, Columnist
Don’t Let License Plates Start a New War
Serbia, Kosovo and the EU must prevent the latest tensions from getting mixed up in Vladimir Putin’s war against the West.
“Big Putin, Little Putin.” (Vucic, right.)
Photographer: Bloomberg
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“Big Putin gave orders to little Putin.” And the instructions were to provoke what could become in effect a second Ukraine crisis in Europe, but in Kosovo. Who said this? Read on.
A renewed Kosovo conflict would be smaller in scale than the war in Ukraine and lack the specter of nuclear weapons. But it would take place closer to the geographic heart of the European Union — in the Balkans, not far from the place that once sparked World War I — and cast doubt on the bloc’s values, resolve and credibility.