American Steamroller Effects U-Turn
[Warning: this is just a teaser — for the whole thing, head over to East Ethnia, where I’m currently on duty.]
The USG has noticed that there’s a need for vision and leadership in Europe, or more specifically, that there’s some developments in the Balkans that will require those two qualities, which are in notoriously short supply in Europe.
Unfortunately, the USG routinely forgets that visions and leadership need to be implemented and realized, something at which the boring Europeans tend to be better.
But in the Balkans, the Europeans have been implementing and realizing piecemeal steps whose direction remains unclear. Nowhere is this more tangible than in Kosovo, a seemingly intractable problem the USG now woke up to.
[Check here for continuation.]
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