Allowing Serbian troops back into Kosovo without the acquiescence of the locals is simply a non-starter, however, and while the EU can provide the stick to keep Kosovo a seperate entity in the region, it is up to Belgrade to provide the carrots to bring it back into the fold.
Given what's going on in Montenegro, what do you think the chances of that happening are?
As to Macedonia, the Nationalist politicians lost in their bid to radicalize their populations past the point of reconciliation with another pointless Balkan war. Cry me a river - neither the Macedonian Army nor the ANA were capable of winning a war in Macedonia.
Yet we deliberately created a statelet based on ethnicity. Go figure.
Allowing Serbian troops back into Kosovo without the acquiescence of the locals is simply a non-starter
Of course! After all, they're Serbians. Or should we apply this standard all over the world? Governments shouldn't be allowed to send their forces to places within their own territory where the locals might be uncomfortable having them there? I guess we can start with Harlem.
As to Macedonia, the Nationalist politicians lost in their bid to radicalize their populations past the point of reconciliation with another pointless Balkan war.
Pointless to you, maybe. Your country wasn't being ravaged by a pointless rebellion. They had a right to put it down. We did not have the right to order them not to.
Cry me a river - neither the Macedonian Army nor the ANA were capable of winning a war in Macedonia.
So we had to tie Macedonia's hands even further? Maybe it's true that there would have had to have been some stalemate anyway. Why shift the balance of that stalemate in favor of the ANA?