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1/🧵on:
-
#Kosovo
🇽🇰clashes
-Appeasement towards
#Serbia
🇷🇸
-
#Vu
čić planning violent domestic street protests?
The footage from
#Kosovo
shows that attacks on
#KFOR
were well organized & led by groups trained in anti-police actions, such as criminal football hooligan-based gangs.
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🧵1/ Who is Milan Radoičić, the alleged leader of the
#terrorist
group at the Banjska Monastery in north
#Kosovo
?
He is a close friend/ally of
#Serbia
's president Aleksandar Vučić, who referred to him as the "guardian of Kosovo Serbs".
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🧵1/ Is
#Vu
čić preparing
#Serbia
's public and youth for war with
#Kosovo
? Let's examine the evidence.
Pro-war graffiti has appeared prominently in Belgrade since early 2023.
@JosepBorrellF
@MiroslavLajcak
@OliverVarhelyi
@USEmbassySerbia
@JakeSullivan46
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2/ The fans chanted “ubij, zakolji, da šiptar ne postoji” -- "kill and slaughter so that the Shiptar doesn't exist". The names of the other two dead terrorists are underneath the poster.
@USEmbassySerbia
@usambserbia
@CounselorDOS
@SenateForeign
@JosepBorrellF
@SFRCdems
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An excellent summation of
@MiroslavLajcak
's failure. It is past time for him to resign.
#Serbia
#Kosovo
A critical intervention by German MEP
@Gahler_Michael
, a foreign policy spokesman for
@EPPGroup
, on
@MiroslavLajcak
’s performance as EU envoy for Kosovo & Serbia.
Crucial questions about his siding with Serbia’s president
@AVucic
& an accurate summary of his failures since 2020.
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My dear friend Aida Ćorović is the latest victim of Vučić's police state. Her crime? Throwing an egg at an illegal, state-sanctioned & protected mural of convicted-for-genocide war criminal Ratko Mladić in Belgrade.
#Serbia
@OSCE_Serbia
@coe
@usambserbia
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@usambserbia
Who says there's no good comedy in Belgrade?
Does Hill actually believe what he's saying?
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1/ 🧵Yesterday, Milorad
#Dodik
began the official secession of
#RepublikaSrpska
, following in the footsteps of his predecessor. Last time in 1992 it didn't go so well. Will
@OHR_BiH
or
@USEmbassySJJ
or
@CounselorDOS
or
@SecBlinken
react?
#Bosnia
#bosniangenocide
#Serbia
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Excellent analysis by
@JasminMuj
My only addendum: The loss of the
#Balkans
began much earlier, both on the 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 sides. Lazy thinking, lazy bureaucrats, and now full autopilot on the highway to hell.
#Serbia
#Bosnia
#Montenegro
#Kosovo
#Russia
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While at Batajnica did
@USEmbassySerbia
visit the graves of the 744 massacred Albanian civilians buried there? Or is he simply continuing his naïve efforts to appease
#Vu
čić?
#Serbia
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Gaslighting at its finest.
1) KFOR & the international community condemn
#Kurti
for sending
#Kosovo
Police into the north & call it inflammatory.
2)
#KFOR
says that Kosovo Police are responsible for maintaining order in the north.
Make up your mind already.
#Serbia
#Vucic
#KFOR
strongly condemns attacks on journalists in northern Kosovo as they exercised their profession. Freedom of the press and freedom of expression are fundamental values which must be respected by all.
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#Serbia
's Helsinki Committe released a damning report that should set off alarms in Brussels 🇪🇺 and Washington 🇺🇸
Time to stop the appeasement.
@CounselorDOS
@MiroslavLajcak
@JosepBorrellF
@USEmbassySerbia
#Bosnia
#Kosovo
#Montenegro
#Vucic
#Dodik
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@WadeTownsendMan
@bianca_nobilo
Kosovo is part of Greece (Byzantium). Or Bulgaria. Or Serbia. Or even Bosnia. Depends on the time period and the map. By extrapolation, your reasoning would mean that all Anglo-Saxons should leave North America.
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#Serbia
's police implicated once again in running organized criminal gangs and drug rings.
Is Serbia a narco-state?
More outstanding work by
@KRIKrs
📣 OTKRIVAMO: Žandarm Nenad Vučković Vučko godinama je bio šef kriminalnoj grupi Saleta Mutavog i Veljka Belivuka
U audio-snimku do kog je KRIK došao Vučković otkriva mnoge tajne iz srpskog podzemlja i tvrdi da je grupa imala „celu policiju u rukama” 👇
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1/ 🧵An EXCELLENT analysis of
#Serbian
president Aleksandar
#Vu
čić’s
#Kosovo
Scenario by attorney Čedomir Stojković
@FIGHT_4_RIGHT_S
Translated into English
AV KOSOVO SCENARIO:
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Milan Radojičić je deo Bezbednosno informativne agencije Srbije (BIA).
