What do you know about... Kosovo?

[u/MarktpLatz]

This is the thirty-second part of our ongoing series about the countries of Europe. You can find an overview here.

Today's country:

Kosovo

Kosovo is a partially recognized state in the balkan. It belonged to the Ottoman empire from the 15th until the beginning of the 20th century. After being part of Yugoslavia for most of the 20th century, Kosovo unilaterally declared independence in 2008. It has been recognized as a country by 111 nations, but Serbia refuses to recognize it as a souverign state. Notable european countries refusing to recognize Kosovo include Spain (because of separatist movements in Spain), Greece and Russia (there are several more, you can check the list linked).

So, what do you know about Kosovo?

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Major thanks to /u/our_best_friend, who took care of these threads during my absence.

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah well with Serbia the mere existence of Albanians in Kosovo is casus belli so I don't really see the point of really caring about what Serbia thinks. I also said only Albanian dominated areas should unify with Albania and will be happy ceding the areas in North Kosovo to Serbia.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yeah nowhere did I say that Albanians have a say in the matter in Kosovo. I'm not gonna reply to some pathetic Russian troll attem[pt but it is apparent that you guys only understand the language of force. No wonder not even a single republic wanted to be part of the decrepit Soviet Union.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

As a Russian I don't expect you to understand concepts such as self-determination or human rights. You only understand the language of force and you'll just take what you think it's yours (e.g. Crimea) or just crush any self-determinative movement (e.g. Chechnya). While crushing separatist movements at home in Chechnya and Ingushetia you have no problem supporting separatists movements abroad in Georgia (South Ossetia) or Moldova (Transdnienstria)

Funny how the Sebs started 3 other wars in Yugoslavia before Kosovo. Were the Slovenians. Croatians and Bosnians also terrorists?

[u/ectoban → u/[deleted]]

No, only the muslim kosovo are terrorists ofc. You've got to follow the circle jerk.

Have you seen some of the insane propagande videos that Russia is showing internally about Kosovo. Basically Kosovo = ISIS, lmao.

[u/PandaTickler → u/[deleted]]

Well said.