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...eventual status. With that deadline passed, Kosovo is widely expected to secede and become the world’s youngest country. But it is ignoring the consequences of a sudden divorce. As it stands, an independent Kosovo could create broad reactionary backlash in Belgrade and more enmity in the Balkans??the last thing that region needs. On the other hand, its current status is untenable. Kosovars have endured too much from resentful Serbs and have earned a right to self-determination. Further entanglement will only worsen the problem. It seems, then, that there can be no mutually acceptable...
Brzezinski couldn’t resist certain allusions to Soviet-era hostilities. While the Balkans were fought over during the Cold War, Brzezinski dubbed Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine the “New Global Balkans?? due to America’s interests there...
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