And don't be fooled – Albanian was an official language in Kosovo, and on all papers was even before Serbian. Of course it isn't official in Northern Serbia, as there are no Albanians there, but we do have Hungarian and other languages of minorities being official wherever there is a substantial presence of a minority group (wouldn't want to shoot out numbers by heart, but there is a law defining that, and noone really ever objected on this law, not even Albanians).

In any case, I do respect your opinion and I sometimes catch myself judging some other conflicts just like you are – based on common knowlegde, which is defined by media and "the strong", if you know what I mean…
But truth ain't that simple. I lived there and I know what I'm talking about, just like you know better about Quebec.

Look at Canada and see how to deal with a separatist movement successfully

Look to Serbia if you want to see how to not only abjectly fail at dealing with a secessionist movement, but let the issue drag the country down for years and years.

What do you mean by "chance"?

if by "chance" you mean their autonomy taken away, Albanians removed from political posts and Kosovo turned into a police state for 10 years, I think they had a lot of "chances"

Quebec people had TWO referenda on the issue of sovereignty. In 1995, the rest of Canada went down on it's knees and begged Quebec not to separate. They didn't.

French is an official language in Canada.

Is Albanian an official language in Serbia?
How many Serbs went to Kosovo and walked about Pristina with "please don't go" signs written in sometimes-poor Albanian?
How many farmers cut 3km messages in their fields in Serbia so you could read "We're better together" in Albanian from a plane?
How many times did Kostunica go on TV and beg Albanians, in Albanian, not to separate?

Alaska? gimmie a break. Surprised you didn't throw in California or Texas as Serbs sometimes do.

To throw in all these regions which had or could possibly have some notion of separating, completely disregards Serbian contempt of Albanians and any understanding of WHY they might want to leave.

In the last elections, you had about 1.3 million vote for DS and the same number voting for the radicals, who have now split.

There would be, what? about 1.3 million Albanians eligible to vote?

If that happened, and Albanians voted in a block, Albanians would be at-least the second-most powerful party by numbers and definitely the most important important party in coalition building. EVERYTHING would be about Kosovo. You couldn't change a street-sign in Belgrade without Kosovo being somehow part of the issue.

People who bleat "Kosovo is Serbia", whether they realize it or not, are begging for Hacim Thaci to be Serbia's finance minister and for Albanians to be the most important and powerful political entity in Serbia.

Serbia's better off without Kosovo.

I realize that you would not throw A-bomb on Kosovo… Who would like to live in post-WW3 Serbia anyway, with or without Kosovo? But it is a common thought here, like a final solution for Albanian problem, we just need Putin to nod and here we go… The problem is: it would never happen.

Serbia already played that card — in 1999 — and it failed, it did not produce results like in Croatia few years prior. In both fights we never had allies, hence the result. Now we cling on hope that BRIC countries and poor African nations would somehow put their own interests aside for us… pathetic.

Even more pathetic is the word game we are trying to play: we asked one thing, court answered, now what about the ___ we didn't ask?

Much more likely is that people would abandon Kosovo and Serbia altogether (like you did, and many others), and Albanians would swarm lands north of Kosovo.

This is why I would rather live in 85% of current country and have a life and some prospects, then in 100% of the imaginary Serbia without any real future. For the remaining 15% nobody really cares anyway, beyond the comfort zone of blogs, government offices and perhaps family meetings.

just let me get it straight for you since there is obviously a need for that – I'm being sarcastic here and even within this sarcasm I'm not calling for an idea that Albanians should disappear. I'm talking about the world in general, not just Serbs and Albanians. About being almost obliged to be on the side of US and NATO or Russia on the other side. I don't want that. I dislike their approach equally.

On the other side – I do understand that in your and at least 2 million other heads Kosovo is independent, but go to news.google.com and type Kosovo and you'll see plenty of different analysis about what the rule means and how will it affect the future.
My point in this blogpost was not to put myself on one of the sides, but to say that ICJ should have set the rule in a way that cannot be interpreted differently.
And what have they done? they said that technicaly they could do such a declaration, and then said that UN never asked them whether it's ok or not for Kosovo to be independent. Bullshit, whether you like it or not.
And trust me, I wanted it to be finished probably even more then you do, but I don't trust the international community anymore and most honestly I don't give a flying f.ck about EU accession if they are going to blackmail us with Kosovo.
Perhaps you don't agree, but I hope you at least allow different opinions.