Nikakve šanse nema da M. Radojičić uradi BILO ŠTA bez znanja i dozvole aleksandra vučića!
M. Radojičić ima preko 60.000.000 € poslova u javnim nabavkama koje mu daje direktno
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Kurti's response to the head of OSCE
@DavenportOSCE
in
#Kosovo
about
#Serbia
's desire to hold elections in Kosovo.
Seems like a measured response to me. Or do the
#EU
and
#US
not wish to enforce the agreements they sponsored?
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1/ Why are
@StateDept
,
@SecBlinken
🇺🇸 and the
#EU
🇪🇺silent about the Western Balkan Quad 🇲🇪🇦🇱🇲🇰🇽🇰initiative? Do they fear countries implementing pro-Western policy without advance Western approval?
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🧵1/ Did the Chief of the General Staff of
#Serbia
's Army Milan Mojsilović just say the quiet part out loud & admit that the armed group at Banjska was part of the Serbian Army?
@USEmbassySerbia
@usambserbia
@JakeSullivan46
@SFRCdems
#Kosovo
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@secretsqrl123
@MarkHertling
This thread and the back and forth between the two of you was quite informative. Although the two of you may disagree with each other, the debate provided valuable insights into the question of Abrams vs. Leopards. I would like to see this type of debate continue in the future.
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#Dodik
has violated Article 156 of the BiH Criminal Code.
Stand behind the Rule of Law.
Arrest Dodik.
Now.
No excuses about political expediency. No excuses about
#Serbia
.
@CounselorDOS
@JosepBorrellF
@MiroslavLajcak
#Bosnia
#Kosovo
@USEmbassySJJ
@EU_Commission
@coe
@EWB_eu
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6/ When NGO activists attempted to paint over the graffiti, they were stopped by 🇷🇸 Police and fined for removing the graffiti. This indicates that the
#Serbian
state clearly stood behind both the graffiti and its message.
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@JulianReillyUK
@end_svc
Did I understand correctly? You want rape victims to reconcile with their rapists, even though the rapists never apologized? You want the families of murder victims to reconcile with the murderers, even though they still glory in their bloodshed? Egads, man! Have you no decency?
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An open letter to 🇺🇸 Ambassador Christopher Hill from former Montenegrin Foreign Minister Miodrag Vlahović.
🇺🇸 policy has become a destabilizing factor in the
#Balkans
.
#Serbia
#Kosovo
@USEmbassySerbia
#Montenegro
@JakeSullivan46
@SecBlinken
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Two "must watch" videos of an interaction between a US KFOR soldier and
#Kosovo
#Serb
officials about Monday's violence. What is the US Gov't doing about this, as the violence clearly took place at
#Vucic
's direction.
#Serbia
#Russia
Who escalated the situation on Monday?
An exchange between a U.S./KFOR soldier and Serbian List senior officials, Rakic & Simic reveals the truth about that day in Zveçan, where tens of KFOR troops were left injured and 3 wounded by gunshots.
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@USEmbassySerbia
Seriously, stop the two-faced "see no evil" approach to Vucic. Say directly what happened: a Serbian state-sponsored paramilitary group launched an armed incursion into a Kosovo -- an independent neighboring state with the hope of sparking of a "little green men" incident.
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Our breaking investigation reveals that some of the weaponry seized from Serb gunmen in northern Kosovo last month passed through Serbian state hands at some point over the past 5 years.
A 🧵 with some of the main takes 👇
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Waiting for
@USEmbassySJJ
&
@JulianReillyUK
&
@eubih
&
@OHR_BiH
to show their support for a key European institution, the
#ECHR
.
Has any of them said a word about the
@ECHR_CEDH
Kovačević judgement?
Or is it too embarrassing for 🇺🇸 🇬🇧🇪🇺 & Schmidt?
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🧵1/ The absolute silence and failure of both the 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺to condemn
#Serbian
Defense Minister Vučićević's open threats against
#Montenegro
and
#Macedonia
for recognizing
#Kosovo
and joining
#NATO
...
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3/ They weren't supposed to injure
#KFOR
troops, only
#Kosovo
Police.
#Vu
čić was hoping for a violent clash between Kosovo Police and his criminal thugs, a spectacular
#Serb
victory and embarrassment for
#Kurti
. This may cause problems for
#Vu
čić.
A truly dramatic failure of the Western policies towards Serbia’s
@AVucic
& his criminal structures in northern Kosovo.
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@MiroslavLajcak
Given your disappointing performance to date, isn't it time for you to resign?
After all, your actions are partly responsible for establishing the preconditions for this.
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@Dmojavensis
@Tatarigami_UA
He knows his stuff and offers insights based on first-hand knowledge.
