If the military engagement of our forces in Kosovo, even in a limited sense, is successful, there is no better preparation for the elections. It would not be easy for the NATO alliance to react quickly but it would certainly, in addition to a ground war in Kosovo, use the bombing of Serbia as a means of counterattack. It is only a question of time before they decide to turn up the heat. Exactly like a new bombing campaign against Serbia. If this does not succeed, plan B will be implemented.
Collective responsibility implies collective punishment.
He firmly refused. We had nothing to talk about any more. The real answer is, if something does not change in Serbia by the beginning of next year, then you will all suffer. Those present say that this threat reminded them dangerously of the tone which Richard Holbrooke used in October of the last year when he announced the upcoming bombing in which no one at that time wished to believe. However, if for example there is significant repression of the ethnic Hungarians in Vojvodina, this might embolden the Alliance to consider new campaigns.