The Balkan Soap Opera: Serbia Plays, Kosovo Pays

Kosovo burns, Serbia smirks, and the West serves a cocktail of hypocrisy: empty condemnations, arms deals, and 'monitoring closely' with tea in hand.

Kosovo burns while Serbia struts, torching infrastructure with impunity as the West offers nothing but limp condemnations and performative ‘monitoring.’ French Fighter jets, EU and US Money for Vucic, lectures for Kosovo, and a bridge that stands as a monument to diplomatic cowardice. Hypocrisy reigns supreme, with the EU, US, Germany and France enabling Serbia’s tantrums while scolding Kosovo for daring to exist. Sovereignty, it seems, is negotiable, if you’re not the West’s Balkan darling.

If hypocrisy were an Olympic sport, Western powers would have more gold than Michael Phelps. And nowhere is this medal-worthy performance more on display than in the Balkans, where Kosovo, the plucky little republic that dared to dream of independence, is once again being slapped in the face with a soggy glove of Western double standards. Serbia bombs a water canal, grenades a police station, and sets fire to Kosovo’s critical infrastructure, yet the diplomatic chorus of Europe and the United States