Not Now, Europe. Second War Threatens to Explode - The Daily Beast

As Russia’s unprovoked war successful Ukraine heads towards its one-year anniversary, different European flashpoint is successful information of reigniting a 2nd warfare connected the continent.

Kosovo was astatine the halfway of the past each out-war successful Europe successful the precocious ‘90s and tensions determination person ne'er afloat dissipated.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has this week enactment his army connected its “highest level of combat readiness” to support taste Serbian areas successful northern Kosovo helium says are nether menace from Kosovo. Vucic says his subject volition “take each measures to support our radical and sphere Serbia.”

On December 10, taste Serbs successful the northbound erected 9 roadblocks that fundamentally disagreement the country wherever immoderate 50,000 taste Serbs live, angering the Kosovo authorities successful Pristina, which is led by an Albanian majority.

Sunday, reports of a shooting adjacent a NATO peacekeeping patrol portion acceptable disconnected the latest question of tensions.

Kosovo was the show of the past warfare successful Europe, which ended erstwhile NATO launched a subject run ordered by past U.S. president Bill Clinton successful March 1999 that lasted for 78 days.

Serbia yet signed a bid accord, agreeing to permission Kosovo, but the 2 countries person ne'er enjoyed existent peace. NATO bid keepers person been contiguous successful the state since 1999. That warfare sent much than 600,000 Kosovo refugees into Europe.

Kosovo declared independency from Serbia successful 2008, which Serbia does not recognize.

The latest tensions travel amid warnings that factions successful each state could instrumentality vantage of the world’s attraction focused connected Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine. The Kosovo authorities has not confirmed oregon denied reports that it is readying an onslaught connected Serbian taste areas successful the northbound of the country.

The European Union, already battling warfare fatigue, has urged calm, calling for “maximum restraint and contiguous action” to halt tensions, calling for the leaders of some nations to travel to the array to “personally lend to a governmental solution.”