Political discourse is prone to doomism on any issue, so the baseless prophecy that Serbia is destined to launch yet another round of Yugoslav Wars is now common wisdom. But the craptastic state in which Serbia is stuck doesn't physically allow it to wage an offensive war.
Category: Montenegro
Serbia is not celebrating the 26th anniversary of the fall of Milošević
The authoritarians and nationalists in Serbia produced an entire mythology about how the ousting of Slobodan Milošević on October 5th 2000 was the greatest disaster in Serbian history.
On this Europe Day, Serbia is still moving away from Europe
The internal political and social dynamics of Serbia, dictated by both dominant political tribes, keep it moving further away from membership in the European Union, and tightly in the grip of authoritarianism, superstition, revanchism, and nationalism, closely aligned to Russia and China.
The Balkan rebellions of the hyper-entitled
In recent weeks, the European Commission rejected the proposals from Serbia to join the EU as a non-veto member and rejected the calls to bend Schengen rules in favor of Serbian trucking companies. Serbia might find itself losing what it already has - EU financial aid.
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.
Serb it out, even if you have to eat mud
The Serbian police no-nonsense approach in dealing with the riots after the Vidovdan student protest held on Saturday, the 28th of June is to be commended. By not allowing the situation to get out of control, the police are preventing it from turning Serbia into Syria.
