Troll hunter & fake Balkan expert debunker.
Ustaj živi-bori se ne kloni. When it’s gone something carries on and while I’m alive I’ll make tiny changes to earth
Данас, пре годину дана, новине Данас објавио „интервју” са легендарним британски стручњаком за Балкан Данијелом Смитом. Био сам толико шокиран да сам осећао да нема другог избора него да напишем низ у којој се детаљно описује зашто је Смит преварант. Остало је,како кажу,историја.
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
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. 🧵
Ne samo da je Sofi bila trudna, već je sa sobom imala i 2 mačića i malog zeca, koje je Princip brutalno ubio. Svedoci su ga čak čuli kako viče „Umrite krzneni gadovi!“
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
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🧵
Највише волим оне људе који захтевају да се Срби интегришу где год да живе, а да сви други људи, посебно они који живе на српској земљи, имају самоопредељење.🥰
Srpski narod iz entiteta rs mora se integrisati u život Bosne i Hercegovine. Oni su Bosanci i Hercegovci i to im treba biti jasno. Paralelan doživljaj neke paradržavotvorne stvarnosti samo produžava njihovu agoniju mentalih i fizičkih apatrida koju će kad-tad morati okončati
The old canard that Serbian nationalism destroyed Yugoslavia is easily debunked by reviewing news archives from the western press before 1987. Lets take a look at a small sample size from the early 80s:🧵
LOL - I just figured out that the apparently random set of numbers in Daniel Smith's Twitter handle probably weren't random at all (DanielS18352008) but relate to two specific events in Albanian history by year:
The 1835 to the Albanian uprisings vs Ottoman Empire
1/2
Ultimately, AI will be banned because the two most damaging aspects of it are nude deepfakes and trolls using it to present fraudulent Albanian history.
The League of Lezhë was a military and diplomatic alliance of the Albanian aristocracy, created in the city of Lezhë on 2 March 1444. The League of Lezhë is considered the first unified independent Albanian country in the Medieval age, with Skanderbeg as leader of the
#Albania
.🇦🇱
Why is any of this important? Well, if the leading pro-European newspaper in Serbia is platforming an international relations expert it should carry out due diligence to confirm the individual being interviewed is who they purport to be.
Either Danas has been fooled by what appears to be a pro-Albanian lobbyist to push an anti-Serbian agenda or Danas doesn't care and is prepared to platform anyone to smear Serbia because their agenda aligns with the newspaper's philosophy.
Today is the anniversary of the
#Ra
čak "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."🧵
OTD 29 years ago, the neo-fascist Croatian regime launched Operation Flash and ethnically cleansed 30,000 Serbs from their homes. To fully understand how 🇭🇷 was able to get away with this aggressive land grab its very revealing to read the account provided by Brendan O'Shea.🧵
It also demonstrates the pro-Albanian lobby's strength compared to the pro-Serbian via social media. The Serbian government is being crushed in the PR war and failing to get its message across to stakeholders who really matter. END
I am extremely sceptical that Daniel Smith is a British international relations expert. It seems more likely he is a front for the pro-Albanian lobby and a fake account run by Albanians.
Switzerland and Spain haven't been invaded for over 250 years and have no military history to inspire their people. Serbia/Yugoslavia has been unjustly invaded/attacked three times in the last century. Conflating the use of the song by Djokovic with war criminals is pathetic.
Can you imagine Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, or Carlos Alcaraz celebrating their sports victories with WWI military songs which have been used by nationalists and war criminals afterwards? No! But Novak Đoković does this. And he expects then to be universally beloved...
Albert is correct. According to Albanian history the camera was invented in ancient Dardania by the Albanian philosopher, Foto Grafi so that picture is probably from 300 BC and proves Albert has an excellent grasp of history. True story!🙃
The biggest
#delusion
is the identity of the
#Serbian
people, through forgeries is being used for political purposes - there is no Serbian
#Monastery
in
#Kosova
🇽🇰 those are
#Orthodox
— Nenad Čanak
❗This is a more than true, considering that history of
#Serbia
is based on lies
Serbs: Joyously and peacefully celebrating the success of their Olympic team.
