Serbia warns it will protect Kosovo Serbs if NATO doesn't

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Source: AP

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president called on NATO on Sunday to “do their job” in Kosovo or he says Serbia itself will move to protect its minority in the breakaway province.

The fiery televised address to his nation by President Aleksandar Vucic followed the collapse of political talks between Serbian and Kosovo leaders earlier this week mediated by the European Union in Brussels.

Serbia, along with its allies Russia and China, has refused to recognize Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence. A NATO-led intervention in 1999 ended the war between Serbian forces and separatists in Kosovo and stopped Belgrade’s bloody crackdown against Kosovo's majority Albanians.

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“We have nowhere to go, we are cornered,” Vucic said. “We will save our people from persecution and pogroms, if NATO does not want to do it.”

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Hey dumbass, if you haven't noticed your big brother Russia is a bit occupied now. Maybe you're feeling nostalgic for WWI but I don't believe there's any Entente to bail you out this time around.

[Martin68]

1. Sounds like an opening salvo before an invasion.

[yaesu]

2. Serbia and Belarus are the only two European countries not to impose sanctions on Russia

In July the Serbian leader accused Kosovo of using Ukraine’s plight to satisfy its own interests, comparing himself to a knockoff version of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kosovo’s leader to a smaller version of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.

I think putin would use any excuse to "friendly invade" another "friendly" country like he did to Belarus.

NATO held off tangling with ruskies during the 90's war but if putin pulls any crap NATO should kick any rusky ass that he sends to the region.

[oldsoftie]

3. NATO force on scene will kick your Serb ass, dipshit.

[GreenWave]

4. 9,000,000 vs. 2,000,000. Serbs outnumber them.

[thucythucy]

5. This is almost exactly what the Serb leadership was saying

in the early 1990s, before they began their massacres in Croatia and then in Bosnia.

Come to think of it, it's pretty much what Hitler said about German minorities in the Sudetenland in 1938, and Poland in 1939.

You'd think present day genocidal tyrants and wannabees could think of something original.

[GreenWave]

6. Woah! I did not mean to walk in any of their footsteps

I asked Alexa and she gave me numbers which I rounded. It just seemed like Serbia thinks it can bully Kosovo.

[thucythucy]

7. My mistake!

That was supposed to be in response to the OP, not you.

I apologize. I certainly didn't mean to imply you in any way shape or form supported any of this.

Again, I apologize.

I need to pay more attention before clicking the "post" button.

[Samrob]

8. Geez! i am mourning the Winter Olympics held in Sarajevo in 1984. It all seemed so beautiful.

So depressing what happened in Sarajevo a few years later. Now we are back at that time...if we ever left it.

[DFW]

9. Protect?

I hope they don't use Putin's "protection" of Russian-speaking Ukrainians as a model.

We've had enough Balkan wars in the last 100 years to last us a millenium. The Serbs should not take that as a declaration of NATO non-intervention, though. If they march in and start killing Kosovars again, NATO won't hesitate to discourage their action with "convincing" deterrence.

[SunSeeker]

11. Of course, because Serbia has no nukes, NATO will bomb the shit out of them.

Like NATO did in 1999.

But NATO really should protect the Serbs in Kosovo. They are being killed, and allowing the killing to go on will allow Serbia to justify an invasion, and more bloodshed. Worse yet, Russia might get involved, unlike in 1999. If Russia ends up going into Kosovo, then NATO will not bomb, like it didn't when Russia went into Ukraine.

[Coventina]

10. Fuck you, Serbia, I am fully aware of what you mean by "protection"

It means killing any other ethnic group.


FOAD.

[IronLionZion]

12. Sounds Russian

Making up a pretext for invasion. I doubt Russia will help Serbia if NATO decides to intervene.