The mentality you describe is why I suspect it's a bit shortsighted of the EU/US to ignore the Serbian interest in retaining at least part of Kosovo. Even though it's my understanding that young people in Serbia today are less preoccupied with Kosovo than the oldies, these things wax and wane.
There may be no adequate solution. But one possibility that noone in the West wants to consider is partition, whereby the north and west with Serbian majorities and most of the monasteries remain in Serbia and the rest of Kosovo either goes indepedent or joins Albania, as decided by referendum.
Noone will love this solution, but in the long run it may be far more stabilizing than full secession of the entire province, which satisfies the Kosovo Albanians now but provides enduring grist for the mill of Serbian revengism. The world's northernmost desert wind.
Quote: But one possibility that no one in the West wants to consider is partition, --- At one point I used to believe that would be solution...I don't really know...but as you said it's not on the table at this point. Serbs are at hard place generally nowadays everywhere but things tend to change drastically during history... empires come and go...people are still there. Neither Serbs or Albanians or Croats or others will go anywhere...This is not a first time for us to have drastically changed borders...Most of the people there has been born in one state and died in another...There is no such a thing as last battle on Balkan...
"And what are you planning to do about that?" asked the Serbs. The world's northernmost desert wind.
