Kosovo’s Resilience, America’s Shame

Kosovo’s people rose above betrayal, crafting democracy while the West coddled Kremlin-aligned Serbia and empowered corruption. The EU and U.S. must stop perpetuating their shameful hypocrisy, now.

This week, I attended the London launch of Dr. Aidan Hehir’s latest book, Kosovo and the “Internationals”: Hope, Hubris, and the End of History, at Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster. Although I haven’t yet read the book in its entirety, the insightful speeches delivered by Dr. Hehir, Professor Jasna Dragovic-Soso (LSE), and Professor James Gow (King’s College London) provided a compelling overview of its key arguments. What follows is my analysis and thoughts based on these discussions, an unvarnished reflection on the failures of Western intervention in Kosovo, a critique of its cynical policies, and a call to acknowledge the resilience of Kosovo’s people in the face of systemic betrayal.

Hope, Hubris, and the International Mirage

The West’s relationship with Kosovo has always been framed as a narrative of hope. After NATO’s intervention in 1999, Kosovo was positioned as a flagship project for Western liberalism, a chance to showcase the transformative power of democracy, human rig…