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By: US Intelligence: Balkans pose the Greatest Thread of Instability in Europe « AriRusila’s BalkanBlog

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:26:04 +0000

[...] About Bosnia-Herzegovina I agree with US intelligence report. My estimation about situation is even more negative because the dispute is not anymore between the two entities – the Serb Republic and Muslim-Croat Federation. Last year alarming reports started to come about rise of radical Islam in Bosnia-Herzegovina (more e.g. in my article “Islamic terror …”) and how Croatians in Bosnia felt that hey are victims of Bosnian Muslim terror. Also arms trafficking in Bosnia changed more alarming not because their selling in EU but because their planned use in Europe by radicals (more e.g. in my article “Radical Islamists arming their selves in Balkans“). [...]

By: Top work

Top work — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:19:45 +0000

Top work…

Excellent, just gotta recomend this….

By: Milan Blagojevic

Milan Blagojevic — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:26:52 +0000

Thanks for the reply. Pardon me for thinking that anything that counters the mainstream approach to Balkan reporting is considered a biased Serbian point of view- its just rare.

Appreciative and thankful

Milan

By: arirusila

arirusila — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:31:07 +0000

To Milan and his new Albanian friend.

As said in Blog headline, my blog is my perspective, not a scientific analysis. My perspective can also be partial to counterbalance the successful albanian/muslim/US propaganda in western mainstream media.

I have been critical to mainstream media 1st because of its one-sided picture about good and bad guys (Serbs have been the bad ones last 20 years) and 2nd because of its use as one side political propaganda tool since Bosnian war. Falsificated reports,exagerrated numbers (10 times bigger deat tolls than confirmed afterwards) had their motives.

I also personally saw the manipulation of media while being in Kosovo; I also saw the huge gap between reality on the ground and nice statements and ideals coming from New York or Brussels. In my blogs I try highlight the other side of story which some times oppose the picture of Anglo-American mainstream media so in that sense my writing is not neutral or unbiased. However the reader can value my arguments, compare them to other opposite arguments and hopefully through this process get a more many-sided or comprehensive picture over reality.

By: New friend of Milan

New friend of Milan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:35:13 +0000

Milan,

This Author is a typical Servian apologist. There is really no question about it, whether he wishes to admit it openly or just prefers to hide behind his pipe.

A very classic propaganda model, very familiar to all of us in the Balkans, is at work here. If you will permit me to oversimplify, it follows something like this pattern: even if you have been convicted of launching wars, stealing property, pushing non combatants from their homes, butchering countless innocents, and raping women and girls systematically, it may be possible to convince the world you are good guys if you make it seem that everyone committed crimes and everyone “started” the wars (imagine the irony in the last point), and presenting yourselves as the victims… You then keep saying it, in different ways, over and over again, and sooner or later, people come to your side out of fatigue and memory loss.

-Your new Albanian friend

By: Milan Blagojevic

Milan Blagojevic — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:44:08 +0000

HI
I have just discovered the blog and am still making up my mind. I find Ari Rusila’s site to be jam packed with information and opinion that is biased in favour of a Serbian point of view. I don’t mind but I was wondering if this is the objective of the blog or does the blog author claim to be neutral?

Keep up the good work.

Regards

Milan

By: Sue Massey

Sue Massey — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:30:34 +0000

You know, I have to tell you, I really enjoy this blog and the insight from everyone who participates. I find it to be refreshing and very informative. I wish there were more blogs like it. Anyway, I felt it was about time I posted, I�ve spent most of my time here just lurking and reading, but today for some reason I just felt compelled to say this.