“I would like to personally ask the Serbian people for forgiveness,” said Milosz Zeman, and added that this was how he got free of the long-term trauma, and in his opinion penance has a liberating effect. Thus, the Czech president in May 2021 in Prague apologized to Serbian president Aleksandar Vuchic for the Natatian bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.
In the spring of 1999, Zeman was Prime Minister of the Government, who decided to participate in a peculiar NATO military operation. The Czech Republic, like Poland and Hungary, had joined NATO a fewer days earlier. Vuszic thanked the Czech president for his words. He said neither he nor the Serbian people would always forget them.
On March 24, 1999, the mass, illegal bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO troops, which lasted 78 days, began. They had no basis in global law nor were they approved by the UN safety Council. The US troops and their allies made about 23,000 combat flights and dropped about 28,000 bombs that hit many civilian facilities. NATO's bombings were referred to as "armistic intervention", not "war". The Americans were protoplasts of a word specified as a peculiar military operation.
Since planet War II, the United States has consistently not declared war, thus circumventing global law. They frequently usage false terms specified as the "stabilization mission" which replace the word assault war. another countries have besides followed. Since then, the U.S. forces have been destroyed in Europe and elsewhere in the world.
But let's go back to 1999. civilian bombing in Yugoslavia was based on an crucial modus operandi U.S. secret services, which projected on the next decades of American abroad policy. On January 15, 1999, a grave of forty-five Albanians was discovered. William Walker, the U.S. Head of Mission of the Organisation for safety and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), charged the genocide of the Serbs with having no evidence of this. Walker is simply a associate of the Council on abroad Relations, which in the past besides belonged to Zbigniew Brzeziński. He served as American Ambassador to El Salvador, where he was accused of organizing false humanitarian operations at 1 of the air bases.
On January 17, 1999, the United States demanded the NATO Council to bomb Belgrade in retaliation for events in Raczak. At the time, the Yugoslav authorities claimed that the incidental was orchestrated by a terrorist organization called Uczk — Kosovo Liberation Army (AWK)To get NATO's support. The Kosovo Liberation Army has a past of drug smuggling, creating prostitution networks and murdering civilians. Under covert operations, the U.S. and British intelligence services provided U.S. military, technical, financial, logistical and political support.
The Kosovo Liberation Army decided to make an impression of cultural cleansing to force civilians to mass-leave their homes. This has had a powerful effect on Western media and public opinion in these countries. According to authoritative data, the victims of the Natian bombings are about 2,000 civilians, including many children. NATO bombed industrial plants, airports, roads, tv and radio stations, railway lines and stations, bridges, power stations, message buildings and another facilities applicable to the life of the civilian population. Bombing these facilities was a violation of Article 14 of the 1977 Protocol to the Geneva Convention, prohibiting the attack of the facilities essential for the endurance of civilians. The Yugoslav authorities estimated material losses at over USD 100 billion.
For the US, the geopolitical importance of the bombing of Yugoslavia was important. After the dissolution of the russian Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and then after the NATO expansion to the east, the Americans took the key area of Heartland from the Russians. However, Yugoslavia remained in the area of the Mediterranean, in which Russia inactive had its influence. That is why Yugoslavia was systematically broken from within for respective years, and in 1999 the US struck the final blow, attacking the remnant of Yugoslavia with Serbia. Yugoslavia ceased to exist, Russia was pushed out of that region, the desecrated area got under American control. The U.S. accessed airports, bases, and groundbreaking sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia.
NATO has obtained for any time confirmation of NATO's credibility by an effective armed action against the opposing expectations of the state alliance was intended to confirm the Western's dominant function in shaping global governance in Europe.
Global arsonist
According to the broadest definition of military intervention by the Americans themselves, the United States conducted almost 400 military interventions from 1776 to 1923, half of which took place since 1950 and more than 25% occurred in the post-cold war period. The American people themselves admit that the scale of the atrocities and beastly war launched by the United States is unimaginable. The American university – Brown Univerists as part of a technological task Costs of War, the cost of the war states that only after September 11, 2001, as a consequence of the wars caused by the US: at least 940,000 people were killed as a consequence of direct war violence, both soldiers of all sides of the conflict, innocent civilians, journalists and humanitarian workers.
