Factors are forming which will lead to a new Yugoslavia. Zelensky was humiliated at the last NATO conference just weeks ago. He will outwardly cooperate, but inwardly will harbor the resentment. He will be calculated. If he does not chart a new path for Ukraine in the coming months, one of his generals will do it for him.
With Poland and Romania now in play, it is inevitable that a new Yugoslavia will be formed to counterbalance the Russians. If our State Department is smart, that is what they will try to promote. But in light of the defeat in Afghanistan, the State Department is short on prescience and timeliness – to put it politely.
A new Yugoslavia will have to be a non-NATO organization. But to be viable and to have leverage against Russia, it will have to seize the European side of the Bosphorus currently under the control of Turkey, a very unreliable NATO ally, at the very least, but more like an active agent in an Islamic Fifth Column operation against the West.
Resolving the Ukrainian conflict will allow a pivot to the Far East where the greatest threat to world peace exists: China’s demands on Taiwan.
Understandably, China’s aggressive behavior on the world stage is necessitated by its need to feed its people and maintain a modern standard of living. In some respects, China’s resourcefulness and development of new technologies are signs of world-class leadership. However, its repressive and pagan ideologies threaten the world with a cancer: a moral and economic blackhole much like the effects of the ancient Roman Empire. The slave culture of ancient Rome was the ultimate “consumer society” in which the powerful destroyed the means of production through perpetual war, taxation and outright seizure. In this respect, communism is no different in its effects. It lures the people into productivity with promises of ownership, then finds excuses to seize the new assets.
I do not profess to know the inner workings of men in power. However, I do notice that “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Men like the Prophet Daniel and our Lord Jesus Christ could make predictions centuries in advance because they understood human nature, the restraints of geography, and the mass psychosis of mob action.
“If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.”
Or,
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. – Ecclesiastes 1:9
- JWS, 7/28/23
