Russia drafts action plan in case Kosovo declares independence (counterstrike)

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[kronos77]

MOSCOW (AP) - A senior Russian diplomat said Monday that Moscow has prepared an action plan that envisages close coordination with Serbia should the West recognize any Kosovo declaration of independence. Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, the Russian Foreign Ministry's special envoy to the Balkans, said Moscow is encouraging more talks between the Serbs and the province's

ethnic Albanian majority. He said, however, that chances for such talks are rapidly decreasing, with Kosovo's leaders expected to declare independence soon. Botsan-Kharchenko said at a meeting with Russian lawmakers that the ministry had worked out a plan of action if Kosovo declares independence, and the United States and the European Union members recognize it. He wouldn't give details but said the plan «envisages a close coordination of action with Belgrade. Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders had been expected to declare independence in February or March. Kosovo's independence is supported by the United States and most European Union members, including Britain and France. Serbia and its ally Russia strongly oppose independence for the province. Kosovo, though legally part of Serbia, has been under U.N. and NATO control since a NATO bombing campaign in 1999 ended a Serb crackdown on separatist ethnic Albanians.

[Barnsleys Beck]

Wonderfully ironic, CC

It was your heroes, the KLA, who torched the entire Jewish population out of Kosovo.

And in their place, the KLA started to honour the WW2 Fascist Collaborators and let the Wahhabis -who are Holocaust deniers BTW- build dozens of mosques, many on the sites of destroyed Christian churches.

Your heroes.

[Barnsleys Beck]

As I’ve already mentioned, cheese and ham are your strengths.

[dennisw]

Fine information laden post and remember.....

[bill1952]

Why would they even put their troops on the ground?
Because without that, they have nothing at all except the empy threat of witholding gas.

Those type of economic weapons work both ways, and they do so very, very quickly.
There is only one reason that Kosovo was not torn from Serbia in the first place, and that was that the elements of a Russian armored division were on the ground, supplied and in place, at pristina airport.

Serbian forces would be beaten with ease just like they were in the first place.

[Banat]

you’re the one smoking, dude.

[ma bell]

Serbs and Croatians of Bosnia will then have the same rights to self-determination....where did we hear that before? Someone name the date and location of that “right to self-determination”, please....

[ma bell]

Where were the Serbs beaten with ease, my friend? That is factually not true. The last surge of bombing campaign was Clarks final attempt to bring the Serbian troops to the surrender table, which failed. It was Slobo that caved in while the troops were setting up decoys all over the country and building a fake bridge that NATO took out..TWICE!

[bill1952]

Okay, not to quibble. :) I will revise.

The Serbs lost the goals that they were trying to attain, and those allied against them attained their goals, forced Serbia to withdraw from Kosovo, after which the allied forces put armored troops on the ground and set up a support and governing infrastructure in Kosovo with virtually no causalities at all.

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

In other words, YOU have no idea what YOU’RE talking about.

Your post borders on plagiarism.

[Barnsleys Beck]

NATO's soldiers were the KLA. The KLA were routed -NATO admitted as much in their god awful addresses with that cockney spiv, Jamie Shea- Going into, say, the Denica area was all but a suicide mission for any KLA units. That's one reason why NATO/KLA utilised so many Mujahideen.

I must say, I do find it surprising that you don't seem to mind NATO training/arming Mujahideen units.

Most surprising

[norton]

"If there's no outside Western sanctions to be afraid of, the Serbs will exterminate the Albanians in three months. And I would not shed a tear "

And this time, if the US is temporarily smart enough to stay the hell out of it, that is precisely what you can expect.

[norton]

Is ethnic genocide different from regular genocide
(n), The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.)?

[bill1952]

It would indeed be most surprising if I actually had such a stance.
Nobody in American, outside of a few real fringe elements I suppose, was more vociferous in protesting clinton’s little adventure than was I.

What I am trying to say here - and I’m not sure how I am miscommunicating this - is that Russia needs to put boots on the ground with Serbia. - if they really believe in this and are not using Serbia as just another angle in their anti- West semi-cold war machinations.

Now Serbia does not need them to prevail, true, but it is my most firm belief that the only thing that would stop the EU from trying to use some semblance of force against Serbia again would be the presence of Russian troops on the ground.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, wants to envision the fallout resulting from killing Russian soldiers in open combat.

Killing Serbs seems to be little deterrent, it seems, but a Russian presence adds an entirely different aspect to the equation, and they would certainly proceed with economic santions against Serbia.

After Russia does insert troops - even if they were only armed advisers - then they can the gas embargo card to counter and deter any real meaningful action by the EU, whose member nations would squabble amongst themselves and, in the end, do nothing.

Otherwise, even if Serbia were to go in, how will they force the removal of NATO forces and administration?
Kill them? - Not going to happen.

So, to my mind, real results in this - and any other action - only result from the use of force to achieve your immediate goals and the threat of economic pain to hold off any meaningful counter action.

I really am not interested in mere saber rattling by Russia.
Show me something concrete, and you will have my most sincere backing.

Thank you for your post. - Bill