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Perhaps you are right. However, from the article: >The US warnings come at the end of a week of high tension, beginning with an ambush by well-armed Serb param
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 3y ago
Perhaps you are right. However, from the article:
>The US warnings come at the end of a week of high tension, beginning with an ambush by well-armed Serb paramilitaries on a Kosovan police patrol, in which a policeman was killed. Three Serb gunmen were killed in the ensuing battle, near the village of Banjskë.
>Serbia declared a day of mourning for the three dead Kosovo Serbs, and Vučić falsely claimed Kosovo forces were conducting a campaign of “brutal ethnic cleansing” against ethnic Serbs.
This is textbook prelude to invasion. Additionally, Serbia has a fairly recent history (30 years ago was not that long ago) of warring in Croatia and Bosnia, where the predominant sentiment just before was that there is no way that Serbia would unleash the former Yugoslavian army on countries it just "yesterday" called brothers and sisters. Then they unleashed the army and gave full support to paramilitary forces spreading terror and reintroducing concentration camps to Europe. Moreover, the current president is a past pupil of a nationalist leader from the 90s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vojislav_%C5%A0e%C5%A1elj https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vojislav_%C5%A0e%C5%A1elj) who played a huge role in supporting wars and warcrimes that painted the west of the former Yugoslavia red with blood. Given the context of this, and given the history of the country and its president who is "just posturing", it would be extremely foolish if Kosovo does not fully prepare for an invasion.
- alephnerd 3y agoAnd it deescalated - https://www.ft.com/content/92e0416b-046a-47dd-a785-07091e63277a https://www.ft.com/content/92e0416b-046a-47dd-a785-07091e632... "In a statement issued to the Financial Times on Saturday, Aleksandar Vučić said that he would draw down Serbia’s forces in the area because an escalation of the conflict would be counter-productive for Belgrade’s EU aspirations."