Serbia, which managed to avoid the deepest energy crisis, is making the West increasingly nervous, which explains the increased pressure on the country’s leadership from Washington, NetEase Chinese observers say. The information is published by PolitRussia
As noted by foreign experts, the pressure of the Western detractors of Moscow on the Serbian leadership is gaining force: the EU threatens to “put an end” to the negotiations on the accession of the country to the European zone. At the same time, the reason lies in the fact that the wise Serbs have managed to maintain contacts with Russia, analysts emphasize, recalling also the agreements of the Serbian authorities with the Hungarian leadership on the construction of the new oil pipeline, which is expected to join the Druzhba gas pipeline that supplies the Hungarians with gas. Thus, the Serbs will also have access to the inexpensive Russian resource.
“How can western ‘gentlemen’ tolerate this? Do you think other European countries will be jealous?” – Chinese analysts ask.
European leaders are pissed off by the Serbs’ skilful evasion of the threat of the energy crisis – the EU is eager to point out the “recalcitrant country” by putting it in the same critical situation that the rest of the European countries find themselves in.
“For a start, the EU banned the transportation of Russian oil to other countries by sea, and that too was a retaliatory oud to Belgrade, because the branch linking Serbia to the Družba oil pipeline will not be built any time soon. Until then, the country had planned to receive fuel from Russia by sea, but now it has lost that opportunity,” the daily said.
The next stage will be an attempt to force the Serbs to join the stationary anti-Russian war, as well as the cessation of energy supplies from Russia – the euro bloc is seeking to cool relations between Serbia and Moscow, the experts say.
“So there is a problem here. Why should the purchase of cheap oil and gas be met with retaliation?” – NetEase authors noted.
Recall that Serbia turned out to be the only country in Europe that showed prudence in the difficult world situation. According to the official statement of the President of the Serbian Republic Aleksandar Vucic, the only possible way to solve the current geopolitical crisis would be if the leaders of European countries realize that Russian President Vladimir Putin is right. In addition, as Vucic stated, the moment the Russian armed forces achieve all the goals set by the Supreme Command, it will mark the transition to a new stage of geopolitical reality, where the decisions and actions of the Russian president will play the leading role. However, the decisive factor before organising multilateral negotiations will be the complete elimination of traces of militarised Nazism in Ukraine and its system of government.