“If only we really would pull out, and admit Clinton was wrong in Kosovo, then I am sure in a few years Serbia would be a big US ally”
Nah. While the Serbs are getting screwed on Kosovo, come on...their first foreign loyalty will always be to Russia. As long as Putin has his panties in a wad about us, nothing we do will get any goodwill from the Serbs. We shouldn’t pull out of the Balkans to curry Serbian favor. We should get out of the Balkans because we never should have gone their in the first place.
Serbia has alway been our ally. We screwed them, not the other way around.
"While the Serbs are getting screwed on Kosovo, come on...their first foreign loyalty will always be to Russia. "
To say that, DesScorp, you must not know much about their history.
In 1948, Tito broke relations with the Soviet Union and generations of Yugoslavs (including Serbs) were trained to prepare against a potential Soviet invasion. Yugoslavs were afraid of following in the footsteps of Czechoslovakia and Poland -- and rightly so. The Soviet Union was their biggest threat.
When I was in Montenegro in the late 1970's, I saw a Soviet ship being repaired at the docks in the Bay of Kotor. The Soviet sailors from the ship were not allowed to land on Yugoslav soil -- they had to transfer to another ship at sea before the Yugoslavs agreed to repair the ship. Even all those yers later, they were still that afraid of them.
We drove the Serbs into Russia's arms. The rest about "fellow Slavs", "fellow Orthodox" in the MSM --when it comes to politics--is simplistic nonsense. It's like saying that France and Italy are "natural allies" because they are predominantly Roman Catholic and both speak Romance languages, and then forgetting to mention that they were on opposite sides during WWII.
"We should get out of the Balkans because we never should have gone their in the first place."
On that, we completely agree!