Tuesday 6 June 2006

Montenegrin "independence"

So Montenegro has become "independent", has it? In what way? Not only is a "Serbia and Montenegro" team still competing in the World Cup (too late to change that, I suppose), but this newly "independent" state aspires to membership of the EU, NATO, the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. Some "independence"! Apart from the next World Cup, what else is there to express this new-found status? The Eurovision Song Contest? Seriously, these really do seem to be the limit of this "independence".
Anyone doubting the inseparability of European federalism, American hegemony and international capital need look no further than the above list of bodies, rightly regarded as an indivisible whole. Only Serbia (about to be dismembered by Western-backed "independence" of this kind for blackshirted, Islamist Kosovo) remains of the multiethnic, truly independent Yugoslavia that was never part of the Soviet Bloc, and so, on becoming democratic, saw no reason to join the EU-NATO-WTO-IMF-WB Bloc either, which latter was favoured by Croatian separatist Fascists, and by Islamist separatists nostalgic for the Nazi period in Bosnia and Kosovo, all of whom found that that Bloc was just as favourable towards them as they were towards it.
And why does Montenegro have a Romance name when it is a Slavic country? I only ask.

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