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Originally Posted by AmusedToDeath
Kosovo independence IS illigal, because it is opposite to the 1244 Resolution of Security Coucil, which recognizes Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia.
By the way, Kosovo has been Serbian for almost a millenium, it is the cradle of Serbian state, religion, culture, education, everything that defines a nation.
Ask yourself why the Americans did not go to the UN, but instead persuaded the "Kosovo government" to declare independce by themselves? Because they knew they would face Russian and Chinese VETO, and because they knew that it is against the basic principles of the UN.
You cannot grant independence to a minority by allowing secession from a sovereign state! Read some international law, if you are not that stupid.
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Alright, I mis-stated my opinion. What I really meant to say is "They are their own country now; they make their own laws. I don't care about any of the UN's stupid resolutions because none of them are truly binding, and even if they were binding, I don't support the idea in a global entity higher than the sovereignty of the individual countries. If this leads to war, I am on the side of Kosovo, and I hope that I would actually follow through in acting on that belief should it come to it, but unfortunately I will probably just remain a sideline windbag." I don't really support the notion that the UN has any real sovereignty, or that it even should have sovereignty, and I don't care about what they have to say.
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My enduring personal, original quote: Many mistake what should rightly be called "passivism" for pacifism. Pacifism and passivism are COMPLETELY different.
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Originally Posted by The12thMan
The rule should never trump the reason for the rule.
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