Yes, I understand what you are trying to point out. A group of 100 crazy drunk idiots brings shame upon the whole nation.

But then again, Serbia does not wish to control Albanians. We want to give them the highest ever recognized autonomy and complete self-government.

All we want is to call that land Serbia, and not to erase our graves from it by taking it.

This is not Bosnia, it's bad we delineate our views from then. This was legit guerilla terrorist warfare.

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That I think is your best point to date. It does sound like you were willing to give the region quite a bit of autonomy. Though even with NATO present we hear about ill treatment of Albanians and kosovski dodatak for the Serbs.

Though I don't know the details of that.

I do admit to feeling sorry for you if international impressions of the Serbs are actually due to a small minority.

But I'm afraid that is the impression held in the US. Ethnic cleansing, burned embassies, and by logical extension more violence if you get back into Kosovo.

Much damage was brought upon Serbia during the Milosevic period.

We hardly managed to put the man out.

But since 2000 Serbs have several times expressed themselves clearly in favor of democracy and euro-atlantic integrations. Serbia fulfilled almost every request that came from the West. Conducted economic and political reforms, sent war criminals to trial,etc...

And what did we get in return? Cutting off a piece of our land.

Well, the Americans have just made one more enemy instead of gaining a strong ally in the Balkans.

So, who takes all the points? Russia, of course. The only winner.

I think I asked before, but that was in a different thread with a different Serb and didn't get a reply.

Why do you think America and many other nations back Kosovo independence?

Many reasons...

First: US military base, strong military presence in this part of Europe and control of the Balkans.

Second: Very very strong Albanian lobby (second to Jewish in strength). Albanians have invested more then 20 bill dollars in bribing western politicians for decades to fight for their cause. But the money is dirty and bloody - drugs mostly.

Third: Clearing their name in front of muslim countries of the east.

Fourth: Serbian traditional good relations with Russia.

Fifth: Creating a puppet state, easy to control in every sense

And many many more... As far as other countries are concerned, it is not their decesion, but American. They were forced to do so (like Slovenia and many other countries)....

Just a help to our Slavic brothers to kick arse of those dirty kosovar moslems and their western masters

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:thumbs up: ! And Zoltan Dani is a National Hero, I bet!

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Interesting enough.

On the first reason would Serbia have been unwilling to let the US have a base there? Do we really gain there?

I guess I can't swear to the power, but it doesn't seem like the the AACL is on the same level as AIPAC or the other big players at all from the official amount they're spending. I suppose something else could be going on. But 2 billion? Do you have a link of some sort for that?

The other points seem reasonable enough.


Another question though. Why all of this now? The UN proposal that started the ball rolling for Kosovo independence was over a year ago. And while it didn't make the front page here until independence was declared, stories have been calling it a sure thing for over a month. And it's probably been known longer than that especially in your country.

Why protest now instead of then? I could understand not making a fuss while it looked like a Russian veto insured Kosovo could never be free through the UN directly. But wouldn't it have made more sense to protest when it became obvious they were going to declare independence and going to be recognized? It would seem like your countries efforts would be much more likely to be successful then.

I totally believe that. Most people are decent, peaceful and friendly. I have no reason to believe Serbs are any different.

But your government had done many bad things leading up to Kosovo, and it was time to say "enough is enough."

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