[armydoc]

"but it may, at low cost, cause the Americans to lose some focus if they were to divert forces to protect Kosovo, a sort of obligation going back to the 1990s"

No. We have no "obligation", sort of or otherwise. Not our circus. Not our monkeys.

[z3n]

It is a relatively small area with multiple nationalities, and the political borders don’t match the ethnic borders.

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Not so small.
Belgrade is in Serbia, and Serbia is about the size if Illinois. Serejevo is in Bosnia, which is probably about the size of Georgia (US)

[Leaning Right]

> Not our circus. Not our monkeys. <

Yep. It’s a European problem. But for some reason (probably arrogance) the United States feels that it must be involved in everything, everywhere.

The old Roman and British empires behaved the same way, and was a major reason why those empires collapsed.