Kosovo's bond to the US

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In the 1990s Kosovo’s first president, Ibrahim Rugova, ended his news conferences every Friday with the words “God bless America and our western friends”. The phrase stuck with the public and the sentiment only grew stronger when Bill Clinton ordered Nato to bomb Serbian targets during the Kosovo war in 1999.

Nowadays it is hard to find any physical trace of the war. A generation has grown up in an environment of peace and relative stability. However, that pro-US sentiment is still present.

One of the main roads in the capital, Pristina, is called Bulevardi Bill Klinton, for the US president at the time of the war. Other roads, as well as schools and sports centres, are named after Clinton’s secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, the US congressman Eliot Engel, the former president George Bush and the leaders of other Nato member countries including the UK’s Tony Blair, of whom Kosovo is particularly fond.

Every 4 July, Independence Day in the US, firefighters in Pristina clean a statue of Bill Clinton in a central square and replace the American flag that flies nearby. The ceremony is organised by the Association of Friends of America in Kosovo and is attended by public and military officials and representatives of the US embassy.
American troops have been present in Kosovo since 1999 as part of a Nato peacekeeping mission. Today there are 600-700 US Nato soldiers on Kosovan soil.

The mayor of Llashticë, a town in south-east Kosovo, is a big fan of the US and has invested thousands of euros in recent years in decorating the town with stars and stripes and posters that refer to key moments in the course of the war.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...us-photo-essay

[Popeye]

Now they just need a job market.

[Bosniensis]

Kosovo is not a state, it's American Military Base.

[ShenGjergj]

Kosovo is not a state, it's American Military Base.

Pretty much true. And those people are idiot to realize that the mighty "Americans" will never let them join Albania.

[Dibran]

Pretty much true. And those people are idiot to realize that the mighty "Americans" will never let them join Albania.

That may be true. Not the reason for Bosniensis comment. His is a little more emotional. Sucking the cock of his Serbian overlords. All those Bosnians who lost their lives would spit at him had they had the chance.

[Bosniensis]

That may be true. Not the reason for Bosniensis comment. His is a little more emotional. Sucking the cock of his Serbian overlords. All those Bosnians who lost their lives would spit at him had they had the chance.

I was always Pro-Milošević rather than Pro-Bosnian American Whores.

I liked Milošević and still like him.

But he was wrong about attacking Albanians I agree.

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I was always Pro-Milošević rather than Pro-Bosnian American Whores.

I liked Milošević and still like him.

But he was wrong about attacking Albanians I agree.

[Dukagjini]

Kosovo imo is just another US/West satellite, sure Kosovars are better off being independent, but they're paying a big price for it by being just another puppet state, with corruption.

[Popeye]

Kosovo is not a state, it's American Military Base.

But American is still better than Milosovic though. Your claim here rather seems to be an anti Albanian sentiment. As if it supposedly being an American military base makes it legitimately more Serbian.

Russia has supposedly a military base in Serbia.

You never been to Kosovo neither has this Shen Gjergj , even if America had a military base there it technically is a state run by its own, with its own selection and its own borders etc. This pretty much makes it a state. What are you even trying to argue. As if both aren't possible... Its run by its own, but dont blame America blame the politicians running it.. You also seem mad that that America helped Albanians.

[Carpatz]

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