EDITORIAL Serbian Slogans About Returning to Kosovo – Expansionist Delusion, Hypocritical Backing, and a Confrontation with a Reality T. hey Refuse to Accept Written by Flamur Buçpapaj

EDITORIAL
Serbian Slogans About Returning to Kosovo – Expansionist Delusion, Hypocritical Backing, and a Confrontation with a Reality T. hey Refuse to Accept
Written by Flamur Buçpapaj
The world will be astonished by the Albanian army if Kosovo is threatened.
This time not through slogans, not through empty rhetoric, and not through nationalist rallies, but through the concrete reality of defense, organization, and modern power. What Serbia articulates on banners, the world will witness on the ground.
Serbian chants of “when the army returns to Kosovo” are neither political jokes nor folklore for domestic consumption. They are hostile declarations, open expressions of an expansionist mindset that has never healed. Serbia continues to live with the ghost of “return” because it has never accepted the historical, moral, and political defeat of 1999. It has never accepted Kosovo’s freedom because it has never accepted the Albanian people’s right to be masters of their own land.
This language of war stems from the psychology of a loser that refuses to accept reality. Serbia has lost wars, but it has not lost its colonial mentality. Its political and military elites still feed on medieval myths, twentieth-century ideas, and a false narrative of victimhood. For them, Kosovo is not a matter of international law but an identity obsession. And when a state is driven by obsessions, it becomes dangerous not because of its strength, but because of its blindness.
These threats are also fueled by a grave misreading of international circumstances. Belgrade believes that America is weakening, that NATO is fragmenting, and that Russia will impose a new world order. This is a strategic illusion. NATO today is more expanded and stronger than ever. America is not leaving the Balkans; it views it as a key area for European stability. Russia is not building a new order; it is sinking into isolation and crisis. Serbia is building policy on wishes and nostalgia, not on facts and realities.
Another factor emboldening Serbia is European hypocrisy. Europe speaks of peace while tolerating Serbia’s aggressive militarization. It speaks of justice while applying selective justice. It speaks of democratic values while remaining silent about Serbian crimes and demanding extreme sentences for the KLA, attempting to criminalize the Albanian liberation struggle. This approach is neither neutral nor moral; it is dangerous, because it sends Belgrade the message that the language of force can return without consequences.
In reality, Serbia is protected by no one. It is used. Russia uses it as a destabilizing instrument in the Balkans. Certain European circles use it as a lever of political pressure. Corrupt regional elites use it as an alibi for their own failures. But no one will shed blood for Serbian expansionist fantasies. No one will risk European peace for Belgrade’s myths. This is the truth Serbian propaganda conceals from its own citizens.
In this delirium, Serbia dangerously underestimates the Albanian army and the Kosovo Security Force. It behaves as if Albanians were still unprotected, divided, and without allies. This is its greatest strategic mistake. Kosovo’s forces are being built on modern standards, with Western training and a defensive doctrine. The Albanian Armed Forces are part of NATO, with real capabilities, professional structure, and modern equipment. Albanians have no complex of conquest and do not speak in slogans. They are where they must be: on their own land and within their alliances.
Serbia’s militarization is not a sign of strength but of fear. A confident state does not live with tanks on television screens nor feed public opinion with war rhetoric. Serbia is arming itself because it senses that the era of domination has ended and because it understands that Albanians are no longer a weak factor, but a real pillar of stability and security in the region.
The strengthening of the Albanian army is not an ideological choice but a historical necessity. Albanians do not arm themselves to conquer, but to avoid being conquered. They do not arm themselves for war, but to prevent it. History has been merciless to peoples who failed to defend themselves. Russia and Europe partitioned the Albanian nation in the last century. That reality will not be repeated.
If Serbia continues down this path, the consequences are clear: deeper isolation, loss of international credibility, and confrontation with a military reality it has never known. Albanians do not seek war, but they do not fear it. And if Kosovo is threatened, the world will see clearly—not in slogans and not in propaganda—but in the reality of a modern, organized Albanian force determined to defend freedom.
This is not a call for war.
It is a clear historical warning.
Because the era of slogans is over.
And the era of Albanian national responsibility has begun.