Kosovo

If Russia vetoes UN recognition of any ludicrous claim by Kosovo to be an independent state, and promises to aid any Serbian military campaign against it, then will “the West” push the matter? I doubt it. They are hardly going to risk World War Three for a collection of black-shirted Wahhabi and heroin-trafficking pimps. Are they?

After all, if they did, then the precedent would be set: once the neocons’ own economic policies had produced Muslim majorities in, say, the former Metropolitan County of West Yorkshire, or great swathes of France, then will those areas also be entitled to independence? If not, why not?