US, EU and the UK Legitimising Terror in Kosovo
By endorsing Serbian List, the West tramples Kosovo’s constitution, empowers Belgrade’s proxies, and transforms “democracy” into a weapon against Europe’s youngest state.
In the name of democracy, the United States, the European Union, and the so-called Quint powers1 have chosen to trample on its very foundations. Their latest defence2 of “Serbian List” the Belgrade-controlled proxy party implicated in armed terrorism against the Republic of Kosovo, marks a staggering act of hypocrisy. By insisting that this organisation, whose leaders have orchestrated3 violence, boycotts, and secessionist plots, be certified to run in Kosovo’s elections, Western capitals are not safeguarding democratic participation. They are endorsing Kremlin-aligned destabilisation in the Balkans, empowering Serbia’s proxies, and actively undermining the first Kosovar government that has dared to uphold its constitution, sovereignty, and rule of law.
For the international reader, Kosovo based and Belgrade-controlled Serbian List Party (Srpska Lista) now enjoying endorsement from the Western powers, is not a political party in any meaningful democratic sense. It is a disciplined proxy machine operated directly out of Kremlin-aligned Belgrade, with the full blessing of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, a man who cut his teeth in the regime of Slobodan Milosevic and who today positions himself as Vladimir Putin’s Balkan partner. Serbian List’s leaders have repeatedly orchestrated boycotts of Kosovo’s institutions, erected barricades against the rule of law, manipulated elections in Serb-majority areas, and, most infamously, coordinated with armed militants who stormed Banja in September 20234, killing Kosovo police officer Afrim Bunjaku. Its then vice-president, Milan Radoicic, publicly admitted his role in that attack. Rather than face justice, he remains protected in Serbia, a fugitive welcomed by Belgrade’s political class.
This is the entity that the European Union5, the United States, and their allies demand be granted full political legitimacy inside Kosovo. In any functioning democracy, such a party would be outlawed outright. The record is overwhelming. Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court dissolved the Socialist Reich Party in 1952 and the Communist Party in 1956 because their political aims ran counter to the constitutional order. In a similar vein, Germany’s AfD party has been classified as extremist6 by German intelligence7. Spain banned Batasuna in 2003 for its ties to ETA8. In the United Kingdom, organisations linked to terrorism, from neo-Nazi groups like National Action to Islamist cells, are proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000. The United States has barred extremist organisations from political life, whether through the designation of terrorist groups under the Patriot Act or through Cold War-era prosecutions of Communist Party figures who advocated the violent overthrow of the government.
Western governments have themselves treated Kremlin-aligned propaganda outlets as national security threats. Russia Today and Sputnik have been blocked across the EU9 and Britain10, stripped of their broadcasting rights because of their role in spreading Kremlin disinformation. Washington has gone further still, treating Russian state media as foreign agents to limit their influence on the American public sphere. And yet, when confronted with a Kremlin-aligned terrorist proxy operating in the heart of the Balkans, a party that has overseen paramilitary attacks on NATO-protected territory, the same capitals insist that Kosovo must legitimise it at the ballot box.
The sheer perversity of this position is breathtaking. The leaders of the West cloak themselves in the rhetoric of inclusivity and democratic pluralism, but in Kosovo they wield those values as weapons against democracy itself. They demand that Pristina betray its own constitution, that it certify a party whose declared allegiance is to a hostile foreign power, and that it invite back into government the very structures of corruption, organised crime, and paramilitary violence from which Kosovo has spent decades trying to liberate itself. This is not support for democracy; it is its mockery.
Kosovo is paying the price for doing what Western diplomats claim to champion: strengthening the rule of law, protecting sovereignty, and refusing to appease those who traffic in violence. For the first time since independence, a Kosovar leadership led by Albin Kurti and Vjosa Osmani has taken seriously its obligation to dismantle parallel Serbian structures and hold proxies accountable. And for that, they are pilloried by the very ambassadors who for twenty years presided over a kleptocratic circus in Kosovo, enabling warlords-turned-politicians to loot the state, enrich themselves, and leave the country hollowed out. Many of those same former envoys, having served their terms in Pristina, departed fabulously wealthy, having converted their diplomatic networks into lucrative careers. Their successors now appear intent on reinstalling Kosovo’s criminal leftovers, cloaking this grotesque ambition in the language of democratic “inclusivity.”
To be blunt, what the Quint ambassadors and the European Union are endorsing is terrorism. They are not neutral arbiters; they are patrons of destabilisation. They know that Serbian List is Belgrade’s extended arm, that it operates not for the welfare of Kosovo Serbs but as a spearpoint for Vucic’s expansionist agenda, aligned with the Kremlin’s designs on Europe’s periphery. By pressing Kosovo to accept this party into its elections, they are demanding that Pristina surrender its sovereignty, compromise its constitution, and betray its citizens’ security.
The dishonesty is compounded by the West’s double standards. In Berlin, Paris, London, or Washington, no party with Serbian List’s record of boycotts, criminality, and terrorist association would ever make it onto a ballot. No paramilitary-linked entity loyal to a foreign adversary would be tolerated. The very governments now bullying Kosovo have themselves outlawed parties and movements far less dangerous. Yet in Kosovo, they champion an organisation whose leadership has already been caught red-handed importing armed militants, orchestrating secessionist violence, and pledging fealty to Moscow. This is not just hypocrisy. It is collusion.
The people of Kosovo are being forced to watch as their hard-won independence is undermined11 by the same powers that once defended it. Western embassies that posture as defenders of human rights and democratic norms have chosen instead to enable Belgrade’s aggression and Moscow’s influence. They now work not to protect Kosovo’s fragile democracy, but to strangle it, replacing it with the criminal-political machinery of a party whose hands are stained with blood.
There is no polite way to frame this. By insisting on the certification of Serbian List, the United States, the European Union, and the Quint are endorsing Kremlin proxies, legitimising terrorism, and actively destabilising the Balkans. They are attempting to subjugate Kosovo’s sovereignty under the very actors who seek its destruction. And they are doing so while daring to call it democracy.
History will not absolve them.
Kosovo’s independence was not born of convenience but of necessity, forged in the crucible of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and NATO’s intervention against Belgrade’s war machine in 1999. After nearly a decade of international administration under the United Nations, during which the scars of Serbia’s crimes remained raw and unresolved, Kosovo declared independence on 17 February 2008, asserting its right to self-determination and sovereignty. Recognised by more than 100 states, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, Kosovo’s statehood was not a gift of diplomacy but the outcome of immense sacrifice and resistance against annihilation. It stands as the first and only nation in Europe created to protect its people from extermination, a state built as a safeguard against tyranny and a testament to the principle that those who endure oppression have the right to chart their own destiny.
And yet today, that destiny is being cynically bartered away by the very Western powers who once defended it. Their cowardice, their grotesque appeasement of Belgrade, threatens to drag the Balkans back into bloodshed. If there is still any honour left in the free world, ordinary citizens in Berlin, London, Paris, Washington, and beyond must rise above the spinelessness of their leaders and demand that Kosovo be defended, not betrayed. Pressure must be applied relentlessly, for it is the weakness of Western politicians—not the strength of Vučić or Putin—that risks plunging this fragile region into another war. To stand idle while Kosovo is undermined is to be complicit in the next massacre. The free peoples of the West must decide now: will they defend democracy, or will they abandon it to the butchers once more?
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Spot on, again. It seems that these EU, US diplomats are determined to entice Serbia to commit another genocide against Albanians in the Balkans. Genocide in Gaza in not satuating them, they want to see another in the Balkans.