Kurti missed the chance to put on a uniform and it bothers him all his life; Blinken got a slap in the face

Don't let Kurti start a war. Anyone who follows the events in the north of Kosovo can see that Kurti wants war. During 1999, he was in prison, he missed the opportunity to put on a uniform, and it has been bothering him all his life. That is why he is radical; he wants to show that he is a bigger "Albanian" than those from the KLA.

Ever since he came to power, Kurti has done everything to get ready for war. First, he started with verbal statements criminalizing all Serbs in the north, then with provocations, then with incursions, and then with the deployment of Special Police Forces in Serbian areas in the north.

Kurti is aware that relations between Albanians and Serbs will fundamentally change the moment the first Kosovo police officer is killed. And he does everything to get that policeman killed! After that, there will be no more negotiations or normalization; there will certainly be no reconciliation. There will only be pressure for the Serbs to leave.

It is the so-called the "Croatian model" that Kurti hopes for and has been preparing for all these years. He wants to cause a bloody feast, after which he will expel the Serbs from the north and thus solve the issue of their political rights in Kosovo. There are no Serbs, no CSM, nor any form of collective rights protection.

Kurti is consciously using the interactivity of the international community, which will not or does not want to believe in his real intentions. Countless statements by the Quint condemning his unilateral actions are a dead letter. Such incompetence of the international community has never been seen in Kosovo!

At the beginning of 2022, Blinken wrote to Kurti not to implement unilateral actions that are not coordinated with international partners. Kurti thanked him with the message "thank you for supporting my program of employment and justice". A slap into Blinken’s face left without a concrete reaction.

Yesterday, Blinken wrote to Kurti to urgently withdraw the forces from the north and not to occupy the municipal administration buildings in the north of Kosovo. Kurti answered him this morning that "democratically elected mayors" must go to work in those buildings in order to serve the "citizens". Another slap to Blinken's face.

"Alea Iacta Est" - The die is cast! The Serbs in the north, in Kosovo in general, are no longer the subject in this story, they are the object! This is a story between Americans and Kosovo, between Blinken and Kurti. If Kurti gets away with this kind of contempt for the Americans, what can the Serbs expect?

If today we do not see the reaction of the USA and other countries of the Quint to this Kurti’s behavior, the situation will escalate to the level that all previous problems will seem naive. The USA has the most power but also the responsibility to resolve the situation and ensure peace in Kosovo. Secretary Blinken, the Rubicon has been crossed!

Written by Dragisa Mijacic, coordinator of the Working Group of the National Convention on the EU for Chapter 35 and founder of the Citizens' Association InTER