by Saker’s Johnny-on-the-spot in Belgrade for The Saker Blog
Relentlessly, as if his life depended on it (as it well might) the Serbian tyrant Alexander Vučić is setting the stage for the final act of grand treason that he had obligated himself to commit in exchange for an appearance of power and an opportunity for graft and plunder. His regime is making final preparations for signing away the spiritual and cultural heartland of Serbia, Kosovo.
On Monday, August 3, at 10 am, Vučić’s fraudulently elected “parliament” is scheduled to assemble and hold its inaugural session. It is notable about its composition that regime vote-counters awarded Vučić’s SNS party 188 seats out of 250, while satellite parties SRS and SPAS got a total of 43. The balance of the seats went to ethnic minority groups with guaranteed representation in parliament. Not a single opposition party was allowed in.
Why is that important? For a very simple reason. The preamble of the Serbian Constitution states that Kosovo is an inalienable part of Serbia and the Serbian President, when taking office, explicitly pledges to keep it that way (Article 114). According to Article 203, for the Constitution to be amended and for the language in the preamble and Presidential oath referring to Kosovo to be done away with, two-thirds of parliamentary deputies must vote for it. No constitutional amendment, no Kosovo giveaway. Or, rather, Vučić can sign any piece of paper to that effect but his signature on it will be legally inconsequential.
Those who made him President and to whom he has made certain treasonous promises are aware of that, and so is he.
So now the big picture and the contours of Vučić’s scam are coming into focus.
Corona or no corona, since Kosovo pressure from his foreign sponsors was building up, Vučić had to do two things: (1) figure out a way to get a new parliament elected where he would have a controlling two-thirds majority to change the Constitution to suit his purposes, and (2) practice fraud of unprecedented scope in order to achieve that objective.
As we have pointed out in earlier Sit-Reps, the board of medical charlatans (Crisis staff, as they are known) who are mismanaging Serbia’s response to the corona crisis are corrupt political appointees ready to do the regime’s bidding. On cue from Vučić and his health minister Lončar (popularly known as “Dr. Death”, having apparently assumed the mantle of Dr Kavorkian in the US), the regime medical charlatans declared the corona pandemic over in Serbia at the end of May, clearing the way for the rigged elections on June 21. As soon as the elections were over and the ballots counted, many brought over in sacks by party activists from who knows where, again on cue the pandemic re-emerged, literally a day later, with a vengeance, and in magical
synchronization with Vučić’s further political agenda. On June 27 an important Kosovo meeting was scheduled to take place in Washington where Vučić and Kosovo KLA terrorist leader Thaci were expected to put finishing touches on a “comprehensive mutual recognition agreement” under US auspices. Thaci’s unanticipated indictment by the Kosovo tribunal at the Hague, the result of transcontinental intrigues between the US and the EU, an event wholly outside of Vučić’s foreknowledge or control, took the wind out of that meeting and another one was scheduled to take place in Brussels later in July.
Acting on what he knew at the time (masters do not always share all the details with their servants), and encouraged by the apparently compliant attitude of the population during the previous corona lockdown, Vučić decided to redramatize the medical situation. His objective was to cage the people safely again in a new lockdown, while he went off to fine tune the “comprehensive agreement” he was instructed to deliver, untroubled by concerns about the popular reaction. He went on nationwide television and announced a reintroduction of the lockdown. That miscalculation marks the beginning of the drastic deterioration in his current political fortunes. He tweaked the tiger’s tail one time too many.
Unexpectedly, the populace reacted massively, their revulsion at the regime and resolve not to be caged again by the psychopath overcoming their fear. The rest is, as they say, history and it was faithfully recorded and illustrated in our previous Sit-Reps.
