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The British journalist, Julius Strauss, said that he does not think that things in the Balkans are quite right, but neither that there will be a big war.
Strauss thinks that there could be incidents in the north of Kosovo or in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but he added that he is optimistic and never thinks that there will be a large-scale war.
"As someone who covered the beginnings of those wars there were a lot of pieces that needed to be in place for the big wars to happen. In Bosnia, it was not a matter of some nationalists getting closer and doing something. They had to get weapons, there was a country that supported them, which was Serbia. It was necessary to organize, to move an entire part of society around that idea .
When you look at the Serbs who led the war in Bosnia, they were not the elite of the Serbian community, they were street boys who found them somewhere and managed to push them up in the system. So the war requires a lot to happen. Many people are pessimistic about the Balkans, but I am not. I'm a little more optimistic. Not that things are great, they aren't. Are OK. But I don't think that a large-scale war is about to break out," said the British journalist.
Strauss added that there is also a difference between Kosovo and Bosnia, as according to him the neighboring country is a bit more gloomy, while in Kosovo there is more optimism.
"I also think there is a little difference. I love Bosnia, I spent a lot of time there. I was there recently and the situation there is pretty grim. It is not in Kosovo. You are optimistic, you are looking towards the future. There is a buzz, an energy around Kosovo that even with the war you go forward, and there seems to be more optimism here. I will not promise that there will be no conflict, but I think that even if there is, it will certainly not be as big as it was before", said the British journalist.
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