Dan
pre 12 godina
"Freedom" has a very odd understanding of the relative strengths of the world's economies.
At the time of writing the Eurozone is in terrible turmoil. Both the US and Japan are mired in debt; the latter has been in the economic doldrums for two decades and its present nuclear disaster isn't helping matters.
As for Canada, who can fail to note the irony in a state ever in danger of its own division? Just google Kosovo + Quebec to check it out.
On the other hand, the BRIC countries, who are all against Kosovo independence, are the rising economies of the coming decades. In this matter of Kosovo, then, the voice of Euro-America will count less and less, and that of these other states more and more.
Back to Latin America: if there's one country that will resolutely oppose Kosovo independence it's Argentina, because of the obvious implications for its unbending claim to the Falklands (Malvinas). After all, on every count I can think of Serbia's claim to Kosovo is stronger than Argentina's to those islands (they're 300 miles further away; there's no Argentinian minority there; Argentinians have had 1000 years' less total residence time there; no event of great importance to Argentina's history took place on their soil, etc.).
And the thing is, compared to 1982 when e.g. Chile took the British side, Argentina has far more LA support for its stance on the islands. No Kosovo Albanian should wonder, then, at the general opposition of LA to independence there.
It is over three years now since February 2008. My prediction is that the trickle of recognitions will grind to a halt, no UN recognition will be conceivable, and the international community will be faced with yet another stalemate for the medium-term future.
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