I must agree with pro-Serb stance.Kosovo has always been an important part of Serbia and it will remain so. The fact that Kosovo is populated mostly with ethnic Albanians is irrelevant. There is no basis for ethnic minorities to declare “independence” under international law. If there were, then it would also be legal for ethnic Mexicans or American Indians to declare their “independence” from the US and then asked other countries to recognize them. But under international law any such declarations would be illegal. If another country “recognized” such a declaration, and then tried to impose changes on US borders, it would be rightly construed by the US as an act of aggression.
It is not legal to change the borders of countries and create new countries inside existing countries just because it suits you. If it were otherwise, then that would turn the whole post-World War 2 political system upside down and open Pandora’s Box. There are would-be breakaway regions everywhere in the world. The breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, in post-Soviet Georgia are actively seeking Russian recognition of their “independence” too. Why should Russia now act with restraint in the space where it is capable of acting unilaterally to change national borders, and where there is little that NATO or the US could do about it presently?
By encouraging the Kosovar Albanians to declare independence, and then immediately “recognizing” that independence, the United States acted contrary to international law. This was a cynical act by the Americans in pursuit of US geo-political interests. The US hasn’t put forward a single legal justification for this act, other than essentially “we did it because we could,” which is nothing more than the principle of the “law of the jungle” and “might makes right” in international relations. (This is the same logic that Germany used for invading Austria and Poland.)
There are ethnic minorities located in virtually every country of the world, including Kurds in Iraq, Basque separatists in Spain, Turks in Cyprus, and the list goes on. The US position is that there is something fundamentally “unique” about Kosovo that does not apply in any of these other cases, but the US has declined to explain just what that is. What principle is being applied in Kosovo that should also be applied in other cases of the same type? The US cannot verbalize any such principles; because the US is not acting according to any principle, other than apparently “we can bully whoever we want.”
One thing is certain; Kosovo will never be a “normal” nation. It will remain nothing more than a protectorate of the US and NATO, because it will never have a seat at the UN General Assembly. Russia will veto that, not simply to cause problems, but rather because Kosovo statehood is illegal, and it was done unilaterally, without considering the interests of Russia and its Serbian ally.
So exactly how is it helpful for the world to move away from our present system where every nation is recognized by every other nation, based on universal principle and international law (UN state recognition), to a system where state recognition now becomes merely “subjective,” with some countries and blocks recognizing certain states and other countries and blocks not recognizing them? Wasn’t that exactly the unstable system the world had before our present system of international relations was so painstakingly set up in the decades after the Second World War? What American interest could possibly be served by such a move? But this is exactly what this action means. This just the latest idiotic move from this breathtakingly idiotic US administration!
