So
in the past couple of weeks I've been doing research for my MA thesis - "Humanitarian Interventions in the last 20 years - Where it all went wrong?"
and I've come across some very interesting things, and some very hilarious things too
one of the best ones being "[they] were creative with the truth"
talk about beating around the bush!
and now, while reading about the NATO intervention in Kosovo I come across a sentence that goes like this:
" [Rugova's] idea that they (the Kosovar) would be rewarded for their good behaviour by Western countries had been just plain wrong." (all this before the intervention)
Well, first off - What? that surprised you? Western states forgetting about the small players! What else is knew in the world?
and the second question I would ask myself (and at this late hour, my asking was in the form of colouring that passage with a colouring pen very firmly with three interrobangs next to it) would be - Why Wait for the West? and WHO, I repeat again WHO gave the West the right, the legitimacy to dispense with "gifts" like the independence!
this makes even more sense when you realize that the accords that came AFTER the intervention Serbia ended up with a better deal than in the plans of accords the West attempted them to sign BEFORE the intervention?
Who else, besides me, is completely not caught off guard by this sequence of events?
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