Saturday, September 05, 2020

Making Peace Real

Trump finally ended the economic divisions of the 1999 war that Clinton intervened in without a Congressional declaration of war (or authorization to use military force, as is the modern practice):

President Donald Trump announced Friday that Serbia and Kosovo have normalized economic ties as part of U.S.-brokered talks that include Belgrade moving its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, and Israel and Kosovo agreeing to mutual recognition. 

So that's good. It isn't mutual recognition, but who knows what might be possible next?

America had intervened on the side of Kosovo's independence fight against Serbia. The United States still has nearly 700 troops there in the NATO peacekeeping force. So it is good to make progress toward real peace just to keep our troops from being caught in the middle.

As a bonus, that agreement seems like a jab against Russian influence which is based on Russia's jumping into Kosovo after the fighting was ended two decades ago.