Battle of Kosovo

What doesn't make sense... is that a non-NATO member, non-NATO, Serbia is not in NATO.

As a matter of fact, Serbia was bombed by NATO to end the war in Kosovo, which would have been a million times worse if the United States of America didn't get involved.

Serbia has traditionally and always been extremely loyal to Russia.

there are people whose flag is literally just the russian colors in the opposite direction they're very close to the russians the russians have always backed them up so my question first as an american forget as an albanian as an american how is it that our greatest ally israel is arming a non-natal member and i don't care if the president or that government because vucic's people are protesting against him all the time too he's not very popular in serbia right now How is it that a country that has traditionally always been loyal to Russia, and I promise you, if tomorrow America went to war with Russia, Serbs themselves, not their government, because their government clearly is loyal to whoever is willing to do business with them, tomorrow their people would fight for Russia.

They have religious ties.

They're both Orthodox.

You know, are they preparing to reinvade Kosovo? I mean, is that what's happening? Is Serbia becoming militarized with Israeli weapons because they're going to declare independence inside of Bosnia also? Remember, the whole area is a mess.

You have a place called Republika Srpska, and they're having issues within Bosnia.

Why not just, I don't know, blow up a barracks, blow up some generic terrorist attack? Why this grand assassination gesture? The first, I think, goes back to Bogdan Jelicic and his sacrifice, the cult of the martyr, which actually goes back many centuries.

You know, Princip, like all nationalist Serbs and Pan-Slavists, he is very familiar with the story of a Serbian knight, Miloš Oblič, who apparently at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, when Serbia is fighting for its independence from the encroaching Ottoman Empire, he assassinates Sultan Murad I at the end of the battle.

Serbia does not win this battle.

Their army is defeated.

There's going to be a reception at the town hall with the mayor.

All very nice stuff.

I mentioned before that someone had said, look, 28th of June, anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo.

This is a big mythologized moment.

And, uh, also, uh, with the political, uh, crisis on the side, there are increasing, uh, tensions between, uh, Serbs and Albanians and between Belgrade and Pristina again.

It's a nonstop story which has, uh, very deep roots, going back, well, we can say going back way into 14th century and during the Battle of Kosovo Field and the subsequent Ottoman conquests.

Very slow conquest in, uh, regards, uh, to Serbia because they were not conquered in one go, but it carried on for 150 years.

And, uh, some parts of Serbia, uh, were Ottomanized or Islamized.

There were large, uh, students protests, which actually played into the hand of this idea of Milosevic that the Serbs will be the new driving force and...

W- within Yugoslavia, and it was basically the sparking point of the upcoming secessions, uh, within Yugoslavia.

Yeah, absolutely, and, um, it's, it's worth to mention very important, uh, moment that in 1989, at the 500th anniversary of, uh, the, uh, Battle of Kosovo, there have been, uh, the speech of, uh, Milosevic at, at the territory of Kosovo, and many say that that was the place and the time when he burned the fire for the war and the fall of, uh, Yugoslavia.

Yes.