After eleven months of protests in Serbia, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed understanding for the student and civic activists, calling them patriots deserving of dialogue. He criticized Western interference, asserting that Serbia’s struggles are an internal matter. The protests coincide with the anniversary of the fall of Milošević, highlighting deep-rooted nationalist myths.
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Let them eat BRICS
Dragan Djilas of Serbia's Freedom and Justice Party emphasized the need for a strong European message to the Western Balkans, advocating for elections in candidate countries to amplify their voices in the EU. Meanwhile, sentiments against EU inclusion rise, with leaders like Aleksandar Vulin promoting "sovereignty" and alternative alliances like BRICS over EU membership.
In the literal abstract foyer of civil war verges
With both alt-right camps of Serbian politics losing legitimacy, the media and influencers associated with them are trying to breath some scary air into their incompetent lungs. It's not working. Liberal Serbs have a saying: "Once a radical, always a radical".
The outrage is all the rage
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.
Ask your parents why they support Vučić
The Serbian student protesters keep scapegoating the European Union for the problems created by the generations of their parents, who kept electing a paternalist kakistocracy in hopes to make Serbia more like Russia and China, with all the calamities that come with associating with BRICS countries.
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
With the Russian government's open support of their Serbian counterparts, through the mouth of the Russian ambassador, it is worth noting that 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.
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, are now getting a dose of reality with the opposition parties taking back the forefront from pro-Russian extremists.
The pan-European illiberal alliance is very much real
The European alt-right always seems to be there for each other. Aided by their American brethren, support goes from Dodik to Le Pen, MAGA to Dodik and Le Pen and AfD, Dodik to Putin, Vučić to Dodik, Orban to Dodik and Le Pen, round and round they go.
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