Balkan Experts™️: OMG! Chauvinistic primitive Serbs want to invade their neighbors and are ready to start WW3! Help NATO help!
@GallopeniMergim
3 finger salute should be treated in the same way as the Nazi salute. The entire Balkans, every country and people were victims of Serb nationalism at one point or the other.
Understandably, most western experts on the Balkans came to prominence at the time of the break-up of Yugoslavia or shortly thereafter. Mr Smith just seems to appear out of nowhere in 2021 and is immediately accepted as an expert on the topic.
Reporter goes to Priština to ask K-Albs if war could break out.
K-Albs respond:"Greater Albania now!" "Serbs are the problem in Kosovo. We hate the Serbs!"
Reporter concludes: Serbia and Vučić are aggravating anti-Albanian sentiment and a Serb "invasion" of Kosovo is imminent.🙄
🔴 Could Kosovo be the next Ukraine?
Kosovo ramps up security as fears grow that Serbia’s president Aleksander Vucic is planning an invasion aided by his ally Vladimir Putin
Find out more ⬇️
Its so good to have Wikileaks back online. With recent events in Kosovo & Serbia back in the headlines, its fascinating to read the true thoughts of US officials on events there several years ago. Most fascinating are the diplomatic cables on Kurti and the VV movement. Short🧵
Both Daniel Smith and John Jackson joined twitter in Nov 2021 and are both interested in the same things. Both share a similar writing style and either admire each other's style or copy-and-paste each others tweets with slight tweaks.
Kosovo Albanians: Serbs committed genocide against us!
UN court: There was no genocide in Kosovo.
Kosovo Albanians: Serb Orthodox Church is smuggling weapons and storing them in Churches!
KFOR: No evidence of this.
Kosovo Albanians: If we say it happened - it happened!🤷♂️
Since coming to power in Kosovo*, its becoming increasingly clear the Kurti regime employs a strategy of deliberate disinformation to prepare the conditions for the ethnic cleansing of the Serb pop remaining in KiM. Lets look at some of these recent disinfo ops.🧵
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...
Here, Smith gets a very simple and popular Twitter meme completely wrong: Even a child, whose first language is English, would know the meme is "How it started / How its going" not, "How has it been"(!)
Why do Serbs in the occupied territory of KiM feel unsafe despite proclamations by the Priština puppet regime that it is the most democratic and greatest human rights advocate in mankind's history? Today's violent actions by the🇽🇰 Police are an echo of KLA intimidation tactics.🧵
With Albanians making a big push to appropriate all 🇷🇸 heritage as their own, lets remind ourselves of how 🇦🇱 in KiM originally wanted to resolve the issue of 🇷🇸culture. A BBC reporter notes how Alb's offered £50k reward for the destruction of a 🇷🇸 Orthodox Church - culturicide.
Not a native speaker of English. A quick scan of Mr Smith's tweets reveals a very odd grasp of the English language - very strange for someone who claims to be British. Some examples: A native English speaker would not call the Dutch town Den Haag "Hague" but "The Hague".
Most revealingly, in this tweet Smith uses the Alb word for circus-'cirk'. Why would an English speaker use the Alb word for circus? Maybe he got sloppy or maybe his translation software let him down. Either way, its hard to believe a native Eng speaker would make such a mistake
BREAKING! Danas provides proof that Daniel Smith is a Russian disinformation bot. When the Danas editorial team asked him for a video interview, Mr Smith's response was allegedly: Nyet Tovarisch. I have very important job to do for President Putin."😉
American vs British spelling. Here, Smith uses the American spelling of 'democratized' rather than the British 'democratised' - British spelling preferring the 's' over the American 'z'. Very odd for someone who claims to be British.
