/ world today news/ Before the NATO summit in Warsaw on July 8, the structures and special Euro-Atlantic departments rolled up their sleeves and harnessed all their forces to silence the process of growing anti-NATO mood in Europe, which is occurring naturally in a number of countries, writes online the publication news-front.info in an article on Saturday (June 11).
Bulgaria and Montenegro can be taken as an example in the Balkans. The first one is part of the EU and NATO, and the second one is being tried to forcefully enter the military alliance and put it on the path of European integration, regardless of the many thousands of protests of the Montenegrin people, which have not subsided since October last year, the author of the article notes.
In Bulgaria, the accession to the EU and NATO was considered a step towards the assimilation of strategic territories in the Balkan region. I.e. those who facilitated the realization of this move had specific goals: to declare their presence in the Balkans, deploy their armed forces and keep the country under control (let’s not forget that Bulgaria has always considered itself close to Russia not only in historical plan).
After the collapse of the USSR, the idea of ”democratization” or “European integration”, as it is fashionable to say today, gained momentum throughout Europe, and closer attention began to be paid to countries with a common past with Russia, so that they to be “integrated” into the Western camp and used against Moscow. The promises of a fabulous European life had an effect only for a while, the publication writes.
A person is built this way: he always wants to believe that he will get better, especially when he is told what he wants to hear – a psychological trick that was successfully used in Ukraine and whose consequences we are still seeing today after the Maidan.
Here are some facts and results of the “Euro-Atlantic” impact:
Little Bulgaria, when in the past it supplied tons of agricultural products to Russia, today it is full of foreign “chains” – trade networks where goods from Turkey, Poland, Greece, etc. are sold.
In other words, Bulgaria, instead of producing and supplying, found itself in the role of consumer and buyer with all the resulting consequences: dependence on the general European policy, economic dependence – in this way, agriculture in the country and in general all its production was “neutralized” in exchange for several euro projects.
Membership in NATO happened without a referendum and so far the people cannot understand what is happening – the country’s army or defense has been replaced by a foreign presence, thus allowing NATO to gain military influence as well.
The economic dependence became visible against the background of an absurd decision: not of Bulgaria, but of the EC, for the implementation of the “South Stream” project: “We are not allowed.”
All these moments testify that the policy of the West was aimed at distancing Bulgaria from any interaction with Russia, the journalist believes.
The anti-Russian sanctions were another proof of this: Bulgaria supported them at the political level, since, as Prime Minister Boyko Borisov himself said: We do not want the sanctions and of course we lose and suffer colossal losses from them, but we cannot go against the wishes of the EU and NATO.
In another conversation, the Bulgarian Prime Minister, during a meeting with “America for Bulgaria”, in the presence of high-ranking guests from the USA, stated that Bulgaria has given up on “South Stream” and other projects in favor of … the USA.
Losing and agreeing to foreign decisions that turned the country in the process of European integration into the “poorest EU member state” – who wanted that? Bulgaria? Did the Bulgarians dream of such Europeanization? The country was cleverly deceived and realized that it was trapped. And then the people began to express their opinion and the anti-NATO protests began…
… but they seemed to be neither seen nor heard…
In the USA, they are afraid that several countries have repeatedly raised the issue of the futility of anti-Russian sanctions and are demanding their cancellation (Italy, France, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia). In connection with this, the pro-Western structures put into action new mechanisms of anti-Russian propaganda. Everywhere – and of course they started with Bulgaria.
While in Bulgaria for years the people held actions to show their support for Russia, distancing themselves from the political blunders of the country’s president, Plevneliev’s statements became increasingly harsh. The latest example – on the day of the Russian President’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow, in Brussels, the Bulgarian President declared that Crimea is Ukraine, and Russia is trying to undermine the foundations of the EU.
Is this a coincidence? According to the author, no. The Bulgarian people once again experienced not just shame, but real humiliation, a wave of indignation swept the country – organizations and ordinary people wrote letters of protest, sharply condemning his words and apologizing to Russia, so that the Russians would know: the Bulgarian people do not share the opinion of their president and considers this another order of Washington, concludes the article.
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