By Lutfi Dervishi
Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of President Trump, made a revelation yesterday in Belgrade: Kosovo does not exist.
In a profound and quite enlightening conversation with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, Don Jr. published a map where Kosovo appears as part of Serbia, a revelation that even shocked American satellites who helped NATO in 1999.
Apparently, Trump Jr. has discovered a truth that neither Bill Clinton, nor Tony Blair, nor the US with its 18 allies had understood when they bombed Belgrade to stop the ethnic cleansing campaign. The question is:
If Kosovo is not recognized by Trump Jr., did the 1999 war really happen?
Did one million Albanians get expelled by Milošević’s military machine, or was this a fabrication/fake news?
Was Serbia, after 1990, the instigator of four wars in the Balkans, or did it unjustly clash with the Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, and Albanians?
Media in Russia and Serbia immediately saw this statement as a shift in American policy. Perhaps, according to them, this is the first step in revisiting the events of the ‘90s, undoing NATO’s decisions, and maybe even declaring Milošević a historical misunderstanding. After all, if history can be rewritten with a map in a podcast, anything is possible.
Vučić, a master of playing the historical victim, seized the moment to remind that international law only matters when it suits Serbia.
The decision of the International Court (initiated by Serbia) recognizing Kosovo’s Independence no longer holds any value. Meanwhile, the government of Kosovo is trying to figure out if there’s any manual on how to regain existence after an accidental erasure from Trump Jr.’s podcast map.
One question remains hanging: Will history continue to exist if Don Jr. doesn’t recognize it?
We may get an answer in the next podcast, when it’s revealed that Berlin is in Austria, that World War II was just a misunderstanding between neighbors, and that Hitler was a pacifist dragged into war by warmongers like Churchill!