But these Albanian bot/troll accounts are just so obvious. I mean, the average American doesn't give a damn about the Balkans yet Mr Johnson here is obsessed with it. Johnson is more likely to be 'Enver' from Pristina than 'Tony' from Dallas TX. Mini🧵
The more things change-the more they stay the same. This newspaper report from 1991 describes how 🇸🇮and 🇭🇷 outmaneuvered the Serbs in the propaganda battle. 30 years later,🇷🇸with the inept SNS gov't still hasn't learned the most important lesson of modern warfare. 🧵
25 years of peace? Its been 25 years of hell for Serbs in KiM. Non-stop terror and ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other minorities, the most egregious example being the 2004 March pogrom.
Saddened to hear of the passing of John Pilger. One of the few Western journalists who defended the Serb people. The only one who uncovered what the Ranbouillet accords were really about - a pretext for illegal aggression by NATO against FRY.
It is with great sadness the family of John Pilger announce he died yesterday 30 December 2023 in London aged 84. His journalism and documentaries were celebrated around the world, but to his family he was simply the most amazing and loved Dad, Grandad and partner. Rest In Peace.
Omitting the article 'the'. A native English speaker would not omit articles for things. At the start of this tweet a native English speaker would put 'The Media' and further on, 'the excellent & brave', and then 'Let's help the clown Vucic'.
The guy on the left with a puppet regime leader is a war criminal, while the Chinese man in the right-hand picture never illegally invaded Iraq, committed the supreme war crime, which lead to the deaths of over a million Iraqis?
The 2008 relates to *Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia.
Talk about hiding in plain sight like all good criminals! Almost like he wanted to get found out as an Albanian troll!
So what you're saying is that Gračanica Monastery, located in Kosova, was built by the self-proclaimed King Stefan Milutin on the ruins of a 6th-century basilica.
Which means...
Since the Serbs didn't migrate into the Balkans until the 7th century, and understanding that
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?🧵
Because
@Admirim
must be too busy to write a thread on
@StateDept
2022 Human Rights Report on Kosovo*, I've decided to help out the poor guy. He must be exhausted from all the tweets he had to write condemning the anniversary of the anti-Serb violence on 17-18 March 2004 in Kos.
In his book, 'Operation Kinetic', Sean Maloney, a Canadian military historian with extensive field experience in the Balkans, mentions the
#Ra
čak "massacre", and concludes there was always a lingering suspicion that not all was aboveboard. Short🧵
Postoji ogromna razlika. Ustaše su bile teroristička grupa koju su podržavali nacisti, dok su četnici bili rojalistički anti-nacistički i i antikomunistički pokret otpora koji su podržavali saveznici.
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.
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.🧵
It's Spring, so that means its time for Kurti to give interviews to the UK Press that Serbia is about to 'invade' his puppet state. While the interview consists of the usual fearmongering, its the comments from readers that are the most interesting and revealing. Short 🧵
Љубо је ужаснут јер сам разоткрио његовог пријатеља који шири мржњу, господина Смита. Јадни Љубо нема оповргавања на мој тред и може само да одговори лажним ад хоминем мрљама.
@sodzinjon
Greške se dešavaju, kao čuveno BIRN-ovo mapiranje desničara u Crnoj Gori, ili to što sad svi dijele ovaj debunking thread profila koji kad ne debankuje u slobodno vrijeme dijeli fašističke sadržaje
Ahahahahahahaha!!! I'm famous! I've really got under their skin. 💪Every word in that tweet is BS! I'm coming for you
@SerbiaWatch
. You don't wanna end up like Daniel do you?😂
On this day in 1941, the so-called Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH (Independent State of Croatia), was declared by the Ustaše. The NDH received a significant territorial expansion by annexing most of western Yugoslavia, including Bosnia, parts of Serbia and Montenegro.
The Albanian troll farm that created Daniel Smith is alive and well. They have focused their efforts into a fake media platform called RKS News to spread disinformation and vilify Serbs. All the traits in the Smith profile are mirrored in RKS News.🧵
Јадни Љубо има ментални слом због експозеа и сада губитка Данијела Смита. Не може да укаже ни на један мој твит са токсичним националистичким садржајем. Пројекција!
@tuckcomatus
Still Tucker, this mistake by the media is not a good excuse for everyone to share “Mirko Radoš” profile full of toxic nationalistic content.
