This is a story of manipulation. And if stick to your prejudices, instead of searching the facts, you can be manipulated no matter how smart you are…

I have been following the work of Irish journalist Chay Bowes on Russia Today for a long time. On that platform, he has an excellent satirical weekly look at the world under the title Moscow Mules, and his reports are mostly sharp and accurate. However, this text would not make sense if I were to list exclusively his good qualities. When someone is good at their job, their mistakes are all the more noticeable, sticking out like a sore thumb.

He has started a new documentary series called ‘War in the Shadows’, in which he examines Western funding of color revolutions around the world. The series began with an episode filmed in Serbia during the largest anti-regime protest in the history of our (disintegrated) country. While I do not doubt his data on financial assistance to non-governmental organizations in Serbia, and the frightening picture of the network of influence of Western intelligence services in this area, there is a serious problem in his documentary that I must point out. Watch the first episode of the series first:

Since the documentary is in English, and in order to understand the criticism, it is also necessary to watch the conversation that Chay had with Mario Bojić, in which many details from the documentary itself are repeated in Serbian, and where he showed that he understands the situation better than he, unfortunately, portrays in his film:

So what is the problem? Despite everything he knows and what he personally witnessed, Chay Bowes still starts his story on completely wrong premises. The first is that Serbia has sovereignty, and that the president is the embodiment and guardian of that sovereignty. Is it possible that no one told him that in the 2012 elections, the SNS (the ruling party to which the president belongs) received a victory congratulatory letter from Brussels even before the polls were closed!

So, Chay is fully aware of the obvious manipulation in Romania, but for some reason he thinks the elections in Serbia were fair!

Second wrong premise – At 7:25 of the documentary Chay say: “There are hundreds of NGO’s here in Serbia working to ‘improve’ Serbian society… by flushing millions of dollars in to basically undermine the democratically elected government.”

Wrong. They are flushing millions of dollars in to maintain their implemented, criminal, corrupt regime that has crushed Serbian Constitution, institutions and of course – election system. Government officials whom Chay has been talking to, are speaking one thing (‘Oh, we are against NATO, EU are liars!) but are actually working on NATO membership (Serbia is de facto minor NATO member without a vote) and insist on a ‘strategic decision to enter EU’.

On the other hand, Chay himself says that at the Great rally on March 15th he did not see a single NATO or EU flag, he saw a lot of Serbian and Russian flags, he saw people tearing up the Ukrainian flag – and yet he thinks that the protests are being manipulated by the West! Unbelievable!

KRIK and CRTA are part of the Western network of manipulation, but they are not the organizers, nor are they engaged in the protests. And the children on the street didn’t want to answer Chay’s questions because they are aware that they live in a colony with an established mechanism of media manipulated by the West, just waiting for someone to say the wrong word. I would like Chay to step into their shoes for a moment: The regime is trying to discredit them through Western-controlled media, and then a foreign journalist approaches them on the street with a completely banal question whose answer is known to everyone because four demands are emphasized at every protest…

His best explanation for this illogical opinion is that it would not be good for chaos to occur in Serbia. Of course it would not be good. However, this is very shallow thinking. The current stabilocracy established by the West serves robbery, and as we saw in Kosovo and Metohija, in ‘Ribnikar’, under the Novi Sad canopy… the inevitable extermination of the Serbian people. All in accordance with the declared goal of the NATO pact of ‘removing the Russian factor from the Balkans’. We are, therefore, in a situation in which political chaos is less harmful than criminal Western Stabilocracy. Especially since political chaos is the only path to liberation from colonial slavery and joining the free world led by Russia.

I have no doubt that Chay Bowes is a good man, and that he can understand all of this. But can he understand how much the talk of a ‘color revolution’ damages the trust of the Serbian people in the Russian media?