As we pointed out, a determined group of several hundred “keepers of the flame” has been conducting a regular vigil in front of the Parliament building in Belgrade. Any spark would be sufficient for the citizenry to return in force. Many groups have announced that they are preparing a suitable “welcome” for Vučić’s bogus parliamentarians on Monday morning. How it pans out, we shall see. But it is highly unlikely that Monday’s contemptible gathering of regime political prostitutes will even remotely resemble a dignified and decorous event.
Vučić knows it and, ominously for him, his masters have grasped it as well. His usefulness is near expiration and soon even Upper Volta will be disinclined to entertain his asylum request.
Belgrade Parliament update: Because of hurricane Isaias, the Saker was not accessible in time to post our Sit-Rep before the event. On Monday morning Vučić’s illegitimate, fraudulently elected deputies were officially instated. Their sole legislative task in the near term will be to amend the Serbian Constitution to legalize the official recognition of Kosovo’s separation from Serbia and to allow Vučić to keep his bargain with the devil. It is a false parliament of traitors, convoked to serve the nefarious purposes of the blackmailed Serbian tyrant who is himself guilty of grand treason.
The people of Belgrade evidently are of that opinion because they turned out in front of the Parliament building early Monday morning to put the phony “deputies” on notice, as they were arriving one by one in luxurious government vehicles, that they are illegitimate and do not represent anyone. The protest was entirely peaceful, though at times quite noisy. The tyrant’s police arrested former deputies and protest leaders Srdjan Nogo and Zoran Radojićič on the way from their homes to the protest site. Police ambushes at key points throughout Belgrade harassed people they thought were on their way to join the protest and tried to intimidate them to stay away. That was just a day after 1,3 million people in Berlin and other German cities manifested their opposition to government policies completely unhindered by the police or any other authorities. Comically, but unsurprisingly for a paranoid dictatorship, in front of Parliament a woman was arrested after the police found an egg in her shopping bag, the police evidently fearing that she might try to use it as a weapon against regime targets.
Serbia has now sunk to the darkest depths of the Middle Ages. Needless to say, it is not a revival of the brilliant medieval period of the Nemanjić dynasty. It is the descent of a proud country and noble nation into the malodorous septic tank of Alexander Vučić’s insufferable tyranny.
Note to our gentle readers: Alert readers must have noticed that with each new Serbia Sit-Rep there is seemingly an exponential increase in “comments” by the tyrant’s trolls and bots. Serbian readers will not be surprised. They can easily identify and “cancel” them because they must deal with these obnoxious pests on Serbian websites all the time, whenever a critical word is uttered. As Serbian readers are well aware, the practitioners of this dishonourable profession of jamming other points of view in Serbia are known condescendingly as the “sandwich people.” In devastated and impoverished Serbia, they typically sell their souls for a sandwich, with perhaps a Coke thrown in, in return for spending hours patrolling the internet and trying to discredit and drown out voices that stray from the official line.
But this is a matter that needs to be clarified for the benefit of non-Serbian readers. They should know why, bizarrely, a squad of English-speaking sandwich people has apparently been assigned to monitor our reports from Belgrade. It is because Serbia has been plunged in total media darkness and all news are tightly controlled by the regime. With the exception of a few portals and internet television sites, operated by some very brave individuals, all the remaining media outlets are directed either by the regime or by the NATO/Soros cartel. The latter are mildly critical, not enough to endanger the system, but just enough to send signals to Vučić to let him know what is expected of him. They know the “elections” were fraudulent and Western embassies and chancelleries are perfectly aware of it as well, but they still need Vučić to complete the tasks for which they installed him. They are holding their heavy fire for later, when he will have become completely useless and the decision is made to replace him. The regime, however, is unaccustomed to criticism so it reacts regularly with paranoid fury to the slightest public exposure of its malfeasance, especially abroad. They dare not swing too hard against the media outlets of their sponsors, so they vent their fury on targets they think are safe. Hence the intense reactions of regime apologists who obviously are not Saker readers and do not share the values of this web portal. Their comments are garbage, but the fact that they are paying attention and are busy trying to repair their sandwich maker’s tarnished image is a tribute to the Saker, more than to your humble servant, this reporter.