Zamislite da Nemac sugeriše, ako je nemačka država bila neophodna, trebalo bi je napraviti bez Pruske. Ili Italijan koji sugeriše da je Italija trebalo da bude napravljena bez Pijemonta? Ne možeš? Ne, jer među njima nema tako glupih idiota.
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.
This 🇨🇿 NATO bootlicker is too thick to see the distinct parallels in the Kosovo situation with the situation in Czechoslovakia's Sudentland which had, in the mid-1930s, a majority German population. The Sudeten Germans claimed to be the victims of oppression at the hands of 1/2
Serbia is a like a bullish ex who tries to hurt its former partner just because the ex decided to leave to relationship full of abuse.
Kosovo is a free sovereign country and Serbian government show go screw itself if it keep harassing this young democracy.
EU should stop all
Let me explain it to you in simple terms: NATO's aggression vs YU was a conscious violation of international law and the U.N. Charter. The Charter authorizes the use of force in only two situations: self-defense, or when the Security Council authorizes it.
After
@Duyo96
brought to our attention the
@KosovoSerb95
account who claims to be a 🇷🇸 from KiM I was intrigued to find out more. After a brief read of his tweets what do we learn? Does the evidence suggest Milos is a 🇷🇸 who loves 🇦🇱 dominated KiM or is he an Albanian imposter?
Albanian trolls are so dumb they've come to believe their bullshit that Tesla and Napoleon are Albanian, that Albanian is the world's oldest language, and now that Subotica City Hall is actually a Catholic Church(!)🤦♂️
The utter stupidity of using this photo to indicate Serbian Nazi-tendencies is that Prince Paul was a staunch anglophile who Hitler had invited to Berlin to twist his arm to sign the Tripartite pact. Paul only did so when The British advised him they would not be able to 1/2
As usual, the Albanian propagandists can never respond to the substance and actual material being presented. Its just the usual weak ad hominem attack. BTW, this is the same lovely lady who would "pick a Nazi over a Chetnik" because genocide of Jews and Serbs means freedom or smt
Albanians have people like me while Serbs have people like Aaron, and that pretty much sums it all up. If you don’t know who that is, it’s because he is only relevant if you like to watch a visual representation of what it’s like to run head first into a brick wall. Over and over
@owenjonesjourno
Plus, the Serbs justify their 1990s brutality towards Croatia in terms of the staggeringly ferocious treatment of Serbs by Croats in the 1940s. The Israelis have no such excuse wrt Palestinians, so they invent and provoke them.
Oh the irony! Celebrating the start of Communist Party of Yugoslavia actions against the Nazi occupier by using a photo showing mainly troops of Mihailović's Yugoslav Army in the Homeland with their captured Nazi POWs.
Fighter Day in Yugoslavia.
On July 4, 1941, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia announced the start of a guerrilla war against the Nazi invaders, their allies, satellites and accomplices.
Death to fascism !
Freedom to the people !!
#progressive
#Communist
#Revolution
#BanNATO
As Hashim Thaci and other key leaders of the narco-terrorist KLA go on trial today at the Kosovo Spec Chambers, revisionist history has whitewashed the vicious and brutal crimes committed by this terrorist org. Lets review some of its 'greatest hits' to set the record straight.🧵
This is the kind of argument, or point, a 13 year old would make while thinking they are being witty, insightful and really clever. Meanwhile, all the adults in the room will be rolling their eyes.
🇽🇰 Kosovo PM Kurti clashed with Serbian PM Branbic at the EBRD Summit in London:
If Serbian PM calls Kosovo "Kosovo and Metohija". I will call Serbia "Serbia and Vojvodina and Sandzak and Toplica and Raska and Valley of Presheva and the province of Timok."
Neo-Ustase: We should get an article in the Western media that mentions Jasenovac but says nothing about the Ustasa's fanatical anti-Serb hatred +genocide of the Serbs. Surely there's no outlet callous enough to erase the identity of the main victims?
Balkan Insight-Hold my beer!
