Yes its good to hear from the experts here, you can probably sleep soundly nowThanks - no one who’s replied seems to think next on his list might be detours into the Baltic states, so that’s good.
We're just awaiting your pronouncements on the issue...Yes its good to hear from the experts here, you can probably sleep soundly now
Still waiting for his list of waltsWe're just awaiting your pronouncements on the issue...
Might as well expect him to compose a waltzStill waiting for his list of walts
waltz for waltsMight as well expect him to compose a waltz
He has a list of walts?Still waiting for his list of walts
YupHe has a list of walts?
He might be doing it in two stages, the panel vote and then the audience vote.I need to find out if I made it into the next round ffs.
Makes no difference how long ago someone stopped hanging around with the filth, its in em for life
links no worky.
Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24
no, it wasn't. now, you may be thinking of the major operations. but that wasn't the war, was it, just one campaign in it. Nah, cobs. Iraq invaded and occupied in short order, Ba'ath party fucked, Sadaam dead. That was "The War". What happened after that wasn't.www.urban75.net
Those would be the links but still no definitive list, sadly.
I have no idea how reliable this guy's analysis is or what his agenda is either so any thoughts would be appreciated:
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Probably a wise decision to condemn Kosovo for provocative actions (apparently for forcibly bringing the officials elected on 4% turnout into public buildings blocked by protestors, if my understanding is correct).
Wagner is definitely present in the region and trying to inflame things. Doing anything to make this easier for them is a bad idea.
That predominantly Serbian area of Kosovo should probably just go back to Serbia really.
Look, I'm not claiming to be an expert on the region, I'm just saying how it looks to me. Like pretty much everyone else here. If you've got something enlightening to say then I'm happy to learn something. I even qualified my statement with "if my understanding is correct" and "should probably". The only thing I said with confidence was the presence of Wagner, reported here:It’s really hard to overstate how nonsensical this post is.
Look, I'm not claiming to be an expert on the region, I'm just saying how it looks to me. Like pretty much everyone else here. If you've got something enlightening to say then I'm happy to learn something.
What it looks like to me is that tension in the predominantly Serb parts of Kosovo is something that could be exploited by Russia to cause divisions and prevent the integration of former Yugoslavia into the EU. What it also seems to be is that the Serbs in that region of Kosovo have reasonable cause to be satisfied and some sort of compromise helps to de-escalate the situation.
Are you going to explain to me why that is so nonsensical that it can't be overstated? I am very open to the possibility that I've missed something important. Perhaps in future you can simply tell us what that is instead of being pointlessly rude.
Also The39thStep , how come you liked my original post but then also liked the one calling it nonsense?
Ah I see. You're someone who represents the interests of the proletariat but thinks anyone who lacks an encyclopedic knowledge of every topic lacks the right to speak and deserves nothing but pointless abuse. The point of a forum as I see it is to learn, through discussion. Almost 99% of the content on this forum is based on unqualified impressions by non-experts. Urban75 is not an academic journal.All whining liberals like you deserve is ‘pointless rudeness’ to be honest. If you don’t know what you’re talking about then is it really so much to ask to, well, not comment?
Kosovo is the one functioning democracy in the ex-Yu region, not currently in the EU. It is being sanctioned as it will not bend to EU / US demands that they basically allow a Republika Srpska type entity on their territory, having learned the lessons of how that’s worked since 1995 and how it is working to undermine the territorial integrity and statehood of BiH now.
Russia doesn’t need to exploit anything. Wagner has fuck all to do with it and you may have noticed is a little bit busy elsewhere. The EU and US have decided to cede control of the region to local autocrats- Vučić, Plenković et al- as they have judged, wrongly, that they have much bigger fish to fry in Ukraine and with China.
Kosovo thinks otherwise. As for the idea that they just hand over territory to Serbia because someone who has not the first idea what they’re talking about thinks its a good idea then great, yeah.
Where have I ever, ever claimed to "represent the interests of the proletariat"?Ah I see. You're someone who represents the interests of the proletariat but thinks anyone who lacks an encyclopedic knowledge of every topic lacks the right to speak and deserves nothing but pointless abuse.
No shit, people actually read urban75 sometimesThe point of a forum as I see it is to learn, through discussion. Almost 99% of the content on this forum is based on unqualified impressions by non-experts. Urban75 is not an academic journal.
LOL. At very best you seem a soft-right liberal. I'm not even a "Marxist". But keep flailing about in the dark.Also I'm not a liberal, I'm a socialist. But I'm sure gate keeping socialism to exclude anyone who doesn't subscribe to the dustiest and most priggishly narrow minded doctrinaire Marxism is working very well for you.
Google is your friend. Read this and this and this to begin with. The West wants to be friends with Vučić to annoy the Russians and are willing to overlook virtually everything to acheive that goal. Vučić meanwhile is playing the old Tito card of taking from both the West and Russia and playing one off against the other.Why do EU/US want them to have a Republika Sprska like entity on their territory?
Probably a wise decision to condemn Kosovo for provocative actions (apparently for forcibly bringing the officials elected on 4% turnout into public buildings blocked by protestors, if my understanding is correct).
Wagner is definitely present in the region and trying to inflame things. Doing anything to make this easier for them is a bad idea. (talk about putting 2 + 2 together and getting West Hartlepool as the answer...)
That predominantly Serbian area of Kosovo should probably just go back to Serbia really.
Where have I ever, ever claimed to "represent the interests of the proletariat"?
No shit, people actually read urban75 sometimes
LOL. At very best you seem a soft-right liberal. I'm not even a "Marxist". But keep flailing about in the dark.
Google is your friend. Read this and this and this to begin with. The West wants to be friends with Vučić to annoy the Russians and are willing to overlook virtually everything to acheive that goal. Vučić meanwhile is playing the old Tito card of taking from both the West and Russia and playing one off against the other.
And sorry, when someone parrots right wing nationalist talking points (bolded below), in a stentorian voice, & a whole load of other fantasy bullshit, and then claims to be "just asking questions" months later, I have the right to treat it with utter contempt.
"If my understanding is correct" is hardly a stentorian voice.
And get over yourself.
The fact is that my political views are likely closer to yours than more than 99.5% of this country. That you think this means I'm a right winger for expressing a vague hope for some sort of compromise to avoid an escalation of violence says far more about your intolerance and ego than it does about me. I was thinking about my own family experiences as Northern Irish Catholics if you must know where I was coming from.
I don't intend to come across as passive aggressive. I just don't like confrontation and I'm usually trying to be polite and to find a middle ground. I think you've misunderstood me.I doubt we'd have much in common politically or in any other sphere. I react pretty badly to passive-aggressive indivduals like yourself. The clumsy application of solutions from the North of Ireland to the Western Balkans from the mid 90s onwards has done a lot of damager in Bosnia in particular, not that this is relevant to the subject at hand.
Amusing that you accuse me of ego and intolerance whilst finishing with a focus on you. Better to leave others to bother engaging with you.
I don't know if you have a problem with me personally or if you're just like this. I did have you blocked for a while but then unblocked because you sometimes post interesting things about Belarus but every time you've interacted with me you've been awful. If you have nothing constructive or informative to say please just don't reply to me.
I have no idea how reliable this guy's analysis is or what his agenda is either so any thoughts would be appreciated:
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