Don't shoot the messenger just because you don't like the message.
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#Dodik
announced that he could hold an independence referendum by the end of the year.
Current EU/US policy appears to be suffering a catastrophic failure.
#Serbia
#Bosnia
@CounselorDOS
@USEmbassySJJ
@OHR_BiH
@JosepBorrellF
@MiroslavLajcak
Република Српска би до Нове године могла организовати референдум о свом статусу и како даље.
Борићемо се на свој, политички начин, све док не буде донесен закон о Уставном суду БиХ, чиме бисмо тој институцији вратили ауторитет.
Не желимо сукоб и улогу НАТО-а видим да обезбиједи
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EU diplomacy's finest hour.
"Stay Classy San Diego..."
@MiroslavLajcak
&
@JensPloetner
are the new EU comedy stand-up team, coming soon to a comedy club near you.
@JosepBorrellF
When asked about an international investigation of the Banjska terrorist attack by the Belgrade-proxy Serb nationalist militia, EU envoy
@MiroslavLajcak
is instructed by Scholz’s foreign policy advisor
@JensPloetner
to „say something you’ve already said”.
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#Vu
čić continues efforts to radicalize public opinion against the West. On the current trajectory, this messaging can only lead to renewed conflict. Undoing the propaganda could take 10 years of unopposed, concerted counter-messaging by the West.
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@OHR_BiH
Schmidt canceled today's meeting in Banja Luka.
Surely, that sends a strong message of international resolve to
#Dodik
.
If the High Rep fears eggs, I'll pay his cleaning bill.
@USEmbassySJJ
@JakeSullivan46
#Bosnia
#Dayton
A "Freedom of Navigation" exercise following Dodik's threat to arrest
@OHR_BiH
Christian Schmidt if he enters R.S.
Schmidt will meet on Tuesday with Croat and Bosniak vice-presidents of Republika Srpska in the RS Presidency building in Banja Luka.
I hope it is live-streamed.🍿
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2/ Let's start with the well-choreographed card show at the recent Fiorentina-Crvena Zvezda football match in Belgrade, which was ignored by diplomats. The message itself is akin to the Jewish saying "Next year in Jerusalem" & portends a victorious military return to Kosovo.
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🧵This thread by
@JasminMuj
outlines the groundbreaking ruling by the
@ECHR_CEDH
European Court of Human Rights that deals a body blow to
@OHR_BiH
& the Quint & HDZ & HDZ and
#Bosnia
itself.
#Dayton
is now illegal.
Mandatory reading!
#Balkan
Thx to
@IstragaB
we’ve learnt tonight that the European Crt of Human Rights has again ruled vs. the BiH state, i.e. the Dayton Constitution, & directly challenged the “ethnicity-territory matrix” at the center of the entire Dayton regime in its forthcoming Kovačević decision. 🧵
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Vucic has been openly telegraphing this for months, saying there would be armed conflict in Kosovo in the autumn. He said it most recently at the UN General Assembly. Why would anyone act as though it came as a surprise?
Interesting thoughts. It's a possibility. This would mean
#Vucic
didn't have full control on the "little green men".
And this would be the best case scenario for Vucic.
Or with his words, he's trying simply to pretend he knew nothing about what was going on there.
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@JosepBorrellF
"Extrajudicial arrests"? Where? Could you please provide evidence for this highly inflammatory claim?
Or are you referring to the kidnappings of the 3
#Kosovo
border police by
#Serbian
forces?
Please clarify... and provide evidence to support your claims.
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@USEmbassySJJ
How does the US plan to respond? Does it plan to respond? Is there a "Plan B"? Or does appeasing Serbia and Vucic still take priority? At what point will the failed trajectory of current US Balkan policy cause
@CounselorDOS
to wake up?
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13/ It was their bumbling and incompetent 🇪🇺 mediation efforts that set the stage for today's terrorist attacks and monastery siege by a policy of constantly appeasing
#Vucic
's scandalous behavior.
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7/ The same graffiti then appeared on the heavily trafficked on-ramp to Brankov Bridge that leads to the heart of downtown
#Belgrade
. No one has dared touch it.
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2/ "Accession negotiations with Serbia should advance only if the country aligns with EU sanctions against Russia and makes significant progress on EU-related reforms".
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The allegedly pro-western gov't of
#Montenegro
has appointed a new director of the Museum of Modern Art, whose work includes this flattering portrait of convicted war criminal Radovan Karadžić.
What will he teach the youth?
#Milo
šević
#Bosnia
#Serbia
@JosepBorrellF
#genocide
Bravo,
@resorkulture
! “Vlada CG usvojila je prijedlog Min. kulture i medija da za direktora Muzeja savremene umjetnosti bude imenovan istaknuti stvaralac i afirmisani stručnjak u oblasti kulture Vladislav Šćepanović.” Kako se zove ovo djelo?⬇️ “Građanin Dabić poslije brijanja”?