In 🇬🇧 news mag The Spectator, in 1987, the Balkan correspondent sought to find out what had caused a rise in 🇷🇸 nationalism. In his view, Communist YU's heavy handed policies of making Serbs feel ashamed of everything their ancestors did before 1945 was a prime motivator.🧵
Genocidal, vile, chauvinistic, loathsome banners displayed by Kosovo Albanian fans in their Europa Conf League game vs Czech team Plzen. While
@UEFA
is unlikely to take any action, the Albanians were punished for their warmongering by losing the match 2-1.
The implications have been enormous - the entire postwar international security system has been undermined since NATO's illegal aggression against Yugoslavia.
Following on from the Daniel Smith fake International Relations and Balkans expert scandal, has another Albanian troll tricked a different organisation, this time an American think tank, by purporting to be someone they are really not?🧵
#Serbia
#Kosovo
NATO's illegal aggression against Yugoslavia was never going to be the last of NATO's military interventions. It was just the curtain raiser on the alliance's new role and the beginning of the end of the UN's role. END
Another Western journo for whom history began in the 90s. Most likely he knows nothing of the genocide Serbs suffered from 1941-45, ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Kos in 1999 and 2004. For him, Serbs are evil and thus can never be victims. For him Serbian = "they had it coming."
30 years ago a genocide was committed against the people of
#Bosnia
🇧🇦, 24 years ago the people of
#Kosovo
🇽🇰 were ethnically cleansed from the region. But because the Serbs didn't vote in local elections they now equate themselves to victims of the Holocaust.
No shame.
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. 🧵
Koha! The number one source for reliable, trustworthy, and objective news and information. Just ask Daniel Smith! (They still haven't pulled the Smith interview from their website 😂)
This poor sad deluded fool actually believes the US gives a fuck about Albanian life.
1. There was no genocide in Kosovo
2. The US never claimed to be acting to "prevent genocide"
3. No one from the Serb leadership was charged with genocide in Kosovo
Look how this scumbag never mentioned the genocide of Albanians in Kosovo in 1998-1999, the actual reason why NATO intervention started.
Look how worthless albanian life is for these “anti-imperialists”
Serbia was partitioned in 2008. This was an unacceptable outcome for Serbia and most of the world.
The reality for Ukraine was that an ugly precedent was set by NATO illegally partitioning Serbian territory. You reap what you sow.
ukraine is going to be partitioned. this is an unacceptable outcome for ukraine…and most of the world.
this reality is finally driving europeans to take seriously their need for strong and coordinated defense capabilities. will it be enough? we shall see.
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🧵
Not only was Senton's post complete lies and fabrication, X agrees it was full of hate and violent speech. Stop Albanian hate spreaders and disinformation!
Marc Weller is a pro-Albanian lawyer who represented the KLA at the Rambouillet delegation and is not a neutral unbiased source. Quoting him here isn't the win you think it is.
A brutal assessment by Marc Weller of the EU/US-led dialogue on normalization between Kosovo & Serbia: one-sided, blatantly biased towards Serbia, deceptive.
Having turned the entire process into a farce, EUSR
@MiroslavLajcak
should resign/be dismissed with an immediate effect.
@SerbiaINSPECT
Rekao sam ovo ranije i ponoviću. Svako ko koristi tu fotografiju kneza Pavla sa Hitlerom da ukaže na neku vrstu nacističkih sklonosti među Srbima, jednostavno se otkriva kao potpuna budala ili jeftini propagandista.
As expected, this tweet is a distortion of the truth.
1. The use of force could have been avoided.
2. The majority of legal scholars agree that NATO's action was an act of illegal aggression. 🧵
25 years ago, after exhausting all diplomatic avenues, NATO launched Operation Allied Force. This operation had one aim: To end the Milosevic regime’s brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in Kosovo. This use of force became necessary in light of the grave humanitarian crisis,
Admitting Kosovo to the CoE rewards the Priština regime for its bullying of the Serb and Roma minority. This is nothing new - starting from the end of the Kosovo war in 1999 when NATO did little to protect ethnic Serbs and Roma, just a continuation of anti-Serb sentiment. 🧵