Yes, and being a geopolitics buff I agree - however this time they really screwed the pooch in my opinion. A lot of times I feel I understand the deeper game that goes on. For example, Iraq - it truly is about power projection in order to realign the ME in a shape that makes local governments clamp down on the terrorists that they used to ignore. It’s about redefining the power relationships in the ME center of gravity.
Kosovo - a piece of crap po-dunk chunk of land of no consequence to anyone but Serbs and Albanians. No strategic route there. No roads to connect anything. No natural resources like oil (sure some smallish mineral deposits but nothing to get excited about). Nothing of geopolitical value, only trouble.
If this is a pawn being played to further push on the Russians, I think we’ve overplayed our hand here. They’ll have to respond to this and we won’t like it.
Well, we certainly agree on Iraq. We also see Kosovo similarly except that I think it may be more significant than you do. Then again, maybe we’re forcing a Russion hand that we want to force.
I dunno, but time will tell.