Russia Frustrates US, EU, UN Over Kosovo

Russia has forced the United States and European Union to blink in the standoff over Kosovo. Unable to overcome Moscow’s stonewalling in the U.N. Security Council and apparently losing the resolve to bypass it, the United States and European allies have accepted yet another postponement of implementing UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari’s plan for Kosovo’s internationally supervised independence.

So the West blinked. The precedent as argued by the Russians as well as the threat of a UN veto have stranded the Kosovars. bah.