If not assassinated before his time, Thaci is definitely the Man to Watch. The problem is that everyone holds high expectations. This is a poor recipe for an amicable carving of the cake of international funding. Macedonia expects to lead the reconstruction effort of Kosovo. Greek and Italian firms expect to snatch profits from the jaws of their near treacherous behaviour during the war.
Turkish firms expect to be rewarded for the loyalty of Turkey during the same.
These all are mutually incompatible expectations, and they will lead to mutually exclusive behaviour. Expect some very ugly scenes, including spilt doses of that cheap, red liquid. Albania, already governed by the ungovernable crime gangs it has spawned over the last few years, has formed an alliance with the KLA, never a moral standard-bearer. A flare-up of hitherto unimaginable brotherly love has indicated a sacrilegious rapprochement. To a large extent, the Kosovo war was gang warfare.