On Friday, the Kosovar parliament voted in favor of the creation of a 5,000-man standing army. The plan has been deeply criticized by NATO, which has warned it will force them to reexamine their own military presence.
The plan has been discussed for a few weeks, with NATO opposing the idea. The US endorsed the plan, saying it was an “historic” move for Kosovo. Serbia, which still views Kosovo as part of its territory, has warned they may have to react militarily to the new army.
The issue, from the Serbian perspective, is that the Western-backed Kosovo government is Albanian-dominated, and prone to violent crackdowns on the region’s ethnic Serbian minority. The concern is that the military will just be used to escalate this, and to try to expel what’s left of the Serbs from northern Kosovo.
NATO forcibly separated Kosovo from Serbia, and has continued to back their independence. The split left a number of Serbs who opposed separation on the Kosovo side of the NATO-imposed border, and Kosovo has been trying to prevent them trading and traveling across the border.
Kosovo, a “nation” according to the USA, did NOT have a referendum to leave Serbia, Serbia certainly did NOT agree, and many countries do not recognise it as anything but a huge US base with drug-,human- and body-part-trafficking.
Now for four years or more we have seen the USA claim that Ukraine is a real country, that the island of Crimea, which has always had a special status even after the 1954 donation of it to Ukraine (as a part of the USSR), has been “annexed illegally” by Russia, after an overwhelming YES vote by Crimeans.
Ukraine has not kept to the Minsk agreements and the USA and EU/NATO against all evidence, encourage the bad behavior which is now almost leading to war. Kosovo needs to be remembered and NOT helped to arm even more and add to the destruction the USA seem to love to support.
Actually, Kosovo and Ukraine can be real countries insofar as they have populations with a mind to be self-sovereign communities within a defined geography.
Its just that their methods are a little contradictory; client kleptocracy is not real nation-statehood or even client statehood.
A very soft opposition. Nothing happens in Kosovo NATO doesn’t first approve of, and NATO is the U.S.A., for all that its a globalist tool.
Evidently when in the 90’s they broke off, US NATO did not contemplate they didn’t mean a permanent US base in the country.