Violence as Strategy: Arsenijevic’s Playbook and Western Complicity
Aleksandar Arsenijevic manipulates Kosovo’s unrest with Western diplomatic backing, orchestrating violence to justify Belgrade’s aggressive ambitions against Kosovo’s sovereignty.
In the fraught and fragile landscapes of post-conflict regions, figures like Aleksandar Arsenijevic play a dangerous game—one that threatens to undermine not just local stability but also the geopolitical balances painstakingly maintained by international diplomacy. Known locally as “Aco Ludi,” or “Aco the Madman,” Arsenijevic has emerged as a polarizing figure in northern Kosovo, notorious for inciting violence and manipulating ethnic tensions. Yet, shockingly, this Belgrade-backed provocateur appears to have found surprising allies among Western diplomats, including the U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo, Jeffrey Hovenier.
Arsenijevic’s tactics are nothing short of subversive. As a self-styled leader of the Civic Initiative ‘Serbian Survival,’ now rebranded as the political party ‘Srpska Demokratija,’ he has made it his mission to destabilize northern Kosovo. His strategies are as brazen as they are calculated: directing drunken hooligans to insult and assault members of Kosovo’s law enforcem…
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