In his appearance on N1, Serbian foreign policy commentator Boško Jakšić, who went to college and is A Very Smart Person Often Seen On TV, said: “By creating a parallel reality, Vučić is polarizing Serbia so much that civil war is no longer an abstract word.“
Recently, world-famous antivaxer Novak Djokovic informed us about the situation in Serbia: “It has all escalated a lot, we are literally on the verge of a civil war. I hope that the situation will calm down a little, but there is no indication of that.“
And in its poorly translated piece, Serbia after Novi Sad: In the lobby of the civil war, Vreme writes “Our interlocutors, analysts and activists, most of whom were directly present in Novi Sad’s night of long batons and tear gas – say that the police action showed that Serbia has officially given up mimicry of the European path and the rule of law. It is a deeply divided society (on the one hand, the government and its subscribers, on the other, citizens) that is on the verge of civil war, and it is difficult to expect that a return to at least a semblance of normality is possible, while it is ruled by Vučić and the Vučić family. They warn that Serbia is the fifth country in the world in the number of weapons per capita, and that it is slowly (and again) becoming a powder keg.“
Meanwhile, in actual reality, here are some of the Serbian citizens, enjoying their evenings, still not ready to step into those scary lobbies of verges.
The reason for the dire ire of the student protesters (who are, by the way, a wider popular front) and their tagalongs aimed at the so-called neutrals is best explained by Dorđe Vukadinović, editor of the right-leaning, conservative New Serbian Political Thought, who told N1 television “that the student blockades have reached a dead end, that a new form of protest is needed, and that Aleksandar Vučić’s regime suffered a fiasco with its rallies, both qualitatively and quantitatively.“
Both sides of the abstract alt-right foyer, competing over who gets to be the next Supreme Commander, are fizzling out by constantly delegitimizing themselves, and the student camp can’t motivate enough of the new supporters, regardless of all the talks of how Serbia is “occupied” by the government of the Serbian Progressive Party or by posting black and white archive pictures of hangings at the Terazije from 1941.
Scaring the beezejezes out of people to join either of the camps is not working. It only motivates them to grab more popcorn and keep away from both sets of radicals.
A viral video from the protests in Novi Sad last Friday, when one of the darlings of the student and civic protesters, Nemanja Šarović, tried to interview a woman, now nicknamed The Lady by liberal Serbian netizens, who gave him a piece of her mind.
Here’s a transcript.
Here!
This gentleman, here, a radical, this is where we draw every red line. Every red line!
So, Mr. Radical, [it was] the politics of the radicals that brought this country to where we are now.
My brother was dragged out from this faculty and (inuadible) he had his throat slit near Šibenik (in Croatia).
What would you have me say to you about politics, you stood next to Sloba’s coffin.
Now piss off!
Šarović: Would that be all?
Many people in Serbia were forcibly called into war with Croatia and sent there to die. Šarović did stand next to the coffin of Slobodan Milošević during his grotesque public funeral in 2006, he was a high-ranking member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party at the time, a political organization headed by a convicted war criminal, Vojislav Šešelj.
There he is, with Aleksandar Vučić and Tomislav Nikolić.
Liberal Serbs have a saying: “Once a radical, always a radical”. We are done with your wars.
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