The Uncomfortable War Europe Forgot About

Kosovo: History, War and Hatred. Historical irredentism versus current demographic reality. The long lasting conflict between Serbs and Albanians over Kosovo, and the subsequent military intervention of NATO which still has a geopolitical impact today.
0:00 Introduction
3:32 Medieval Times
6:19 Ottoman Rule
9:06 Austro-Turkish Wars & Great Migration
11:30 Serbian uprising and the League of Prizren
14:21 First Balkan War and World War One
17:35 Interwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia
21:22 World War Two
22:19 Kosovo within SFR Yugoslavia
25:22 Yugoslav Wars
27:27 Kosovo War
34:04 Future developments and conclusion
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[@DrDioNYsos]

Serfs want Kosova, like Ukronazis want Crimea = exact same case. All the rest is blablabla sheeple-level shittery, like this ignoramus style shitty clip...

[@relentless5881]

the difference is, US got kosovo, While on Russia Ukraine war, US still got finland and sweden and possible Ukraine.

[@maddog8760]

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[@QuizmasterLaw]

Every one of your videos includes this message: a bunch of woke liberals with no actual history are ruining foreign policy. I actually agree with that, roughly speaking. But the way you present that message gets in the way of what I am actually here for: learning history or tactical insights. I don't actually think I have much tactical to learn from you, which is the proof I must be wrong, since that's just hubris, albeit grounded on experience. That just leaves history. Ok, so a 5-15 minute history of Kosovo/Serbia would be brilliant! I would love it! Instead I have to put up with fan service gym bromance. To tell me stuff I've mostly already figured out myself. Oh, but what if I am wrong? So I feel chained to watch at least in the background. But the Kosovo conflict is a small winnable one and is still on warm, not boiled over. I guess what I mean is: this game isn't worth the candle. Maybe 3 videos 1 on actual history 1 on implication of history for current tactical problems and 1 on bromance with gymbros so I wouldn't have to hear the grating fan service? I mean, if you hate liberal internationalists for ruining foreign policy I agree, but then you have to actually change their minds. Servicing your fanbase won't do that. Now make a 5 minute video about NATO and Kosovo which can be credibly presented at a NATO general staff meeting attended by politicians of all views. That would be useful. Something objective, factual, and stable enough that people you fundamentally disagree with will be nonetheless compelld to take up your views. And that is exactly what Sun Tzu meant by SUPREME EXCELLENCE IN THE ART OF WAR IS TO SUBDUE THE ENEMY WITHOUT FIGHTING. Now go do it.

[@bachvarova]

I am curious to hear and see your video about the hate between Bulgaria and Macedonia , and why Bulgaria lost Macedonia.

[@SB-in8rw]

2 seriously important facts missed in the video that came to my mind straight away: 1. NATO bombed Serbia with depleted uranium which causes the worst health conditions and cancer, irony is it affects also Albanians and even foreign soldiers, google about Italian soldiers who sued NATO for getting cancer in Kosovo 2. Wikileaks showed that CIA and obviously America considered KLA (Kosovo liberation army) as terrorists, and still they armed them, trained them and helped them fight against Serbia

[@mehmetbardici2893]

Don't say that NATO killed and genocide civilians like children woman too

[@radiopassive4099]

As a Serb I agree with you, I would gladly give away Kosovo to Albanians as its Radioactive wasteland right now.....they bombed the shit out of the Kosovo

[@masoodvoon8999]

If I had to pick sides I'd pick Albania simply b/c the Serbs were so maniacal in the 90's that they shouldn't have been trusted w/ Kosovo. That being said I think the US & Europe also secretly aided the Croats against Serbia (maybe for the same reasons). My source is a 2nd hand account in an article or history book (can't remember) where the Bosniaks were complaining about Croatia stealing 70% of the military aid earmarked for them in the UN arms embargo NATO was allowing be selectively enforced.

[@williamdavis9562]

We're no strangers to terrorists, real terrorists too not those terror light guys in Kosovo. Look at our currency policy in Syria.

[@PlusMinusRealist]

and you for sure believe that UFOS landed on Serbia?? stay positive and look at the future and get your facts right. There was shit done on both sides , but we as people have to look forward and need to get solutions on both sides and not to mentioned negative actions done in the past which are not 100 % straight. May the GODS be with you and enlightened you with the truth of Kosovo People!

[@2masterofpuppets2]

I can promise you as an American we know absolutely nothing about Kosovo😅 and that Clinton statue is WILD

[@user-ff4ex7ll7w]

It’s missing a kneeling intern 😂

[@MizTheDonGargon]

​@@user-ff4ex7ll7w 😂😂😂

[@TehNemezis]

You do not know about the only good thing US ever did... Strange

[@marshalljulie3676]

​@@TehNemezis😂😂boy foh with that BS

[@iplaygames8090]

​@@TehNemezis train al-queda resulting in 9/11?

[@naky6]

This is the first time that I heard such detailed and truthful explanation of Kosovo conflict. A short reflection, you forgot to talk about the UN resolution 1244 and how the west "forgot" about it. Also, Serbia stayed more then 80 years independent after Battle of Kosovo 1389.

[@haroldbell213]

Let's hope it doesn't go to another war.

[@hasibhakanovic6682]

Yes, random KZbin author and commenter are more suited than the ICJ/World Court to interpret UN Resolution 1244, which was judged not to be conclusive resolution on the status of Kosovo. Serbia has brought cases before the ICJ, meaning it recognizes its authority. Serbs always fail!

[@steve.the.roblox]

​@@haroldbell213The president of Kosovo wants war, I remember when he said that a few months ago, of course the president of Serbia does not want war because he wants to politically return Kosovo to show the truth and not bloodshed.

[@Hiperid]

As a Serb, thank you for unbiased take on Kosovo 99 war and ongoing conflict. Serbs are not saints in any regard, but when it comes to homeland defence, we tried our best, even against all odds.

[@biljanakocanovic6778]

😇😇😇

[@LondonPower]

Dont worry nowdays all Europe become Islamic theocracy and first of all Londonistan 😂 be well

[@alexeie.6187]

Russians grieved with Serbians. Our people understand each other.

[@suart73]

Kosovo is Serbian. Greetings from an albanian. There's many Albanians that share the same opinion. Kosovans are not albanians

[@TGBBP72]

Kosovo is Serbia. From the US, the bombings were a crime against humanity

[@FRDOMFGTHR]

Every time I talk to a pro Ukrainian friend and bring up NATO’s aggressive wars they always say “but the people there wanted our help!!” And then completely write off everything Donbas civilians say as Russian propaganda

[@vrrooooommmm123]

No one is on the good side of the Ukrainian War. Everyone is a villain.

[@dafuqgusdafrey60]

We been told, Russia=bad US=good So yeah, sometime reality is harsh for us That we not really a good guy

[@vrrooooommmm123]

But Ukraine has a right to exist.

[@0verJlord]

​@@vrrooooommmm123 No one is saying that Ukraine should not exist. Moreover, Ukraine had the Minsk agreements signed on its hands, in which the entire Donbass was Ukraine (Except Crimea, which is historically Russian and has great strategic importance for Russia). But Ukraine did not fulfill the agreement, for which Russia recognized the independence of the LPR and the DPR in 2022(Yes, yes, in 2022, and not in 2014, everything began to shine only from Ukraine) and then Russia came to the aid of the republicans.

[@iplaygames8090]

​@@0verJlord yeah the kremlin kinda forgot about their separatists for like 8 years.

[@herzog1857]

The autonomous province "Kosovo" is properly called "Kosovo and Metohija". Kosovo in Serbian means field of blackbirds and Metohija in Greek means holy land (because of the thousands of monasteries and churches in that area. Many of them from the Middle Ages and on the UNESCO list of protected monuments, many of them destroyed by Albanian separatists). It is no wonder that the Albanians removed the name Metohija, since they secretly know whose country it is.

[@joek600]

Metohi (Metohia plural) in Greek means the plot of land belonging to a monastery. During the medieval times the church owned the fields around the monasteries and they had a special tax status and some times some sort of autonomy.

