Serbia’s Green Men, America’s Silence: Kosovo Pays the Price

The U.S. ambassador’s allegiance to Kremlin-aligned Serbia over Kosovo’s sovereignty is a betrayal of democracy, emboldening aggression, and shattering trust in Western principles.

The deliberate attack on the Ibër-Lepenc canal on November 29, 2024, a critical infrastructure vital for Kosovo’s energy and water supply, marks yet another chapter in Serbia’s systematic campaign to destabilise Kosovo. This assault, alongside a litany of violent incidents in northern Kosovo, is not isolated but a continuation of Belgrade’s longstanding strategy to undermine Kosovo’s sovereignty, an effort now disturbingly endorsed—or at least passively abetted, by Western diplomats, including the U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo, Jeffrey Hovenier.

Marko Đurić, Serbia’s Foreign Minister, exemplifies Belgrade’s mastery of disinformation and political manipulation, strategies honed during the Milosević regime’s genocidal campaigns. Đurić’s statements in response to the attack were a calculated exercise in propaganda warfare, designed to deflect attention from Serbia’s role and cast unwarranted suspicion on Kosovo’s government. His rhetoric mirrors the playbook of Russian disinformation, a conne…