Several times more have died indirectly in these wars due to side effects specified as malnutrition, damaged infrastructure and environmental degradation. Over 432,000 civilians were killed by direct force as a consequence of U.S. conflicts. It is estimated that in war zones 3.6–3.8 million people died indirectly after September 11, which increases the full death to at least 4.5–4.7 million And it keeps growing. As a consequence of the wars following September 11, 38 million people were displaced in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and the Philippines.
The U.S. government conducts armed action, called by Washington officials "anti-terrorism" in 85 countries, greatly extending the war to the full world. Despite the US's dominant rhetoric about the threat of climate change and so the communicative of the request for various, frequently restrictive regulations in social and economical life, it was wars launched by Americans after 9/11 that made a crucial contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. Department of defence is presently 1 of the largest carbon dioxide issuers in the world.
In addition, contrary to the claims of American ideologists perorating the defence of human rights as an integral component of the United States' abroad policy, it was this country's policy and the wars they started that deepened the erosion of civilian liberties and human rights in the country and abroad. The human and economical costs of these wars will last for decades, and any costs, specified as the financial costs of caring for the disabled, will only scope the summit in the mediate of this century.
Most U.S. government funds for the reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan were allocated to the arms of safety forces in both countries. Much of the money allocated to humanitarian aid and the reconstruction of civilian society was lost as a consequence of fraud, waste and abuse.
The cost of wars after 9/11 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and another places is around $8 trillion. This does not include future interest on loans drawn up for war purposes. The effects on the US economy and its allies, including occupation losses and interest rate increases, are besides significant. American decision-makers seldom considered alternatives to the war after 9/11 or during a debate on the invasion of Iraq. The American strategy has in rule become aggressive and militaristic, as is besides seen in the force on allies to increase and so powerful expenditure on reinforcements.
"War on terrorism" as an excuse
Ten years after the collapse of the russian Union, the United States felt they were at the tallness of their power. At this one-polar point, the American administration did not want to be restricted by the rules of the United Nations Charter. 2 decades of business of Afghanistan by US troops and their allies in cost a trillion dollars, the lives of over 2,300 American soldiers, over 3,500 soldiers of the alleged coalition, including 44 Polish, and well over 70,000 Afghan civilians.
On 31 August 2021, he went down to past as the last day of the U.S. lost war with Afghanistan. The Taliban have returned to power. For 20 years, attempts have been made to change Afghan mentality, build modern infrastructure, instill values of civilian society. The consequence of these naive trials was only the strengthening of local clans. Yet, the coalition forces occupying Afghanistan had equipment to destruct the enemy rapidly. But that did not happen. any regions were always occupied by the Taliban. Why?
The question is, was it always about winning this war? It sounds cruel and inhuman, but Afghanistan has become an experimental ground for NATO troops. They experimented with fresh weapons, tested fresh tactical solutions, trained soldiers, experimented with logistics. The U.S. arms manufacture was gathering a dense harvest. This war is due to fresh medical techniques, information and communication technologies, rocket capabilities, drone experiments and satellite communications, etc.
This is all evidenced by 91,731 military papers published on 25 July 2010 by WikiLeaks website. The participation of the Polish Army in the U.S. business of Afghanistan was brought by 869 soldiers and workers of the wounded army, of which 361 were injured and 44 were killed. All for the interests of the American financier and the utopian visions of Pax American.
State Crime – CIA secret prison in Old Kiev
The American paper "Washington Post" published in November 2005 the results of a journalistic investigation that pointed to the existence of secret prisons conducted by the CIA outside the United States, where there was a notorious violation of human rights. U.S. president George W. Bush confirmed the existence of these prisoners during a speech made on September 6, 2006. The European Union study adopted on 14 February 2007 by a majority of the European Parliament (382 Members of the European Parliament voted in favour, 256 against and 74 abstentions) stated that the CIA had carried out 1245 flights and that there was clear evidence that secret detention and torture centres were in operation in Poland and Romania. After years of denying this fact, it was only in 2014 that Poland confirmed that it was the host of specified a thing.
