2. they want their independence, so try to facilitate their independence .... obviously this includes keeping the Russian troops out
1. Then Kosovo is a province of Serbia, no doubt
2. They want their independence, so try to facilitate . . . obviously this includes keeping NATO troops out.
Our position on Kosovo makes our position on South Ossetia and Abkhazia impossible. You can't change your basic principles to support things that are politically expedient. Why not just be honest and say we don't care about any of these people or their independence, we just want to have access to some of their assets? Just be honest about it.
Kosovo, we shouldn’t be there either .. the excuse is genocide vs no genocide in Georgia
Regardless, we don’t engage in moral equivalence.
We could have used it as a negotiation point though, independence for Kosovo for independence of these provinces of Georgia...and we both stay out.
Kosovo doesn’t have any strategic significance unlike these provinces of Georgia.