Kosovo, new EU springboard for Russia after BRUX

When Bismark balanced the forces and realists in Europe and the eastern courtyards (Russia Cariste, the Austrian/Austro-Hungary Empire), on the eastern issue, namely the Balkans, it had no interest in obtaining concessions for Prussia/Gravament in the Balkans, but only to avoid the alliance's division because of the peninsula. On the Albanian issue, at the Berlin Congress, Bismark had indicated that “Albania is nothing more than a geographical notion”.

The Balkans were used as a springboard for maintaining the balances of great powers. And at the beginning of the 20th century, it was the Empire of Austria-Hungary, which, after the Balkan wars, would save a little from Albania's lands, with the only geostrategic tendency to prevent Serbs from going to the Adriatic Sea, because every port of Serbia was Russia's port.

In fact, the fire of World War I, to some extent, fanned into the Balkans. By using the Balkans as a springboard for major powers, however, there remained a peninsula separated from the influxs and deep divisions that had created powers from the Ottoman Empire onward, and even communist states and federations.

The end of the Cold War and the fall of the eastern communist bloc, in the western Balkan part, would be bloody. Serbia's combat companies, with the tendency to invade the entire former Yugoslavia and the Western Balkans, and to make a massive sweep in Kosovo. Serbia's actions forced NATO forces to make a humanitarian intervention, and to oust Serbia's military forces. As a result, not having another better solution, Kosovo declared independence on February 17th 2008.

After a process of recognition by most of Europe's own and wider countries, and especially from a US support, the Kosovo issue has now turned into a European Union springboard, to keep Russia on board, depending on gas fuel and a prosperous trade. Besides a strong neighbour, like Russia, who finds alternatives for its gas to China as an alternative Chinese-Russian-Iran axis, and India where by 2025 Russia and India predict the trade to reach $50 billion, which has enabled Russia to benefit more than it would be able to earn 10 years ago in the geostrategic concession market.

Russia's return to the game starting with the battle in response to Kosovo in Georgia with the secession of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, then Crime from Ukraine and war in the rest of Donetsk and Luhansk and Transnistria, all of these countries after their aspirations for NATO and the EU, with spurned conflicts in Nagorno-Karabah, with successful assistance to the Assad of Syria, managed to return powerfully to the international arena, without forgetting the part of the war in involvement among countries in the Balkans, in cyber warfare and the tendency to intervene in electoral elections, and in Russian terms, as well as the “quiy states of Troy” within the EU itself.

From all this game, Russia's lost battle in the Western Balkans, following the siege of NATO and its ally Serbia, Russia still did not give up and now wants a good strategic concession to maintain its interference in the Western Balkans, always exploiting the approach of European countries of balance of forces in the divorce of American values.

The EU has no country left in the Western Balkans for concessions to Russia and Serbia, excluding Kosovo. Now when the possibilities are closed with Albania and Montenegro in NATO, with Macedonia very close to, being devoured by Russia's concessions for honours and EU favour remains Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but Kosovo is at the moment.

Dialogue and reconciliation between Kosovo and Serbia were put in the hands of the EU, calling itself only extenuating, but which is really the main factor pushing its interests with Russia through this dialogue and making Serbia benefit.

Kosovo was forced to make a demarcation of the border with Montenegro, where it gave the state nearly 9,000 hectares of land on behalf of visa liberalisation, (the goal was another, read below), but the promise was not fulfilled. Commissioner Johannes Hahn recently during a visit to Kosovo said visa liberalisation could happen in 2020. Hahn's visit came only after Kosovo imposed a 100% tax on imports from Serbia in protest, as the latter does not abide by the Brussels agreement, where it should not prevent Kosovo from integration into international organisations. He even made a totally nontransparent return visit for public opinion.

Serbia, most of the agreements with Kosovo have not been contained, has attempted to line up the illegal train with the help of Russia “Russian “with chauvinist inscriptions in northern Kosovo, to divide Kosovo's north with the wall, has prevented Kosovo's membership in any international organisation, uses dumping policies to damage Kosovo's market, does not accept diplomas, license plates and no documents from Kosovo, implements the energy agreement, for none of which is criticised by the EU but constantly tolerated. Even rewarded with visa liberalisation, opening SAA chapters, funds from the EU and playing the game of two chairs, even with Russia and the EU. Even when EU's Hahn visited Kosovo to protect Serbia, it expected and deepened relations with Russia.

Kosovo is isolated, and besides being asked to remove the tax and tolerate Serbia, is constantly criticised for any action establishing its citizenship, even when Kosovo wants to create a small army with light weapons, but it allows Serbia to buy military planes from Russia without even the only problem.

The EU, being under pressure from Russia, especially after BRUX, has found Russia's halt at precisely concessional parts like Kosovo and Serbia is tolerated here.

Correlation is this: To take the West in Georgia, there had to be sacrifice to South Ossetia and Abkhazia, to take up the West in Ukraine, crime had to be sacrificed, and to take over the West in the Western Balkans, concessions are on Kosovo's back and small soil.

Kosovo with demarcation gave Montenegro a strategic share that could be potentially exploited by NATO, while in northern Kosovo, at the border with Serbia, the likelihood that by demarcation Serbia to be given the top of Panchiqi, the Kopolonik mountain ranges, still under pressure from the EU, are real, where the military remote built in the former Yugoslavia has the ability to put under its amplitude across the Mediterranean and an appropriate security point for Russia as a concession for other strategic parts of the Western Balkans.

The EU put under pressure from losing its power after BRUX and US politics on one hand, internal divisions and democratic failures, Turkey, and Russia as power that has shown itself capable of interfering in global work in any country, the mercy of softening the latter is being found in Kosovo.

Kosovo as a buffer country, the experiment lab and war between major powers, is experiencing constant contraction, even though it has just over 10,000km²Once giving Montenegro strategic points to be used by NATO as soon as possible, and on the other hand, Serbia with Kopolonik and perhaps the entire north where it is inhabited by Serb majority, a land full of natural wealth, in the name of “the historic” border correction with the Presevo Valley from Serbia.

All thisggression in Kosovo's international policy also comes for Kosovo's own blame, but is convening the EU itself, such as the president of the country, as they are easily managed by being threatened with punishment if they do not act on EU wishes.

However, this laboratory (Kosovo) can be triggered by miscommunications, and an explosion never succeeds in anyone knowing where it shoots the sparks that can create new fires.

If the process of “correction of the borders does not stop, Kosovo is not given clear European liberalisation and perspective, it does not punish Serbia for violations in any way of Kosovo's existence rights as a state (the Kosovo declaration as a state is also legitimised by the International Court of Justice), and it does not create an approach for Albanians in the Balkans to have the country as civilized people deserve, then Albanian discontent is great throughout the Western Balkans and the first strikes may be felt in the Western Balkans.