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There is nothing wrong with negotiations per se, just that the table has turned.
For years, Belgrade seemed willing to negotiate/trade on the rights of non-Albanian citizens in Kosovo, but refused out-of-hand the question of Kosovo independence. Pristina, on the other hand, was willing, or rather pressured, to accept devolving unprecedented levels of autonomy and rights to minoritygroups and areas, as long as independence would also be a status option for the negotiations. Obviously, that is no longer the case for Pristina, nor Belgrade.
If Belgrade, and its supporters, would have played smarter when the negotiations were still on status, they would have played the card "we are willing to offer Pristina the same level of autonomy and status as Pristina is willing to offer Kosovo's non-Albanian communities".
Instead, the contradictory message from Belgrade for years was that "we are 100% for negotiations on the future status of Kosovo, as long as Kosovo stays in Serbia".
Now, as Dodik and others have pointed out, it is already too late to reopen the issue of Kosovo's status, as recognised by the 69 countries that did. That's a done deal. However, the window is still open to secure Serb interests in Kosovo, and for why Kosovo is so important to Serbia and Serbs (apart from making Serbia look just a little bit larger on the map than the relatively small and landlocked geographical territory it is), but this window will be shrinking as time goes by and Belgrade continues to prioritize fighting political windmills and not the battles it could and should have good chances of winning.
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