To: The_Reader_David
Well, sustained violence is indeed one factor, but balancing it should be another: the party with a grievance must have also leadership that restrains violence rather than seeks to profit from it. And there are others: a referendum conducted without haste, with impartial international observers, and an agreement from all the parties concerned to respect its outcome. In Kosovo, — I am not defending Kosovo independence by the way, — we have at least an effort to adhere to the above principles; in Crimea all we have is farce and intimidation.
37 posted on
04/30/2014 6:10:32 PM PDT by
annalex
(fear them not)
To: annalex
Oh, so you've bought Obama's rewrite of history that there was a referendum before Kosovo was declared independent. There was no referendum on which Kosovo independence was based. Once the KLA had proclaimed independence and had control of the province on the basis of NATO's aggression against Serbia, they held a referendum, which was boycotted by the Serbs living in the province. And if you think the KLA sought to restrain violence, rather than profit from it, I'm not really sure what I can say.
38 posted on
05/02/2014 8:20:57 AM PDT by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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