Nothing takes as long nowadays. Just 30 years ago the USSR was at it height, and even 15 years ago no one was predicting its unorchestrated fall. That's why I think Kosovo Albanians are myopic. They should be thinking what they are leaving their children to posterity.
The reason I mentioned 500 years is because that was the predictable outcome, no matter how long it took. Why? Because nations represent natural gravity in their spheres of infuence, just as heavenly bodies do. A nation the sheer size of China is a superpower no matter what. It is unreasonable to deal with the world and pretend China doesn't exist.
In the Balkans, it is equally unrealistic to pretend that one can go about long-term planning, with Serbs pushed into a corner, and assume that they will stay there forever. Only as long as NATO occupies the region.
The situation brought about in the last 12 years in the Balkans came from without and as such is an unnatural phenomenon for the cultural reality of the region. The status quo remains so only because of pressure applied from without. Internally, the current Balkans (re)arrangement sits on glass legs.
I came accross this phrase in Pat Buchanan's last book, The Death of the West: "Demographics is destiny."
Unfortunately, the depressing facts are that Europe's population is shrinking due to low birth rates, except for one country - Albania! The scary thing is, if this continues for a couple of generations, Albanians may very well end up being the center of gravity in the Balkans after all.
The descendents of Ancient Illyria forced to patiently wait in excess of one hundred years before finding the opportune time to strike down the Slavic invaders that raped and pillaged the fertile lands of Ancient Illyria beginning in the eighth century. It was as if a modern day Skanderbeg (with a touch of Hoxha) emerged in 1995 to prophesy the coming NATO war in 1999.
Directed by the Colonel, from a small cafe in Tirana, the stunning attacks by the Kosovo Liberation Army in April of 1996 signalled to the entire Albanian world that the Serbs were about to be run out of Kosovo province. Since those halcyon days the Empire of Greater Albania has gone from a dream to reality...
Albania, Kosovo, the Tetovo Republic -- these soveriegn states prepare to take their place on the world stage and rule the Balkans just as Ancient Illyria did some four plus millenia ago. They do so because of boldness -- not the timidity preached by United Nation terrorists that seek to subjugate landed free men that wish only to live free of the Slavic hegemonism that has poisoned the region for thirteen centuries...
As mentioned, the Third World War offers the final piece of the puzzle to solidify the Empire of Greater Albania. When the smoke clears, millions will be dead and much of the "civilised" world's economy in shattered ruins. The Islamic entente may well run America out of Bosnia, in addition the cost of Western "victory" will in all probability result in Britain destroyed...
The West will have little interest in subjugating their former allies. The subsequent war between the Empire of Greater Albania and the pan-Slavic League will be for control of the Balkans for the next hundred years.
That is the only long-term approach the Kosovo Liberation Army must now focus upon...
Thus KLA/UCK cadres must continue to reconstitute and prepare to strike the first blow in the next Balkan war. Yugoslavia has been dismantled by the West as Secretary Baker promised Albania in 1991. Albania continues to offer strategic access to the US -- while also enforcing an uneasy DMZ between Islamic entente operatives and Western personnel.
Americans don't get killed in Greater Albania -- then again neither do Islamic entente operatives. If Berlin was the center of the cold war battles, then the Tirana-Prishtina-Tetovo axis is the equivalent in the current global kampf.
By the end of the decade both Kosovo and the Tetovo Republic will be recognised by what remains of the international community as sovereign states of Greater Albania. The Serbs will have been destroyed in the first post World War III conflict -- a war that will make the Balkan fights of the 1990's seem tame in comparison.
Of course with the modern day Bismarck -- George W Bush -- re-elected in 2004, Americans will be enjoying 65 cent a gallon gasoline by the end of the decade and not really be concerned about the fate of the Serbs. The few survivors will be portrayed as Christian demons that attempt to steal the lands of Greater Albania -- lands that support pipelines that keep that gas cheap.
Albanians myopic? Not really. They prepare now for their next fight, studying the classics of Port Arthur in 1905 and Pearl Harbour in 1941. The Third World War letter perfect maskirovka for the ascension of a Greater Albanian empire that will rule the Balkans for a century to come...
Who can stop the rampaging descendents of Ancient Illyria? Certainly not the shattered remnants of Serbia or a Moscow-flattened Russian Federation...
The preparation and sacrifice of all Albanian people today will permit the descendents of Ancient Illyria to prosper and thrive in the coming Dark Ages. That is the only long-term thinking the Kosovo Liberation Army need be concerned with now...
The forces of freedom on the move. Europe trembles.