Balkan Tensions

[Kartal1]

Guys, let me tell you something and you can curse me later.

The Serbian Armed Forces is not a force which should be underestimated especially looking at the current state of the KSF and the current state of affairs in NATO and around the world. They are more than enough equipped for such an operation, have paramilitary forces on their disposal and a public support in Serb areas of Kosovo. They have more from everything that can make the change in both technical and manpower aspects including mediocore air forces (attack helicopters, fighter jets, UCAVs included), tanks, long range artillery etc.

Kosovo's existence is literally tied to NATO's mercy.

 

[Bogeyman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1781017584017485845

JUST IN: "We call on Muslims to withdraw this resolution [Srebrenica Resolution] if they want to live together in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and if they don't, Republic of Srpska will not implement any of it. Srpska will think about how she will participate in the political life of Bosnia and how long she will participate in Bosnia. As soon as the first opportunity arises, we will be in an alliance with Serbia." - President of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik

 

[Ryder]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1781017584017485845

JUST IN: "We call on Muslims to withdraw this resolution [Srebrenica Resolution] if they want to live together in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and if they don't, Republic of Srpska will not implement any of it. Srpska will think about how she will participate in the political life of Bosnia and how long she will participate in Bosnia. As soon as the first opportunity arises, we will be in an alliance with Serbia." - President of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik

Izzbetgovic should have been more like Ataturk and become a Bosniak nationalist.

His Islamism has doomed Bosniaks in the long term.

If Ataturk was more of a Islamist most likely would not expel the Greeks and Armenians even tolerate them despite their treason.

He put his nation first because he knows one day that they will try again to destroy Turkiye.

Bosnian war is over now there is talks of Croats and Serbs living in Bosnia of destroying Bosnia and the Bosniaks forever.

What a stupid mistake.

 

[Kartal1]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1781017584017485845

JUST IN: "We call on Muslims to withdraw this resolution [Srebrenica Resolution] if they want to live together in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and if they don't, Republic of Srpska will not implement any of it. Srpska will think about how she will participate in the political life of Bosnia and how long she will participate in Bosnia. As soon as the first opportunity arises, we will be in an alliance with Serbia." - President of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik

By the looks, there is something in the cook for the Balkans. There are concerning developments both around Kosovo and Bosnia.

 

[Ryder]

By the looks, there is something in the cook for the Balkans. There are concerning developments both around Kosovo and Bosnia.

Problem is too lots of Bosnians and Albanians constantly hate on Turks.

They believe the Turks are what kept them backwards.

Now they are believing in the lie that the Turks imposed Islam on them.

Albanians and Bosnians became Muslim in their own accord. Bosnians have always followed their own chuch which led to them be declared as heretics by both Orthodox and Catholics.

Albanians became Muslim due to the political benefits not out of love.

They are naive to believe the Europeans will accept them into the fold. Another Balkan war is cooking and its naive to believe it wont happen.

 

[Afif]

By the looks, there is something in the cook for the Balkans. There are concerning developments both around Kosovo and Bosnia.

Do you smell any Russian engineering? I mean, I know obviously Serbs has their own beef with Bosnians but...

 

[Ryder]

Do you smell any Russian engineering? I mean, I know obviously Serbs has their own beef with Bosnians but...

Serbia and Russia have always been bed buddies.

 

[Iskander]

Serbia and Russia have always been bed buddies.

I am not very familiar with the Balkan region. But it seems to me that if the Russians achieve a significant victory in Ukraine, a new war in the Balkans will become inevitable. The initiator, of course, will be Serbia.
Otherwise, the Serbs will have to forget the departed Yugoslavia forever.

 

[Kartal1]

Do you smell any Russian engineering? I mean, I know obviously Serbs has their own beef with Bosnians but...

It may be. The Russians used Serbia as a logistics base in their failed coup attmpt in Montenegro earlier, also in 2022 there was a rumored Wagner "Cultural Center" which I then assessed it may be used as the new HQ of Russian Military Intelligence bypassing to some extend diplomatic facilities and working with locals. I am not sure how it is developing after Prigozhin's death.

Serbia is known to be a Trojan Horse with its EU ambitions.

We see that the tensions in Kosovo are rising. Other than the Serbian Armed Forces movement we also saw the situation with the protests last year in which US soldiers reportedly were shot, the so called failed paramilitary operation which used vehicles from the inventory of the Serbian Gendarmerie, aggressive rhetoric by Serbia, Turkish deployment etc.

They are exploring and testing the ground. If something happens it will be a asymmetric operation with the participation of local forces which would eventually be used as a trigger for the Serbian Armed Forces possible bigger intervention.