I support each and every word of this article.
God bless You, mister Johnny-on-the-spot!
P.S.
For readers that can read serbian, I strongly suggest link down on this page, on ”RSS SERBIAN SAKER”:
Млађан Ђорђевић: Зашто се у српским медијима води кампања против Русије? (Mladjan Djordjevic: Why is there a campaign against Russia in the Serbian media?)
Thank you very much indeed for pointing to the article by Млађан Ђорђевић.
The text in Serbian:
http://stepskisoko.com/%d0%bc%d0%bb%d0%b0%d1%92%d0%b0%d0%bd-%d1%92%d0%be%d1%80%d1%92%d0%b5%d0%b2%d0%b8%d1%9b-%d0%b7%d0%b0%d1%88%d1%82%d0%be-%d1%81%d0%b5-%d1%83-%d1%81%d1%80%d0%bf%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%bc-%d0%bc%d0%b5%d0%b4/
I read both, but since more readers here read Russian, here also is the original, source article, published by Mladjan Djodjevich on 25 July 2020 at the Russian federal web site Regnum, in Russian:
“Антироссийская истерия президента Вучича продолжается”,
(meaning “President Vucic’s Anti-Russian Hysteria Continues”). This title is more to the point.
https://regnum.ru/news/polit/3019814.html
Опет хвала.
Радо Мир
I certainly do not support each and every word of this article. The author has stated that “Alert readers must have noticed that with each new Serbia Sit-Rep there is seemingly an exponential increase in “comments” by the tyrant’s trolls and bots”. Indeed. No doubt these “trolls” get very upset when they read infantile nonsense, like “Serbia has now sunk to the darkest depths of the Middle Ages”. Indeed. I wasn’t aware this was the case.
A “… determined group of several hundred “keepers of the flame” has been conducting a regular vigil in front of the Parliament building in Belgrade”. Indeed. I am having trouble seeing them. I pass the Parliament building twice a day, and all I see is a perfectly normal situation. This morning I again did not see a single cop in front of the Parliament. Finally, I am again asking Mr. Johnny-on-the-spot why the population of Belgrade did not join the “demonstrators”. I am waiting for an answer.
Oh I’ll answer that for you mister, why there were few people, albeit loud. The reasons include: it was a Monday morning, people have seen that a good number of the ‘police’ will not hesitate to beat them to a pulp at the command of the bumbling hysterical usurper, not to speak of various other forms of regime terror including jailing people for sixty day for allegedly shouting insults at cops.
Also, the ‘police’ and other ‘security services’ detained people on this morning on God knows what pretense, stopped people from approaching the parliament building area, and hear this, when asked based on what law or decree they are not allowing people freedom of movement in their own country, in their own city, all they said was something along the lines of we have our orders.
Serbia under this bumbling, hysterical and vindictive tool of a man is a HELLHOLE, there is no LAW here, unless it is a law that is meant to fleece and oppress the common man.
There is no rule of law here, none whatsoever, do you understand that? Can you even begin to fathom the consequences of that? What do you think happens next?
Well, nothing good, in any case.
The public attorneys should be the first to hang from the very flagpoles in front of parliament.
Vojin
“… people have seen that a good number of the ‘police’ will not hesitate to beat them to a pulp at the command of the bumbling hysterical usurper”. Indeed. This is obviously wishful thinking on your part, totally and utterly devoid of reality.
I don’t understand what you hope to achieve when stating something so blatantly false. I mean there are so many videos showing indiscriminate and deliberate police brutality against demonstrators in general, not to mention peaceful demonstrators, people who are not threatening or even resisting anyone.
Someone really should make a feature, a documentary.
I have some Serbian collegues working here in Scandinavia, some seem supportive of Vucic but all acknowledge that the media is controlled by the government.
