New Kosovo War

The operation for the final solution between Kosovo and Serbia has long begun. But it looks like somebody's got the bistuary already. Will it be a painful operation with consequences? What is Tirana's role in this situation? Renowned analysts Kim Mehmeti and Nexmetdin Spahiu/

Tuesday says it's a whole day. On November 20th of last year in Dubai, many could be enjoying the sea and the sun. But many Albanians and Serbs were rooting for something unusual. The match was played at the Interpol General Assembly. In fact, the Americans and Westerners had generally entered the field with a complete cekip. Suddenly, the outcome of the vote came. Kosovo had failed to become a member of this organisation. It seems something of little importance, but euphoria invaded the media and social networks. Even Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called a victory for a small and proud country. But he did not forget to add that euphoria was not needed, calling on Albanians not to see it as a huge loss. But the question the foreign media had in mind was this: When it is not so important as victory, why should Serbs be highly sponsored against Kosovo membership in INTERPOL, a normal step that would serve only security and order in the region?

Despite Vucic's calls, what followed would resold the Kosovo issue at the centre of international media. Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, who still continues to stress that he does not understand why he should bow before a country that has killed Albanians, imposed a 100 per cent fee on Serbian goods. His movement thrilled Albanians. Even Prime Minister Edi Rama said in favour of establishing this fee. But he must maneuver with narrow gates in these difficult days. Initially, it must show itself willing to remove the borders between Albania and Kosovo, to appear at the joint meetings of governments, to make safe with eagles symbols and with the Albanian flag in the background, as to show the international factor that panteralist Albania can also threaten the EU with these actions.

And on the other hand, she has to accept calls from Washington, which tell her that the solution between Serbia and Kosovo is coming and that she will most likely be dictated by the US and will probably not satisfy Albanians very much. A revision of boundaries can be placed there, but here on the ground things are not so easy. Land and border work can produce war and blood, Haradinaj warns. And Eddie Rama knows very well that getting in favor of this idea will only get a lot of frustration on his back that he doesn't need. But he has to come up next to Donald Trump, the man who had once been severely attacked. This move kills two languages, showing Albanians surprised after the Voice of America investigation, that he has jobs with the White House. But at what cost?

Europe, which has these problems at its door, seems to take a different stance. She is desperately interested in a solution to the Kosovo issue, but hopes the trend for EU membership will produce a positive result. But at the time when the prospect of EU enlargement seems distant and when no one at the 28 countries' range is interested in bringing two troubled neighbours home, American intervention is needed. As they know, cut and direct. The operation to resolve the issue between Kosovo and Serbia has begun. If this job is solved by scalpel, it still cannot be said correctly. If the growth goes deep with consequences, that's not known. The dice have been thrown...

Unfortunately, we have to be concerned about our collective destiny because it could happen after 20 years, Michaelevic to win the war lost in 1999.

Even that, because the fate of Albania is in the hands of blackmailed and over-term citizens of Albania. In the hands of citizens who have not the highest interest of the people and the country they represent, but their political destiny.

Thus, even agreements reached between men and women become a source of new disagreement.

It seems that the evental agreement between Serbia and Kosovo has the primary goal of adding time to the use of a political class, led by the president of Kosovo, who dominates the people and the country according to the opinion, we are the owners of freedom and we are the good of the country and the people.

Albania and Kosovo are in the hands of the statesmen, who are rulings equal to being the owner of the people and the country, and therefore behave as Kosovo's president, who so underestimates collective intelligence, that shamelessly claims something almost absurd: that Serbia does not recognise Kosovo just because it refuses to take the Presevo Valley! And, meanwhile, stubbornly defends the old Serbian idea of exchanging territories. In fact, it seems certain that his proserb and prorus plan will take place, maybe why I know that the Kosovo Albanians, have grown so tired of being a proservative, that she choked almost every feeling of collective destiny, and led young people to keep their heads turned toward Western centers.

We should be concerned about the fate of Kosovo and Albania because they are in the hands of the statesmen, who killed the Albanians' national pride, imposing on them the conviction that for everything others decide, that nothing is in their hands.

It's said the deal will get Washington's stamp and end with border reviews. On the other hand, Berlin reportedly opposes this option. Are we within grid theory or is that how the odds stand?