[@herzog1857]

​@@joek600 Land of the Monasterys* Yes I forgot, thanks for the correction.

[@Sola678]

You do forget that Albanians wanted to call kosovo dardania and change the flag in 2008

[@herzog1857]

@@Sola678 I did not forget. Even today, Albanians invent new names for toponyms in Kosovo and Metohija and give them Albanian names that have never existed in history.

[@aclown36]

Coping harder than the NATO bombs that fell on Serbia

[@AdamJWM]

My stepdad was over there in Kosovo and Bosnia. It’s definitely forgotten for the majority but I think about that from time to time. It’s a huge part of the modern history of the area.

[@_Devil]

my actual dad was also in Kosovo, but he was also in Macedonia instead of Bosnia. I can only imagine what he saw over there.

[@HK-pp9ig]

@@_Devil NM (FYROM) is not the ancient Macedonia, so there won't be any wars there ... Only 1/3 of the people in NM are Albanians, and if they decide to go with Kosovo or Albania, that means trouble. The Slavic majority in NM should consider the Albanian factor when they push discriminating agenda against Albanians in their republic. 1/3 of the population is a constitutional minority, not just any minority. NM Skopje can't have a government without participation of Albanians.

[@orthodoxserb6596]

you have just brought conflicts into our region, as in all places all over the world - the Kosovo case has not been finished, the same as Bosnia - we are waiting you to leave.

[@SB-nu8cr]

@@orthodoxserb6596 So ist es!

[@vrcmf3172]

@@orthodoxserb6596no you did. All Balkans hates Serbs. Americans didn’t “bring” anything

[@filipkoric5360]

17:48 - Yugoslavia, a beautiful idea that should better been left on paper - well said my good sir - well said.

[@XYUN99]

I agree. Due to Yugoslavia Serbs lost enormously in every aspect, while all others gained equally enormously in every aspect. Ironically, many ppl from former YU republics that were eager to leave it (especially Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia) are now grieving for the beautiful life we all lived in that up-side-down country.

[@relight6931]

Hey, it is easy to say that now. But think about Yugoslavia, and what Balkans could have been if during the whole of Cold war, you didn't have unity between ethnic nationalities present in Yugoslavia.. So instead of 50 years of brotherhood and cooperation, you had Balkans, doing wars between same groups, while having Soviet union and America whispering in their ear, also arming and funding different groups based on their own, daily interests.. It could have been like the 90ies but instead of having violence for 20 years, it could have been half a century.. What the Balkans would have been if Yugoslavia didn't exist, barely is worth thinking about.. Also, anyone old enough to have been an adult while real Yugoslavia existed, before Tito died, would never agree that their whole lives and identity, should have been left "as paper plans and never realized".. Most of those people like to think of themselves as Yugoslavs, not ethnic Serbs, Croats or Albanians, or Macedonians, Slovenians etc.. You catch my drift.

[@filipkoric5360]

​@@relight6931If most of them were "Yugoslavs" then how did all the wars happen? P.S. Brotherhood and cooperation - give me a break - everyone knows that the richest and most developed countries like Slovenia and Croatia were sucked dry by Belgrade to redistribute wealth to poorer Republics like Crna Gora or Macedonia. Not to mention that Serbs were given the most prestigious roles in most institutions; simply because the Serbs were the majority (and all Croats were Nazis) - we all know how that ended up.

[@relight6931]

@@filipkoric5360 I was using slightly hyperbolic dictionary. The OP idea was that Yugoslavia shouldn't have ever existed. My claim is that if it didn't exist, Balkans history during WW2 to today would be even worse. Do you disagree? I am not interested into debating positions, qualities and other attributes that are given to large swaths of people, forgetting they might have actual personal identity and everything being dictated by their ethnic origins. If you believe that ethnicity is everything, then we got nothing to talk about. Also, if you never heard of people in former Yugoslavia proclaiming themselfs as Yugoslavs, then you can't be from around here..

[@ilyasharin1976]

@@filipkoric5360 According to what? To NATO, right? Because we've seen how that ended... instead of NATO supporting peace, they supported one terrorist organization, over another.

[@ddbb1311]

As a Chinese whose embassy was bombed in this war and with similar territory issues, I share the pain of the Serbs -- part of your country was ripped off while Uncle Sam is standing in between. Stay strong and don't lose hope, things will turn.

[@horoshkoaleksandr273]

what teritory issues does China have? Like Russia China has occupied many lands such as Tibet, inner Mongolia and now they rude rhetoric about independent Taiwan

[@ddbb1311]

​@@horoshkoaleksandr273 watch more of HL's videos, hope that helps you improve your history scores in high school.

[@ionionescu6777]

@@horoshkoaleksandr273 Dude , they build a wall to keep people out not to invade

[@willbass2869]

Getting your embassy bombed is what you get for having US stealth fighter wreckage inside embassy gates. Too bad, so sad. Suck it.

[@chucky387y]

Brainwashed yank limey

[@frankmmd1861]

I am Uzbek I read that Timur during a war saw Serbs fighting fearlessly and said "who are those Christians who fight lions?" Much respect to both my Muslim brothers and the Serbs. We are not in medieval times anymore. lets learn to resolve conflicts without blood.

[@vanjat2850]

That's true, he let all Serbs go including Stefan Lazarević himself because of how amazed he was with their fighting. Lazarević was one of the best knights in Europe at the time and his force "oklopnici" among best equipped ones.

[@mr.sophistication3232]

No, there are too many men in this world & we need wars to fix demographic imbalance. What you said sounds real sweet though bro.

[@branilavvasic9727]

What Timur did helped Serbia out in the end because it threw whole Asian part of Ottoman empire into complete chaos witch led to Serbia being able to get independent from Turks again so I would say that it all turned out well in the end. Do you know Russian by any chance? If so can you tell me if this add about Timur is historically accurate? And if so in what war did he do this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5itc36Np96oZsk In case you don't understand Russian it it is saying that he ordered his soldiers to throw rocks next to the road when they went to war and then when they came back whoever survived picked up their rock so the rocks that where left there would represent the ones that died. And Timur would then go to these rocks and talk with them remembering soldiers that died. Is it something that he did every time he went to war or is this from some specific war that he fought? I know about Mongol tradition of making Kurgans out of of rocks but I don't know if Timur or anyone else would go to these rocks and talk to them as we in Europe would do when we go to tombstone of a friend or a family member.

[@martinboskovic1009]

​@@branilavvasic9727 Aha, that coincide well with making piramides of skulls of the enemies. Another nice tukic tradition exercised here. We have an object called the "Chiele Kula" in Nish to remind us of that.

[@organic3132]

Serbians do not hate Islam, that’s a big lie, our problem with Albanians is ethnic. In serbia we have big muslim population, and we live together as friends.

[@KingOfTheJuice666]

Love those long, girthy raw explanations of geopolitical issues. Your knowledge penetrated deeply into all of our brains. I can still feel the learning

[@sergiofaria8047]

Great vídeo Alex. Greatings by Brazil

[@darkdice8344]

Me a Serb waiting patiently for an update of Ruso-Ukranian war and then he drops this banger

[@salejakovljevic6039]

😮

[@filiprajakovic2169]

SAME

[@sterijastanojevic8002]

Nisam znao da ima toliko Srba koji mu gledaju kanal

[@vangelisgru7271]

🙏🎉❤

[@xerathzerat9080]

Isto, lik je bratina ozbiljna

[@Ecoman365]

I am an American descendant of Orthodox Christian ethnic Bulgarians from Macedonia. Sadly, my Bulgarian relatives have fought their Slavic Serb brothers on several occasions, but I do hold the Serbian people in high regard, and wish them all the best!

[@frenkli9815]

You can choose to be feel brotherhood with them but just remember they not only committed war crimes against my people (Albanians) but also against their fellow Slavs like Bosnians and Croatians. Serbian government doesn’t care about brotherhood they care about power. The war crimes committed by Albanians against Serbs was way lower than the war crimes and massacres they committed against us. If you don’t believe me just search for “list of massacres in Kosovo war” on google.

