[ALBSA-Info] Kathimerini's commentary

[Agron Alibali]

Kathimerini

Opinion
Yugoslav chain

By Stavros Lygeros 

The armed struggle of the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) against the Slav-Macedonian state is but another link in the Yugoslav drama. As is well-known, the crisis erupted with the Serbo-Croat war, continued in Bosnia and Kosovo and which has now swept the Former Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). At the same time, Montenegro is waging a political battle to become independent... Slovenia avoided the fate of the other republics because it was ethnically homogeneous... 
The crisis in former Yugoslavia proved the groundlessness of American theories over the formation of multiethnic states in regions where the process of national integration remains incomplete. It proved that the implementation of the above model generates instability, while the formation of ethnically homogeneous states is a factor of long-term stability. Things would have been much more different had there been diplomatic solutions which included territorial arrangements and, when absolutely necessary, exchange of populations. 
Population exchange is, of course, a barbarian solution; it was obvious, however, that the only alternative path would be that of military conflict and violent ethnic cleansing. This was made evident in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and recently in FYROM. The American obsession reveals that, in reality, US interests are best served by volatile statelets that are subject to manipulation.


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