A lot is unclear because there's no information. But it is not a secret that the offices where maps of countries of small Balkan peoples are drawn are still open and located outside our spaces. The more we as Albanians increased loyalty to our Western friends, but we almost destroyed our trust in Albania. And so we didn't clarify where loyalty to Albania and to ourselves begins and where it ends.

And it had to happen differently with these statesmen who had concepts of how to stay in power as long as possible, but not also how to advance Albania. So we went ahead with statesmen who didn't tell us where we were headed, but they comforted us that they were waiting for the news that everything America says. And in the meantime, we almost forgot that neither America nor anyone else can help you if you don't do anything for yourself and act like a retard who can't walk on his own. I'm afraid our friends got tired of asking them to protect us from evil in themselves, with what they, perhaps even wrongly, began to believe that we are unable to become the builder of our fate and become an important factor in this Balkans. Therefore, Western friends of Albania now want to save what can be saved, even with a sense of guilt why, on account of their own, the Albanian people left in the hands of these non-mamuncrats who knew how to rule the people, but not their own glutony.

Austrian newspaper Der Standard writes that most Albanians reject revision of borders. The paper emphasises that this situation has provoked tensions in the Albanian government as Prime Minister Edi Rama removed a voice against partitioning Kosovo, such as Ditmir Bushati. How do you see Albania's approach to this situation?

You must be above the average idiot to believe that border review will bring something good to Albanians. Especially under circumstances where you and Albania are headed by statesmen who have made the country home to crime and political underground.

Even, the haste of some Western and Serb circles, which, as soon as agreement is reached between Belgrade and Pristina, has to do with their smell that Albanians have been defactored and have never been weaker politically.

As for tensions in the Albanian government, they have nothing to do with Kosovo's interest, not Albania's, but the pervertship of a prime minister who tells MPs: my wife ate what is not said! ? Or do you ridicule people with physical flaws? And can anyone believe that such a prime minister will take Western citizens seriously? Or that it can protect nationwide interests a prime minister who does not succeed in communicating humanly even with the deputies of the State Assembly that heads? And, can you believe that Albanian interests can protect a nation like that of Albania, where MPs deal with each other's bedwork and where they use the vocabulary from which even the owners of any public house would be ashamed! ?

If the US is to impose an agreement that is not popular with Albanians, will we have an anti-American spirit among the most pro-American people in the world?

By becoming more pro-Western than Westerners, we forgot to be pro-Albanians and ourselves. We began to act like the inadequacy that leaves his destiny in the hands of the fittest and the richest, with which he never becomes insensitive to his fate. Maybe we've always been like this, extreme: when we become Communists and Stalin we protect him from the Russians and when we become pro-Americans, we protect Trump from Americans. What it shows is that maybe, we don't want, nor do we hate rationalists and frankly, that we are not connected with others by any concept or ideal or concrete principle, but only by day interest. I'm afraid even for our failures, we blame America and that, with these politicians we have, we end up where we were in Enver's time as a people who live their loneliness. And so it ends with people who lose faith in themselves and who blame everyone else to justify their own inadequacy.

It is said that the deal is becoming that Russia no longer has influence over Serbia and the region. Others say otherwise: is Russia sponsoring the partition option? What do you think?

I'll repeat whenever I get a chance. Others can only do what they allow. And Russia increased its possibilities to penetrate the Balkans since the two-standard Europe proved to be one of the masons of this world, with only the law of the strong and the rich. As such, she made many wrong precalculators even in the Balkans. Because it led many Balkans to ask what those European values would make him to be what it says is, when a legacy part of it has become insensitive to nationalism within itself, to the bloodbath of Bosnia and Kosovo, and to Balkan anti-Islamicism, to the killings of Palestinian children and Yemen, to the destruction of the footsteps of ancient eastern cultures.... Can such a Europe counter anyone's influence in the Balkans! ?

