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

    There is a Serbian minority in Kosovo. The fact that Serbia is a russian puppet doesn’t change the fact, that this is increasing tensions with the Serbian minority in Kosovo.

    The move is condemmend by both the EU and US, so claiming tensions would exclusively come from Serbia as a Russian puppet doesn’t hold true.

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      9 months ago

      I am all for defending the minority, but in this case they don’t seem to even respect the authority where they live in.

      Why is it so hard to just use the local currency?? Have they not heard of money changer??

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        9 months ago

        they don’t seem to even respect the authority where they live in.

        …I mean, yes, from the Serbian perspective, Kosovo is an illegitimate state. The issue is not logistics, it’s basically civil disobedience.

      • 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.

          • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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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.