Ukraine, and on legitimate Western intervention in Kosovo

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Within the framework of international developments after the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Kosovo has also been lured into the political and public debate currently under way at international plains. Kosovo was named by Putin and other Russian officials in the effort to justify through comparison the military invasion taking place in Ukraine. That's all, but completely unstable for some reason.

First, the difference between the Kosovo war and the one in Ukraine lies in the historical context of the respective states. Kosovo has never been a cultural and ideological part of Yugoslavia. That it was good or bad, it's temporarily another topic. Kosovo has had no historical ties with Yugoslavia, nor in particular with Serbia on any specific level. Unlike Kosovo, Ukraine has been part of the Soviet Union, led by the Kremlin. Apart from a political affiliation, Ukraine has been part of Russia's ideological, historical and cultural system.

In fact, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine has consistently been under the ideological, cultural, and political influence of Russia. Ukraine was not Europe. This doesn't house the Russian invasion there, in no way. Nor should it influence solidification with Ukraine, because protecting human life is the principle beyond lines and geopolitical consultations of peoples and states. However, in the context of this debate it is important to state the facts as they are, and the fact is that Ukraine has made territorial and administrative shifts, but not cultural, ideological, to some extent political.

On the other hand, Russia cannot withdraw pararells between the Western intervention in Kosovo and its invasion of Ukraine. The intervention of the West in Kosovo has been to stop Serbia's actual genocide of another ethnic population in the same territory, and the same has been legitimised on the basis of the International Convention on Freedoms and Human Rights. So we have genocide, another ethnicity in one territory, and the International Convention on Freedoms and Human Rights. In the case of the beginning of Ukraine's invasion by Russia, we have none of these factors; Ukraine is a state of itself and not a Russian province, it has not committed genocide against Russian ethnicity on its territory, and Russian attack basics on the International Convention on Human Rights, rather it is a clear violation.

Thus, this Russia's effort has no basis for rational argument, no legal and no political basis. In addition, the mention of Kosovo, in the case of an annexing the Crimea even in the beginning of Ukraine's invasion, on the part of the Russian despot, Putin, reconfers us once again that Kosovo has been and continues to remain before a geopolitical battle between two blocs in question, but unlike Ukraine, for the reasons mentioned and not only, Kosovo is of another interest to the West.

Furthermore, the mention of Kosovo in this context also expresses a huge problem for Russia in this aggression: War without ideology. Lack of ideology is an extraordinary problem in terms of political legitimacy on the level of geopolitical functioning. Russia has gone to a powder war since it has previously lost its ideological battle with the West. Thus, since there is no ideology behind them, they are looking for practical reasons and precedents to justify what they are doing in Ukraine. The mention of Kosovo has entered the line.

Clearly, the real political functioning that recognises power before rational debate or international conventions is not much implied that who wins the debate over legitimacy of military intervention, but it is of particular importance for the West to gain this debate, both in Kosovo and in the case of Ukraine, because it holds the sharp distinction between the West and Russia, to legitimate ideology-based interventions, which should be preserved even in the circumstances of historical clashes.

Kosovo is not Ukraine. The differences are too big. But Kosovo and Ukraine have one in common: From a hegemonist enemy to the border that maintains life's ideas of a dark historical past. Initially it was Kosovo, fighting for human rights and ethnic liberation, today Ukraine is fighting for human rights, sovereignty and state integrity. On the other hand is Russia and its puppety for the Western Balkans, Serbia, in the joint effort to undermine and undermine peace and stability as preconditions for consolidation and development of states.

(Bandlai Centre is political sociologist and opinionist)