This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to writer and

researcher Antoine Brimbell. He also runs Modern Insurgent.org. He's going to be speaking to us about the ongoing

tension in Kosovo. Yes again. This time it's looking quite serious. Serb troops

have been put on high alert on the border there.

There's been a lot of attention.

Some think Putin wants to open a new front via Serbia.

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slash Popular Front. YouTube. I feel like every six months there's something new happening in Kosovo and every

single time I feel like it's like well this time it's actually serious this

time it's actually serious but this time it does feel more serious, I think because of Ukraine, the war is

obviously ongoing there. There's a big difference between, you know, most Serbians and the Serbian state supports Russia,

whilst also being part of the West, and everybody else on that side of things generally,

you know, it supports Ukraine.

So I do think there's a different context to it at the moment.

But before we get into all that,

maybe give us an idea of what's been happening

recently in the last few months.

I understand the Serbian troops in Kosovo are on

high alert right now. Why is that? Yeah, that's correct actually. So you know, like you said, it always

feels like it's serious, but this time it could be let's say the one well hopefully

not but that's that's the signs we're getting anyway well for the most part I mean

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