and EU demands to withdraw special police from the north, remove recently installed mayors from municipal buildings, and move toward new elections. Shrugging off the pressure, Kurti has so far rejected U.S. Frustrated with the Kosovo prime minister for failing to table his terms to establish the association, and furious with his recent, reckless special police operation in the Serb-dominated north of Kosovo, the Biden administration has already punished Kosovo and is poised to inflict more pain. Washington has zeroed in on Pristina’s long-standing obligation, recently accepted by Kurti, to establish an association of Serb-majority municipalities. Instead of looking at autonomy strategically-as Zelensky would, and as Russian President Vladimir Putin does-Biden administration officials are as dogmatic as the Kosovo prime minister who has attracted Western ire. The inability of the United States and European Union to answer these same questions, as applied to Kosovo and Serbia, is at the root of the self-destructive Western power struggle with Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti. Ask the Ukrainian president to grant ethnic Russians autonomy, and Zelensky will immediately ask three questions: Will the Russian speakers accept that they live in Ukraine, not Russia? Will Russia recognize Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity? And will the grant of autonomy finally allow us to join NATO?
If anyone can understand the ugly, unnecessary standoff between the United States and Kosovo, it is Volodymyr Zelensky.
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