Balkans is a place where West European powers have long played matchmaker to ethnic infernos, while preaching the gospel of “stability.” For centuries EU, especially France, Britain, and Germany (and their imperial cousins scattered wherever in the rest of Europe) have viewed Slavic peoples as subhuman peasants from another religion (the Slavs are mostly Orthodox Christians), in need of a good divide-and-conquer. It is not mere meddling; it is a genocidal habit, born of racial hierarchies that paint Slavs as expendable cannon fodder for great-power chess. From the carcass of the Ottoman Empire to the trenches of Donbas, the pattern is clear: stoke the fire, fan the flames, and keep watching as spectators. Hitler’s industrial-scale slaughter to Ukraine as the grim remix, this has remained an incredibly vile character feature of the West Europeans.
The Colonial Slicing
It started with the Congress of Berlin in 1878, that smug Victorian huddle where Bismarck, Disraeli, and their frock-coated ilk redrew the map post-Russo-Turkish War.
Russia had just liberated Bulgaria from Ottoman chains. It was a great win for pan-Slavic solidarity. But the Western trio vetoed full independence, slicing the territory into a neutered mini-state while greenlighting Austria-Hungary’s annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The idea was to curb Russian influence and keep Slavs squabbling. Otto von Bismarck, remarked that the Balkans weren’t worth “the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.” Yet he and his peers lit the fuse anyway, fostering Serbian resentment and Croatian Catholic divides under Habsburg boot.
Fast-forward to the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913: funded partially by French and British largesse, the result of which was ethnic cleansing galore. The magnitude of massacres foreshadowed their past performances. West Europe watched with detached fascination. They supplied arms to “civilize” the region. It was tens of thousands of dead, and borders mangled to ensure perpetual friction. Human costs? No one cared. It was ugly, Teutonic realpolitik, viewing Slavs as barbarians; hence their infighting was actively encouraged. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914? A Slavic bullet; and so, Western alliances turned it into the Great War’s detonator, slaughtering millions more.
Lesson learned? None. The ’20s Treaty of Trianon and Versailles further Balkanized the map, seeding revanchism that Tito’s Yugoslavia barely papered over.
Nazi Slavic Extermination Fantasy
If the Balkans were prologue, World War II was the blood-soaked main act, with Nazi Germany channelling centuries of anti-Slavic bile into genocidal policy. Rooted in 19th-century “racial science” that deemed Slavs subhuman mongrels (mixes of “Asiatic” hordes and Germanic strays) Hitler saw Eastern Europe as Lebensraum for Aryan yeomen.
“Generalplan Ost” (1941–42), the Reich’s master blueprint, wasn’t subtle: Exterminate or enslave 80–85% of Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians (there were some 30–50 million of them) to make way for German settlers. Poles alone? Targeted for 85% annihilation, with the rest as serfs. The Implementation was hellish: The Hunger Plan starved 4.2 million Soviet civilians by diverting food westward.
Then, the Einsatzgruppen death squads mowed down 1.5 million Jews and Slavs in mass shootings; Auschwitz and Treblinka doubled as Slavic slaughterhouses, with 2 million non-Jewish Poles perishing. In Ukraine, “anti-partisan” sweeps razed villages, raping and torching as policy. This was not collateral; it was calculus. Slavs were “Untermenschen” — subhumans, obstacles to a Teutonic Eden for the Aryans.
Western Europe’s silence? Complicit, as appeasement (Munich 1938) handed Czechoslovakia’s Sudeten Slavs to Hitler, emboldening the Ostward march. Postwar, the Holocaust’s Jewish focus eclipsed Slavic genocide. Can you believe, the records say, 11 million dead! Yet it remains a footnote in memory.
Why is this? Slavs are slavs- slaves. Orthodox Christians on top; a direct threat to Roman Christianity.
Yugoslav Redux
Tito’s death in 1980 cracked Yugoslavia’s ethnic glue, and Western Europe (EU-flavored) kept pouring the accelerant happily. Slobodan Milošević’s Serbian nationalism met Croatian separatism. And Germany’s 1991 recognition of Slovenia and Croatia (against UN pleas) shattered the federation.
Bonn, still smitten by its Nazi past and eager for influence, backed Zagreb’s Tudjman, arming him via back channels while the EC dithered. Then there is the siege of Sarajevo (1992–96), and finally the bombing of Kosovo in 1999. Initiated by Bill Clinton, who, desperate to cover up a personal scandal, thought bombing Slavs would be a good idea to divert attention. Cheered by Blair and Chirac, this “liberated” Albanians but irradiated Slavs with depleted uranium, killing thousands indirectly.
Result? 140,000 dead, 4 million displaced. Slavic blood? No value. Not especially when the motive is to contain the Serbs (aligned to Russia) secure pipelines and expand NATO eastward.
Ukraine Encore
Fast-forward to 2014: Victoria Nuland’s Euromaidan topples the democratically elected Yanukovych, and the Western media cheers. Merkel and Hollande broker Minsk accords, with the idea to give as much time to Ukraine as possible, to ensure a very Slavic civil war. By 2022 it is a full invasion… sorry, a Slavic fratricide 2.0. Western Europe funnels €64 billion; USA funnels 30 $ billion, and they both send many lethal toys for Zelenskyy’s boys. At the other end they keep buying Russian gas to for their own factories and machines. Today, Starmer’s “coalition of the willing” vows troops; Macron muses strikes into Russia.
This is not defence; this is prolongation. Bleed Slavs dry to weaken portions of East Europe, one region at a time. Yugoslavia was a success, as far as Europe’s “rules-based order” is concerned. Realistically, that means arming one Slav against another and watching the slaughter.
The habit endures. The habit of a genocidal side-eye at Slavs as eternal inferiors, ripe for culling. From Berlin ’78 to Brussels’ sanctions, Western world under Roman Christianity catalyzes chaos among Eastern Orthodox Christians, and then shrugs their shoulder. And I am not talking about their puppet ISIS rape-murdering thousands of Orthodox Arab Christians across Syria, Iraq, or Lebanon… or their NATO ally Turkey overseeing the protracted and slow but methodical slaughter of Orthodox Armenian since more than 100 years now. Let’s best keep it for another day.