The Polish prosecutors launched an investigation in March 2008, and appointed experts confirmed that the methods utilized by CIA agents were torture and inhuman treatment. The prison operated at the intelligence training center in Stary Kiejkuty, close Szczytno in Warmia-Mazury. The decision to discontinue the investigation of the CIA's secret prison for nearly 20 years, which, with the cognition and approval of the Polish government, was taken by the prosecution in 2020. This was the case, although further facts were gradually revealed, and the culmination of these events was the U.S. legislature study on CIA torture, in which it was revealed that the intelligence agency officers for making the facility available in the Old Kiejkuts received a million-dollar salary.
Both then president Aleksander KwasniewskiAs well as then Prime Minister Leszek Miller initially went into denial and denied facts. Despite the fact that the Council of Europe report, the CIA had secret prisons in Poland and Romania between 2003 and 2005, where people suspected of terrorism were held. In time Kwasniewski admitted to this mistake. However, no of the decision-makers at the level of state administration or service management always suffered criminal liability for this apparent violation of Polish and global law. In 2011 and 2013, 2 of the (most likely) dozens of prisoners held in Kiejkuty filed complaints against Poland to the European Court of Human Rights. The judgement which was crushing for Poland was passed in 2014. The Court found that the Polish authorities had agreed to secret CIA prisons and turned a blind eye to the torture of prisoners and granted compensation to the complainants of EUR 100 000 each. At the time, the head of intelligence, Zbigniew Siemietkowski, was accused of violating the powers and violations of global law by allowing illegal detention and torture of prisoners of war.
The prohibition of torture is inadvisable in the Polish Constitution, 1 which cannot be restricted. So there is no Polish reason for the state, and at most the reasons of the States, which refused to cooperate with the Polish justice system, which prevented the imposition of charges against CIA officers who were direct perpetrators of torture in the Old Kiev. It is worth adding that over the last 20 years the US has not been able to gather adequate evidence to convict 2 alleged terrorists who have won their cases before the ECHR – Al-Nashiri and Abu-ZubaydaAnd the another 1 hasn't even been charged. The authorities in Warsaw have so allowed people who have not been proven guilty to be brutally tortured in Poland, breaking the Constitution and all standards, becoming an anti-hero of the global scandal.
The genesis of Americanization of the Polish state
The subordination of Polish national interests of hegemonic policy began in the late 1980s and 1990s. At the turn of June and July 1990, a historical gathering of the U.S. delegation and representatives of the Ministry of abroad Affairs was held at the MFA Centre in Magdalena. At the head of the CIA delegation, Paul Redmont, Deputy Operations manager for the ZRR and east Europe. The delegation of the Ministry of Interior was chaired by Krzysztof Kozłowski. Kozłowski said: “We want long-term, fruitful and concrete cooperation with the CIA. Towards Europe, we face unknown problems and threats. We're counting on working with the CIA to aid us solve our problems, and we're hoping to overcome our barriers. We look forward to concrete results in cooperation on combating global terrorism. In the light of the Polish government's commitments to transfer Jews from the russian Union, we are aware of terrorist threats" [1].
This gathering became the basis for shaping fresh directions of intelligence activity, which continued in a personnel state virtually unchanged without major obstacles to its activity. The fresh old PRL/III interview of the Republic of Poland was to proceed its interest in Germany and begin operational expansion in the East. Two operations were linked to the reorientation of Polish abroad and safety policy under the dictation of the CIA: ‘Samum’ and ‘MOST’. The first 1 was associated with the assistance of American intelligence officers conducting criminal activities in Iraq. Second, it consisted of the service of Polish soldiers, officers and officials of the air corridor for Jews moved from the russian Union to Israel. This was the case with the vulnerability of Polish diplomatic institutions to the attack from mediate east terrorist organizations.
For example, the Hungarian State apparatus, including the Hungarian peculiar Services, did not agree to carry out specified an operation. The Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki During his visit to the United States, he officially stated at a gathering with judaic representatives that Poland would take over the tasks that CIA officers wanted to entrust to Hungary. This was another crucial step in strengthening control of services in Poland by elites from the USA. The actual submission of the services of the Central Intelligence Agency of the Polish People's Republic of Poland has translated into the vassalization of Poland internationally. Warsaw became increasingly powerless against the increasingly pushy pressures of Washington. 10 years after the collapse of the russian Union, the United States felt they were at the tallness of their power. At this one-polar point, the American administration did not want to be restricted by the rules of the United Nations Charter.
