In an extremely straightforward example of how military force doesn’t solve long-standing problems, NATO troops attacked a roadblock in northern Kosovo today, destroying the roadblock and scattering the ethnic Serbs who were nearby.
Within the hour, the Serbs were back, and put up an identical roadblock on the exact same road, rendering NATO’s show of force completely pointless. The process has recurred over the past several weeks.
The roadblocks were built in the wake of NATO’s invasion of the region, a move backed by the ethnic Albanian government to prevent the Kosovar Serbs from trading with their neighbors in Serbia. The roadblocks have made it difficult for NATO to deploy troops to the border to prohibit trade.
Since the 2008 declaration of independence, the Kosovo government had mostly ignored the Serb-dominated north, except for condemning calls from the region to be allowed to secede from Kosovo, just as Kosovo itself had seceded from Serbia. Though NATO backed Kosovo’s secession, they have ruled out allowing northern Kosovo to secede from the rest of the nation.
It has been the last time I have donated to antiwar.com. Repeated misinformation and adopting the Empire's paradigm is just too much. Kosovo Serbs have never called for "secession" that is just a lie and Kosovo is not a nation. If I want to read this kind of crap I can just go to Radio Free Europe.
Plus this thing "from trading with their neighbors in Serbia". LOL? Surely you meant to write "with compatriots in unoccupied Serbia". Kosovo Serbs are themselves in Serbia, both politically and geographically.
And no, Kosovo has not seceded. Kosovo is a region, it does not have agency. Instead the US backed government in Prishtina proclaimed the formation of a new state on the territory of Autonomous Province of Kosovo, since June 1999 occupied by NATO under the auspices of UN.
NATO continues to act as the bully in dealing with the Serbs living in Kosovo. NATO does not look so tough now after spending ten years in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban and having nothing to show for it.
I thought NATO was supposed to protect Europe from the USSR, not to attack some Serbs in their own country who put up a roadblock. Silly me…
Resist anglo-reich as you have resisted the german before
Keep on resisting Serbs Kosovo is Serbia not a illegitimate entity recognised as a State by some
http://www.kosovo.net/default2.html
Under the guise of the Red Threat the NATO has bombed and maimed peoples all over the world.
When Russian would not allow Chechnya to secede (USA orchestrated move to build the oil pipelines in Northern Caucasus) US was very vocal. It was, it seems. the only time when the US plans were totally stopped. Second time Russia made the US a laughing stock when, after bombing and tearing apart Serbia Russia helped S.Ossetia and Abkhazia to gain independence from Georgia. It was well calculated symmetrical step on the Russian side ))
Serbs do not want to secede – Kosovo is their land. They want to be part of Serbia, period. After all, Albanians were a minority in Serbia.