Eli Popovich: Serbian-American engineer, master parachutist, OSS pioneer. In Jan '44, he dropped into Drvar with Major Farish to rescue downed U.S. airmen. One of the first behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia what he saw of the civil war appalled him. Forgotten hero of WWII. 🧵 Popovich was an American officer of Serbian extraction who was familiar with the Yugoslav people and fluent in the Serbo-Croat language - a rare asset for Allied intelligence.

Ако мислите да се 'Олуја' догодила зато што су се Срби у Крајини лоше понашали, прочитајте шта је британски новинар Ричард Вест написао након сусрета са обичним Хрватима од 1950-их до 1980-их. Нису чекали разлог – чекали су прилику да заврше оно што су започели 1941. године.🧵 Вест почиње приметом како се педесетих година прошлог века могло чути о језивим усташким убиствима и повременим суђењима усташким ратним злочинцима. Један усташа је описао суду у Мостару како је убијао српску децу тако што их је подизао за пете и разбијао им мозак о зид.

As the #NATO summit begins today, never forget it was that military alliance which illegally attacked a sovereign state in 1999 (Yugoslavia) and set the precedent for aggression vs Iraq, Afghanistan, and the violence now in Gaza and Ukraine. 🧵 After the cold war, NATO had to make itself relevant and it did so by illegally bombing Yugoslavia. At its summit in 1999, NATO approved a new strategic concept for the alliance with a remit to intervene militarily across Europe and Asia WITHOUT UN approval.

A 1992 article in 🇬🇧 news weekly, New Statesman investigated the PR of conflict in fmr YU by debunking the fake news story of 🇷🇸 irregulars allegedly being paid £300 for every child they killed in BiH. Incredibly the story was reported on by the BBC despite no substantiation. 🧵 The report notes that although the story about Serb child killers being paid was almost certainly not true, several high profile BBC programs carried the story. The origin of the story is identified as coming from Washington DC PR company Ruder Finn.

Today is the anniversary of the #Račak "massacre" - the pretext for bombing FRY. One of the best sources for debunking the official version of events is in Michael Mandel's book: "How America Gets Away with Murder - Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity."🧵 Mandel expertly outlines how the #Račak incident and international criminal law were manipulated to legitimate an illegal war.

The last few months on X has seen a dramatic rise in 🇦🇱/🇭🇷Trolls posting garbage in an attempt to claim Serb inventor Nikola Tesla as their own. Instead of relying on pseudo-history, dodgy photos and lies, lets look at the work of western scholars who have published 📚 on Tesla🧵 Of the numerous books that have been published on the life and times of Tesla in the last 15 years, what what have these scholars said about Tesla's ethnicity? Is there any reference at all to Tesla having Albanian/Croat/Montengerin heritage?

On this day in 1999, NATO-led KFOR began its occupation of the Serbian province of Kosovo i Metohija. Lets look at how well KFOR fulfilled its mandate to maintain law and order and protect human rights in its first year of operations.🧵 The summer of 1999 was a season of vengeance and predatory violence against Serbs and Roma. The OSCE collected dozens of horror stories. A deaf and mute Roma man was abducted from his home because his family had allegedly cooperated with the former authorities.

Yesterday, on the 24th anniversary of NATOs illegal aggression vs FRY the usual NATO fans and Albanian extremists came out to defend it because NATO acted to "prevent genocide." Is this true? What did NATO actually say when they launched their missiles?🧵 After the failure of the Rambouillet conference, Richard Holbroooke met Milosevic in Belgrade in a last effort to persuade him to accept NATO's ultimatum. Once this also failed, NATO Sec Gen Solana announced air strikes would begin because👇

On the 24th anniversary of NATO's illegal aggression vs FRY, lets look at how the war was reported and how western governments have become much more adept at managing the media. The lies, manipulation, news management, propaganda, spin, distortion, omission, slant and gullibility involved in trying to report the conflict brought war correspondents to a crisis point in their short history. Their role has never been more insecure.

Who is Daniel Smith the self-proclaimed international relations expert? After Smith gave a recent interview to Danas I decided to dig deeper into who he really is.🧵#serbia #kosovo International Relations expert w/out credentials. The Danas article describes Mr S as a 'British expert on international relations with a focus on the Western Balkans.' Is this true? A Google search reveals nothing to indicate Mr S is such an expert...