Vujinovic: Sending the KSF to Gaza is a propaganda trick, if it even happens

Security studies researcher Nikola Vujinovic believes that Kosovo does not have the capacity to participate in a mission in Gaza and that this is merely a propaganda trick.

Vujinovic tells Kosovo Online that Gaza is still a war zone and that people are dying there on a daily basis, so at this moment it would be a peace enforcement mission, not peacekeeping, and the Kosovo Security Force does not have the capacity for that.

“Kosovo is a territory where foreign troops are stationed to enforce peace, so all of this is a propaganda trick and something the United States requested from everyone on the Board of Peace. Any role of the KSF would be illegal and illegitimate and would come down to a few people at observer level, not 200 to 300 personnel with accompanying equipment,” Vujinovic says.

He also states that such behavior by the Albanian political elite is very irresponsible for the following reason.

“Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world view Gaza as a place of genocide by the state of Israel, and they see Albanians as close allies of Israel, which recently recognized Kosovo, so they would become an unnecessary target for attacks by various terrorist organizations if the KSF ever reaches the field. We do not know whether this mission will happen. Nothing is happening on the ground, so everything is uncertain. Whether this is an election campaign policy related to the presidential race in Kosovo or positioning toward Trump, we will see,” Vujinovic believes.

He once again emphasizes that the KSF does not have the capacity to enforce peace, that is, to export security.

“That means going somewhere unsafe and forcing that community to become safer, as NATO did in 1999 or Serbia in 2001 in the Presevo Valley, but the KSF at this moment does not have that capacity, which it is still developing. If you had asked me in 2028, my answer would be different,” he says.