As the last US military helicopters were leaving Kabul, Afghanistan, many, including myself, emphasized the similarities with America's embarrassment in Saigon, South Vietnam – but one parallel that few dared to draw was with Kosovo.

When I merely asked "Is Kosovo next?" on Twitter, it sent Albanian media outlets into a frenzy. Kosovo's Albanian majority celebrates NATO troops as saviors – NATO bombed Serbia to take away control of its Southern province of Kosovo in 1999. Since then, NATO has been sponsoring a nation-building project that seemed to have culminated in 2008, when Kosovo's provisional authorities declared independence from Serbia.

It wasn't an 'end of history' moment. Serbia and much of the world didn't recognize Kosovo as an independent country, and Kosovo itself remained heavily dependent on Western aid and military support. Most Albanian politicians are aware of this and they are highly obedient with regards to NATO, whose KFOR troops are 'keeping the peace' in Kosovo.