[@kaykay865]

​@@frenkli9815 Albanians lol

[@VigilantGuardian6750]

@@THELORDVODKA what are you talking about even buddy, Slovenes stolen their culture and land, what? Also dude has a point, NATO intervention was a precursor to what Serbs did to virtually every neighbor they had inside Yugoslavia. Just because you were most numerous (and not even by that much more) that doesn't give you right to just claim every piece of land for your country just on basis of "but but our people live there".

[@theone.1943]

@@VigilantGuardian6750 Dont forget what Croats did to Serbs during WW2 700.000 serbs perished in croat and bosnian lands. NATO bombing was illegal didnt even talk to UN about it.

[@petars.6210]

@Alexander Brodski Thank you Brother. 👍

[@jasestrong]

Bro I love your work ! Thank you

[@colleenmcnally7400]

I love how you share history in a very true manner. Also the humor. I learned history taught in Catholic school. It was very detailed. I must say that it is much more interesting learning from you and I can say in all honesty that you give a very integral account. Thank you so much.

[@luka-mn5fp]

As a Serb thank you for making this video🇷🇸💯

[@MrXandervm]

Serbs are mad because Nato stopped them from committing genocide in kosovo just like they did with the croats and bosnians

[@VGaming940]

As an Albanian got to thank him as well

[@lidiyasimatovic1118]

As a YU catholic, I'm very glad to see this video.

[@remogatron1010]

Bosnians remember your concentration camps.

[@norths21]

​@@remogatron1010 Hope they remember that in lands of Bosnia & Herzegovina they are minority of people who want Bosnia as a independent state🤝

[@drivenmad7676]

As an American i have long disagreed with my governments foreign policy. The more i learn just how diabolical they've been, i can only hang my head in shame.

[@perigeehypertrophy5916]

Then leave the country lol

[@drivenmad7676]

@@perigeehypertrophy5916 Yer obviously young and naive.

[@user-ks4eh4je8h]

This was a completely justified intervention, anything else is Vatnik propaganda

[@user-fw6zw7yj5g]

Imagine how much the world hates US,despite the fact that US citizens have been deeply manipulated by their own media,peace man!

[@rswiggins1964]

There's a lot more to this story. Milosivich was tried as a war criminal, and convicted. The US involvement was more due to the attrocities commited by Serbian forces. Not picking sides, but trying to limit actions.

[@bunsdad4530]

Amazing video I will get to your patreon Good work bud

[@raminderjohar2586]

Excellent coverage of the Balkan history, great graphics, very nicely explained.

[@joselitobrigante]

I've been following the Serbian & Balkan history for a while and honesty speaking I feel nothing but admiration and respect for Serbia.

[@irenaiva7713]

Thank you very much!

[@marcello8129]

You followed cnn to learn history of Balkan 🤣

[@recusitado3452]

Muchas gracias

[@filipmilic7966]

Thanke

[@borismatic]

@@marcello8129 If he followed cnn he wouldnt have this opinion

[@Gearparadummies]

This issue has dragged on for too long. The UN established a very dangerous precedent by uniterally declaring a part of a sovereign country an independent territory. Kosovo wasn't a colony. Also, ethnic Serbians were indigenous to the territory. Removing Milosevic from power for his crimes was the right thing to do. Creating a failed state from thin aire(A UN specialty: Look at Rwanda and Burundi) was a huge mistake that is going to reignite a war any day now. Just so you know: UCK crimes were tolerated by NATO. Today, that organization is a franchise of ISIS in Europe. Well fucking done, UN! 👏👏👏

[@zmajooov]

To be fair, UN had fuck all to do with Kosovo war, it was all NATO doing.

[@Gearparadummies]

@@zmajooov Under UN resolution 1244.

[@shivanshna7618]

UN is toothless animal it was NATO who is real power behind the debacle

[@rbasket8]

USA backing islamic terrorist and neonazis while calling any muslim and conservative in their country terrorist and nazi.

[@rbasket8]

​@@somebody700 UN and NATO is just USA puppets. Like come on, we dont suck our finger.

[@bilalabawi9064]

Great video discussion the history and current situation of the region. Keep up the great work

[@TeTanet-xg1me]

The guy is telling Serbian fairytales: "This essay examines both the historical facts concerning the migration of Serbs from Kosovo in 1690, and the claims made about that migration by subsequent historians-claims which, at their most extreme, suggested that hundreds of thousands of Serbs departed, with huge effects on the ethnic composition of the region. This essay demonstrates that there was no large-scale organized exodus of Serbs under the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch, Arsenije Crnojević: his departure from Kosovo in early 1690 was extremely hasty, and he had not, in any case, been leading organized resistance to the Ottomans. A large number of Serbs did move with the Patriarch to Hungarian territory later in that year; he himself gave their numbers as 30,000 or 40,000. But they had gathered, from many areas, in the Belgrade region, and only a small proportion were from Kosovo itself. One unsupported claim was made many years later, by a Serbian monk, that the Patriarch had brought 37,000 families to Hungary; and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many Serb writers interpreted that figure maximally, while also assuming that all those people had come from Kosovo. This essay analyses the ideological influences (operating primarily on Serbs within the Habsburg territories in the nineteenth century) that helped to shape that interpretation; it also criticizes excessive claims made by modern Albanian and Turkish historians." academic.oup.com/book/37426/chapter-abstract/331513844?redirectedFrom=fulltext

[@alyssaayeb]

Thank you for this interesting perspective🙏

[@sisyphusvasilias3943]

If you take away one thing from this video is that Albanian-Kosovo has always been driven by external countries for their own ambitions while Serbians have always been alone. No outside country has ever fought with Serbia over the Kosovo issue, while Albanians have always been supported by European Great Powers; Ottoman Empire, A-H Empire, AXIS, NATO.

[@mattnedanovski2722]

Correct!! Great thing how you noticed it! Always same thing happen and when you check through history for any region where Serbs where majority same thing happen, like he missed the thing when on 1912 Serbian army made all the way to Skadar (today's north Albania) it was a majority of Serbs living there and then Austro-Hungarian gave ultimatum that if Serbian army doesn't leave north Albania they will attack Belgrade capital of Serbia and all of Serbian army was south from capital so by that ultimatum they returned back and of course Serbian people left with army,same thing happen in Bosnia in 19th century Serbs were majority there but after Austro-Hungary occupied Bosnia they made all laws against Serbs living there,from day one they made really tough to them to even stay living in Bosnia,bottom line Serbs for centuries didn't had any allies because always some great power wanted to occupy them and at the end they been left alone.One small correction is that Russia was always Serbian ally.Specially in WW1.

[@resanana]

Wow m8 you are so right!!!

[@AK-dd9od]

Don't commit genocide then.

[@mattnedanovski2722]

@@accordingtothesokovian7645 Well not always and here is couple of things Russia did not back Serbs,when Serbia had war with Ottomans in 1876-1878 Russia provided weapons but not the one we asked for but some old ones actually we needed to buy weapons from France,and Russia supported Bulgaria also,and then on 1878 it was a Berlin's peace conference so Serbia won significant land but Russia's plan was different they had a plan of great Bulgaria with a lot of Serbian land where majority Serbs lived but at Berlin's peace conf other great power countries didn't allow for great Bulgaria to happen and they gave independence to Serbia,Bulgaria,Greece and Montenegro that year but Serbia got only 4 new municipalities so Russia had a different plan back then they wanted great Bulgaria who they could control with access to Black Sea.Also Russia didn't do anything to support Serbia in Yugoslav wars in 90's pretty much she only watched what happen also in 19th century in Serbia had 2 dynasty Obrenovic and Karadjordjevic whenever Obrenovic dynasty was in charge Russia didn't do anything to help Serbia because Obrenovic dynasty was more western oriented.

