An extremely dangerous conclusion. Everything I have read about this country suggests otherwise. Every person I have spoken to, without exceptions, speaks of Kosovo in terms similar to what Israelis say about Jerusalem. There is no Israel without Jerusalem, and there is no Serbia without Kosovo. The Serbs would have to be crushed by fire before they give it up.
Fear of fire is insufficient.
Everyone here says that if Milosevic tried to give up Kosovo he would be overthrown faster than Prince Paul's government, when he signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany in 1941. Serbs have a national tradition of doing crazy things. In 1914 they could not accept that ultimatum from the Austro-Hungarian empire, even though it was backed by the German Empire, they were pretty much surrounded by enemies, had no access to the sea, and their only friends were very far, in St. Petersburg. It was utter madness, and they paid for it. In 1948, when there was still great hostility between Yugoslavia and the western nations, so that no help could be expected from the west in case of war, Belgrade challenged the mighty Soviet Union.