, son of a bitch. He got fired."

But First There Was Serbia

Today many people remember Iraq, some have a clue about Ukraine. But Serbia, which preceded them, is off the radar screen of most United States of Americans. To recap:

As a Senator in the 1990s, Joe Biden was one of the most militant advocates of United States military action against Serbs during the breakup of the Yugoslav federation, first in Croatia (1991-95), then in Bosnia (1992-95), and then in Serbias province of Kosovo (1998- 1999). (As has been said about others like Hillary Clinton and the late John McCain, Joe Biden evidently has never met a war he did not like.

Along with Hillary, in 2003 Biden helped to whip Senate Democrat votes for the Bush-Cheney Iraq war.) Channeling his inner John McCain, Joe Biden continually called for the United States to bomb, bomb, bomb bomb the Serbs while (in a foreshadowing of the Obama-Biden administrations support for jihad terrorists in Libya and Syria, which ultimately resulted in the appearance of ISIS) pushed successfully for sending weapons to the Islamist regime in Bosnia and then for the United States to arm the Islamo-narco-terrorist group known as the "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA).

Joe Biden was the primary sponsor of the March 1999 Kosovo war authorization for military action against Serbia and Montenegro, S. Con. Res. 21. (As a little remembered historical note, Joe Bidens resolution might be seen as the last nail in the coffin of Congress constitutional war power. While S. Con. Res 21 passed the Senate, it failed in the House on a 213-213 tie vote, with Republicans overwhelmingly voting Nay.

It did not matter. Bill Clinton, reeling from the Monica Lewinsky scandal, went ahead with the bombing campaign anyway.) The ensuing 78-day NATO air operation had little impact on Serbias military but devastated the countrys infrastructure and took hundreds of civilian lives. (Even now, more than 20 years later, Serbia suffers from elevated cancer levels attributed to depleted uranium munitions.) But for Jihad Joe Biden even that was not punishment enough for people he collectively demonized as "illiterate degenerates, baby killers, butchers, and rapists." In May 1999, at the height of the NATO air assault, he called for the introduction of United States ground troops ("we should announce there is going to be United States of American casualties") followed by "a Japanese-German style occupation."

Eventually the bombing stopped in June 1999 when then-Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević acceded to temporary international occupation of Kosovo on the condition that the province would remain part of Serbia, as codified in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244.

It was a promise the United States and NATO, not to mention their European Union (EU) concubine, had no intention of keeping.

Under the nose of the NATO occupation, ostensibly demobilized KLA thugs were given virtually free rein to terrorize the Serbian population, two-thirds of whom were driven out along with Jews and Roma, the rest sheltering in enclaves where they remain to this day.

Orthodox Christian churches and monasteries, many of them centuries old, were particular targets for destruction and desecration. KLA commanders - who were also kingpins in the Kosovo Albanian mafia dealing in sex slaves, drugs, weapons, and even human organs - were handed local administration.

In 2007 Senator Joe Biden praised the new order as a "victory for Muslim democracy" and "a much-needed example of a successful United States-Muslim partnership."

A year later, the Bush administration sought to complete the job by ramming through Kosovos independence in barefaced violation of UNSCR 1244 and despite strong Russian objections.

But instead of resolving anything the result was a frozen conflict that persists today, with about half of the United Nations member states recognizing Kosovo and half not. Touting itself as the most pro-American "country" [sic] in the world, the Kosovo pseudo-state became a prime recruiting ground for ISIS.

But hey, business was good!

Just as in Iraq, the politically well-connected, including former officials instrumental in the attack on Serbia and occupying Kosovo, flocked to the province fueled by lavish aid subsidies from the United States and the EU, which for a while made Kosovo one of the biggest per capita foreign assistance recipient "countries" in the world.

One such vulture - sorry, entrepreneur - was former Secretary of State Madeleine we-think-a-half-million-dead-Iraqi-children-is-worth-it Albright, a prominent driver of the Clinton administrations hostile policy on top of her personal Serb-hatred.

Ms Albright sought to cash in to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars on sale of the mobile telephone company PTK, originally a Yugoslav state-owned firm that was "privatized" (i.e., stolen) in 2005 as a joint stock company, but who later dropped her bid when it attracted unwanted publicity.

Also in the hunt for Kosovo riches was former NATO Supreme Commander and operational chief of the Kosovo war General Wesley Clark, who reportedly cornered a major share of the occupied provinces coal resources under a sweetheart deal that seems to have vanished from public scrutiny since first reported in 2016.