[@mattnedanovski2722]

@@AK-dd9od Genocide is really strong word specially in Balkans,there where a lot of war crimes from all countries during history it all depends what country had power at specific moment and was backed with some great country,there is no deny in some facts and that is that Austro-Hungary wanted to expand down south Serbia was on the way as most powerful nation at that time so she decided to occupy Bosnia from Ottoman's and then to make Albania as independent state so she can control them and it was also couple of other things A-H did to weaken down Serbia like economic war when she ban export of agricultural products and a lot of cattle and pigs which was main products of Serbia then.

[@karakarakiri9568]

As a french i always mistrusted the anglos. But more you learn about history, more you understand why people from all over the world see them as hypocrite and perfidious.

[@canadious6933]

Legit makes no sense what you said. France has always been a rival in history to England but in the past 120 years, the two countries have become close allies and both nations have done the exact same shit to other people across the world.

[@rezilandi3020]

But you don't now don't have in the world a people most criminal of French you make e genocide in Algeria and you organised the genocide of ruanda

[@z0h33y]

@@canadious6933 HistoryLegends viewers are very anti-NATO/anti-West, so youll see lots of comments that dont make much sense/detached from reality.

[@canadious6933]

@@z0h33y Which is ironic since this is a western channel basically. He mentions 100 different things and people will only fixate on whatever is hot in politics right now instead of historical research.

[@mjw907]

France continues to pillage and opress millions in west Africa to this day.

[@TimL1980]

great video!

[@arjunsandhar578]

Love the video

[@vvkth2500]

As a Serb who sees both sides of the argument, i am really surprised by impartiality of this video. You have missed onto 2004 pogrom, but in reality you did cover that with what you said in general what happened after 1999. Thank you for the video - this is actually the first video on this coming from the West, which is not politically motivated. EDIT: you did somewhat skew, or provide wrong casualty and combatant numbers for fighting on the Serbia-Albania border.

[@youareliedtobythemedia]

What? There are numerous videos on it

[@vvkth2500]

@@youareliedtobythemedia videos on what? they are all politically motivated and one sided. as if they were directed by bill clinton and william walker.

[@nikolajelovac1648]

brojeve koje je dao za Kosare i Pastrik za snage i zrtve su djubre

[@vvkth2500]

@@nikolajelovac1648 pa jesu, nema smisla to sa 2.5k boraca i sa toliko zrtava, kada smo po zvanicnim podacima ukupno izgubili manje od 800 vojnika u celom sukobu.

[@maskinisten019]

​​@@vvkth2500 😂😂 "impartitaly" really ? You gotta be joking bro

[@user-dk6ee8zh6u]

You forgot another "ah s*t here we go again" event that happened on March 17, 2004. It's nice of you that the world community has opportunity to learn about the situation in Kosovo and Metohija. When you take all the historical facts as well as the facts about the war and bombing in 1998-1999, it is clear why the Serbian people are with Russia! Another point of interest, during the great migration of Serbs in the 18th century, a part of the Serbs settled in a couple of provinces in Ukraine, research near which city they lived 😁 Greetings from Kosovo and Metohija, the Serbian land! You are doing a good job!

[@butragenjo007]

So you don't agree with Kosovo secession, but agree with Donbas secession. That's textbook hypocrisy

[@konrd]

@@butragenjo007 And what is he wrong about? Donbass is Russia. These lands belonged to the Russian world for centuries, and by chance fell into the dirty Ukrainian paws during the catastrophe of the collapse of the USSR.

[@LoanSharkTheFirst]

​@@konrd illyria?

[@ni9274]

Should we talk about the Serbian ethnic cleansing and massacre of Albanians that was only stopped by the intervention of NATO ? The bombing killed 500 people that were mostly military, this is very bad but not comparable to what Russia is doing in Ukraine.

[@vanjat2850]

​@@butragenjo007it's not because circumstances are completely different. In Kosovo and Metohija we had illegal immigrants form a terrorist organization, harvest organs and involve themselves in any crime you can imagine. In do bas we had natives who didn't want to accept a coup, which is why they were attacked.

[@TheDominikV]

Great analysis, very detailed and impartial 👌

[@arjunsandhar578]

Great vid

[@ColdFenix100]

I'm from Bulgaria and I remember how we accepted the family of my father's friend for a month during the bombardment. Ah also I remember how the NATO rocket fell on our territory and we found that it was containing uranium (my father was a military and got that info from the team that recovered it and showed him the measurements)!

[@Fractured_Unity]

Almost definitely depleted uranium, a pretty common weapons material for wealthy nations.

[@monterenbas]

@@Fractured_Unity no, depleted uranium is exclusively used in anti-armors weapons, due to his high density. « NATO uranium rockets » are nothing, but a vatnik fantasy.

[@techno999]

@@Fractured_Unity It's common but not commonly used. It isn't nuclear bombs but it is radioactive and leaves lasting consequences on the population. Birth defects, higher risk of cancer etc. This lasts for generations so I don't know why you're trying to downplay that

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

​@@Fractured_Unity a way of getting rid of it get ready for Ukraine war syndrome.

[@pintiliecatalin]

It is very unlikely for a rocket to contain uranium. Depleted uranium is used in various shells because it increases penetration.

[@SovietLegacy]

Kosovo is Serbian. Just saying that before the video even starts, lol.

[@miksa6956]

As it should be

[@HawkThunder907]

Definitely, only serbian

[@dmitarobradovic2551]

Respect.

[@nazbol1141]

Yes, we have lots of albanian mafia guys here in Norway, and they are 100% protected by the nato police, all of them are on wellfare, and somehow live in huge villas and own 3 cars each and pays 0 taxes and never gets raided or arrested, while an ethnic Norwegian in my city got his apartment raided by armed police cause he bought a TV that he had saved money for 3 months to get, then the local police cheif decided he must be some dangerous drug dealer, note, the Norwegian guy did no do or sell drugs and nothing was found, but still, massive harassment of ethnic Norwegian men is very common here, while albanians and other lower forms get to do whatever they want.

[@BlackpillFacts2019]

Токто је Србија!!!

[@davidbodiroza6908]

Great episode 🙏

[@FrancesSanchez-gw7lt]

YOU HAVE JUST EDuCATED me about that area.Thanks

[@pchelosad2523]

Косово это Сербия! Моя поддержка из России братьям христианам Косово, противостоящих окупантам из НАТО и турандо. 🤞

[@nemanjadinic7340]

My brother 🇷🇸🇷🇸💪💪💪💪🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺💕💕💕

[@sharpfangs37]

Оккупантам? Чего же они не идут освобожждать тогда оккупированные щемли? Ссыкотно ?

[@WOTB_GAMER]

To brate kosovo je srbija

[@slobodankapusic2026]

Zivela Rusija,zivela Srbija

[@stralegaming2597]

Krijem Rusija, Bahmut Rusija sve to Rusija jedino ostalo pitanje je kome Kosovo, Kosovo Srbija!

[@yuukimasamura5143]

As a Japanese, I support Serbia. Especially after all the bad shit that continues in these non christian countries

[@engineerenginering8633]

what non christian countires? and btw whats wrong with non christian countries? they are a lot better than religious countires

[@Alexander-fg7fd]

​@@engineerenginering8633 try being a Christian in muslim country

[@TehNemezis]

Serbia is Christians...

[@iplaygames8090]

​@@engineerenginering8633 problem is christian countries usualy have separation of state and religion, non christian (muslim) dont.

[@1ceKiss]

Arigatōgozaimasu!

[@testadelcomputer1839]

21:07 this part is the story of my family. In 1922 my granpa was an albanian children from Babin Most (kosovo, north of Prishtina), a mixed albanian/serb village. One day some serb kačaks from Belgrade raided the village and stole goods from serbs and tried to kill albanians. The serbs from my granpa village decided to hide my grandpa and another albanian teenage who by chance was out on the fields with his livestock and got shot at his arm from long distance and found shelter in this serbian house. The serb patron of the house did not let anyone inside his house and kept hidden my granpa and the other albanian teenage farmer for one month until the situation turned safe again. After that, my granpa moved to Turkey, Izmir with the population exchange just like it's explained in the video. After 100 years, this story is known in our family, my granpa returned from Izmir to Albania and had 10 children and told to everyone about this serb man who saved his life. Today Babin Most is 99% serb village, the relatives of my granpa still live there in peace. I would not let anyone to harm those people who saved my granpa and i don't give a shit about ideologism, the merciful deverves merci [Matthew]

[@legendserb1559]

1. NATO bomb independent state without a reason. Serbia never attack any member of NATO pact. 2.What about UN resolution 1244 3. Everything starts in Kosovo,everything will be finished in Kosovo.