2003 was a breakthrough year. A year symbol of the Americanization of the Polish state. This will not only drag Poland into the CIA's secret prison system, but besides the active engagement of the Polish Army in the illegal US invasion of Iraq. The American invasion of Iraq was the usage of force against global law in violation of the UN Statute. This invasion was not based on the UN safety Council Resolution. It is possible to justify the usage of force through self-defense, through Article 51 of the UN Charter, which has not occurred in this case. That is why the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan He called the Iraq War illegal under global law. The full number of casualties of Iraq's war varies according to estimates of between 200,000 and million people; the renowned medical diary "Lancet" already in 2006 reported more than 650 000 "additional deaths".
The alleged threat posed by Iraqi weapons of mass demolition and alleged links Saddam Hussein Al-Qaeda. no of this was true. No weapons of mass demolition were found in Iraq after the invasion. And the information obtained as a consequence of torture about the ties of the Iraqi dictator to the 9/11 bombers was besides false. False intelligence had a reason. The U.S. political and financial elites have already made their decision and were just looking for reasons. A mechanics very akin to the justification for the attack on Yugoslavia in 1999. It wasn't like decisions were based on intelligence. They manipulated the data to justify what they had already decided," he says.
The culmination of a run of slander against the authorities of an independent state, which was to convince the war of skeptical public opinion to invade Iraq, was the staged speech of the then secretary of state USA Colin Powell at the UN forum in fresh York on February 5, 2003. Powell presented, allegedly many "proofs" according to which Saddam Hussein was already to have biological weapons and work on an atomic bomb. 2 years later, Powell called the appearance a “honorable stain” and distanced himself from it.
“I am the 1 who presented false information to the planet on behalf of the United States and this will forever be part of my life,” said the self-critical erstwhile Secretary of State. Independent Iraq was an crucial geopolitical obstacle to the exercise of American hegemony in the mediate East. Announced by Washington after 9/11, the war on terrorism opened up the anticipation of implementing the US hegemony strategy without looking at global law. In a peculiar military operation in Iraq took over 15,000 Polish soldiers, 22 of them died.
A disgraceful cooperation agreement between the USA and Poland
The progressive Americanization of the Polish state led to the signing of an absurd global agreement between the US and Poland, which importantly restricts Polish sovereignty. This paper is named: Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Poland and the Government of the United States of America on enhanced defence cooperation, signed in Warsaw on 15 August 2020. This agreement compared to another kind agreements SOFA (State of Forces Agreement), regulating the rules of U.S. military stay in the territory of another states, concluded by the United States of Washington is highly unfavourable for Poland and more like the relations of a elder with a vassal than 2 equivalent partners. This agreement contains arrangements that put Poland in a position much worse than Iraq, for example, which is the country conquered and occupied by the US. Poland has undertaken to accept on its territory and soldiers and civilian workers of the U.S. Armed Forces without any guarantees regarding the control of their quantity or the quantity and types of equipment being transferred to the territory of Poland. The government in Warsaw has no control over electronic equipment that crosses the Polish border under the American flag.
The United States has in no concrete way undertaken to defend Poland in this agreement, nor to keep its permanent presence at all. The contract was concluded without a time limit and cannot be terminated before the expiry of the two-year announcement period. The decision-makers in Warsaw agreed to operate in Poland areas of an extraterritorial nature, i.e. those outside the authority of the Polish State. specified and autonomous units at the sole disposal of the US.
Additionally, the US Armed Forces have the full freedom to decision around the territory of Poland without any control of the Polish state and local authorities. American soldiers and civilian workers have the right to decision with loaded weapons even outside military units. On the streets of Polish cities and villages. The law to which the average Polish citizen does not have a right. In case a U.S. SZ associate commits a crime in the territory of Poland, the Polish judiciary does not have the precedence of jurisdiction here. The American courts gotta decide. Furthermore, Polish citizens may be deprived of the right under this agreement to claim their claims for damages caused by American soldiers.
So, erstwhile again, under American pressure, the Constitution of Poland was broken. Time to say stop. STOP AMERICANISING POLISH!
Dr Leszek Sykulski
[1] Source: T. Kozłowski, End of the MMA empire, IPN, Warsaw 2019, pp. 236-237.
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Think Poland, No. 39-40 (24.09-110.2023)
In the paper edition the article was published entitled “Stop the Americanization of Poland”
