Former CIA chief: Cold War has reached the Balkans expect worst

According to the report, the Balkans have been Europe's “powder code” for centuries, although the causes had begun elsewhere as Otto von Bismarck said, thirty years before the start of the Great War, “Some fool in the Balkans would set fire to everything...”

The Cold War was to end when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. But it never ended, and it is still active in the Balkans.

After the crash of the USSR, the West and especially the United States had the perfect opportunity to help create a new political security,” writes Steven Mayer, former deputy head of the CIA for the Balkans.

Similarly, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West destroyed Russia and gave it a major international force.

We told the Russians that they should accept Western political and economic models. We sent experts to Russia to learn how to “build a free democratic country”.

But we did. NATO and brought it to Russia's borders, while insisting that the Warsaw Pact fall, reports “b92”, Periscopi broadcast.

While Boris Jelcin was president, Russia played at this pace and tried to accept Western politics and institutions.

The author writes that Russia was going through a deep political, economic and psychological crisis, intolerance and anger towards the West began to grow in that country.

“Putin had differing views of Jelcs and rejected Western norms, and their dominance was the result of a new Russian sentiment. Not in Marxism and Leninism, but in deeply conservative and Orthodox values, Russia under Putin has become angry and aggressive,” he writes.

He also spoke of the Balkans, which said it was a training ground for the clash of major European powers. As a result, the Balkans for centuries was a “pout baruti” of Europe, even though the fuses were set elsewhere./Periscopi/