[@Frankfuckinhorrigan]

we bombed serbia due to their massive genocide of the albanians , kosovians , and montonegrans and due to them attacking designated un safezones and slaughtering the civilians in said safezones and taking peacekeepers hostage. their are a shit ton more things on this list but i bet its all lies to you because putin and his lackeys didnt say its the truth

[@shqipemalesore2620]

1.It was for humanitarian reasons 2.read the resolution 1244 3.Everything started with the dream of a "great serbia",everything will be finished with the "destruction" of that delusion.

[@BlindBosnian]

@@shqipemalesore2620 1. Nato caused a larger humanitarian crisis that FRY did. The depleted uranium they had thrown affects the people of Kosovo to this very day, and will continue to do so for centuries. Also don't foget the Albanian refugees that nato bombed before swiftly putting the blame on FRY. 2. Annex 2 point 8: "A political process towards the establishment of an interim political framework agreement providing for substantial self-government for Kosovo, taking full account of the Rambouillet accords and the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the other countries of the region, and the demilitarization of UCK." 3. "Great Serbia" is Šešelj's project whose goal is to annex shtokavian parts of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia into Serbia. Kosovo was a part of Serbia for almost a century up until that point, and Serbs' defensiveness over Kosovo has nothing to do with Great Serbia. It would be as if, for example, Greece took south Albania and the Albanians not recognizing the annexation and wanting south Albania back getting accused of propagating "great Albania".

[@strajko2117]

1- I like how you just said snowball effect at the end and refused to elaborate. 2- I see this video as a great representation of the centuries-long conflict between us Serbs and Albanians. Neither side is clean nor saint, we all committed crimes against each other throughout centuries despite the propaganda of both sides trying to claim otherwise. GREAT VIDEO!

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

What that "Snowball effect" he was talking about?

[@butragenjo007]

​@@dirckthedork-knight1201Lavrov always take out Kosovo precedent as uno reverse card

[@goranmarinic2923]

But despite crimes committed by individuals Kosovo&Metohia is and forever will be Serbian.

[@rincontibio7664]

​@@butragenjo007 the funny thing is, we agree what NATO did in Serbia was terrible, the whole thing feels like just a loop of hypocresy

[@butragenjo007]

@@rincontibio7664 of course it is. But how can you solve unnatural Yugoslavia experiment if not by force? Ussr brake up still going on in ukraine, moldova, caucasian states and all the "stans"

[@silviumaciuca1333]

🇷🇸 SERBIA 🇷🇸 ...ROMANIA🇷🇴 ❤+SERBIA 🇷🇸❤= 🤝🤝🤝☦️☦️☦️

[@matovicmmilan]

Greetings! May God bless our Romanian friends!

[@alesiswhite9010]

Return to the Catholic Church brother we are waiting for you

[@silviumaciuca1333]

@alesiswhite9010 Yaaa....this is the reason for Catholics crusaders destroyed Constantinopol....and also inventing of the ,,Greco-Catolic" church

[@sandokan888]

Daca ai avea habar de modul cum sarbii ii trateaza pe Romanii din Timoc, n-ai mai manca kkt despre "prietenia" cu Serbia Singura tara care este prietena cu Romania, din toti balcanii, este Albania.

[@rd-gi6jw]

​@@alesiswhite9010 Romanians can't return to catholicism since they were never Catholics.

[@PETTAR700]

Thanks for the knowledge of history

[@rimaskautsar4058]

great content

[@sooryan_1018]

Congratulations History Legends for personally bringing the entire Balkan wars to the comments section

[@vrrooooommmm123]

Eh. It's just a bunch of serbs saying Kosovo is Serbia because they only watch historys channel to have more reasons to meatride Putin. Kosovo is not Serbia. Kosovo is Albania.

[@djape1977]

​@@vrrooooommmm123 what Albania, one in Caucasus?

[@myslimgjebre9564]

@@djape1977 no the one with the 2 seas Adriatik and Jon, and breathtaking mountains, a lot of rivers and lakes.The Albania with 3 religions, Albania with the most beautiful language in the wod, splendid cuisine, friendly people. You are welcomed to visit, you will not regreat it.

[@djape1977]

@@myslimgjebre9564 sure, after we get an official apologies for attack on Serbia in 1999. I happen to be a veteran of a unit that defended the border at Pashtrik mountain and I remember excellent how artillery of albanian army fired at our position which was half of kilometer inside Serbia. We would also need an apology for what happened at a certain house in Burel in Albania where people abducted from Kosovo were taken to be killed and their organs taken out and transported to Tirana ...

[@myslimgjebre9564]

@@djape1977 the myth of the yellow house continues. Ok if you justify a war against a defensles population, without rights and without an army, forced deportation of half of the population of Kosovo, burning endles villages mass killing and raping with a myth about a small house in Albania is your choise. What about mass graves of albanians discoverd in Serbia, can you explain since you are well informed about the crimes of the war?

[@rocketmanintn188]

I've been watching this channel since shortly after the current Russo-Ukraine conflict. I absolutely appreciate your historical approach and that you don't bombarde with a politicized ideology (AKA propaganda). Knowing the historical context so helps to clarify current events. Thank you.

[@honras2029]

His videos are indeed very profound. Still, every video on such a sensitive topic needs to be treated with caution. Despite his effort to consider both sides, it is not hard to tell that this video was to a certain extent biased towards the serbian point of view.

[@user-jq7ut5oe4v]

Mali je rusofil@@honras2029

[@AleksAvramJeff]

@@honras2029 I'm Serbian and I also see the bias. Yugoslavia took back the autonomy rights that were previously given, not only of Kosovo&Metohija but also for the northern province Vojvodina where I come from. The Albanian people had every right to start their protests during the 1980's. The fact is they were the majority ever since the 1930's and we know this due to the Serbian king that ordered a census to be made but the question is very simple, why should most money go to Belgrade? I also know the stories of how the Albanian people had been treated, if an Albanian family had a weapon the police would automaticlly seize it and they literally went door to door. We're talking about multiple decades of treating them unfairly, despite them taking hard jobs and having large families. It's all just sad but let's talk honestly, it didn't need to come down to a civil war if people had been nicer to each other.

[@elvirdjedovic7638]

​@@AleksAvramJeff😢 cry me a river

[@stophackingmygoogleaccount3886]

bro this guy is literally a kremlin shill, you just think hes unbiased because he agrees with you. Everyone is biased.

[@MonkeWithThaZa]

That same Serbian Police officer lived and worked in Kosovo for The Kosovo Govrement, he got a medal for his service from them and worked for 15 years full. A day after he left he was arrested, and nearly a year by now he is still in custody not Jail nor Prison.

[@aleks2937]

As a Serbian this is one of the best videos I’ve seen on this topic. Keep on making good videos.

[@faubourglincoln]

He’s a Canadian but with Serbian parents, what do you expect lol?

[@TheWolfDude91]

@@faubourglincoln what? Really, thats awesome, he's even more based

[@faubourglincoln]

@@TheWolfDude91 you wrote based but your unconscious was thinking biased.

[@Balkanlegend890]

Kosovo is Albania 🇦🇱

[@knn059]

First off all in KiM everyone was free to talk whatever language they wanted, had their own radio, tv, schools, etc etc unlike russian majority parts in ukraine. Lugansk, Donets, Crimea had a referendum with 99% to separate from Ukraine, Kosovo didnot. Next NATO went and bombed Serbia helping KiM to get an independance going against all rules, laws, etc etc even their own NATO law of force to be used only to defend someones border and not the cut and severe it. Story goes on, not to mention that US politicians and generals are now owners of mobile networks, mines, coal refineries and such in Kosovo region. But its hard to explain all this to brainwashed west that are thought nothing in schools aside of their own country.

