In the shadow of Great Albania

[asthfghl]

ROSU deploys in north Kosovo, Vucic orders full combat alert

This incident happened about two months ago. The Kosovo special forces (ROSU) entered the mostly ethnic Serb municipalities in Northern Kosovo. Some shoot-out ensued, resulting in a few wounded Serbs as well as a couple of UNMIK diplomats being arrested. One turned out to be a Russian citizen. The local Serbs reported the Kosovo forces had made mass arrests of Serbs, purportedly on charges of corruption. At some point the Serbs tried to block the way of the special forces by raising barricades. It was a bit of a mess really.

Curiously, KFOR (the NATO peace-keeping forces) didn't move a finger, although they're supposed to, well, keep the peace there. Their excuse? We don't deal with Kosovo's internal matters, and corruption is an internal matter. Very nice.

( Trouble, and more trouble )

To take my mind from the UK's present predicament

[johnny9fingers]

And to go back to a long-running series of posts about the Mueller investigation.

Mr Mueller recently testified before Congress:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49100778

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/24/mueller-testimony-republican-response-trump

And there appears to be more than one narrative at work here. Mr Mueller's testimony seemed to indicate actual wrongdoing on Trump's part; but, as the Graun's article mentioned, the Republicans are claiming it as a victory. From the outside it appears confusing, even for those of us reasonably well-versed in US politics and the Constitution. So I have to ask the US experts on the panel, even with all the other lunacies going on at the moment: Brexit, Iran, N & S Korea/Japan/China, China and Russia joint military actions etc - despite all of these, do our experts have an opinion on Mueller's testimony? Or have we already moved so far beyond the point where it is relevant at all in any way? And is it the case that, as the Dems aren't going to do anything about any of it, President Trump is effectively exonerated?

If so, at least we know where we are now.