It's official. Kosovo has opted for survival of its people by declaring independence. This really was a matter of necessity for them, since escape from Serbia really is the only viable way to prevent future ethnic cleansing and genocide campaigns from the Serbs.

The fascist government in Russia is using the tactics of intimidation to try to block this.

The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement urging the United Nations to annul the declaration and warned of the risk of an escalation in ethnic violence in the region.

"We expect the UN mission and NATO-led forces in Kosovo to take immediate action to carry out their mandate," the statement said, "including the annulling of the decisions of Pristina's self-governing organs and the taking of tough administrative measures against them."

"The decisions by the Kosovo leadership create the risk of an escalation of tension and inter-ethnic violence in the province and of new conflict in the Balkans," the ministry said.

It would be suicidal for the people Kosovo to go along with this. The world has a responsibility to recognize the newly free Kosovo in order to prevent future bloodbaths.

With each passing day, it becomes more and more difficult to tell Putin apart from Bush. Both of them are fascists who have a murderous obsession with Muslims and want to bully the rest of the world into going along with them.