[@iplaygames8090]

Definetly not 99%. Crimea was like 97% and that was the highest percentage of all the refferendi.

[@vinrael7544]

Lol, in every part of Ukraine where the Russian army is standing behind voters somehow 99% wants to join Russia, but few steps further where Russian army is not in control it's the completely opposite. 😂 This should make someone think....

[@butragenjo007]

What referendum? You mean that one 6 months ago in the middle of war when Russia didn't controll 100% of all the provinces in question? And with all those displaced refugees?

[@thomasb5600]

Yes, it is hard to explain facts to the brainwashed but here it goes. You mean the 2014 referendum that was held with less than a month after Russia occupied Crimea. When exactly did Lugansk and Donetsk hold a referendum? Ohh immediately after Russia occupation, Hmm. Can you show a law before 2022 that said all people in Ukraine must stop speaking Russian? No, the law was that Ukrainian language would be the preferred language of the government and taught in schools. While not mention in the video NATO air attacks on Serbia occurred while Serbia was supporting action of genocide in Bosnia.

[@natanfevrier2367]

@@vinrael7544 Russian soldiers standing behind voters is a myth

[@kiberburjui9608]

Косово-Сербия!

[@deriznohappehquite]

Serbia is Ottoman.

[@dariopesic4935]

@@deriznohappehquite Otoman is mongol

[@ronkaufhold6253]

balkan is german!

[@shariarmontasir3569]

Serbia is mine

[@morski_ludak2239]

Mongol is Martian

[@OriginalSickMick]

You explain very well. Commendable effort with research. I wish you all the success and luck!

[@jupiterbooba]

Good video 👏🏻👏🏻

[@maximsiddy40]

I know the history of the region. I'm also quite aware of the destructive role of the german, british and us forces that eventually created the path for the US / NATO invasion of Serbia. So - thanks a lot for the objective review! Unfortunately such objective coverage is rarely seen in our media.

[@ado9255]

US and NATO was justified, stop the d riding of Serbs nationalist who would’ve massacre the Muslims population in Kosovo like they did / tried in Bosnia. Time to stop being anti-American and grow up.

[@Gearparadummies]

Bombing a country isn't invading. The US is great at destroying things, it sucks hard at occupation. From 1975 to 2001 they were aware of this. Then, their braincells died.

[@Ren-bj4xm]

not part of nato/allies then not part of history.

[@naimkozi3767]

If u know the history u would know that Serbs started the war with overwhelming military might and committed the overwhelming majority of atrocities and ethnic cleansing. They also have the distinction of running rape and murder camps in Bosnia. Serbs did this NOT NATO !

[@horvatlovren7198]

Yes. It was Nato that massacred 8K Bosniak civillians in the pace of 1 week in Srebrenica. It was NATO that completely levelled the town of Vukovar, and massacred 300 Croat Civilians there in 1 day (including elderly and many wounded people they dragged out of hospitals). It was NATO that killed some 380 Albanian catholic civllians in the village of Meja. It was NATO that set up rape camps in Bosnia It was NATO that had concentration camps like Omarska etc where you see vidoes of Croat and Bosniak men looking completely malnourished. Its always NATO. The poor Serbs are always innocent. But you got some medicine with Oluja in 95 🚜🚜

[@-APTX]

One of the reasons why Serbia and China share such a good relation is because NATO deliberately bombed China Embassy in the Yugoslav War. It was a direct provocation and a act of war towards China. China was no where near as strong as it is today we bide our time and got stronger. As Serbia and China went through that together, we hold a special kind of respect and understanding towards each other. Kosovo is Serbia !!! 💪💪

[@thehumus8688]

one of the theory I read, that the Chinese approach serbs to get wreckage of Downed F-117 Nighthawk that shoot down thats why NATO "mistakenly" bomb Chinese embasy its unknown if they get Wreckage parts for analysis though ( i belive they prob did)

[@ranbojd1070]

ah, so that's why China is stealing the Balkans blind and demolishing war monuments to build poorly made roads

[@Sola678]

Serbia and china have so good relations that Serbia is selling land to china lol

[@theroaringdragon306]

They bombed it cause china kinda took a plane wreck to study it which has to be the funniest thing i read about.

[@butragenjo007]

Serbia is colony of China

[@valeriotiivas4463]

Good job bro

[@douglasschaefer7786]

Great episode

[@fortweek_7389]

25:50 Just a correction. Wars were fought in areas where Serbs were majority after those countries declared independence and were recognized by Yugoslavia. The reason why war in Slovenian didn't last long and nothing happened in Montenegro is because there wasn't a local Serbian minority that wanted to stay with Serbia. Basically Bosnian situation is reverse Kosovo situation. What frustrates many Serbs is how some countries want Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serb entity in Bosnia) to stay as part of Bosnian and even potentially integrated and dissolve ideally but when it comes to Kosvo they want it to be independent and integrated with Albania. 33:50 Disarmament was only done for cameras both in Kosovo and Macedonia. 34:20 This was a bully move from NATO forcing Serbia to sign under a treat of economic isolation.

[@vvkth2500]

Serbs are constitutive people in Montenegro.. there weren't simply enough of the "others" for tensions to flare up.

[@Nidzadrugar]

@@vvkth2500 Croats removed Serbs from constitutive people in 1990 Constitution.

[@lioneldemun6033]

I agree with what you just exposed, with one caveat : the US has, like Rome, one basic principle : " divide et impera". ( Divide and conquer). So they are not so keen either for an union between Kosovo and Albania, and it's the same for Moldavia/Romania. They pushed the " velvet revolution"( separation of Czechia and Slowakia in 1993). They encouraged Djukanovic to separate Montenegro from Serbia ( 2004). They want many tiny helpless states with US bases, they have no actual ethnic preferences.

[@EntryLevelLuxury]

The concept of greater albania is creepy

[@lioneldemun6033]

@@EntryLevelLuxury " Greater Albania", like " Greater Serbia" or " Greater Romania" would still be a fairly small country. But the Western powers of course are very happy to have Eastern Europe divided in tiny weeny statelets they can manipulate at wish.

[@njegosobradovic4685]

Great video, there were some important things that were left unmentioned such as "Pogrom of 2004", but all around it is a great analysis. Greetings from Republic of Srpska ❤🇷🇸

[@hunterthompson6737]

but who cares tho ? You guys tried to create a fascist greater serbia , re opened concentration camps ( my father was in one of them ) , you failed and we are supposed to cry for you ?

[@jokekopter2509]

Izgubili ste u ratu s vise ljudi,oruzija i zracne snage

[@republicofserbia]

Your comment should be pinned. Врло битна информација је изостављена, треба пиновати твој коментат.

[@uguldius5042]

You mean greetings from Bosnia, Srpska doesnt exist.

[@ni9274]

14 people died, this isn't a pogrom. And should we talk about the ethnic cleansing and the massacre committed by the Serbians on the Albanians?

[@nobadimes]

Dude you rock Thank you for all the exciting facts I really appreciate you doing your homework thank you and keep up the good work

[@michaelallen2714]

Very impressed with how unbiased and informative this video was. Thank you.

[@qwertyqwerty-dr4ni]

you forgot to talk about the march pogrom in 2004

[@blackbully11able]

As an ethnic Albanian from the Presevo area I have to say: Lets stop fighting and find common ground for a peaceful future for our children. I have serb neighbors and we do get along very well

[@user-jq7ut5oe4v]

Vjerovatno su tu u manjini,kako je to podal i licemjeran narod,tu zabludu odlično se slažemo smo mi u Bosni platili životima svoje djece i to desetinama hiljada

[@dalsitinormalan]

As an ethnic Serbian who was driven away from his home as a child by KLA terrorists, I say fuck you and your ilk. Until you go back to those forgotten mountains you came from, there will be no peace.

