The former commander of NATO’s bombing campaign to protect ethnic Albanians and force a withdrawal of Serb-led Yugoslav troops from Kosovo in the late 1990s has warned of ongoing obstacles to stability and dangerous Russian “ambitions” in the Balkans.
Retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark told RFE/RL’s Kosovo Service that Serbia and its former province Kosovo remain at cross purposes and “Serbia is a magnet, drawing Russian imperialist ambitions into Europe.”
Serbia continues to reject the independence that Kosovo declared in 2008, and more than a decade of Western-mediated talks aimed at normalizing relations between Belgrade and…
