Ukraine and Georgia must not join. Nobody must. NATO will exist for precisely so long as the Americans fail to cotton on that they get nothing out of it except the bill. Once they do that, then it will be wound up, as it should have been in 1991. This cannot possibly happen too soon.
Russia, in common with all the Slavs (not least including the Serbs), is the bulwark, against Islamic and other threats, of the civilisation defined by the Biblical-Classical synthesis. On the contrary, they define themselves precisely by their opposition to that synthesis, which is the West.
That is why her enemies are old Marxists from back in the day. See, for example, the Harry's Place website, which is the latest manifestation of Straight Left, the most unerringly pro-Soviet faction within the old Communist Party of Great Britain and among its nominally Labour fellow-travellers, and which therefore opposes the present Russian Government out of support for the only viable alternative, namely the totally unreconstructed Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
Or see the BBC, uncritical cheerleaders for the National Bolsheviks, whose flag says it all: the Nazi flag with a black hammer and sickle in place of the swastika.
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Minor problem David - the bulk of muslims in Bosnia and Bulgaria ARE SLAVS and have Slavic names.
ReplyDeleteThey don't have a Slavic culture. They simply cannot have.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean by Slavic culture. They speak south slavic languages and play south slavic instruments. They eat pretty much the same food (burek, pizza, kebabs and cevapci).
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean by Slavic culture? Czechs are Slavs but apart from their common lingustic roots, they have little in common with lets say Bulgaria. Czechs write in the Roman alphabet and are (nominally leaving aside the Hussite legacy) Catholics whilst Bulgarians for example are Orthodox and use the Cyrillic alphabet.
Not of course there is any rivalries between Catholic and Orthodox Slavs - er hem Sebia and Croatia. Or indeed between Ukranian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox (not to mention the three-way split in that movement) within one country - a source of much of that country's instablity.
Essentially Slavs culturally could be roughtly divided into Turko-Slavs, Germanic-Slavs and Russo-Slavs. Russo-Slavs are the likes of Eastern Ukraine and Eastern Belarus which are heavily influenced by Russia.
Germanic-Slavs are those heavily Germanic in culture, particuarly food, mannerisms and music. The Slovenes and the Czechs fall into this "Austro-Slav" tag. Indeed there is little difference between the music of Munich and Ljubijania hence the popularity of Slovene folk bands in Germany with their common alpine culture.
The Turks left a massive legacy in terms of food, music to name but many, in Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia and to lesser extent Montenergo. Indeed the word Balkan is the Turkish word for mountian. The Turkish and Bulgarian word for hill is the same word - Tepe.
Indeed I might point out that Serbia's national style of music is Turkish-rythem based played with Austrian-style brass band instruments. In Bulgaria and much of the old Ottoman controlled Balkans the basis of the local music is heavily influenced by Turkish music.
And may I add belly dancing is also part of Ottomon Balkan culture. You cannot have a proper Serb party without a couple of girls strutting their midriffs. Ditto in Bulgaria where female singers in pop videos start off in Western-style dress at the beginning but during the musical interlude reappear in a belly dancing costume.
I might add I have travelled throughout the Slavic region. The only Slavic country I have not been to is Belarus - hopefully changed next year.
Being Christendom's gatekeepers against Islam (and, at least in the Russian case, against the Far East as well) is their glue.
ReplyDeleteAnd so what about the Slavic muslims of Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia and Bulgaria?
ReplyDeleteBulgaria's national hero, ex-priest Vasil Levski invisaged the creation of a multi-ethnic, multi-religous free Bulgaria. He never lived to see it as the Turks hanged him in 1872. The date of his execution is a national holiday.
I might of course point out that in Austria-Hungary there was a dedicated muslim chaplincy and that Bosnian soldiers wore the Fez as part of their uniform. This granted by the monarchy that had seen off the Turks twice at the gates of Vienna.
And thank God that they did.
ReplyDeleteYou might as well ask what about the gowing number of Muslims in the Afro-Caribbean and White British ethnic groups? Either way, they are in it, but they are not of it, and indeed actively do not want to be of it.