so how could this happen? Wars. With territories changing hands. Tanks and artillery used. Atrocities.
Maybe Serbia tries to violently stop Kosovo's secession in 2008?
Already happening in OTL: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/...rned-kosovo-into-fertile-ground-for-isis.htmlSlow burn radicalization of the Sandzak Muslims or of Kosovo maybe, through Saudi aid?
REALLY getting tired of telling folks this.A violent coup attempt takes place in Montenegro in December 2016, and the situation escalates further when Aleksandar Vučić, the Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated soon afterwards. Milorad Dodik calls for an independence referendum in Rebublika Srpska, and northern Kosovo sees a new wave of unrest.
While the Bosnian Serb administration presses ahead with their referendum plan and the coup regime in Montenegro meets organized resistance and mass demonstrations with violence, especially in the southeastern Albanian minority areas, the situation in the country descends to civil war.
President Trump enters office with a dismissive attitude towards the crisis, which according to him is caused by the "violent, fierce people of Montenegro." His Twitter tirades focus on blaming the Obama administration for the whole mess.
The European powers are distracted by Brexit, and the calls for a quick intervention to Montenegro are complicated, when reports of Wagner mercenaries operating in the country as a support for the new regime emerge. The future of Balkans looks bleak.
Macedonia continue to have military engagements with Albanian insurgents. 2001 there had been a 10 day war. Since then several clashes until current day. Also Sein South Serbia there ist an ethnic issue. Slovenia and Croatia had a border argument in the 2000es. In 2014 there had been heavy clashes between Peacekeaping troops and Serbian Ultranationalists on Kosovo Border.so how could this happen? Wars. With territories changing hands. Tanks and artillery used. Atrocities.