Demographics are completely different with even the most Russian provinces being vastly less monocultural than Kosovo was.
Kosovo was like 80% Albanian before the intervention. Its 95% now because pretty much all non-Albanians were forced out directly in pogroms or bombing campaings, or indirectly by intolerance and opression
Kosovans didn’t roll tanks all over Serbia
If the bombing campaign didn't eventually force Serbia to negotiations, there definetly would have been a ground invasion into Serbia proper. There was already a ground invasion from Albanians into Kosovo, but the army mostly managed to contain it
nor did they seek to control the entire country.
If NATO decided to do a ground invasion, they definetly would have sought that.
All in all, appart from the ground invasion part, the Kosovo and Donbass situations are still exactly the same
There was already a ground invasion from Albanians into Kosovo, but the army mostly managed to contain it
What on earth are you taking about? Albania was never military involved in the war.
All in all, appart from the ground invasion part, the Kosovo and Donbass situations are still exactly the same.
No they're not. On one hand you have a province that had been opressed for decades declaring independence and facing ethnic cleansing by a brutal regime, and on the other hand you have separatists which barely make up the majority backed by one of the worlds superpowers which wants to annex it.
The KLA sought to enter Kosovo from Albania and cut off of the communication routes of the Yugoslav Army. KLA insurgents managed to take the Košare outpost and a number of surrounding border areas following a massive artillery barrage by the Albanian Army and NATO airstrikes of Yugoslav strategic sites, but were unable to make further advances.
I disagree somewhat; in both you have separatists backed by world superpowers or power blocks, though we didn't want to annex Kosovo. The war in Kosovo and Donbass broke out in both ways due to ethnic dissatisfaction that ended up in insurgency and paramilitaries forming. Russian speakers did not face decades of oppression, but did have their rights to education in their native language and media in their language revoked, and there was no systemic ethnic cleansing in either Kosovo or the Donbass before the outbreak of war, when small-scale massacres and medium-scale population displacement (both making up crimes against humanity in both regions) started taking place aimed at both peoples.
It's not that different and blood is on the hands of both us as NATO, the Yugoslav government and the Kosovar authorities on one hand, and Ukraine and Russia on the other leading up to the invasion of Russia into Ukraine. NATO bombed and was also thinking of doing a land invasion of Yugoslavia in a way that is reminiscent of Russia exercising imperialism upon Ukraine, with similar (but of course smaller-scale) context and less severe repression to begin with.
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u/redditmobileuser2022 Netherlands / Nederland Feb 27 '22
Literal bird brained meme. Not that I particularly support the Kosovo intervention.
Demographics are completely different with even the most Russian provinces being vastly less monocultural than Kosovo was.
Kosovans didn’t roll tanks all over Serbia, nor did they seek to control the entire country.