It is High Time to Oppose the Arrogance of the West

10 years after the war against Yugoslavia

by Karl Mueller, Germany  

More than 8 years ago, on 8 February 2001, the German ARD program broadcast a documentary of the West German Broadcasting Corporation (WDR), entitled “Es begann mit einer Lüge” (It began with a lie). For the first time after NATO’s 78-days-war of aggression of against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, had started on 24 May 1999, a broader public in the German-speaking countries realized that this war of aggression had been justified with gross lies, and that obviously there had been quite other motives for this war, completely different from the ones officially proclaimed.
Expectations, however, that now the truth would gradually come to light, were not fulfilled. Even prior to 9/11, NATO and the West aligned themselves with the US war power, banking ever more exclusively on war propaganda and actual censorship.
The situation today is that the West confronts the rest of the world with the intolerable arrogance of warlords and colonial rulers and at the same time is deceiving their own people daily; with arrogance and a rhetoric of lies, which unfortunately culminates in the behavior of the new US-American President.
The larger rest of the world, however, is no longer ready to accept this behaviour. Therefore, there is great danger that the West, striving to maintain its past supremacy in the world at any cost, is no longer willing to pursue an honest compromise. It strives for the “final victory”, and thus resorts to ever tougher means to exercise its power. So the worldwide conflicts continue to escalate and political solutions are becoming ever more difficult. What is to be done?
Since 1999, the states and governments of the West have totally failed. They could have corrected the serious mistake of 1999, if they had really wanted to. Instead, oppression and discrimination of the Serbian people continue until this very day, and the West is spreading its wars all over the world.
What has to be done now is to confront lies and wars with the truth. This will happen with the full conviction that even the people in the western states will no longer tacitly accept the havoc their political classes as well as their economic and social “elite” are causing  all over the world, as soon as these people are really informed and feel addressed. In one of the coming issues, Current Concerns will publish a detailed supplement on this topic.
Today we have every reason to kneel down before a European people, that for more than 20 years has resisted the attempt to  be forced to their knees with all malicious means of power – brutally and without consideration for the victims.
Last not least a warning must be addressed  to Germany and German policy. In the 1990s, Germany was one of the main warmongers against Yugoslavia. Since 1990, a dangerous hubris has seized the German “elite”, leading again to Germany’s pestering and molesting other countries and peoples. That too, may end in a disaster one day, if no countermeasures  are taken – for the world and for Germany as well.    •