Ironically, your destiny involves losing all that oomph of your national name. I rarely have occasion to hand out a straight-up told you so, but in this instance, turns out I was right that an independent Kosovo would lead both Pristina and Belgrade into the EU, not into chaos and conflict. Hmm.
Thru Erin Wildermuth.
MORE...Daniel, to my great satisfaction, is not declaring defeat, insisting that the EU shall not have its druthers and that partition "has only just begun to have its effects on the region and the rest of the international system." He is of course quite right that the article I linked to above is a bit of a self-congratulatory trip down memory-zapping lane, but when I read the following, I detect something less than the steely Serbian defiance Daniel senses:
Cvetkovic said he would fight to ensure that Kosovo remains part of Serbia. He said Belgrade would continue to provide economic support for ethnic Serbs in the territory, which declared independence in February.
Yes, opposition to an independent Kosovo remains "intense." But when that feeling cashes out officially in the form of welfare benefits for Serbs left behind, I wonder, again, whether the writing isn't on the wall.
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