Oscar
Your comment is debatable. Please take into consideration that in Serbia you can also watch CNN, BBC, Italian and French TV channels, etc. There is no way that you can state that Serbia is experiencing a media blackout.
I suppose they (my collegues) meant the (Serbian) national media. Then, they are a couple of people they can not of course be taken as representative of the whole country, but I found it peculiar that the government should want to have this control in this age that almost anyone can have access to CNN, BBC (not much to trust of course) and RT.
“… can also watch CNN, BBC, Italian and French TV channels, etc. …”
Exactly the MSM bullhorns of Vucic’s puppeteers. Your shallow propaganda holds no water, “B.F.”.
Now that he holds up these western propaganda media who report for ‘the ministry of truth’ of the empire, we know who one of the trolls are.
Craig Mouldey
I am hardly a troll, nor do I support media outlets like the BBC, CNN and others. I mentioned them in response to the statement that President Vućić “controls” all the media in Serbia, which of course is not the case. Not only does he not control the Serbian media, there is no way that he can control the foreign media outlets I mentioned.
Bob
“Exactly the MSM bullhorns of Vucic’s puppeteers. Your shallow propaganda holds no water, “B.F.”. Indeed. I was not aware I was one of Vućić’s puppeteers, bearing in mind I have been posting comments on this website for years, long before a bunch of football hooligans started impersonating “demonstrators” in front of the Parliament building. And yes, CNN, BBC, Italian, French and other TV stations are present in Serbia, operating without any trouble. On the other hand, how much trouble did RT experience in the US, being forced to register as a “foreign agent”. Did President Vućić demand that any foreign TV station in Serbia register as a “foreign agent”, or anything similar to that ?
Forget CNN and BBC. There are numerous Serbian anti-government media on the air. All one has to do is change the TV channel.
Not to mention the fact that 90% of social media is anti-Vucic.
It’s quite simple really. That’s because their target audience mostly doesn’t speak English. Its enough if they drag out the pensioners and their party membership and those who promised to vote for them for various favors, were intimidated or God knows what. They have a whole machinery for that, nevermind its all illegal and unconstitutional. There is no law here. Other than that of the jungle.
Here people are accused, tried and sentenced in the media. The courts, the judges.. well, they do not deserve that name, for the most part. Public attorneys are even worse. In a league of their own.
I think there are some 700 000 members of the Vucic ‘party’, the machinery. And the total population is what, maybe five and a half million. Pensioners plus membership and bought off and intimidated people, those are the people this guys rules with. And he rigs elections so blatantly it is frankly embarassing, even for his western overlords.
There are numerous complaints about the electoral process before any and all relevant courts. This ‘parliament’ will not last long.
Vojin
“The ‘Parliament’ will not last long”. Indeed. More wishful thinking from you. As they say in Serbia, “what granny wishes, granny gets”. I am afraid not. That little liberal attempt at a color revolution in Serbia was a pathetic failure. Accept reality.
CNN is pure lies, fraud and BS – that’s why Mordor provides it for free in countries like Serbia, Argentina etc…
They even managed to fool me many years ago when I lived in London.
I would not trust a word they say
Any media public or private is controlled.. Private media writes what the advertiser wants while public media paid by the taxpayer is controlled by the government. In both cases the truth is buried in emphasis. The truth is hidden in truncated presentations thus lies by omission. Any academic sources cost money. Any criticism in the academia will not be published and in almost every case its paywalled. When is the last time that you have seen one of Saker’s guests on Mainstream Media?
I concur with the above article but I wish to add that the so-called opposition is also NATO/EU-philic. In Serbia majority of the population is against the EU. Almost every loyal citizen is against NATO and when surveyed, even by always unprofessional Western backed agencies, 85% of the populace is against swapping Kosovo and Metohija for an EU membership which in a nutshell has been the project of Serbia’s traitors in power ever since the colour revolution of the 2000. The fact that the EU is on record saying that there will be no more EU expansion does not prevent the political “elites” of Serbia from selling that EU-trash snake oil. Yet that majority which is against the EU/NATO integration has no voice in the Parliament.
