Kosovo will declare independence anyway, and many countries (including America and Britain) will recognise it.
The problem is that, without Serbian agreement, Russia will remain opposed to the Ahtisaari plan and seems ready to veto it at the UN Security Council.American diplomats have hinted that, if this happens, they might encourage the Kosovo Albanians to declare independence anyway, and then recognise their new state unilaterally.
If Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, decides to veto any new UN resolution on Kosovo, then its Albanian-dominated parliament could declare independence anyway, just as Croatia and Slovenia did in 1991, and hope that other states will recognise them.For the diplomats this is the nightmare scenario.
Now get this the airlines are starting to say they aren't getting their cash fast enough, and they may have to declare bankruptcy anyway.
Rather than try to refute NBC's claim that O'Brien is the new king of late night by a ticking off a series of demographic gains, Tassler simply said this of her rival: "Whatever ratings they get, they're going to declare victory anyway, so it doesn't matter".
3 David Cameron declares victory anyway.
Even though none of the astronomers had seen the crescent moon, the mufti already had declared Ramadan anyway on live television at 8 30 p.m.
A half century later there was no credible evidence (there still isn't) that the Spanish sank the Maine in Havana harbor; Congress declared war anyway to liberate Cuba and flex American muscle.
(GM recently declared bankruptcy anyway, Moore points out).
He did not ask for war, but Congress declared war anyway on April 20, with the addition of the Teller Amendment, which disavowed any intention of annexing Cuba.
