They are having everyone do everything for them and they are not a country which could support and defend itself on its own.
The quasi statelet exists due to western geopolitical maneuverings and does not have any of the potential or homegrown smarts that the American colonists did.
Besides, the Albanians already have their own country - Albania. They desire a greater Albania of Kosovo, western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, Chameria in Greece, etc. This will encourage them.
There was no international organization that could impose or create international law then.
There is now, and this is pretty flimsy on the face of it.
Kosovars did not rise up and take the country away from Serbia.
It was taken by outside force, and that is as shaky as it gets from a legal standpoint.
You didn’t read the first part of my post. You can be a sovereign nation if you have enough power to make it stick. If you can defend yourself against internal enemies and establish a rule of law within your country, then de facto you are a sovereign nation. International Law has always recognized that.
If Britain had been able to take the US back in 1812, then too bad for America. But they couldn’t do it. Canada has gradually been cutting back on its dominion status, with British permission. It would be interesting to see what happened if England objected. But England doesn’t really have the power to stop it. So they go through the motions of giving permission, since Canada prefers it that way.
It’s another matter for a group of countries to band together to wrest a province from a sovereign state and set it up as “sovereign,” when it can’t defend itself and when it probably can’t establish any decent rule of law either. The current government of Kosovo consists of terrorists, and is busy burning churches and killing gypsies, yet it relies on the West to defend it?