Analyst Milivojevic on military corridor through Balkans as strategy for possible NATO war with Russia
Career diplomat Zoran Milivojevic says that Black Sea - Aegean Sea military corridor - which would pass through the Balkans and which the EU claims would speed up the modernization and interoperability of strategic railways, roads and inland waterways - represents a strategy for the period after the war between Russia and Ukraine has ended, as well part of the strategy for a possible war between NATO and Russia.
"This is just one of those directions, the same projects exist for the northern and central part of Europe, in Russia's direction. There are corridors that are being created linked to the Baltic states, to Poland, and the essence is to ensure the fastest possible supply, communication, and transfer of military equipment, assets, soldiers," Milivojevic told Tanjug.
He pointed out that this corridor would be a "military-political security corridor."
According to Milivojevic, the war option now dominates in Europe with the forecast that the war being waged in Ukraine is a prelude to a major NATO war against Russia, but that it is not yet certain whether that war will occur.
He stressed that without a war option, NATO has no future, and that is why NATO exists only because of a possible war with Russia.
Milojevic added that the US foreign policy and security strategy does not have wars in mind.
"If there is some kind of peace (in Ukraine), if the Americans say, 'we have no reason to go to war anymore', and the Russians say, 'we will sign an agreement that there will be no more wars, we will not attack anyone', then NATO must be abolished, and you know how many things are linked to NATO - politically, economically, and ideologically. Then you would have to abolish or call into question one organization and one system which at this moment is the key cohesive factor of the elites in power in Western Europe and in the EU," explained Milivojevic.
When asked what the consequences of a military corridor and a possible war would be for Serbia's military neutrality, Milivojevic said that the region in which Serbia is located belongs to the western sphere of interest and that this "must now be completed."
"The repercussions for us are what we are witnessing even today - pressure to finish the so-called unfinished business, to resolve Bosnia and Herzegovina, to confirm Kosovo's statehood, to confirm new borders in the Balkans and Serbia without Kosovo, for those who have not yet joined NATO, for Bosnia, to join by the back door," said Milivojevic.
(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)