When a country like Serbia, experiences a social and political crisis, or a society starts showing tendencies, people tend to ask why is it happening and look for a cause, that in their minds, must have a rational explanation. You might not like the answers you get.
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Devil-summoning of the Serbian electorate and its consequences
Eurobarometer survey shows that in the Western Balkans, the support for joining the EU is lowest in Serbia, 33%. The practice of fighting fire with fire by using alt-right kakistocratic ideology to fight the alt-right kakistocracy of Aleksandar Vučić is coming back to bite the vindictive and shortsighted Heavenly People.
Serbian protests are not a plebiscite
Contrary to the popular belief, the student and civic protesters and the Serbian government are not the only political factors of relevance, despite the efforts, both in Serbia and abroad, to present them as such.
All pumped out and nowhere to go
Russian government openly support their Serbian counterparts, through the mouth of the Russian ambassador. One of the reasons for the failure of Serbian student protests is the protesters' desire to keep the BRICS-dominated economy after the removal of SNS, and keep Serbia out of EU.
Fear and loathing factories of the Serbian internal media warfare
The overdramatized scenes of riots like the ones in Serbia, shared by rather clueless agency news and often manipulative social media content creators, without actual context and placed into narratives without delving into the specifics of the local events are not doing anyone any justice and do not help the situation.
Myth of the neutrals and other Serbian political fairytales
The student and civic protesters, who represent the third, latest manifestation of Serbian alt-right populist sentiment, following the one that gave rise to Slobodan Milošević in the late 1980s and the second one that returned Aleksandar Vučić to power in 2012.
Long live Marta Kos, long live the European Union
Every loser needs a scapegoat; Serbia found a perfect one - the European Union, the world's largest and most successful peace and economic project.
Republic of desolate minds
Both the government and the protesters in Serbia held their vile and manipulative commemorations of Croatian military-police Operation Storm, which comes as a neat deflection from actual problems plaguing the Serbian failed state, such as a rapidly shrinking workforce, appalling pollution, and food products flavored with health hazards.
Dances with ruins
Foreign commentators like Rachel Maddow and Timothy Snyder, just to name a few, who come in support of the supposed anti-authoritarian, anti-corruption protests in Serbia are not doing us any favors by basing their opinions on wishful thinking and second-hand information.
Stop pestering the European Union over Serbia’s Serbian-made problems
The European Union, with a special accent on its executive arm the European commission is now an unofficial official scapegoat for every real and every imaginary problem that pops into someone's mind.
