NATO will send 700 more troops to northern Kosovo to help quell violent protests after clashes with ethnic Serbs there left 30 international soldiers wounded. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said an additional reserve battalion would be put on high readiness in case additional troops are needed. Stoltenberg made the announcement Tuesday in Oslo after talks with the Norwegian prime minister. The NATO-led peacekeeping mission known as KFOR currently consists of almost 3,800 troops. Earlier Tuesday, KFOR’s multinational peacekeepers used metal fences and barbed-wire barriers to reinforce positions in a northern town that has become a hot spot.
US has been agitating in Kosovo since the invasion of Yugoslavia, so clearly there is an angle for US there. There’s a reason NATO still has an occupation force there.
Hopefully we don’t see another war in the Balkans, but it does seem like the situation is getting very tense.
Not a war, but some sort of uprising that could “justify” the use of troops there.
It’s gonna be interesting to see if the west has the capacity to get involved at this point.
Or the “willing” to do it. Is there something to win for the US there ? If no, so no.
US has been agitating in Kosovo since the invasion of Yugoslavia, so clearly there is an angle for US there. There’s a reason NATO still has an occupation force there.
Unfortunately, I don’t know this part of history but it’s not too difficult to believe.
And even if interference were wrongly assigned to US, it does not really matters, their “case” is too heavy anyway. :)