"How can we open a Pandora’s Box?! Who opened this Pandora’s Box in 2008 having accepted, acknowledged and recognized the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo?!" Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze.
This has been as influential in influencing the world order as the expansion of NATO toward the borders of Russia and the coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine, a coup that was immediately ratified by the West. But Kosovo was arguably the beginning of the break down of the post-WWII (neo)liberal world order.
The world has been witnessing the only beginning stages of the turmoil involved in the unfolding of a new world order that reduces the influence of the West to its proportional size, replacing the outsized role it has played for half a millennium. The drums of war are beating louder.
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Last Monday (1 Oct 2018) the people of Republic of Macedonia voted “incorrectly” regarding their nation joining NATO and the EU.
[The Republic of Macedonia, just north of Greece, is not be confused with a historic region that Greeks call “Macedonia,” which consists of northern Greece, southwestern Bulgaria, the eastern tip of Albania, and the Republic of Macedonia.]
“Incorrectly” means that voter turnout was just 36.9 percent, when a minimum 50% voter turnout is legally required for a referendum to be valid.
Like most referendums, this one was merely “advisory,” meaning that politicians can do whatever they want, while ignoring the will of the people. However the parliament is temporarily deadlocked on the issue. Therefore the ruling majority may have to call for an early election, and rig it so that the results are "correct."
(Democracy is too important to be left in the hands of voters.)
One way or another, NATO’s relentless march to the borders of Russia will continue.
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