At the moment there seems to be no smoking gun of a direct Joe Biden family payout, a la Ukraine, but there is a possible trail via Hunters Burisma-buddy Devon Archer and Archers fellow-defendant John "Yanni" Galanis, who in turn is connected to top Kosovo Albanian politicians.

In any case, the Biden clan seems to have paid a lot of attention to Kosovo for not having skin in the game. Joes late son and Delaware Attorney General, Beau, worked in Kosovo following the war to train local prosecutors as part of an OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) "rule of law" mission (admittedly a big task in a mafia-run pseudo-state), for which a road was named after him near the massive United States base Camp Bondsteel.

With Hunter on hand for the naming ceremony, Joe Biden took the opportunity to express his "condolences" to Serbian families who lost loved ones in the NATO air assault - of which he was a primary advocate.

A "Shokin" Demand

Perhaps the best parallel between Joe Bidens handiwork in Ukraine and his interest in Kosovo also relates to getting rid of an inconvenient individual. But in this case, the person in question was not a state official like Burisma prosecutor Viktor Shokin but a hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

In May 2009 Vice President Joe Biden insisted on visiting one of Kosovos most venerable Serbian Orthodox Christian sites, the Visoki Dečani monastery.

Ruling Bishop Artemije of the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren, which includes Kosovo and Metohija, refused to give his blessing for the visit, in effect telling Joe Biden he was not welcome.

Bishop Artemije long had been a bane of Joe Biden and others advocating detachment of Kosovo from Serbia, starting with his first mission to Washington in 1997 as war clouds gathered. In 2004 Bishop Artemije sued the NATO powers in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg following their inaction to protect his flock during an anti-Serbian rampage by Muslim Albanian militants in March of that year.

Then, in March 2006, as preparations were underway for a "final solution" to the Kosovo issue, Bishop Artemije launched an intensive multinational lobbying and public relations effort (in which Yours Truly was the lead professional) to try to derail the United States policy to which Joe Biden had devoted so much attention.

While the Bishops campaign was unsuccessful in reversing United States policy it was instrumental in delaying it for over a year - to howls of outrage from Joe Bidens associates in Washington,D.C. Thus, for Joe Biden, the monastery visit snub by Bishop Artemije was adding insult to injury.

The end for Bishop Artemije came a few months later, at the beginning of 2010 at the time of two visits to Kosovo by United States Admiral Mark P. Fitzgerald, then Commander, United States Naval Forces Europe and Africa, and Commander, Allied Joint Force Command (JFC) Naples, (who retired later that year, becoming, unsurprisingly, a consultant "with numerous defense and commercial maritime and aviation contractors").

At that time, an unconfirmed report indicated that a high NATO officer (whether Admiral Fitzgerald or someone else is not specified) stated in the course of one of his local meetings (this is verbatim or a close paraphrase): "What we need here is a more cooperative bishop." (More details are available here. Since that posting last year the NATO command in Naples seems to have scrubbed the items about Fitzgeralds 2010 visits from their site.)

Shortly afterwards, Joe Bidens troublesome priest was forcibly removed by police and exiled from his see, without ecclesiastical trial, by Church authorities in Belgrade under pressure from compliant Serbian politicians installed after the October 2000 color revolution, in turn pressured by NATO. The pretext? Transparently baseless charges of financial wrongdoing. In other words, bogus accusations of "corruption" - like against Ukraines Mr. Shokin.

One could almost hear Joe Biden chortle: "Well, son of a bitch. He got fired."

But Look at the Bright Side..

Back to the incipient coup facing the United States, there should be no illusion that what is at stake in the unfolding scenario for the removal of Donald Trump is not just his presidency but the survival of the historic United States of American ethnos of which he is seen as an avatar by both his supporters and detractors.

Remember, we are dealing with predators and scavengers who are happy to burn the old, evil United States of America down as long as they can achieve total power and continue to feather their cushy nests. Short of a blowout Donald Trump victory by a margin too big to hijack, we are headed for a dystopian state of affairs.

If they do manage to remove Donald Trump, "by any means necessary," and Joe Biden takes the helm, we can anticipate a bevy of globalist warmonger appointees that make Donald Trumps team look like disciples of Mahatma Gandhi.

Among the names floated like Nicholas Burns, Antony Blinken, Michele Flournoy, Evelyn Farkas, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, all were on board with Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, Syria .. [NOTE: The Atlantic Council, known as NATOs semi-official think tank in Washington,D.C. and which will be instrumental in staffing a future Joe Biden administration, also has been the beneficiary of generous donations from Hunter Bidens paymaster, Burisma.]

It is a recipe for wars, regime changes, and color revolutions galore.

But to finish on a positive note, the potential future business opportunities will be endless!

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