Rumour has it that Russia will veto any UN Security Council resolution recognising the eye-poppingly ridiculous theory that Kosovo is a sovereign state, a recognition which would mark a stomach-wrenching victory for Wahhabi, Mafia-connected heroin-traffickers who insist on wearing black shirts in deference to their SS fathers and grandfathers. (I might return in a future post to the scandalously little-known story of how Hitler liked Islam, and how Europe's and the USSR's Muslims liked him, as did key Islamic leaders in the Middle East; there are even more modern echoes than you might think...)
Vladimir Putin certainly has his faults, although his main critic based in this country must be the only asylum-seeker allowed to use the pages of the right-wing press to demand the forcible overthrow of an elected government. But Putin was right about Iraq. And he would be right about this, too.
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I'm afraid you confuse the two situations. Iraq and Kosova can't be further apart. What you're routing in your post is a Russia actively involved in European matters for the political expediency of the time. Europe has operated this way for a long time (majority Albanian Kosova under Serbia is an obvious result of this kind of thinking), and it has always come to hunt it.
ReplyDeleteI'm just saying that Putin was right to oppose the Iraq War, and would be right to block the final act (or is it?) in the thoroughly vile dismemberment of Yugoslavia.
ReplyDeleteIt is not a matter of Kosovo's being "under Serbia", but of being part of Serbia, which Kosovo is and could still be, however many ethnic Albanians might live there, if only those ethnic Albanians, like the Serbs, were still civically Yugoslavs.
And no, I cannot agree with you about Russia and European (or Central Asian, or East Asian/Far Eastern) affairs. Russian involvement is indispensible, and in any case inevitable. On both points, just look at a map.