We don't know that. When we see the text of the agreement, we may find that we can breathe freely because the worst is over or we worry that the worst is coming. That depends on what already seems to have been cut off. There are many factors that determine this. America-European-Russia reports, but also from what Kosovo's functioning has witnessed in these 20 years. The biggest unknown is the ratio between the Great Powers, and there's some hope that the bargain will be better. As for what Kosovo has deserved during these 20 years of its operation, there are fewer expectations. Even 20 years after the liberation of 11 years of Kosovo's Declaration of Independence in downtown Pristina waves Albania's flag, not the Kosovo flag. That fact speaks a lot figuratively. That fact says Kosovo has no confidence in itself, which expects its problems to solve Tirana. This makes foreigners laugh and feel sorry for knowing that Tirana is not capable of either choosing Albania's problems and letting go of Kosovo. This shows that the dominant majority in Kosovo possess the sense of being an ethnic minority in a foreign state for them, not a nation that heads its own state, while requiring that this nation (Kosovar) be accepted in the United Nations. In this respect politicians and intellectuals from Albania have not helped at all. The message that was supposed to give to those Kosovo Albanians is this: “We know we are brothers, but you now have your country, you have your flag, you have your anthem, you leave our symbols alone and you deal with your characters” This would probably sound bitter in Kosovo, but it would be highly educational and the greatest aid Albania could provide to Kosovo.

It's said the deal will get Washington's stamp and end with border reviews. On the other hand, Berlin reportedly opposes this option. Are we within grid theory or is that how the odds stand?

We don't know that, maybe this is just a game to intimidate the parties, so that when the agreement is signed with painful compromises (the Association of Serb majority municipalities for Pristina, and the recognition of Kosovo's independence for Belgrade) at least did not move borders.

There will probably also be minority border movements and association of Serb majority municipalities and recognition on the other hand. In this case, border movement would damage the Presevo Valley, giving some settlements to Kosovo and most of them to join other Serb municipalities. Thus Albanians remain without any municipalities in Serbia, which would de facto eliminate Albanians from Serbia (the interest of Belgrade). But it may be that the bargain has been cut even worse for Kosovo. And that would be in exchange for recognition from Serbia, given north to the Iber rivers of Bistrica and association for Serbs south of the Iber River. This meant that Gazivoda Lake, Trepca and the town of Mitrovica will be split in half between Kosovo and Serbia.

Austrian newspaper Der Standard writes that most Albanians reject revision of borders. The paper emphasises that this situation has provoked tensions in the Albanian government as Prime Minister Edi Rama removed a voice against partitioning Kosovo, such as Ditmir Bushati. How do you see Albania's approach to this situation?

Perhaps Kosovo will be forced to make concessions at the expense of it that it cannot fight against world powers, but any approach of Albania that does not support Kosovo's current integrity and territory is aid to Serbia, not Kosovo. Some of my Serbian acquaintances from Belgrade are often making fun of me, saying: As long as Serbia is getting its brother, Montenegro, Kosovo is getting its brother from Tirana.

Kosovo does not expect Tirana to establish military aircraft and come to the defense of Kosovo territories (because this official Tirana has not even done it when 19 nations of the world bombed Belgrade in 1999), but the least Tirana can do is not cut down on Kosovo and not applauding when Kosovo is forced to sign a deal agreed on by the Great Powers.

If the US is to impose an agreement that is not popular with Albanians, will we have an anti-American spirit among the most pro-American people in the world?

An anti-American spirit among Albanians exists while there are silent followers of former communist dictator Enver Hoxha. A poor deal for Kosovo in the expected deal would open the mouth of anti-Americans now silent.

For a poor evental market, the people of Kosovo and their political and intellectual class must first be charged. Second, Albania, which didn't help the most in the educational way I talked about, and thirdly, Americans.

It is said that the deal is becoming that Russia no longer has influence over Serbia and the region. Others say otherwise: is Russia sponsoring the partition option? What do you think?

There can be no agreement between the West and Serbia and that Russia is completely on the side. Zaten also witnessed President Putin's visit to Belgrade. What he said between lines is that Russia is at this event.

Mr. Spahiu, I think you too have a scenario about how things can be better in our region? If so, what is it?

Yeah. Things get better when there is agreement, peace and stability in the region. But for whom it gets better and better, it depends on the bargain. For this, Kosovo had 20 years of time and ideal prospects for a good deal, but dominated nonpatriotism, glutony and deep ignorance.

This scripture was originally published in Mapo newspaper.