[@wickedtoydivision7279]

@@user-jq7ut5oe4v a Srbi nisau platili zivotima svoje dece jel? Kravice?

[@mirkoslavko23]

@@user-jq7ut5oe4v Ali vam ne smeta da drugujete sa ubicama 500.000 iračke dece? I posle Avganistana, Iraka, Libije, Sirije, Ukrajine, vama jos nije jasno ko je kriv za rat u Jugoslaviji?

[@D-A-A-]

​@@wickedtoydivision7279he never said that, you're just looking for a fight, you're part of the problem, need copper in ye skull

[@Go19100]

Thanks!

[@MrMatijaaaa]

Very important and yet frequently overlooked historical context of this issue. Thank you for covering it unlike many others !

[@goranstankovic3330]

Thank you very much. Never saw such a good description of this conflict. I much appreciate your effort to do this analysis.

[@mariocuric2945]

You are great man!!! Keep up the god work

[@latinlatino5146]

Great video

[@dragantanackovic1360]

Хвала ти брате што говориш о нашем Косову и Метохији!❤

[@sergtrufanov5565]

Привет сербам 👋. Косово - Сербия, но Крым - Россия 😁

[@djape1977]

Крим ето Россия Украина ето Россия Всё Россия Кроме Косово, ето Сербия 😊

[@dragantanackovic1360]

@@sergtrufanov5565 Зто верно!

[@dragantanackovic1360]

@@djape1977 Точно так!

[@EASAustraliaNSW]

@@djape1977 Ukraine is not Russia

[@teodorradovic1254]

Im so glad you are covering this! Slava historylegends Kosovo is Serbia

[@thegamingsoup2531]

SLAVA H!!!

[@yellowtunes2756]

Srebia

[@Ceo_of_gesperrt_werden]

Kosovo is albania kiddy get bombed by nato

[@parallax9084]

In your dreams. Kosovo will always be albania

[@HawkThunder907]

​​@@parallax9084 ratio and *if* nobody will care anyway, only us two and NATO with other criminals will steal your money because Kosovo is poorer than an African tribe

[@Hardcore6166]

I am a bit disappointed that you did not cover the NATO bombing of Belgrade. Civilians were killed for nothing there.

[@temistogen]

Kosovo is leagally in the property not only of Serbia but serb civilians,serbian church and serb companies. All of them had their property stolen. Where is the protection of private property? 65 percent of that land is under Serb ownership.

[@parallax9084]

Yet 92% of the nation is Albanian

[@Cortesevasive]

@@parallax9084 there is only one cure for such infestation

[@ioanisful]

​@@Cortesevasive and NATO is the cure my cockroach friend

[@parallax9084]

@@Cortesevasive yes. It needs to be 100% albanian

[@SCMSD]

@@parallax9084 No its to kick the rats to where they belong. In Asia minor.

[@mihail0431]

At the Battle of Kosovo, the Ottoman army was the one to retreat in order, and the churches around Europe rang their bells for the Christian victory, but the Serbian manpower was depleted, while the Ottomans had many armies in reserve. Serbia remained free for a few decades but succumbed to vassalisation without much battle.

[@khairt1731]

"Christian victory" 😂 Serbs are ATHEISTS! You serbs dont give a fuck about the Church or Jesus. Im from Balkans, who.are you fooling buddy?

[@christianriddler5063]

The Ottomans destroyed so much.

[@noyansever]

The great battle of Kosovo was way too costly for both sides . It was a draw indeed , both sides lost their leaders and many thousands of warriors in one single day. Only the Ottoman army had the man power and the resources to recover and eventually go on the offensive again. In the longterm, the battle of Kosovo sealed the fate of the Serbs for almost 500 years . We Turks respect Serbs as brave warriors and knights , Stefan Lazarevic’s Serbian knights fought bravely and held the line against Timur when every Turkic Beylik and Tatars betrayed Sultan Beyazid in the battle of Ankara . That speaks volumes about their bravery and commitment.

[@guwop-fn3qh]

Fantasy

[@iang.4910]

​@khairt1731 Serbs were Christians. They generally converted in the 8th-9th centuries. That's been pretty consistent since.

[@louisehopkins3214]

Thank you, I feel much better knowing the whole story 👍🏻

[@jasestrong]

Great video , I learned so much , I served In Bosnia with KFOR in the mid to late 90’s , it was hard to keep up with Al, the movements over time. I would love for you to do a break down of Ukraine and surrounding countries to include Poland.

[@losrajvosa0078]

You were with kuffar

[@rampazzobruno9711]

Awesome video! The "here we go again" part was super fun, but the amount of wars in such "small" area is incredible and sad.

[@joseph_7127]

As an Romanian i believe that Kosovo je Srbska

[@petars.6210]

@USSR Thank you Brother. 👍

[@jrcarrillo7791]

Then Moldova je Транснистриа

[@lorik0109]

Yes and rumania I belive is russia😂

[@albania881]

Kosovo and serbia is Albania

[@albania881]

@@petars.6210 iam from Ferizaj/Kosovo.. Kosovo (DARDANIA) was Albanian in history and will always be Albanian

[@robertkreamer7522]

Your programs are superb. I minored in history in college, although the directors of the department of history wanted me to major and become a history professor. Instead, I went the route of being a philosophy major. . At any rate, you have an incredibly good grasp and you can deliver the lesson in an interesting way. That’s the key to many people unfortunately, history seems dull, but it’s not. We are all here because of what happened in history, your family and my family from the world you talk about we survived the plagues. We survived the wars the hundred years war the 30 years war, it all matters and it really does tell us what’s going on today is all tied back to the history. . That’s why when Putin wanted to explain that detailed history to Tucker he had to do that because he knows a few people in the West have any idea of how complex and deep seated so many of these issues are they have never left and they never will .

[@Giantist]

My father said the worst war he had been in was during his time with the UN in Bosnia, he said it was brutal and scary, threats on every corner

[@milandjordjevic8590]

Yes but this video is not about the war in Bosnia but yes about Kosovo and Metohija

[@silviumaciuca1333]

Kosovo is not a country

[@genasis8049]

it is a country

[@geographyandstuff31]

@@genasis8049 it is not a country

[@NSanthems]

Kosovo Srpska. love from Romania

[@ahappylictor3214]

​@@genasis8049 fake country

[@classical_music_enjoyer]

Well, it really isn't really a country; more than half of the world does not recognize them. I think I might be wrong.

[@milos582]

This is probably the best explaination of this conflict on KZbin. No fairy tales and myths, no unsourced assumptions, narrative pushing etc. overall very informative video. Greetings from Serbia, my family was heavy subject of Albanian violence during WW2 and 90s. A lot died, other part has been scattered through entire Serbia, from Kosovo to Vojvodina and even Europe thanks to Nazi Germany. This is far from being over.

[@ado9255]

I can say the same as a Bosniak. We were subjects to Serbian and Croatian violence.

[@filki0599]

@@ado9255 Everybody were subjects to everyones violence

[@milos582]

@@ado9255 more than 3 Million Serbian lives are lost in the 120 years because of wars. Kick rocks.

[@ado9255]

@@milos582 only looking a yourself, Serbs killed nearly 100,000 Muslims just 30 years alone and expelled appx 2.5/3.5 million people. Plus why are you Serbs obsessed with things 100+ years ago. Stop your victim mentality.

[@milosmitrovic6684]

​@@ado9255 ahahahhahahahaha "who started the war?" 😅

[@alphaghostrabbithole5340]

Very Interesting 😮

[@astra6485]

The Balkans trying not to explode into mass conflict:

[@josephboustany4852]

I know almost nothing of European history but isn't Eastern Europe a place where war is almost "normal" They are kind of between Europe the middle east and Asia

[@heyhoe168]

@@josephboustany4852 100-year war enters the chat. 😅

[@sterijastanojevic8002]

We try our best😓😓😓

[@rantymcrant-pants9536]

Like, everyday, forever...