Also, the Serbian Parliament first sends the laws they come up with to Brussels for approval and then they get read and adopted in the Serbian parliament. However, many laws come already prepared by the Brussels’ pedos and are just adopted not individually but on mass, in bulk, and in English without being translated into Serbian. Similar situation is in Bulgaria, Romania too.
Thank you Saker for publishing the material from Johnny. For those that hold Serbia dear to their hearts: my feeling is that Saker has kept away from our Serbian quagmire on purpose and if he believes that he should give credence to Johnny’s reports by having them published on his famous blog, something big and catastrophic for Serbia is coming.
Marko is quite correct in his observations. He is right, of course, that parliamentarians have been and will continue to receive laws that they will be obligated to pass, in a language that none of them understands. Perhaps regime bogus “doctors” who obtained their fraudulent degrees at diploma mill private universities set up specifically for the purpose of elevating Vučić’s semi-literate white trash to high academic honours will be kind and capable enough to translate these legal instruments to the clueless deputies. This is a good place to mention that many of the regime big-wigs have acquired phony doctorates as part of their accouterments of office. To name just a few, the interior minister Nebojša Stefanović, also known unflatteringly as “doctor mucus” (doktor slina), half of whose worthless dissertation was discovered to have been plagiarized, finance minister Siniša Mali, who was caught in the same act, and the crude and ignorant peasant woman, Jorgovanka Tabaković (even her name in Serbian is an epitome of tawdriness), who was put in charge of Serbia’s empty “national bank”. Vučić himself, although inexplicably modest to claim a doctorate, is alleged to have been the top student in his class at Belgrade University law school. One of the problems with that claim is that there is no clear record of his attendance, his supposed classmates do not remember him just as Yale students don’t seem to remember Obama, and — curiously — nobody ever saw his diploma. His manner and rhetoric in Serbian are those of a greengrocer, not a lawyer. One of his new coalition partners, former water polo player Aleksandar Šapić, also turned up one fine day in possession of an impressive doctorate (it is difficult to remember in what, not that it matters). Intellectually, Šapić is an embarrassment to the waterpolo community, never mind real scholars. So that is Vučić’s infamous crew that is strangling Serbia, a pathetic bunch of good-for-nothings with not a day of honest work in their life, headed by the wicked warlock who is plotting Serbia’s plunge into oblivion.
The condition of Serbia is dire, and that is putting it mildly. Kosovo is just one of the major issues, the criminalization of society by the ruling party cartel is another, to which should be added Vučić’s secretly reached agreement (revealed by Austria’s foreign minister) to settle in Serbia hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern migrants unwanted in the West, in return, no doubt, for a hefty bakshish, as well as the imminent threat to subject several million Serbs to forced, experimental corona vaccination, thus turning his subjects into laboratory guinea pigs.
This distressing panorama surely answers the question of why that poor excuse for a human being is still tolerated by his Western sponsors. He still has a number of tasks to complete before he is dumped and an attempt is made to put a new face on the colonial system by replacing him with a new set of scoundrels. If, that is, the Serbian people are suicidal enough to stand for it.
So Marko is definitely on to something when he says that “something big” may be in the cards for Serbia. Whether or not it is also going to be catastrophic remains to be seen. In large part that does not depend on the Saker’s perceptions, but on the Serbian people’s will to survive.
Addendum: it will prove to be catastrophic if this current government stays for much longer or those awaiting the cue are rotated back in power.
I wish to add that the current situation in Serbia where one person decides everything is not such a big problem. The problem is that that person is Vucic, an EU fanatic and born-again Protestant by his own admission who pathologically detests the people over which he presides which he has shown on numerous occasions.
