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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 89%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Serbia on Monday placed its security troops on the border with Kosovo on "The full state of combat readiness," ignoring NATO's calls for calming down of tensions between the two wartime Balkan foes.
  Kosovo's government has asked NATO troops - which deployed in 1999 after the trans-Atlantic alliance bombed Serbia into leaving Kosovo - to remove the Serb roadblocks.
  Serbia has asked KFOR to deploy up to 1,000 of its troops in the Serb-populated north of Kosovo, to protect Kosovo Serbs from alleged harassment by ethnic Albanians, who are the majority in the country.
  
  
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context: Serbian here, let me explain. 
  Yesterday a huge chemical truck flipped over and dangerous chemicals got into a Nišava river in southern Serbia. This same water is used for drinking and other stuff.
  Government is using this to cover up real problems. Don’t worry, these “tensions” happen every few months
  Edit update: some reports say 51 person in hospital with symptoms of poisoning already >
  
  
  Don’t worry, these “tensions” happen every few months
  
  Every few months every single year ever since the Ottomans gtfo'ed 104 years ago.. >
  
  It's been an on and off thing since Kosovo was first being juggled around by East Rome, Bulgaria and Serbia starting in the 11th century. >
  
  The region has been at each other's throats since the Greeks and Romans fought the Gepids and Thracians, then the Dacians, then the Huns and the Ostrogoths, then the Slavic peoples migrated in, took on some local flavor and diverged into separate nationalities/ ethnic groups, and fought each other ever since. >
  
  Honestly the region just sounds super cursed. >
  
  Nothing that happens in the Balkans is worth the bones of a single Pomeranian Grenadier.
  
  Bismarck. >
  
  I was just thinking about him. Didn’t he sort of half-predict the next conflict would come about due to shenanigans in the Balkans, and advised his emperor to ignore all of it? >
  
  Pretty much. Bismarck knew how the game was played and Wilhelm 2 dismissing him was idiotic. >
  
  To be fair by the time the crisis occured Bismark had died so the Kaiser would have been on his own handling it regardless >
  
  To be even more fair, Bismarck had predicted it twice. The first time he said it would be some damn thing in the Balkans that would set everything off.  The second prediction was to Wilhelm himself the last time they spoke for how long he'd have after Bismarck died. He was off by 4 months. >
  
  The Serbian army is much smaller than it used to be and they've shown no signs of actually preparing for a war. It's all just smoke and there is absolutely nothing to be alarmed of >
  
  I mostly lean towards saying the same thing but I’m absolutely going to say that anyone commenting about how nothing is going to happen and making damn near guarantees on what is going to happen on reddit of all places should absolutely be disregarded. 
  Iamsosmart Redditors also scoffed and dismissed any suggestion the Taliban would retake Afghanistan not too long ago too. Anything could happen. >
  
  This won't turn into anything. >
  
  People said the exact same thing earlier this year when Putin started lining his tanks across the Russia-Ukraine border. >
  
  Russia has nuclear weapons and isn’t completely surrounded by NATO. It’s a bit different. >
  
  Russia is not going to get involved in anything in Serbia it’s the Balkans tensions happen there all the time. Difference between this and Ukraine is NATO is in Kosovo and Serbia was defeated by them last time they tried invading if NATO was in Ukraine Russia would not touch it because NATO would defeat Russia >
  
  Can we not? >
  
  It is Balkans, it has been 20 years without war. You are asking for too much, sorry. >
  
  "Balkan Powderkeg" is a shirt you can wear on any occasion in any time period and ppl will be like heh yea >
  
  That’s not true. A thousand years ago they might not have understood what a powder keg is. >
  
  I think if they could read just the Balkan part they'd be able to parse it may not even need the second term
  "Balkan Cylinder? That is cutting humor, future person!"
  No offense to Balkan peeps but you folks are like Warhammer Dwarves with book of grievances that literally span thousands of years
  Last time I ask about Alexander the Great and European grains >
  
  It really is crazy how so many Balkans are apparently medieval and ancient history experts who know every slight against their country and how everything their country ever did was warranted >
  
  Man I get that Serbia/Kosovo flaring up is a common occurrence, but good god. China-Taiwan, Russia-Ukraine, the Koreas, the whole world is either fighting or at a knifes edge. >
  
  Armenia-Azerbajian, Turkey-Rojava, Belarus-Ukraine. The list goes on. >
  
  Not to mention India and Pakistan always being a thing. We’re in for a long decade of regional conflicts and deglobalization. >
  
  Plus the Turkey/Greece dispute regading Cyprus
  Plus the tensions in the Middle East and North Africa (Syria for example)
  This whole world soon is going to shit by the feel of it >
  
  Serbia cant invade Kosovo anymore. That 1998 train is gone. I dont think that Serbia is that Stupid, invading Kosovo and Attacking KFOR Troops. That would mean War against Nato, and they will get Steamrolled by NATO. >
  
  I’m not entirely familiar with nato-Kosovo relations but why would invading Kosovo mean war with nato?
  I know nato increased its combat readiness in the area over the license plate dispute and nato was heavily involved in the Yugoslav wars, so I don’t doubt that nato will jump to defend Kosovo, I just don’t really understand why. >
  
  For more info just google "biggest army camp in europe" and you will find the answer🤣 >
  
  In the Balkans* >
  
  In Europe* >
  
  biggest NATO army camp in europe* >
  
  Serbia places that one farmer with his tractor at the border. >
  
  I mean we already saw what a motivated farmer can accomplish with his tractor. >
  
  You should see what a motivated welder can do with a bulldozer >
  
  Killdozer moment >
  
  Kosovo again? NG+? Please all countries stop invading others because of some nationalistic bullshit beliefs. >
  
  There is no invading here? Kosovo is not a country. Serbia can't invade itself. >
  
  Classic deluded serb, mental check needed for you buddy. >
  
  Ad hominem fallacy. >
  
  The only fallacy is you believing Serbia has control of a country that left y’all over a decade ago