Originally Posted by
Marly Lite
Spent many dets in Kosovo 99/2000. Always knew this was not finished. Speak to any Serb. They waited a long time to kick the Ottomans out. They then get their country handed to the Albanians, courtesy of NATO.
Do not believe the western narrative that think the Albanians were all sweet and light and the Serbs were evil. There were atrocities on both sides, but we were fed the party line.
Do not fall for the narrative.
As part of the follow on from Russian expansionism in 19th century Crimea and their push toward a warm water port on the Black Sea and eventually the Mediterranean,the Serbs were, shall we say 'encouraged' by some nationalist Russians to believe that they belonged, heart and soul, to an Orthodox 'Greater Serbia' (and not to the Islamic Ottomans) . Some were supplied with training, weapons and explosives by disaffected Russians. They felt betrayed when the Czar abandoned them to the Austro-Hungarian Empire whilst their neighbours became aligned with Russia and were again 'encouraged' to rebel against that pact (by internal Russian factions who didn't agree with the Czar).
The unintended consequence was the First World War along with the collapse of the regime in Russia.
I hope that this history is not repeating itself. Perhaps Serbian politicians could learn from history that Russian promises are worthless.