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1/ "High Diplomacy" dissected:
@usambserbia
in a flag-waving old-timer boat,
@avucic
,
@anabrnabic
,
@markodjuric
, &
@zeljkomitrovic
standing on a
#Serb
drowning in water (East). The air is labelled "West".
All are saying: "The Future of
#Serbia
is in the West".
#Vu
čić
#Balkans
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Is
@usambserbia
the village idiot, or do these remarks reflect thinking in Washington? I fear the answer is the latter.
How can anyone expect any major US policy shift in the Western Balkans, if
@USAmbSerbia
says “there is nothing unique about [Banjska]”, when asked about this unprecedented attempt by a Belgrade-proxy Serb nationalist militia to destabilize (& possibly annex) the north of Kosovo.
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"
#Milo
šević realized at the end of 1998 that
#Kosovo
was lost, his plan was to provoke a
#NATO
bombing and thereby blame the West for the loss of Kosovo, and to turn to
#Russia
and
#China
(his ideological role models) as future strategic partners..."
#Serbia
Milosevic je krajem 1998 shvatio da je Kosovo izgubljeno, njegov plan je bio da izprovocira NATO bombardovanje i da time okrivi zapad za gubitak Kosova, te da se okrene Rusiji i Kini (njegovim ideoloskih uzorima ) kao buducim strateskim partnerima ...
Prakticno, zrtvovao je
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"Failure is definitely an option".
"The sources of threats in the Balkans to peace, stability, and progress towards the EU are clear. They lie in Banja Luka and Belgrade. Moscow supports both."
A good piece by Dan Serwer about
#Bosnia
#Kosovo
#Serbia
#Montenegro
#Russia
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4/ The injuries to
#KFOR
troops should cause the Quint to toughen its policy of appeasement for pro-
#Russian
, anti-
#American
, and anti-EU politicians such as
#Vu
čić &
#Dodik
. Yet the winds of appeasement still blow strong in
#WashingtonDC
@CounselorDOS
.
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Does this seem like an appropriate response by a President and PM to a school mass shooting? They just don't get it. Perhaps narcissistic, tone-deaf responses are why
#Serbia
is so angry at the SNS.
#Vu
čić
#Brnabi
ć
#Mali
Mnogo nas je više nego prošli put. Još malo pa ćemo na Gazelu! 😂✊
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@juliaajohnson_
@Heritage
@RuthlessPodcast
I can hear Ronald Reagan spinning in his grave at 25,000 rpm.
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@vonderleyen
@anabrnabic
@EU_Commission
@vonderleyen
you are aware, are you not, that
#Serbia
's government does not wish to join the EU & that Vucic has been increasing anti-EU sentiment through his state-controlled media?
That's why pro-EU public opinion is now below 50%.
Stop playing make-believe.
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I'm waiting for Washington and Brussels to try and paint this as a policy triumph. Next steps: derecognize Kosovo, leave NATO, and rejoin Serbia.
In Montenegro, a NATO member, the new Belgrade-proxy coalition appoints
@AndrijaMandicDF
, a pro-Russian Serb nationalist hardliner, as Parliament Speaker.
Mandić questioned the results of the 2006 independence vote & was involved in the Moscow-backed coup d’état attempt in 2016.
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@ivanastradner
No one in Serbia is buying it. Neither is anyone in the international community.
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This photo offers clues as to who's winning and losing at Ohrid.
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@bancroftian
@JamesKerLindsay
The video presents a false binary dilemma based on strawmen, flawed data & logical fallacies. The only choices were partition or violence. This binary does not encompass all possible paths forward, and seems to represent lazy thinking among EU officials and Western diplomats
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3/ Sanctioned by the US government for alleged involvement in organized crime, a "businessman" in north Kosovo who is alleged to be involved in questionable activities. He received substantial construction contracts from the government of
#Serbia
.
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@DNewsHungary
The "Appalling Injustice" of Trianon? How easily you ignore the "Appalling Injustice" that Magyars inflicted on non-Magyar populations inside pre-Trianon Hungary, on lands that were never Magyar to begin with. Learn a little Hungarian history. Please.
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5/ This graffiti appeared in February 2023 at Mitićeva Rupa, a children's playground/park in the center of Belgrade at Trg Slavija on the walls of the Institute for Chemistry, Technology, and Metallurgy.
The font & paint scheme are identical to the banner at the football match.
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4/ "This is a result of a long-standing anti-EU/pro-Russian political rhetoric widely spread via government-controlled media as well as by government officials and of a gross failure from the official side to face and come to terms with Serbia’s past".
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5/ He was reported to have been wounded during the shooting. Possibly fled back to
#Serbia
(Novi Pazar?).
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