Democracy, and especially colonial democracy that is currently haunting Serbia and other fringes of the Evil US/EU Empire, has shown that as a system it is unable to provide for a people during a crisis. So some sort of a system where a wise man or or group of wise men can decide quickly in the best interest of the people is a much more viable solution for Serbia. Our problem is that the person currently in charge is blackmailed into selling out and charged with polarising the society. Serbian government is duly following every model which so far has proven fatal for the host wherever it was implemented: from the suicidal IMF macro-economic austerity model through to the education model that dummifies to a reality based social model of promoting pornography, individualism, canceling solidarity and introduction of political homosexuality and its quota mechanism as a mainstay. Amongst other stuff Vucic is on record claiming that his boss is the IMF and if the IMF said that pensions can increase then so they would. The IMF has never helped anyone in the parts of the world they deemed as theirs and friendly to them let alone Serbia which they truly hate because of everything we are and especially because of the resistance to their Nazi neoliberal new world order of the 1990s which brought down even the Russia of the day.
Dear Johny-on-the-spot,
I can sense your strong frustration regarding comments from readers of Serbian origin that do not share your view of political situation in Serbia.
Writing at the end long text section where you call these readers bots, trolls or whatever, is a sign of disrespect and weakness.
Very rich and colorful writing style, but unfortunately many conclusions based on lies, assumptions and misleading facts. Undoubtedly, ‘bots’, ‘trolls’ etc are going to debunk your conspiracy-theory in this comment section again and again.
Why you always omit to mention the positive facts about Serbia and current government?
Why not to mention the fact about Serbian economy for last 8 years? About new highways, new hospitals, better living standard? Decreased public debt? High employment?
Why not to mention with regard to Kosovo, that many countries withdrawn their recognition during Vucic’ presidency?
And this is why majority of Serbian people, whom you call ‘bots’, do support Vucic and his party!
They did fulfill their election promises!
Hvala
Maliviski
Well spoken. About 20 countries have withdrawn their recognition of the “Republic of Kosova”, the first narco state in Europe. This means that now there are more states in the UN who do not recognize the “Republic of Kosova”, than who do. An impressive achivement of Serbian diplomacy and President Vućić.
@Maliviski: “Why not to mention the fact about Serbian economy for last 8 years? About new highways, new hospitals, better living standard?”
“All the sugar coated promises” (Francis Lee article). We have seen what happens to ‘the economy’ when the NATZO army invades any country. Like in the Ukraine: Zio Capitalist proxies are catapulted into power; they make sugar coated promises about “the economy”; while in reality the country is plunged into civil war and dismembered. A proud people is degraded.
Remember, the separation of historic Kosovo from Serbia is the price which Albania demanded from the AZC, in return for allowing the Anglo Zio Capitalists to run their TAPI pipeline through Albania to the Adriatic. Historic Kosovo, where the people of Serbia called a halt to expansion of Turkey’s oppressive empire into Christian Europe.
Election promises of “new highways, etc etc”: even if “they fullfilled their election promises” (a claim which I do not believe, having seen what happened after NATZO invaded Libya and Ukraine) these childish sweeties do not match the disgrace and degradation that Serbia is suffering after NATZO invasion, military occupation, political dismemberment, and brutal Lockdown by an AZC puppet regime.
“new highways, new hospitals, better living standard? Decreased public debt? High employment?”
How much did these new highways and hospitals cost? There were absolutely no scandals related to the tender procedures, say for instance not choosing a company that offered to build a highway for 500 million, but instead choosing one that will build that same highway for 900 million?
That were never investigated by the public attorney? Ever?
Better living standard? High employment? Try selling that to the average Serbian on the street, where he gets to talk back.
If anything the exodus of people from the occupied territory known as Serbia is accelerating.
“And this is why majority of Serbian people, whom you call ‘bots’, do support Vucic and his party!
They did fulfill their election promises!”
