Well remember, while you Albanians are the majority in Kosovo there are other "Yugoslavian" ethnic minorities there too correct?
Correct.
So while you and other ethnic Albanians might currently be happy with us...perhaps the other ethnic groups not so much?
The only group unhappy with your intervention are Serb minorities. We have other minorities such as: Croatian, Bosnian, Turkish, Roma, Egyptian, whom are happy about the intervention. They were too oppressed and liberated.
Meanwhile we have soldiers there helping maintain the peace correct? Are they not targets of those living there who don't agree with our support of Kosovo's independence?
It is correct that your soldiers together with other NATO ally soldiers (e.g., Deutchland, France, Britain, Italy, Turkiye, etc) are here. But you maintain peace here by mere presence rather than engagement most of the time. No NATO troop is targeted actively by Serbs in Dardania.
Most conflicts between NATO troops and Serb minorities occur when they cause havoc north by say blocking roads:
PressTV - Kosovo Serbs block roads to Serbia
Then odds are highest for injury. I have this on EULEX police for instance:
EU Police Injured in Clash With Kosovo Serbs :: Balkan Insight
So the north had been a trouble area before the Dardanian and Serbian PM's made agreements. It may happen again for as Coin here mentions, the Serbian minorities in Dardania are always used as a destability factor so as Serbia would gain something more out of the EU. It is their politics with their minority in Dardania.
But otherwise this is not Avganistan or Iraq. No entity is actively patrolling the roads
searching US soldiers for targeting.
Suppose NATO pulls out, and our soldiers go too. Then Kosovo falls back under Serbian control; how happy would ethnic Albanians still be with us?
That is a good question. My answer would be that although we are the ones that most as a majority want you here, it is inevitable that at some point you may go. By the way you build a camp here named Bondsteel which may indicate that you will be the last to go even if all other NATO troops do.
But yeah sometime or another you would choose to go for one reason or another. It is for this precise reason that I think that we should choose to have NATO troops whom will stay here forever, such as Albanian NATO troops (i.e., by joining with Albania).
At that point we've pretty much pissed off EVERYONE in Kosovo...Albanians for "abandoning them" and other ethnic groups for supporting the Albanians in the first place. SEE?
I see your concerns. I think it depends on this happy ending of us joining with Albania. Even if all hell breaks loose after we would have a greater chance to fight.
I have a proposal for this not to occur also. I think it is about time you put your successes and achievements in Dardania into your history books. We have you and your intervention on our history books. Should you have them also then our people students could be reading what happened and how it ended, and learn to like each other for generations upon generations.
Under these two points I do not think there would ever come a time when we would not think highly of you. Safe and reading how it happened, we would have solid grounds to build even better relationships.
For one I am not satisfied for the low number of Americans that come to visit Dardania. We could sure like to have you more around here!
This happens over and over again when we get involved and the politics of each situation changes.
Change is inevitable (regretfully in this case by you eventually leaving). It is adapting to those changes that leaves a happy ending.
My argument is that the USA is not the world's policeman. That only if we have a clear alliance with a nation should we involve ourselves; and then only to the extent required of such an alliance.
Speaking from a prior oppressive regime experience, the world policeman sounded very nice at the time. You get to choose whether you want to play the role or not big son of ours. Just see if you could tie in loose ends whilst you leave. Same goes for every other project you have had till now. Make a happy ending and then leave, so as even after you go all is well.
But allies we are. From here on end, to earth, heaven, or hell.
