So, in one side we have Croatia and Serbia signing a Military Cooperation Treaty and the other side we have an Unsustainable Kosova where 10 % of the population will always refuse to share History and Vision.
I was hoping the ICJ would come with a little bit more courage and it will open the door for negotiation between the 2 entities.
Yes, the Serbs have to give up Kosovo but I am not sure that they want it anyway.
As Kosova, the leaders would have to come to term with their idea to impose their will on an unwilling minority.
Or they will have to choose the Croatian Solution but I am not sure they will be able to conduct this kind of operations, especially as it would create a flow of Refugees, the same kind that authorised NATO to attack Serbia.
100,000 Serbs fleeing Croatia in 1995 didn’t emote too much the world, but time changed.
So, in order to integrate Serbs into Kosova, the Kosovar will have to give-up all the symbols of their success, national heroes etc, and I don’t see how they could do this without questioning their own fight.
How will they resolve the mess created by Ashtisaari?
In failing to properly deal with all the aspects of the problem and the will of the populations, it opened the way for years of un-sustainability and the return of Balkanisation in the Balkans.
In my opinion, the ICJ failure to really give an answer will just prolong a situation “a la Bosnia” where a State can’t work properly as a part of the population doesn’t share the same political agenda that the rest.
The hope that the optimistic point of view will prevail, and no conflicts will be initiated by this “nothing to comment” as it makes clear that you can break away from a State only if you’ve got powerful allies to help you.
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