@MichaelHilliard
Michael Hilliard
@MichaelHilliardย ยทย 4:59

KOSOVO (THE PANDORAS BOX OF THE BALKANS) ๐Ÿ‡ฝ๐Ÿ‡ฐ

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This is the red line. We speak to three geopolitical experts on one big subject shaping the news both here and overseas. And there's a short episode of this. Well, app Cosimo is a bit of an anomaly when it comes to Europe. It's a small, all breakaway Republic in the southwest corner of what we would call Serbia. Now, the Cost of Cost of ours, as they would be going on, aren't anything like the Serbs

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@Phil
phil spade
@Philย ยทย 0:39

Great listen! Highly recommended

Michael, I just wanted to say thank you. This was a great listen. And I will admit I did not know too much about Kosovo before I listened. And just what an absolutely unbelievably complicated situation that is and just wonderfully broken down. So thank you so much for that. And I noticed on the website on the Red Line Podcast website. The Kosovo has its own area within Eastern Europe, I believe
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@MichaelHilliard
Michael Hilliard
@MichaelHilliardย ยทย 3:29

Kosovo will become the Taiwan of Europe.

I kind of go, look, you deserve your own country, but at the same time, I know that if let's say conflict with a breakout in Bosnia, Huskylvania or Serbia, it would very quickly become a proxy war. China or Russia may get involved. Bad actors may get involved. And remember, per capita a bit of a fun fact about Costco per capita. They sent the most fighters to fight with ISIS out of any nation in the world per capita
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudhaย ยทย 0:51
Hey, Michael, I just wanted to ask you what you thought about the international community just generally staying out of some other countries wars. So I think more than half the problem is when you have countries that are not part of the strife, siding with one party or the other in a country that has strive right. And for the most part, if there is a policy of noninterference, then people in that land figure out what's right for them and fight for what is right for them
@MichaelHilliard
Michael Hilliard
@MichaelHilliardย ยทย 4:46

@sudha We are between a rock and a hard place

Hey, Sudha Michael, here. This is the age old question, interventionist or noninterventionist? It's enormous, almost an ideological one, but also has consequences. So on the interventionist side, you could argue things like, well, if the US did not step into World War Two, what would Europe be like today? It's a question of do you let evil people be evil at the same time? You also got to wonder what Iraq would be like if the US didn't step in today
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudhaย ยทย 4:56
And hence people dealt with the consequences of war in the best way that they could. And things corrected themselves over, if not a few years or a few decades, then over a few hundred years, things self corrected to a large extent because people rose up in frustration, in defiance, in anger. And whatnot? Because finally, it's the people that have the power and history has shown us that time and again when people collectively rise, change comes about right
@MichaelHilliard
Michael Hilliard
@MichaelHilliardย ยทย 4:47

@sudha case by case basis

Stay on the sidelines and then wait till it gets to 4000 fighters or 40,000 fighters and then have to intervene? Geopolitics, there's never a hard and fast rule with these things. And I think that's most evident in the question of is foreign intervention a good thing. I think it is a case by case basis, and I wish I had a better answer than that one, but I feel like I have so many of those times more opinions on it. But yeah. Interesting
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