Serb gunmen battle police in Kosovo monastery siege; four dead

NORTH MITROVICA, Kosovo, Sept 24 (Reuters) - (This Sept. 24 story has been refiled to add the full name of Kosovo's prime minister in paragraph 8)

Ethnic Serb gunmen in armoured vehicles stormed a village in north Kosovo on Sunday, battling police and barricading themselves in a monastery in a resurgence of violence in the restive north that killed four people.

The siege centred on a Serbian Orthodox monastery near the village of Banjska in the Serb-majority region where monks and pilgrims hid inside a temple as a shootout raged.

One police officer and three of the attackers died, according to authorities in Kosovo and Serbia.

Ethnic Albanians form the vast majority of the 1.8 million population of Kosovo, a former province of Serbia.

But some 50,000 Serbs in the north have never accepted Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence and still see Belgrade as their capital, more than two decades after a Kosovo Albanian guerrilla uprising against repressive Serbian rule.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/one-police-officer-killed-another-injured-kosovo-gunfire-pm-kurti-2023-09-24/

"If there be a meeting for kindred,
Let us raise a banner above the mountain,
And advance our persons over the border.
And let us misc our spears over the heads of men,
And rush upon Flamdwyn in his army,
And slaughter with him and his followers."

It's taking names.

Total immigration.

"If pacifist hostility toward war were so strong as to drive pacifists into a war against nonpacifists, in a war against war, that would prove that pacifism truly possesses political energy because it is sufficiently strong to group men according to friend and enemy. If, in fact, the will to abolish war is so strong that it no longer shuns war, then it has become a political motive, i.e., it affirms, even if only as an extreme possibility, war and even the reason for war. Presently this appears to be a peculiar way of justifying wars. The war is then considered to constitute the absolute last war of humanity. Such a war is necessarily unusually intense and inhuman because, by transcending the limits of the political framework, it simultaneously degrades the enemy into moral and other categories and is forced to make of him a monster that must not only be defeated but also utterly destroyed. In other words, he is an enemy who no longer must be compelled to retreat into his borders only."
~ Carl Schmitt

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 BREAKING: Groups of Israeli reservists have refused orders to head to the border with Gaza.

An Israeli soldier stated, "We will not go to our deaths, this is suicide."

"Understanding the Hamas attack on Israel:

Iran is aiming for a confrontation with Israel and the US. The success of Russia in Ukraine is encouraging Iran to undo decades of hostile US foreign policy in the Middle East. A bankrupt US Govt has just been invited to another war.

The timing is opportunistic. The US Govt is forced to print trillions of USD as it struggles to raise new debt. Another war would lead to a significant increase in inflation and an accelerated economic decline of the US.

If Iran mines the Strait of Hormuz the global energy crisis would become critical. The Biden administration has used the majority of US oil reserves to stabilize domestic oil prices. Iran can increase the pain for the US Govt significantly.

Ukraine is turning into a major defeat for the US and NATO. A new front in the Middle East would accelerate the US decline. The US Govt and its western partners simply cannot afford it. Russia and China would benefit most. Iran understands this and is playing into the hands of its partners."

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1710624093878604061

The US lost the conflicts in Ukraine, Syria, and Iran, which ultimately led to retreat from Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a historic defeat of an empire, and what we are seeing is a shift in the spatial order. The escalation in Ukraine is an attempt to stall the loss of US influence. And Israel is an inevitable result, if not directly connected to the greater loss of radiating power.

It may even be coordinated with Russian and China due to the US repeatedly escalating the conflict.

Correction: Perhaps best to say "conflicts" regarding Ukraine and Iran (I had written "wars"), given that they were not classical wars. They were however essential points of tension in the world civil war.

A Little bit of Kosher Fried.