After the US president’s authorization to use ATACMS on Russian soil, followed by UK and French approval for the use of Storm Shadows in a similar manner, Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic informed us that the world is one step away from a disaster, and the next step could lead to a nuclear conflict.
”When you have 10 steps towards a complete disaster, we have crossed the ninth. I will tell you openly what I think. I think that no one will hesitate to use all the weapons they have…In the West, they will say that Putin is playing games and threatening with this, but he is actually afraid, and I will tell you that few people know President Putin like I do,” he said in an address to the public.
Please, pretty please, will someone take the siloviki seriously? They’ve threatened to nuke the planet, like, a million times, and the Ukrainians are still fighting! The nerve!
The public opinion poll “Security Radar 2025: Europe – Lost in Geopolitics“, conducted by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, shows that, in some ways, Serbian support for the Russian war against Ukraine is higher than Russian support for the Russian war against Ukraine.
Only 3% want to support Ukraine until it wins the war. 60% view it as a proxy war and 28% expect Russia to win.
Serbian respondents are overwhelmingly pro-Russian with regard to the Ukraine war.
Ukraine is blamed by 36% of respondents, the highest share in the poll, followed by the EU (30%) and the US (60%), only in Russia this value is higher. Only 26% consider Russia the aggressor, the lowest figure outside Russia itself (22%). Almost half, the highest share in the poll, think that it is not necessary to keep supporting Ukraine. The main reason people give is that »the war needs to end« (76%). A small share of 14% is in favour of supporting Ukraine, mainly focused on humanitarian aid. Serbs display the lowest support for helping Ukraine until it wins the war (a mere 3%, compared with the overall average of 30%). Instead, on a par with Italy, they are strong supporters of diplomatic efforts to end the war (49%). Together with Türkiye and Georgia, Serbia is also most amenable to a neutral stance (37%).
The country’s anti-NATO and anti-Western attitude is in line with Belgrade’s pro-Russia policy. This resonates with Serbians. Russia’s actions in Ukraine are widely seen as defence of its own interests (41%), surpassing even perceptions within Russia (37%). Serbs are least likely to identify Russia as an imperialist state (4%).
They strongly believe it to be a proxy war between Russia and the West, vying for global influence (60%). Regarding the war’s impact, 39% see Russia as strengthened. China is viewed as stronger (41%) or unaffected (38%), the EU as weakened (46%). Serbia is viewed as rather unaffected (56%).
Serbia’s pro-Russia stance is highly visible in its rejection of Ukraine’s EU and NATO membership. While 40% believe diplomacy will end the war, 28% expect Russia to achieve military victory, by far the highest share in the entire poll (with the exception of Russia, where 36% believe Russia will prevail).
Serbia is a minor BRICS tentacle for a reason. After the failure to expand its territories during the Yugoslav wars and the subsequent loss of its southern province of Kosovo, Serbian revanchists based their policies and agitprop on the fantasy that one day Russia and China will rise up against US-led Western hegemony, with a possible deterioration of developed countries due to their “decadence and Satanism”, which will enable us to have another go at making a Greater Serbia, starting by reclaiming Kosovo, then moving on to Bosnia and Croatia.
Analogous to the Russian world concept, the Serbian government also proclaimed a Serbian world as a desirable sphere of influence over the territories that the majority of our population claims as rightfully belonging to Serbia, but lost due to “historic injustices”.
“Rusi i Srbi – braća zauvek!” means “Russians and Serbs – brothers forever!“. Guess they don’t need any sisters.
More bromance from Serbian football fans: “We are brothers forever, Serbia and Russia, Partizan, CSKA!“
Russian military incompetence, put on display during its Special Idiotic Operation against imaginary enemies, doesn’t fit the Serbian nationalist agenda, so the local establishment and the general population have been beating the drums of Russian nuclear bluffs ever since the Kremlin resumed its aggression against Ukraine in 2022. From endless TV panels resembling those on Russian television presented by Solovyov and Simonyan, to loudmouth neighbors, colleagues, and relatives having a fit about “NATO Nazis” and superior Russian military hardware, Serbia is a small, loyal, and cheap bullhorn for its big brother.
All of this doesn’t stop the Serbian arms industry from exporting to Ukraine, however. As the Serbian proverb goes, we may be brothers, but our purses aren’t related.
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