25 Years on, will NATO have to intervene again Mr Chris Hill?
Ahead of the 24th of March 25 years celebration of NATO Liberation of the Balkans from the genocidal Milisoevic, the USA Ambassador to Serbia Christopher Hill is trying to smooth the Serbian public and avoid a military escalation. His comments have to be understood as the US Envoy to Yugoslavia whose mission to avoid war in 1999 failed and he is personally haunted by his failure as a diplomat. As Serbia again is mobilising the 9th time now in the last 2 years of Russian war against Europe, he is very much afraid to have a 2nd time in his lift order airstrikes against Belgrade. But have no doubt, he will strike Belgrade again if Serbia attacks Kosovo and destroys the post 1999 peace order of the Balkans imposed by American arms and secured by American power. As President Biden has sent him for a reason, to avoid war a 2nd war in southern Europe, the southern front Putin's demands from the Serbs now so desperately, he has decided to use all means including a level of appeasement and flattering of the Serb public which really nobody can digest easily but is part of the American peace order of the Balkans since 2025 years. Sadly it is a misconception of how to deal with Serbia under Vucic. Instead of hard talk in private and soft talk in public, it would be much better to talk soft to the right people, the Serb opposition and talk though in public to deter further aggression.
Making it clear to the Serbi public that Belgrade will be bombed into submission if the Serb Army crossed into Kosovo is the much better way to undermine Vucic and build the case for the Serb opposition to return to power in Belgrade. Have no doubt the the real reason that Serbi did not invade the north of Kosovo on the 24.9.2023 is the Ambassador Hill made it 100% crystal clear that the USA Airforce is in striking distance from Italian Aviano and on the US Navy is loaded and gunned up to drop their loads in Belgrad if he green lights their intervention a 2nd time. Do not forget the speeches of Joe Biden as Senator and best friend of Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s in Washington. It is the same Joe Biden and the same Chris Hill and Vucic knows very well. That is why he went full MAGA for Trump recently, even handing the Generalstab ruins to the son in law of Trump and his lobbyist Richard Grenell. That is a separate major corruption scandal to be investigated by the FBI and an outrage that Serbia discusses building a 9/11 style memorial
at the Generalstab ruin instead of the Berlin Holocaust style memorial. Serbia as perpetrator of genocide must built memorials for her crimes as Nazi Germany and not memorials against attacks from terrorists as 9/11 in New York. NATO is not an aggressor but has liberated Kosovo from gencidal Serbia and genocidal Serbia from Milosevic and has offered Serbia a better European future from 2000 to 12.3.2003, when they killed their Prime Minister to end the pro Western trajectory and return Serbia into Russian orbit. To this day there is no major monument for Djindjic in Serbia. In light of the recent war by Ukraine and Serbia's inexplicable policy to stick to Putin despite his genocidal war in Ukraine we must investigate the links between Putin and the murders of Djindjic again. History will tell.
On this confused statement of Ambassador Hill on how close Kosovo and Serbia are to NATO. Clearly Serbia is in NATO Partnership for Peace and Kosovo is kept unfairly out.
The development of a real Kosovo Army was blocked by the international community for 2 decades and so Serbia has a major advantage here.
But closer means if a country is part of Free Europe defended by NATO and Kosovo is clearly part of Free Europe and clearly secured by KFOR and NATO.
Serbia has chosen Russia, our enemy, in the most important war since Vietnam. Serbia buys Russian weapons, has a FTA with Russia, signs agreement for education and worse for security with Russia and has a Russian military base in Nis and the Russian military liaison inside the Serbian Minister of Defense and is only country in Europe but Belarus not part of EU sanction regime and Serbia is keeping the Airspace for Russia open. So how much closer Serbia can be to Russia and how much further away from EU or NATO can Serbia be? Clearly the EU must not freeze the EU Candidate Status of Serbia and isolate Serbia fully. And the unfair measures against Kosovo imposed by Borrel and Lajcak, Socialist with a blind spot for block free Yugoslavia who share the bad conscience for their failure to keep peace in 1999 by being soft apologetic to Serbia today.
if the Borrels, Clintons, Holbrooke, Lajcaks and Hills had stopped Serb aggression and genocide in 1992 in Bosnia when tehy could easily but didnot, no NATO interventions in 1995 and 1999 had been required. But they were neccessary in 1999 because we allowed genocide too long from 1992 to 1999 and we had to stop it in March 1999. So every single bombs in 1999 was justified, fair and just and proportionate but all were too late as they did not save the Bosnians and and too many Albanians from being killed by the Serb war machine in the 1990s. To our big eternal shame as we are watching again in Ukraine for 2 years. Let us hope we have the same courage for intervention for Ukraine freedom as we had to intervene in for freedom of Kosovo in 1999. So instead of such appeasement policy I call Ambassador Hill to sent 2 fighter squadrons to the new NATO Airbase in Kucove and sent a USA tank division to Krivolk in North Macedonia and sent the USA Aircraft Carrier in Bar Montenegro and station 20 Apache Helicopters in Bondsteel and put some USA Marines amphibious battalion to train in Vukovar and put more missiles in Deveselu in Romania. Serbia understands hard power around her better than smooth nice talking USA Ambassadors desperate to keep the post war peace order they themselves have created but never completed and is crashing down now under Putin's war against us.
It would have been entirely possible for the USA to invite Bosnia and Kosovo into NATO in the last 2 years and so make Serb aggression impossible.
but they did not and now they might face the need to use force in the Balkans. It is humanly understandable that Ambassador Hill tries to avoid it but it always takes 2 for peace. If Serbia attacks and Vucic is waiting only for the right moment as he declared this week, the Americans must and will fight for peace again.