#科索沃局势升级 Serbia deploys fighters # Just when the attention of the international community is being led away by the topic of "Australia's nuclear possession", there is new friction in the Balkan Peninsula of Europe, a "powder keg" region with a large number of historical problems, and it seems that a new Kosovo war may be about to erupt.
According to Russian media RT reports, Kosovo sent ground forces in the past week to fully occupy part of the border area between Serbia and Kosovo; Kosovo is located in the southern region of Serbia, was entrusted by the United Nations after the end of the Kosovo War in 1999, and then unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008 and was recognized by 108 countries and regions, while China and Russia have not recognized "Kosovo independence", believing that the region enjoys autonomy but sovereignty belongs to Serbia.
Previously, the relationship between the Kosovo region and the Serbian central government had been relatively ambiguous, and in fact the people-to-people exchanges were smooth, which could be understood as Serbian territory in a state of self-government, but about a week ago the Kosovo side ordered the troops to seal the border, interrupt the people-to-people exchanges between the two sides, and refuse all vehicles holding Serbian license plates to enter Kosovo;
The central government of Serbia has decided to respond militarily to the most extreme situation, serbian mechanized units equipped with T-72MS main battle tanks and BMP infantry fighting vehicles are deployed on the border, and if the autonomous government of Kosovo in the south decides to become independent, then military conflict on the border will be inevitable.
After a week of brewing, Serbian President Vucic could not bear to publicly denounce the West, accusing the United States and the West of ignoring the interests of the Serbian state and people unilaterally on the basis of their own interests on this issue: The Kosovo side's approach is very barbaric and does not consider the impact on the local population at all, because in the past, people-to-people exchanges between the two sides were smooth, and the northern region of Kosovo depended on Serbian supply chains for life and production, and even the most basic food and medicine supplies relied on the Serbian market. Kosovo's unilateral blockade of the northern border with Serbia is having a negative impact on the daily lives of the local population, who are forced to cross the border to flee to Serbia for their livelihoods but are suppressed by the Kosovo military and police, which is completely contrary to the most basic respect for human rights.
The Serbian government was forced to take action, deploying fighter jets and tanks on the border to respond to the sudden independence action of Kosovo in a military posture, but the United States and the European Union made a big deal out of this matter, demanding that Serbia exercise restraint and threatening Serbia not to take any hard measures.
It seems that, as in 1999, the United States and the West are ready to use their military power as a backing to support Kosovo's independence, and once the Serbian government adopts hard measures, they will block the Serbian border and then force Serbia to accept the fact of Kosovo's independence through air power attacks on various strategic targets within its borders.
It has been learned that on the evening of the same day that Kosovo blocked the border, the representatives of the five NATO countries and the European Union took the initiative to negotiate with Vucic, asking them to accept the fact of Kosovo's independence and promising to use this as an exchange for withdrawing the military and police who blocked the border. Obviously, Serbia, which has taken sides in support of China and Russia on many issues, has been taken out as a head bird in this window when the United States and Europe have nothing to do, and some countries will still make a big show of "in the name of Europe" to oppress Serbia on this issue.
France, for example, was pried off by Britain and the United States more than a week ago for nearly $70 billion in submarine orders, and Biden soothed their emotions with a phone call. France knows that there is nothing they can do with the United States, but they still have the ability to find a soft persimmon to bully and bully, but it is also to bully Serbia, in this process, EU countries, NATO countries stand up one by one to speak out, it seems that they are very united, it seems that the Western alliance is impeccable.
"Western collective countries work together to confront and blockade the 'spokesmans' of China and Russia, showing the superiority of the West", if this sentence is spoken from the mouth of the Western media, it is conceivable how smooth it will be for Western society to hear. But that's really it, and there's not much else they can do, Serbia is in the heart of Europe, and it's true that even Russia can't do it, but do they still have the ability, the capital, to wage another contactless war like the 1999 Kosovo War?
Capable, but no capital, if nato and the European Union are now together to bomb Serbia, it can indeed blow up the Serbs quite badly, but the next wave of refugees, as well as the condemnation of the domestic people, this is not what they can afford now, and the final outcome is nothing more than to promote another war in Afghanistan.