The Pentagon has announced today that a unit of about 500 US ground troops, National Guardsmen, are to be deployed to the Kosovo region to join a NATO “peacekeeping” operation (KFOR) that has proven the longest in the alliance’s history.
The operation is the remnant of the 1999 NATO attack on Serbia, which ended with NATO announcing that Kosovo, which had been part of Serbia since the Middle Ages, would secede from Serbia. The ethnic Albanian population approved of this. The Serbian population in North Kosovo continues to oppose it.
That’s because the Kosovar Albanians, who are the overwhelming majority of the south, dominate the NATO-backed government,and they’ve gone out of their way to limit the northerners’ ability to trade across the Serbian border. Stopping this trade has often proved the job of NATO forces when the locals resist.
18 years in, Kosovo still lacks recognition from a number of states, particularly Serbia, and the intense ethnic division between Albanians and Serbs remains as big a problem as ever. NATO’s effort has been to just keep throwing more troops at the situation, and hope that somewhere along the line the situation will resolve itself and victory can be claimed.
I don’t know why the United States would consider it a victory for 16 % of Serbia’s population to suddenly gain independence .just because they are Muslims .. We never wanted to give our own southern population independence . American citizens never got the truth about these wars and NATOs destruction of Yugoslavia . Here is where I first noticed the US runs on fake news and fake intelligence . And it has not gotten better for the last 2 decades
Yugoslavia breakup was the first example of mega fake news, mega support for
interventionism by the presumably progressive left in US. Lies, lies and mega lies accompanied the entire break up, the intense and sustained demonization of Serbs, the only real intended targets of the Balkan campaign, the media fabrication of events, false flags, hiding real genocide while inventing others — the Clinton era is going to remain the example of shame that Western world brought on itself, at the urging of neocon “visionaries”. But once a lie has been declared the truth, now there is no way of backing out of it — and the only way is to keep on lying, keeping the lie alive. This is still destroying US foreign policy in Balkans, and is still mysteriously remaining blind to the DELIBERATE inportation of Wahhabi extremism, and in a stunning reversal — almost all Sufi Moslem traditions, today almost entire Kosovo Moslem communities have become controlled by Salafi sects, ardent followers of Saudi Wahhabism. We know it, everybody knows it. Both President and Prime Minister are war criminals, and the only reason they haveescaped Hague jail is the cozy and chummy relationship that Kosovo terrorist leadership had with US establishment, and the fact that orotected witnesses were murdered, followed by other witnesses deciding not to testify. All known, all understood. And the ONLY reason Kosovo is nervous is — Turkey. Serbia cannot endanger them, as it has the most feeble leadership in Europe (Hollande was close second). But Turkey is not pleased that all their Sufi Sunni mosques have been converted to Saudi controlled Salafism, it expressed its unhappiness with Kosovo being part of Gulen funding — and working against Turkey. In Tirana, Erdogan made a public statement AGAINST GREATER ALBANIA — and undermined favorite neocon project of using Albanian expansionism to wreak havoc in Macedonia, and periodically in Serb provinces in the South of Serbia.
Since nobody is physically threatening Kosovo — what is the purpose of increasing NATO presence. I see only one reason — to create more protection for severely endangered Serbian churches and monasteries. Over 100 of them have been razed, burned and bombed by Albanian mobs, fully supported by Kosovo government. Nobody has been convicted for these crimes, including murders of nuns and priests since NATO bombing in 1999, that ended Serbian control of its province.
If we are such great friends of Kosovo, gave them NATO airforce in support of their secession — why then do WE, US taxpayers must foot the bill for the 24/7/365 protection of Christian heretage — what is left of it. Back in 2003, turists from US that came to Kosovo to visit those medieval monasteries were able to do so only with UN vehicles accompanying our bus. And passing through then town of Pec, we encountered mobs pelting bus with stones. And watching little kids motioning with their fingers mimicking cutting of throats — a message to all those daring to visit Christian sites. A priest in the bus was asked by UN to remove his robes, to not “provoke” Albanians. And yet, in our fake information universe created by our “mainstream” media, Albanians are the deserving victims, Serbian and other Albanian victims that did not fit the narrative –are not ever mentioned. Yes, fake media, fake indignation, fake humanitarians and fake tears came of age full blown over Kosovo. It’s curse will always come to haunt anyone foolish enough to disturb its blood soaked soil. And we in US go without many things, so we can pay since 1999 for the protection of Christians and their heretage, every single day and night. And from a “state” that we created, recognized and are pushing for its recognition by UN. With friends like these, do we nedd enemies?
Damn write a book already this is a forum not a site to get propaganda published.You must have alot of time on your hands.
US is already there to the tune of several thousand in “Camp Bondsteel” built on stolen, occupied Serbian land in KosovO.
The KFOR has never done anything to protect the Serbian reservations throughout the land that was flooded by Albanians from Albania proper when US gave them the hint to do so (In order to facilitate the occupation).
Yes that’s right there’s not only native Serbs in the north, in Mitrovica were they form a majority, they live in poor barbed wired villages “guarded” by KFOR which is NATO by another name and as monks and nuns in monasteries from the 13th century and older, those and their graveyards that haven’t been bombed to the ground by Albanians under US protection. KFOR looked the other way when Albanians started their first pogrom in 2004 and they mostly continue to do so. But why should the American’s and their regime care? Living in a settler state without much history of their own, history apparently starts anew every morning…
The USSA/NATO in the Clinton era took advantage of Yugoslavia when the incompetent drunkard Boris Yeltsin was President of the Russian Federation. Had Vladimir Putin been President at that time, none of this would’ve happened, especially with Kosovo.
Had Putin been in charge, he would’ve deployed Spetznaz forces in Kosovo to crush the Albanian secession effort. The Albanian Kosovars would’ve been deported to Albania, and the USSA/NATO would’ve been unable to prevent it. The Kosovar secessionist leaders would’ve been arrested, prosecuted and most likely executed for terrorism. In addition, the Chinese Embassy would’ve never been bombed, either.
A horrific war allegedly [but not really] for the independence of the ethnic Albanians but stern opposition to an overwhelming vote for independence by ethnic Russians. No independence for the Catalans, Basques, Scots, Irish, Corsicans, Sardegnans, Sicilians, etc.
How long before the Kosovar Albanians terrorists start murdering or attempting to murder US troops like they tried to do at Ft Dix? (which was just one of many)