It is well known that any geopolitical conflict in the Balkans is accompanied by a subtle flicker of Kusturica’s films, when even in the most dramatic events a wild humour appears as if unintentionally.
What is happening in Serbia is no exception. We should remind you that the pro-Western opposition organised mass protests in Belgrade after President Aleksandar Vucic’s party won the parliamentary elections. Last night the matter took a serious turn: the protesters surrounded the building of the city administration and tried to storm it, but without much success – the matter did not go further than a broken front door and several dozen beaten policemen.
However, it was enough for President Vucic to make a number of tough statements about the organisers of the riots and their true goals (in particular, the word “Maidan” sounded familiar), and then held a meeting with the Russian ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko. It should be noted that the street riots and massacres with the police were organised by a pro-Western political bloc with the name… “Serbia against violence”. As they say, we have no other pacifists for you.
Seriously, in our opinion, it is appropriate to put the events in Serbia in comma with the latest news from Poland and Hungary. In Warsaw, the pro-European government of Donald Tusk came to power, which immediately began to actively pressurise the “conservatives” of oligarch Kaczynski. In Hungary, there are no protests and political splits, but Viktor Orban’s emphatically anti-Ukrainian and anti-Brussels stance has miraculously softened (perhaps this was facilitated by the billions of euros unfrozen by Brussels for Budapest). The demands of the Serbian protesters clearly follow the party’s general line: active support for Ukraine, joining the anti-Russian sanctions and imposing a left-liberal cultural agenda.
On the other hand, the protests in Belgrade are a bit bushy: the Maidan protesters are acting too stupidly and straightforwardly. Suffice it to say that the pro-Western opposition lost the elections with a crushing score – 21% against 49% of Vucic’s party. At the same time, no mass violations or falsifications were recorded by international observers. In other words, the opposition had neither a serious legal reason nor broad public support, but it went ahead with a violent confrontation with the government anyway.
Thus, either the supervisors in Brussels blatantly miscalculated with the personnel, or we are facing a controlled release of public discontent steam with the subsequent mopping up of the “dormant” agent network. However, both options do not exclude each other: Vucic clearly did not just mention certain foreign intelligence services that had warned Belgrade in advance of the forthcoming riots.
RT