Vad vet vi om Anders Breivik? [Sammanfogad tråd/mod]

Of course, the West’s double standards and deeply immoral approach to international politics could not be the only factors behind Breivik’s evolution towards terrorism. Names of former Balkan residents appear frequently on Europe’s crime surveys, and, occasionally, under bizarre combinations of circumstances. Last March, a 21-year-old Albanian Arid Uka opened fire on US servicemen at the Frankfurt airport. Regardless of the US being the main pillar of Kosovo’s self-proclaimed independence, Uka said he was killing soldiers who were going to fight against Muslims in Afghanistan. Strange as it might seem, German prosecutors avoided charging Uka with terrorism on the grounds that, as the investigation showed, he acted alone and there were no indications of his connection to any terrorist group.

At the moment Norway’s police is saying roughly the same about Breivik. Head of Norway’s intelligence police Janne Kristiansen stressed recently in an interview to BBC that Breivik has not been part of any extremist network.

In 2014, Europe will be commemorating the outbreak of World War I, which was sparked by the Balkan conflict. Gavrilo Princip’s attack was at the time seen as an irrational act perpetrated by a marginal group, but from a wider perspective Europe was already programmed to become the scene of a conflict of giants – the Entente and the Triple Alliance. As a result, the shots fired by Princip became a prologue to a new epoch.

At the moment the Balkans, a region with open or brewing conflicts in Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia, etc., are psychologically prepared for a new war. It is not going to be one of these trade or currency wars, nor a war fought with informational warfare. Rather, it will be a real and bloody war fought by everybody against everybody else, with no classic division lines…