Understanding Kosovo

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1657448,00120002.htm ^

[kronos77]

Having yielded to the blackmail of the Kosovo Albanian nationalists and drug dealers, Western patrons of Kosovo’s independence encourage them. If these patrons prevent them from translating the ideal of a ‘pirate republic’ into reality, they will come under pressure as well. But why should they give up their bad habits? The Kosovo criminals already feel quite comfortable in Europe without any ‘ticket’ and control a big portion of the black market of drugs, weapons and prostitution.

Belgrade authorities will not accept Kosovo’s ‘independence’. In olden times Kosovo was the cradle of Serbian statehood — a shrine of national history, religion and culture. Kosovo’s independence will be an attack on the Serbian national identity and is tantamount to a political suicide for any Serbian leader.In the long-term, preservation of ‘paper’ sovereignty over Kosovo will cost Serbia too much. Kosovo’s changing ethnic profile, backward agrarian territory and unemployability is a burden that the Serbian economy will not be able to bear. As part of Serbia, Kosovo is a source of endless conflicts.

The first consequence of Kosovo’s independence will be the ultimate exodus of Serbs from the area and growing conflict. But advocates of Kosovo’s independence are stubbornly reluctant to admit its broad repercussions on international geopolitics. But once talk on this subject started, it instantly generated tensions in ‘unrecognised’ post-Soviet state formations — Transdnestr, Nagorny Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. How Kosovo fares is a potential precedent even in the Crimea and Transcarpathians. Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova have rushed to warn that any solution of the Kosovo issue should not be seen as a precedent. But it would be more logical to assume the reverse — that the echo of Kosovo’s independence will roll from the Basque Country to Kurdistan.

[kronos77]

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[kronos77]

The new context makes the hasty attempts by Washington and Brussels to achieve an early proclamation of Kosovo’s ‘independence’ from Serbia even more dangerous. This intention is difficult to explain in the context of the UN-proclaimed goal to create a democratic multi-ethnic society there. After all, the Comprehensive Review of the Situation in Kosovo has its diplomatic formulas of the situation in Kosovo change into a ‘thugocracy’ when Nato officers, who served there, describe the situation off the record. The façade of the current government conceals the mafia clans that enjoy the patronage of leading Kosovo politicians from among the former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The majority of the Serbs (about 220,000 people), who left Kosovo after June 1999, have not come back. More Serbs fled the area in the wake of anti-Serbian pogroms in March 2004. Ensuring good neighbourly relations between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs has proved to be an unfeasible task.

[FormerLib]

The way Kosovo has played out sets a dangerous precedent for those who wish to lay claim to the Southwest United States and create the independence republic of Aztlan.

[DTA]

So far, two nuclear powers are for the independence of Kosovo and three are against. Reads like the beginning of a Clancy novel.

[kronos77]

Three nuclear powers are for "indipendant" Kosovo, including Iran.


P.S. I just loved "Summ Of All fears"

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

["The way Kosovo has played out sets a dangerous precedent for those who wish to lay claim to the Southwest United States and create the independence republic of Aztlan."]

And, in view of the Russian and Chinese position of not blocking an independent Kosovo, maybe we should support the independence of Chechnya and Taiwan. Let's see how the Russians and Chinese "like those apples."

LIBO

[tomzz]

put me on it....

[tomzz]

There's a major sort of a new book out about the complicity of the western media in the KKKlintonista/NATO wars against Yugoslavia which apparently is well worth taking a look at.

[tomzz]

Then again, for people like me for whom the idea of really sticking it to some of those clowns and lunatics at the Hague is worth fifty bucks...