Why, when Kosovo was established on the back of Western intervention, were its boundaries drawn to include 95% Serbian peopled territory in the North? A clean break would have offered less scope for trouble.
Borders aside, I would argue that Kosovo never should have been established. Should we create a Mexican satellite state in Southern California or a Pakistani homeland in Bradford while we’re at it?
Borders aside, I would argue that Kosovo never should have been established. Should we create a Mexican satellite state in Southern California or a Pakistani homeland in Bradford while we’re at it?
michael harris
11 months ago
Why, when Kosovo was established on the back of Western intervention, were its boundaries drawn to include 95% Serbian peopled territory in the North? A clean break would have offered less scope for trouble.
Jürg Gassmann
11 months ago
Oh what tangled web we weave / when first we practice to deceive!
The Kosovo mess is entirely of NATO’s making – NATO started the illegal war on Serbia, illegally broke Kosovo out of Serbia, it was NATO who installed a regime in Kosovo that had its roots in terrorism.
Until Putin drew a line under NATO’s incessant provocations and meddling, NATO thought it could get away with anything. Now NATO is out of weapons, out of ammunition, out of friends, out of money, and out of ideas – and the last thing NATO now needs is the attack dog it raised to actually bite.
Quite so. As I remember, Spain was the only western government to connect the dots and warn against this terrible precedent.
Jürg Gassmann
11 months ago
Oh what tangled web we weave / when first we practice to deceive!
The Kosovo mess is entirely of NATO’s making – NATO started the illegal war on Serbia, illegally broke Kosovo out of Serbia, it was NATO who installed a regime in Kosovo that had its roots in terrorism.
Until Putin drew a line under NATO’s incessant provocations and meddling, NATO thought it could get away with anything. Now NATO is out of weapons, out of ammunition, out of friends, out of money, and out of ideas – and the last thing NATO now needs is the attack dog it raised to actually bite.
Sayantani Gupta Jafa
11 months ago
Having lived and worked in Kosovo I can tell you that withdrawal of the UN Mission was a huge mistake. The West needs the non West to pitch in to keep peace in this troubled region.
Sayantani Gupta Jafa
11 months ago
Having lived and worked in Kosovo I can tell you that withdrawal of the UN Mission was a huge mistake. The West needs the non West to pitch in to keep peace in this troubled region.
Paul Hemphill
10 months ago
the commenters below must’ve been sleeping through the whole crisis in the early 21st century. That crisis was hundreds of years in the making and the last of the wars of the Yugoslav succession. NATO was shamed into intervening by its cowardly behavior during the Srebrenica massacre. https://howlinginfinite.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/the-kosovar-volcano2.pdf
Paul Hemphill
10 months ago
the commenters below must’ve been sleeping through the whole crisis in the early 21st century. That crisis was hundreds of years in the making and the last of the wars of the Yugoslav succession. NATO was shamed into intervening by its cowardly behavior during the Srebrenica massacre. https://howlinginfinite.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/the-kosovar-volcano2.pdf
Why, when Kosovo was established on the back of Western intervention, were its boundaries drawn to include 95% Serbian peopled territory in the North? A clean break would have offered less scope for trouble.
Borders aside, I would argue that Kosovo never should have been established. Should we create a Mexican satellite state in Southern California or a Pakistani homeland in Bradford while we’re at it?
Borders aside, I would argue that Kosovo never should have been established. Should we create a Mexican satellite state in Southern California or a Pakistani homeland in Bradford while we’re at it?
Why, when Kosovo was established on the back of Western intervention, were its boundaries drawn to include 95% Serbian peopled territory in the North? A clean break would have offered less scope for trouble.
Oh what tangled web we weave / when first we practice to deceive!
The Kosovo mess is entirely of NATO’s making – NATO started the illegal war on Serbia, illegally broke Kosovo out of Serbia, it was NATO who installed a regime in Kosovo that had its roots in terrorism.
Until Putin drew a line under NATO’s incessant provocations and meddling, NATO thought it could get away with anything. Now NATO is out of weapons, out of ammunition, out of friends, out of money, and out of ideas – and the last thing NATO now needs is the attack dog it raised to actually bite.
Quite so. As I remember, Spain was the only western government to connect the dots and warn against this terrible precedent.
Quite so. As I remember, Spain was the only western government to connect the dots and warn against this terrible precedent.
Oh what tangled web we weave / when first we practice to deceive!
The Kosovo mess is entirely of NATO’s making – NATO started the illegal war on Serbia, illegally broke Kosovo out of Serbia, it was NATO who installed a regime in Kosovo that had its roots in terrorism.
Until Putin drew a line under NATO’s incessant provocations and meddling, NATO thought it could get away with anything. Now NATO is out of weapons, out of ammunition, out of friends, out of money, and out of ideas – and the last thing NATO now needs is the attack dog it raised to actually bite.
Having lived and worked in Kosovo I can tell you that withdrawal of the UN Mission was a huge mistake. The West needs the non West to pitch in to keep peace in this troubled region.
Having lived and worked in Kosovo I can tell you that withdrawal of the UN Mission was a huge mistake. The West needs the non West to pitch in to keep peace in this troubled region.
the commenters below must’ve been sleeping through the whole crisis in the early 21st century. That crisis was hundreds of years in the making and the last of the wars of the Yugoslav succession. NATO was shamed into intervening by its cowardly behavior during the Srebrenica massacre. https://howlinginfinite.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/the-kosovar-volcano2.pdf
the commenters below must’ve been sleeping through the whole crisis in the early 21st century. That crisis was hundreds of years in the making and the last of the wars of the Yugoslav succession. NATO was shamed into intervening by its cowardly behavior during the Srebrenica massacre. https://howlinginfinite.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/the-kosovar-volcano2.pdf