Kosovo will almost certainly be a failed state

QIANJIANG Evening News (China) ^ | 26 Feb. 2008 | OPINION

[Doctor13]

Kosovo declared independence Sunday, but it's unlikely any time soon to become the world's 193rd country. What it will almost certainly be is a failed state, unrecognized by the United Nations, unable to govern itself, dependent on Europe for its police and NATO for its armed forces.

After eight years as an international protectorate and billions of dollars in aid and reconstruction funds, its economic prospects are grim. Unemployment is 57 percent, and among youths it's more like 70 percent; half the population is under 25. Small wonder then that its chief export is organized crime. It remains ethnically cleansed of its Serb minority, who only survive in the province under armed guard by NATO.

In theory, Kosovo has been self-governing since NATO bombed the Serbian province for 78 days in 1999, and the United Nations under Security Council Resolution 1244 declared it an autonomous province under U.N. protection but also confirmed that it was part of Serbia. Kosovo was never a federal part of Yugoslavia, as were the other parts that broke away from Serbia's domination; despite its majority Albanian population, its long historical association with Serbia put it in a different class.

[FormerLib]

And thanks to the misguided efforts of one of our Dhimmi posters, George Soros link to a reporter attempting to slander Lewis MacKenzie, who told the world the truth about the Kosovo Jihadists, has been exposed.

http://www.soros.org/resources/events/ten_20050707

[Emmett McCarthy]

Kosovo will be the European version of the “Palestinian state”. Of course, it will be the “joos’” fault.

[canuck_conservative]

More Chinese propaganda, designed to create a “Kosovo=Taiwan” parallel to try to discourage Taiwanese independence.

Nobody’s buying it except the Serbian apologists, who prefer to side with Russia over the US (says a lot about where their loyalties lie, doesn’t it?).

[Bokababe]

"the Serbian apologists, who prefer to side with Russia over the US (says a lot about where their loyalties lie, doesn’t it?)."

As opposed to you defending the Bosnian Islamist side that two of the 9/11 bombers fought on?

And whose "loyalties" should be in question, Canuck? Look in the mirror!

[Mike Darancette]

Kosovo fails then Albania takes it over.

[The Duke]

Kosovo will almost certainly be a failed state

No surprising - not unlike moving all the Democrats to California.

[Bokababe]

"Kosovo fails then Albania takes it over."

Not without a major war. At that point, all bets would be off.

[Mike Darancette]

Not without a major war. At that point, all bets would be off.

And NATO would probably side with Albania.

[Honorary Serb]

Gutman is a REPORTER?

We’ve all known for a long time that he is a gutter-level Serbophobic propagandist!!!!

[TigersEye]

China has its own reasons for not wanting to recognize Kosovo. After all; if a rebellion by illegal aliens is worthy of gaining its own state what can China say about Tibet which was a sovereign state for centuries? What can it say about Taiwan which has been independent since 1947? Not surprisingly China is a hypocrite...again.

[jimfree]

More Chinese propaganda, designed to create a “Kosovo=Taiwan” parallel to try to discourage Taiwanese independence.

Judging from economic performance, Taiwan is not Kosovo.

[Publius6961]

More Chinese propaganda, designed to create a “Kosovo=Taiwan” parallel to try to discourage Taiwanese independence.

I just heard that on the Art Bell Show last week.

Some really weird stuff comes out of Kanuckistan these days...

[Banat]

And you're siding with terrorist Albanians who planned a terrorist attack on Ft. Dix, sold the explosive to the London & Madrid terrorists, run THE most ruthless mafia in the world and smuggle drugs, arms and people (young women mostly) while burning churches and raping nuns. There. Suddenly, Russia doesn't seem so bad.

Anyway, your rather uninformed opinion isn't worth much, given your recent B92 embarrassment.

[Banat]

Kosovo's GDP is on par with that of Rwanda. That's speaking volumes about the viability of this "state." $2B has poured into Kosovo since 2000 and it has had absolutely no impact whatsoever. Bush has just earmarked $300M for Kosovo this year. Talk about wasting taxpayers' money. The Albanians there have traditionally been hostile to the rule of law (any law that's not clan-based and rooted in mediaeval times, that is), any form of authority, voluntary payments (utility bills, for example)... Due to the fact that corruption is rampant whilst the Serbian province is being governed by equally corrupt UN bureaucrats who don't want to rock the boat in fear for their lives, and the fact that unemployment is around 60%, I will become a viable state before Kosovo ever does.

[FormerLib]

"Kosovo fails then Albania takes it over."

I really don't think Albania would want it. They, of all people, know that the current leadership in Kosovo is made up of the worst criminal and Jihadist elements from Albania (and they are glad to be rid of them).

[Republic of Texas]

Kosovo will almost certainly be a failed state

Not for al Quesda.

[FormerLib]

You’d have to cease all brain activity to believe that steaming load.

cc has shown himself to be a man up to that challenge, LOL!

[MarMema]

Bingo, best post I have read here in ages.
Thank you!