Just days after NATO issued a statement expressing opposition to Kosovo’s plan to create a national army, warning of the threat that could pose to regional stability, the United States has issued its own statement endorsing the idea.
US officials say they view the creation of a Kosovar military as a “positive step,” and proof of Kosovo’s status as an independent country. They also emphasized how much aid the US has invested in Kosovo.
Kosovo is not universally recognized as independent, however, and for decades NATO has provided for its security as a de facto state. Serbia has warned they may intervene if a Kosovo Army is created, as they would view it as a challenge to their own claims to the region.
NATO’s concerns center on regional stability, and they also warn that if such an army was created, they may no longer elect to keep NATO troops in Kosovo to provide direct security. US officials are downplaying the matter, saying it would take “many years” to create an army at any rate.
In not supporting the 78-day NATO air war against Yugoslavia in 1999 John Bolton seemed for once to be on the right side. (That is, against the first “progressive war.”) But apparently he’s reversed course on this issue so that he is uniformly an unprincipled warmonger.
Most obviously the United States is trying to pick a war with Russia and China will come along to if NATO gets involved . Russia is not prepared to fight a bunch of small skirmishes all over the world . Boy for stupid . With the government the USA has selected to represent them they do not deserve to live .
Will the USA ever leave anywhere?????? The destruction of Serbia and the promotion of Kosovo as a “Nation” with a huge US base Bondsteel was a wicked destruction of a whole group of countries and done to pretend that NATO was still needed after the USSR was gone. Twenty years later the USA is still interfering (is Ukraine not enough, with all the ongoing wars this century?) We all remember Russian PM Primakov turning his plane back when he was on the way to the meeting that decided in his absence to destroy Yugoslavia.
Who was the KLA if it wasn’t the Kosovo Army ?