GEORGE SZAMUELY: Yugoslavia was the blueprint for Ukraine | The Weight of Chains Podcast #005

Our guest tonight is someone who’s been exposing the hypocrisy of Western foreign policy long before it became fashionable — or even allowed. George Szamuely is a senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute, author of the book Bombs for Peace: NATO’s Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia, and a relentless critic of the so-called ‘liberal order’ that somehow always seems to justify war, while preaching peace. Szamuely’s work is essential for understanding how NATO's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia laid the groundwork — not for stability, but for a dangerous precedent: one where international law is applied selectively, and ‘humanitarianism’ is just a cover for geopolitical ambition. We discuss NATO’s long march eastward, the EU’s deep entanglement in the Ukraine conflict, and how Brussels — for all its talk about transparency and democracy — continues to shield its own corruption while posturing as a moral authority. And of course, we dig into the Balkans — from the High Representative’s unaccountable power in Bosnia to the international pressure campaign against Serbia and Republika Srpska. Whether you agree with him or not, George Szamuely pulls no punches. He challenges the manufactured consensus. And in a world where dissent is increasingly treated as disloyalty, that makes his voice not just valuable — but vital.