Behind the Curtain of the Kosovo Serbia Agreement

The rest of the bullet points serve only US foreign policy interests; activities to counter Russian and China’s influence in the region through energy diversification and prohibition of 5G networks, recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and recognizing and promoting the freedom of religion, ethnicity and sexual diversity. [...] The agreement provides Washington the opportunity and legal authority for the US to directly counter the growing Russian and Chinese influences in the Western Balkans. [...] This agreement allowed for the US to increase its LNG exports to the EU from 3 billion cubic meter in 2018 to 17.2 bcm in 2019.6 The main motive behind this was the US assessment that with the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline would make the EU and Western Balkans further dependent on Russian gas, thus giving the Kremlin new leverage over Germany and other NATO allies.7 In June 2020, a group of U. [...] Considering both countries position in the correlation to challenges in the wider region of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean provides compelling reasons for the two to restore their mutual relationship.14 Third, the EU remains passive in solving Eastern European issues. [...] The US stepping up to the plate in solving European problems instead of the EU itself, especially in the Western Balkans, is reminiscent of the intervention in Bosnia during the 1990s.