• tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    And if you are older than 12 years you know that things can be more complicated than that. Also democracies have instruments to protect minorities from despotic rulings of the majority.

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      9 months ago

      And if you’re even a little older than that, you know about Milošević, and his despotic behavior towards ethnic Albanians in Kosovo (along with his war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia, as well).

      So yeah, they’re probably still a little sore with Serbia.

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        9 months ago

        I know about the wars on the Balcans and the many atrocities commited. that’s why it would be sensible to not do such a move unilateraly and deliberately increase ethnic tensions.

        But i guess the EU officials are all just serbian puppets or whatever conspiracy people are trying to push here.

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          9 months ago

          I’m not buying into any conspiracies, and I will point out further that Serbia doesn’t even recognize Kosovo as a legitimate nation. So by continuing to push their currency in a sovereign country that uses the Euro, Serbia is continuing to attempt to delegitimize them as a nation.

          I don’t know if this is the right move or not by Kosovo, that’s above my pay grade. But there are certainly worse ways for them to assert their independence than insisting on using the nationally adopted currency.