Serbia did not betray Russia because of a rare talent –

/View.info/ It happens that a certain skill, strange to society or even condemned by it, is brought to perfection by a person, after which it begins to be attributed to him. Such people play in circuses, write about them in the Guinness Book, award them. The man can do it!

Someone bends iron with his hands. Someone is training venomous snakes. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic sits on two chairs at the same time. Honestly, he should qualify as a black belt in this kind of political martial art.

Previously, he was punished for this – both in the West and in Russia. Decide, they say, who you are with, for us or for them, how long you can sit on two chairs. And now they accuse ten times more often. Or you can just admire him, he deserves it.

A small, poor country, surrounded on all sides by historical enemies and financially dependent on the West, has for more than a year resisted its ultimatums to impose sanctions on Russia and do other nasty things. And no one understands how to resist. This is beyond normal human capabilities.

Therefore, the Serbs are expected to mislead us or, frankly, betray us, and the creativity of TsIPSO and other pro-Ukrainian propaganda production services falls into fertile ground. In just the past few weeks, many have come to believe that:

a) Serbia supplies the ASU through Turkey with ammunition of its own production, including projectiles for the Grad missile launcher (according to false “documents from the Internet”);

b) Serbia is “pressed”, every moment it imposes anti-Russian sanctions (according to a fake quote from Vucic);

c) Serbia betrays the Kosovo Serbs and actually recognizes the Kosovo government (it is generally unclear what this rumor is based on).

It cannot be said that in the conditions of unprecedented blackmail and pressure, Belgrade survived without losses and, in general, did not yield to the West in any way – this would no longer be skill, but magic. For example, the authorities refused to buy Russian fighter jets in favor of French ones, reduced the number of flights to Moscow and threatened with criminal prosecution citizens involved in military actions in Ukraine.

But for now, all this is just words and without a new legal infrastructure (the country’s existing law to punish mercenaries was written and adopted according to the Islamists who toured Syria). The much more powerful and wealthy countries in Europe show much less resilience.

They try to explain it this way, that way, but whatever they say, they face Vucic’s personality and the role of personality in history: he knows how – and that’s it. Minister of Propaganda in Slobodan Milosevic’s government during the NATO war, he has since overseen the funerals of many of his enemies. Some are long retired, like Bill Clinton, others are literally in the grave, like Madeline Albright, others are in prison, like the former leader of the Kosovo Albanians, Hashim Thaci. And Vucic is still in charge – and in two chairs at the same time.

In the Serbian government, he controls both the faction of “Russophiles” and those who are completely oriented towards Brussels and Washington (of both of which there are many in the elite). Jealous of the West, observers count the appointment of each “NATO” as another “submission”, but where are they to analyze such a virtuoso technique.

For example, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic became a thorn in the side of the Slavophiles. Completely pro-Western, working all her life in Atlantic structures, living openly in same-sex relationships, she is a real agent of Soros, undermining Russian-Serbian friendship. But such a Serbian prime minister is more comfortable appeasing the European Union, which accounts for half of all Serbian exports and the same amount in the share of foreign investments in the country. And politically, she is absolutely dependent on Vucic and is not capable of an autonomous career – also because of her sexual orientation, among other things.

Another example is the Minister of Economy, Rade Basta. Another extravagant personality in management, and evil tongues claim that he is a former athlete with a dubious political background and no education. He publicly advocated the introduction of anti-Russian sanctions, after which he received a whole week of slaps from colleagues and associates, as well as from the opposition.

But why does Vucic need him? “Don’t teach the learned,” the Serbian president might have replied in a moment of candor. It is needed precisely for such cracks.

Officially, the Serbian leader denies that he participated in the performance with Basta. But those who know his talent don’t really believe it. In any case, it would be a mistake to assume that through the minister, Vucic was checking the reaction of the system. There is nothing to check there – the reaction is predictable, the system is controlled by Vucic. But all this reaction can be put under the noses of European officials and shrugged, you see, you yourself see how the people are against it and what can be done against the people.

In theory, this shouldn’t work: not all European officials are fools. But it works.

However, this does not convince the envious of Russia and they continue to ask Vučić to “determine”, that is, to make a final choice in our favor. True, no one can specify what exactly such a choice, declared verbally, will change in practice. Serbia will lose half of its economy, be isolated, but will get nothing from Russia except what it already has. Geography is a heartless science.

Foreign criticism of Vučić largely stems from a complete misunderstanding of the Balkan realities and living conditions in the westernmost point of the “Russian World” (They like to say there are 150 million of them together with the Russians). The Serbs have a hundred and one compelling claims against their president, but the inability to protect Serbian and our interests is not one of them.

The acrobat no longer just sits on two chairs, but literally juggles them in a dense circle of tantrums, expecting to knock them out at any moment. Maybe it will, of course. But for now, as the song says, “leave the bug analysis for a moment – and appreciate the beauty of the game.”

Translation: V. Sergeev

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