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NATO is still the only force which can stop conflicts in the Balkans. And Albanians are still the biggest problem of them. If we try to see how many conflicts can emerge today in Balkans, I would tell about eight:
1. Greece and Turkey in the Aegean about islands and borders
2. Bulgaria and Turkey regarding discrimination of 800.000 Turks in Bulgaria and 120.000 Turkish refugees which fled to Turkey during communist regime
3. Romania and Moldavia have problems regarding will of ethnic Romanians in Moldavia to merge with Romania, but they are facing secession in Transnistria
4. Kosovo
5. Republic of Srpska
6. Disputes between Croatia and Slovenia
7. Macedonian problem with Bulgaria and Greece
8. Macedonian internal problem with Albanians
9. Greek minority in Albania and Albanian minority in Greece (Epirus)
I can't imagine peaceful Balkan without NATO. What I can imagine is power sharing in Kosovo between Albanians and Serbs. And who ever says they can't be independent is wrong. In Yugoslav Constitution in 1974 Kosovo and Vojvodina were granted status as Autonomous Province but they had a exactly same vote in federation matters which was in favor of biggest republic. So, they had all prerequisites for independence but their status was abolished by Milosevic. And his tactics brought to this what we have today. But, I agree, it couldn't be done without NATO. But, without NATO we would have bloodshed still going on.