We will see what happens, but I am sure that the Serbs are not people who forget easily. They want Kosovo and sooner or later will try to take it back. Destabilizing actions help in their narratives by provoking harsh responses from the Kosovo security forces. So far Kosovo is acting with restraint, but if chaos prevails we may see serious consequences. Stability is must!

 

[BaburKhan]

Problem is too lots of Bosnians and Albanians constantly hate on Turks.

They believe the Turks are what kept them backwards.

Now they are believing in the lie that the Turks imposed Islam on them.

Albanians and Bosnians became Muslim in their own accord. Bosnians have always followed their own chuch which led to them be declared as heretics by both Orthodox and Catholics.

Albanians became Muslim due to the political benefits not out of love.

They are naive to believe the Europeans will accept them into the fold. Another Balkan war is cooking and its naive to believe it wont happen.

Islam existet in the Balkan before the Ottoman Empire entered. There was just few Muslims, but still there were some. It was coming with Dealer from north Africa. During the Ottoman Islam expandet. There are some Mosques in Kosovo, my Brother in Law told me. He explained me for one Mosque in Mitrovica from pre-Ottoman Times which is not ready for Prayer.

 

[Saithan]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1785372756407660802

Kosovo and N. Makedonia conducting landing operations with Türkiye.

 

[Kartal1]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1785372756407660802

Kosovo and N. Makedonia conducting landing operations with Türkiye.

Just a slight correction. The training was conducted together with the participation of Albania and North Macedonia

Within the scope of the exercise, a ship introductory briefing was given to Albanian and North Macedonian Armed Forces personnel.

"Amphibious Training" was carried out by the Navy SOF (SAT) and Marine SOF (AHT) in Sazan Island/Albania, based on TCG ANADOLU.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1785318856786948583

 

[Saithan]

I do

Just a slight correction. The training was conducted together with the participation of Albania and North Macedonia

Within the scope of the exercise, a ship introductory briefing was given to Albanian and North Macedonian Armed Forces personnel.

"Amphibious Training" was carried out by the Navy SOF (SAT) and Marine SOF (AHT) in Sazan Island/Albania, based on TCG ANADOLU.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1785318856786948583

I don't remember or can see on the map that those two countries have access to the sea. Aren't they landlocked ?

If they can conduct landing operation, then it must to be through a friendly country. Is it Albania or Bosnia ?

 

[Kartal1]

I do

I don't remember or can see on the map that those two countries have access to the sea. Aren't they landlocked ?

If they can conduct landing operation, then it must to be through a friendly country. Is it Albania or Bosnia ?

Yes, you are right in the case of North Macedonia. They are land locked. They got a big lake, but it is irrelevant to note it in this context.

In the case of Albania they have an access to the sea and actually in the last couple of years Albania is even a destination with a growing popularity with good beaches and cheap service.

 

[Bogeyman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1793539013208641992

 

[Bogeyman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1803730513544233012

Two people were killed and three others were seriously injured in a bomb attack in the Montenegrin city of Cetinje.


I think the Serbs carried out a bomb attack in Montenegro.

 

[Kartal1]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1803730513544233012

Two people were killed and three others were seriously injured in a bomb attack in the Montenegrin city of Cetinje.


I think the Serbs carried out a bomb attack in Montenegro.

According to local media it is an organized crime related situation. The two killed are apparently part of the Skaljari clan which is known to control one of the main cocaine routes from South America to Europe.

Another interesting situation happened in Croatia where a 9 years old child was killed in result of an explosion device being set off in a car with Czech plate number and 3 people with a Czech nationality were injured (2 female, 1 male).

 

[Ryder]

I do

I don't remember or can see on the map that those two countries have access to the sea. Aren't they landlocked ?

If they can conduct landing operation, then it must to be through a friendly country. Is it Albania or Bosnia ?

Azerbaijan is also land locked. Caspian sea does not count. They still engage in Naval training alongside Turkiye.

Azerbaijan also used Naval troops as shock troops against the Armenians.

 

[Ryder]

According to local media it is an organized crime related situation. The two killed are apparently part of the Skaljari clan which is known to control one of the main cocaine routes from South America to Europe.

Another interesting situation happened in Croatia where a 9 years old child was killed in result of an explosion device being set off in a car with Czech plate number and 3 people with a Czech nationality were injured (2 female, 1 male).

Montegrin society is basically clan based the Ottomans ruled the cities but not the mountains or the rural areas of Montenegro.

These places were bascially Afghanistan for the Ottoman Empire. Barely any law and its all clan based. So its really hard to impose the law in these wildlands.

 

[Bogeyman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1806996798424137792

Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan met with Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlić Radman on the sidelines of the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Tripartite Consultative Mechanism of Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia held in Dubrovnik.