[@zmajooov]

Damn, i have no objections to your video, well done bro, greetings from Belgrade.

[@teremin]

This and future yugo videos deserve their own playlist.

[@Thracian117]

My teacher at college was ex military police, he told us of his deployment to Bosnia during the yugoslav war.

[@IstvanThree]

My grandparents had a holiday home near the border on the Austrian side and I remember as a kid the pretty nervous atmosphere with the adults (it was 91). Everyday we could hear explosions. Even as a kid I found it strange, the concept of "war" pretty near around us with me sitting at the lake having ice-cream and enjoying the holidays.

[@beyondrecall9446]

you could hear explosions every day from where?

[@IstvanThree]

@@beyondrecall9446 Austria - Kärnten - near the Bleiburg/Pliberk border. Of course it was miles away, but you could hear some of it.

[@vanjamenadzer]

This is how people in Odesa live rn. My colleague brother is in Odesa and he says that everything is normal, apart from occasional explosion here and there lol. He says that after a while you get used to it and eventually ignore it.

[@IstvanThree]

@@vanjamenadzer We had at least a border in between. But yeah, life goes on, must go on. Hope they´re well, hope you´re well!

[@vanjamenadzer]

@@IstvanThree Well, the life is hard. But, since you have the same name as my uncle, the life seems a just a bit better for me :)

[@TheMountainBeyondTheWoods]

I wasn't aware of a lot of the history, this was very thorough and interesting. I was a teenager in the 90s living in Portugal and remember watching the news about the Balkan wars and the intervention of NATO and the US. Even back then I felt things weren't exactly as they were telling us.

[@kinglizard3406]

for us its not balkan wars, for us ( Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Monte Negro, BiH(where Bosnians, Serbs and Croats living) Kosovo,Albania) it is war for independece from Serbian power

[@nikolanikic2045]

@@kinglizard3406 why were bosnians and croats fighting than? your nick suits you well....

[@kinglizard3406]

@@nikolanikic2045 bcs Serbian,Croatian and Bosnian leaders in that time have difrent intres than people ,, and where did i wrote that they didnt fight.. also why serbs fight slovenians in Slovenia, why serbs fight croats in Croatia, why serbs in BiH fight with croats and bosnian, in Monte Negro also, for Macedonia i didnt shure but Macedonians also vote to leave jugoslavia,, why serbs leader from serbia fuck of serbian fighters in BiH and denied serbian civilian to enter Beograd,, al that bcs of POLITICS ...

[@svevladovtriglav]

@@kinglizard3406 Serbian power in communist Yugoslavia, thas was ruled by a Slavonian, Slovenian and a Croat?

[@forest4ev3r]

@@kinglizard3406 this guy haha

[@volvicius]

I'm so glad I found you rougly a year ago, I like my info as little meddled by as posible and judging from what I saw, you deliver that, thanks bro (cause we're namesakes hahah) I'm currently writing a paper on the russian perspective on kosovo and gonna structe my "context" part around the chapters you used. If you or the community has any sources they could suggest (that depict russian perspective as unbiased as possible) I'd be glaud to read some of them. I mean sources, not just literature :) greetings from the "neutral" germany (my professor is a social-globalist, hence the seminar was pretty biased in that direction)

[@DornanJankovic]

This was amazing, as a Serb myself this was a fair detailed video which looked perspective from both sides

[@burekmeso123]

Thank you so much for this video, as a Serb from Kosovo myself I'm very glad that you are mentioning us

[@User37717]

Hi from US

[@officialdislikebutton2954]

In which part of kosovo you live

[@violentdodo809]

In 10 year Dardania will be FREE from Serbs

[@burekmeso123]

@@officialdislikebutton2954 South-Eastern, around the city of Gnjilane

[@Pero-zl4jp]

I’m curious do you know any Albanian or is the divide still strong? All my Albanian friends in kosov do not know a word of Serbian. I know it used to be the people of kosovo would know each other’s languages (look at the singer Jana she understands Albanian).

[@DeanThurgau]

You are good man 👍

[@karldecori9408]

Subscribed to the channel for a couple of weeks. Probably the best western channel. Without propaganda or forcing points of view. Greetings from Russia.👍

[@abrahamacevedo5302]

This video illustrates perfectly 1) how the present cannot be understood without the past and 2) History repeats itself, inevitably

[@mehmetbardici2893]

I don't belive to much in history I don't like history books because its too much lies

[@user-ss6co6vj5f]

@@mehmetbardici2893 Whatever you say, dum-dum.

[@THELORDVODKA]

@@mehmetbardici2893 And you want to have opinion on history? Just think about it better lol.

[@mehmetbardici2893]

@@user-ss6co6vj5f it depends who writes the history books And history used for politicians and propaganda

[@mehmetbardici2893]

@@user-ss6co6vj5f maybe I belive on god but not on fxk religions and priests who use god and religions there they can be criminals who became priests Same thing with history books, the truth can be used on different ways W

[@devildogu1284]

Love the fact you talk about general conflicts and inform us on such topics often forgotten or suppressed. Keep up the amazing content

[@demonbox666]

That statue is missing a kneeling Monica 😂

[@MrXltennis]

Wow....thanks

[@rbasket8]

Just here, upvoting every KOSOVO is SERBIA comment. From 🇪🇦

[@MineFullStop]

Imagine Nato saying to Spain you have to recognise Catalonia as a independent country or 20 something countries that are in Nato will bomb you.

[@sterijastanojevic8002]

Catalonia is Spain

[@rbasket8]

@@MineFullStop No doubt if Spanish government was Russian or China leaning they would promote that. BTW I am Catalan. And Kosovo case is even much worse, because Albanians arent from there plus Kosovo is Serbs motherland. But dont go much far away, USA pressured Spain during transition from Franco to "democracy" to let Western Sahara in favour of Morocco (close US ally). Now Western Sahara is basically an Israel/Palestine like territory with sharawis kicked out of their land. Not talking about how US stole Puerto Rico, Guam, Marianas, Philippines and Cuba from Spain 120 years ago. Puerto Rico is still a colony, and in Puerto Rico, unlike Cuba, they were always pro Spain (no independence movement). US people has donde great things to world, but US government and elites, are morally rotten to the bone. Specially the ones right now ruling. Imagine being Germany, Nord Stream bombing no one talks about.

[@rbasket8]

@@sterijastanojevic8002 Catalonia is one of the founders of Spain. You cant understand Spain without Catalonia and otherwise. As you cant understand Germany without Baviera.

[@EASAustraliaNSW]

Why?

[@datsunlambchops4624]

To take something so complicated and make it understandable to regular people is a very important skill. And that is exactly what you were able to do here. Great job! I know there are many fine details and nuances missing. However to add creates the complexity. 👍👍

[@keepingitwild5994]

This is by far the best sum-up of the centuries-old conflict I've ever come across. Both, Serbs and Albanians are fed with nationalistic versions of events which are completely at odds with one another. It's a pity, because this version simply tells it as it is and could probably sound very historical to either Albanians or Serbs. Congratulations man! Thumbs up to you for a very clear and concise explanation!

[@milosjovicevic6083]

🙄 This is CNN story with small part of real stuff. Very pro - Albanians video lol

[@keepingitwild5994]

@@milosjovicevic6083 It doesn't seem pro-Albanian at all. It clearly stated that the first Ottoman census in the 14-th century carried in Kosovo, tells that in northern and central Kosovo there was 90% majority Serbian population, while the southern part was a 90% majority Albanian. What's pro-Albanian about that?

[@SaintSkanderbegus]

​@keepingitwild5994 That is absolute bs on his part. Ottomans did NOT record Serb or Albanian . They recorded them by Christian or Muslim. Guess what? Albanians at that time were still 90% Christian. You cant assume that Christian means Serb like this dude does. Thats just a serbian propaganda bs to make it look like majority were serb which they weren't

[@milosjovicevic6083]

@@SaintSkanderbegus 1455 on Kosovo were only 5% Albanians lol🙄