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You are very naive if you think that independence of Kosovo will end conflict...very very naive...
It may fall a sleep for some time but no way it will end anything...you can bet on it! Kosovo and Albanian irredentism is here to stay...There are other victims (Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro...)You haven't seen nothing yet!
by vbo on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:25:25 AM EST
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Which part of Ready to wait another 60 years to see the beginning of the end of the conflict? makes me "naive" and thinking that Kosovo independence is an end to the conflict?

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:35:00 AM EST
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Hm, vbo, your prediction sounds scary. But true, Macedonia was on the verge of civil war. Was it in 1996? But why Greece and Montenegro?
by Brownie on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:50:06 AM EST
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Because there is also significant number of Albanians in those countries and their goal is to put them all together...It's nowhere near the end. Mark my words!

Something interesting here:

http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/Opinion/comm_20010205Lygeros.html
Albanian nationalists have never renounced the vision of a "Greater Albania", even though Tirana avoids lending it official support. The West's military intervention and the de facto secession of Kosovo from Yugoslavia have added an aggressiveness to the perspective of the Albanians, who believe it is time to lay claim to as much as possible. American favor allowed the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to start a rebellion against the Serbs, which gave NATO the opportunity to intervene.

...Sorry I didn't want to highjack your topic

by vbo on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 09:09:38 AM EST
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Oh, and I have said before that if the Basque Country (or Catalonia) gained independence the joke would be on France. You'd see territorial claims on the French Basque Country (and the Rosillon).

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:54:41 AM EST
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