7/8Athens hopes to use fossil fuels from the Caspian Sea&the southeastern Mediterranean--as well as renewable energy from Egypt--to supply the Balkans amid the Ukraine war. “This isn’t just a gas pipeline,but a crucial south-north energy bridge,” Mitsotakis said during the ceremony in Komotini
7/6 Still can’t decide whether Macron and Charles Michel are merely fools who don’t know the Balkans, or whether they’re malignant actors seeking to destroy enlargement?
Minor correction: in re-reading the text I note that the PM said “Slavs” not “Slovenians” (i.e. Sloveni not Slovenci) but even so, his claim is still wrong. Unless he’s making a convoluted observation about Serbs being the largest South Slavic ethnic group.
6/29 Milorad Dodik〜recently called Erdogan a “great statesman” who understands the situation in the Balkan country./ In 2019, Serbia even granted Turkish police the ability to operate on its soil. ”
Bulgaria's gas storage facility at Chiren is filling up: from 33.2% of its capacity on Monday to 34.5% Tuesday. Despite Russian cutoffs and TurkStream's "prophylactic" gas is available in the Balkans. Azeri deliveries of 1 bcm to BG kicking off too.
As investigators collect information on war crimes in Ukraine, Republika Srpska authorities are destroying the site of Kravica warehouse, near Srebrenica, where ~1300 men + boys were killed. Relatives of victims weren’t allowed to build a memorial. Now the site is being razed too
John Mearsheimer is a serial appeaser of war criminals. In '93, he suggested that "[t]he U.S. ...might accept the principle of a greater Serbia & help create it with border changes & population transfers." He shouldn't have been asked for advice ever since.
Hua brought up the 1999 bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, which killed three Chinese journalists, stating: “NATO still owes the Chinese people a debt of blood.”/A meme circulating on social media shows a pig “Taiwan” watching the slaughtering of another pig “Ukraine.”/
InCongress,〜in support of Fidel Castro. She also voted against a resolution concerningU.S.troops in Kosovo/ Her friend&colleague, Carlottia Scott, is also developing her career.In the last election she served in the Al Gore campaign as“chief of politics”for the Democratic National Committee.
“I fear that the longer the war lasts inUkraine, the greater the chances of spillover in the westernBalkans.&that is because it is in the interest of theRFto have new battlegrounds.”“He wants the state of Kosovo to fail in order to show thatNato success was temporary,just like in Iraq&Afghan