The British intelligence network around Serbia and the SOC

During these few years, it seemed that no one could stop Albin Kurti in his rebellious attitude towards Washington and Brussels, as well as his almost fascist behavior towards the Serbian community in Kosovo and Metohija. Although the reactions of the US and the EU were mostly limited to impotent and mild criticism, Kurti ignored the harsh rhetoric and demands of the West on several occasions.

There has been much speculation about which Western administrations are protecting him and encouraging him to radicalize, despite what appeared to be concerted public criticism from the Quint countries. In this context, Germany and Great Britain were most often mentioned, precisely because of the undisguised sympathies and unbalanced statements of their politicians and the network of Albanian lobbyists in these countries, who encouraged further escalation towards the Serbs. If anyone had any doubts, Alicia Kearns, the ambitious Tory MP and Albanian lobbyist in the British Parliament, has dispelled those doubts with her recent nebulous statements.

At a moment of a dangerous escalation in Kosovo, when all Western administrations are supposedly looking for a solution to prevent a more serious conflict, it is difficult not to wonder why Kearns is adding fuel to the fire - with quite foreseeable consequences and the visible intention to lead to a new pogrom and the final exodus of the Serbian community in Kosovo and Metohija. Why exactly is Kearns doing this and why are the Serbian Orthodox Church and the health system in Serbian communities her target?

It is not the first time that Western politicians, whose opportunism and ambition greatly exceed their intellectual and leadership capacities, are used to promote violence, either for financial reasons, as lobbyists of certain interest groups, or as instruments of the intelligence services. Alicia Kearns entered politics as a project, on the wave of voting support for the populist Boris Johnson, as a representative of a constituency in which she personally never lived. But she used a loophole in the law to run in this constituency and, with disproportionately greater financial and other campaign support compared to other authentic candidates, she won the election.

Before that, she worked in the British Ministry of Defence, among other things, in the intelligence unit for the fight against the Islamic State. While on the one hand, she was formally allegedly "fighting jihadists" in the Middle East, she strengthened private ties with similar structures in Europe, whose lobbyist she is now. As soon as she felt that her former idol and mentor was on shaky ground she was the first to stab him in the back, inciting a group of Tory MPs against him. That rebellion against Boris Johnson is, among other things, called the "Pork Pie Plot", precisely because of Kearns and the constituency it represents, which is famous in Great Britain for this pie. Since entering politics, Kearns has tried unsuccessfully to find a topic and goal, wandering from women's reproductive health to major geopolitical topics. Now she has obviously found the topic.

However, despite all the irrelevance of Alicia Kearns in British politics, it is dangerous to laconically dismiss her statements, as the representatives of the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs did after the stormy public reactions to Kearns' odium directed against the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbs, not only in Kosovo and Metohija but also in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Especially if it is taken into account that this is not an isolated case of an over-ambitious parliamentarian who got out of control, unaware of the weight of her words. That British connection, which leads to their military intelligence structures, has woven a network, both indirectly and directly, around the very top of the Albanian politicians in Pristina.

At the end of 2021, it was Kurti who appointed the British Elizabeth Gowing as his political advisor for community issues, who should profile his relationship with all non-Albanian communities in Kosovo and Metohija, including the Serbian one. So far we have seen the results of her advice. In the romanticized biography, Gowing is described as a "humanitarian, writer and BBC journalist", who has been living in Kosovo and Metohija since 2006 and promotes "Kosovo and Albanian culture" in the world. She is also the co-founder of the non-governmental organization in Kosovo, "Partnership of Ideas", which deals with minority rights in the province, primarily the rights of Roma people, Egyptians, and Ashkali. And her partner in this NGO is Robert Wilton, a former employee of the British Ministry of Defense. Wilton, once the personal secretary of the British Minister of Defence, was also an adviser to the Prime Minister in Pristina, and is now a "British-Kosovo writer". A more than obvious common denominator for everyone, in addition to the financial profitability of showing strong support for so-called Kosovo, is that connection with the British military services.

For decades, the Serbian Orthodox Church has been a bone in the throat of the Western architects of the new order in the Balkans, and the pressures to collapse it, both from within, through personnel combinatorics, and dispossession and marginalization, are unceasing. The fact is that the SOC, even in the most difficult circumstances, in times of war and persecution, was a pillar and guarantor of the survival of the Serbs in all areas where the Serbs live, including Kosovo and Metohija. The fact is that the very existence of ancient monasteries and other religious heritage undermines the false narrative of Serb-haters about the occupation presence, and not the autochthonousness of the Serbs, the Serbian state, and culture in these areas. Finally, if we look back at recent history, the fact is that the changes in Montenegro, after decades of being a captive state, would not have happened if the SOC had not stood at the head of those changes. Hence all the attempts to present it as retrograde and to make no sense of its power by creating some new "churches" that would be given full rights to its temples and other centuries-old religious heritage, in order to erase with the stroke of a pen the determination that it is a Serbian church and that it is Serbian religious heritage.

On this occasion, I have no intention of returning to the polemic, which globalists most often call a conspiracy theory, regarding the existence of a global systematic attack on the Orthodox churches. But the same methodology is visible, which is applied against the autocephalous Orthodox churches with the aim of weakening and disempowering them. Such attacks do not exist, for example, when it comes to the Catholic Church or other major religions in the world.

Although this is a long-term trend, the recklessness of the collective West in trying to stop geopolitical changes in the world for the last year and a half sets new limits in dealing with the Orthodox churches, which are considered a catalyst for the homogeneity of the people and resistance to the Western propaganda narrative. It is an obvious attempt by Kearns to use the Ukrainian model - with the same lies about the alleged subversive activities of the Serbian Orthodox Church, some through "weapons smuggling", some through "intelligence work" - to legalize and justify attacks on Serbian shrines and arrests of Serbian clergy, as is done in the West already for months in the case of arrests and repression of the clergy and believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Would the next step be the seizure of our ancient sanctuaries, as is being done now with the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra? Probably, Pristina has been openly trying to do this for years, while completely ignoring the decision of its own constitutional court to return the land to the Visoki Decani monastery. Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, Albin Kurti, a selective legalist, has been trying to present himself as a new Zelenskyy, in order to receive unconditional public support from the West for his fascist methods and direct violation of all international legal norms and signed agreements. For this "Zelenskyy in an attempt" those efforts have so far not borne fruit, but it is obvious who his whisperers are and who supports him in these efforts.

Written by: Nebojsa Covic, former Deputy Prime Minister and head of the Coordinating Body for Kosovo and Metohija