The majority of Serbian people deeply despise this bumbling, hysterical dictator, and ANYONE who defends him and his despicable rule.
Q: How do you know Vucic is lying? A: His mouth is open.
But hey when you get to rig elections whichever way you please, buy off for small potatoes, intimidate, and spin the goddamn daylights out of the general public, all supported and greenlighted your western overlords, who cares right?
Well, just be careful of that one step too far.
You are right – I am a Serb and apart from my uncle, I have never met any Serbian friend or family who does not deeply despise Vucic and his lesbian PM.
I haven’t been there since maybe 4 years ago – but my brother who went last summer told me it has dramatically deteriorated.
Most young people are leaving Serbia as fast as they can
I guess that is the best test of how ‘good’ it is there at the moment
My cousin who was very senior in the government told me all the decisions are made in the US embassy and then orders are sent to Vucic to sign them
that was such an articulate and informative article. it was a pleasure to read. infact i read it twice.
I am sorry you did. All you got was a heap of disinformation, devoid of reality.
Aye, we are simply obliterated by the sheer amount of verifiable facts and arguments you have provided to support such a claim.
Aye, we are simply obliterated by the sheer amount of verifiable facts and arguments provided in this article.
They are a-plenty. Your friend here provides none. None at all.
Vojin
Read my comments from the past few weeks regarding the “demonstrations” in Belgrade. You must have seen and read them.
How is it a reasonable response to, in advance, call dissenting comments the work of “trolls and bots”? Obviously, in an English language article posted on an English language site, responses will be in English. A few weeks ago when there was the long discussion on the Modi regime manufactured confrontation with China on the Saker, Indian users, including yours truly, responded in English. We didn’t use any other Indian language. Assuming that the so called “trolls and bots” are really such, their points should be refutable and refuted in the article itself, but it makes no attempt to do so. I have myself asked many times what the actual proof, not claims or innuendo, but proof, is that Vucic intends to hand over Kosovo. I have also asked many times what use recognising Kosovo would be for the EU and the American Empire. I have said that Serbia has no chance of ever regaining Kosovo; it threw it away the moment it withdrew in 1999 instead of forcing NATO to launch a bloody and costly ground invasion, and then sold Miloseviç to NATO. It finished itself off when it allowed Montenegro to break away. So what’s the point of forcing a recognition of Kosovo? EU vassals and American Empire colonies already recognise it; if Serbia recognises it then it immediately hands Russia a huge weapon to force the recognition of the accession of Crimea. I have said all this, in English*, on this site; does that make me a Vucic bot and troll too?
*I would have said it in Serbian, but regrettably the only Serbian I speak are the lyrics to Arkanovi Tigrovi.
Do you live in Serbia? No? Well, then you can be forgiven for not understanding how one develops a sense of ‘smell’ for these kind of comments.
If it were not for the very tight moderation here, they would be slinging dung all over the place and painting the comment ‘room’ walls with it. I have been weeding these maggots out wherever I can, and they are, as their boss is, insufferable.
You can not have a legitimate conversation with these conditionally speaking people, they spin, dilute, divert any topic or argument that does not suit them. And if all else fails they ridicule or outright ignore.
“I have said that Serbia has no chance of ever regaining Kosovo; it threw it away the moment it withdrew in 1999 instead of forcing NATO to launch a bloody and costly ground invasion, and then sold Miloseviç to NATO.”
The Kumanovo Agreement is in essence an armistice confirmed by the UNSC resolution 1244, which affirms the territorial integrity of Serbia, that is, Serbian soveregnity over Kosovo.
The only way Serbia will lose Kosovo is if some traitor usurps power and signs an agreement renouncing any Serbian claims upon it. The legitimacy of such a signature could be later disputed, but the damage would be done.
This threat has been hanging above us for the last 8 years. Except that even this usurper realises that if he goes ahead with this final step, he might very well end up hanging from a flagpole.
The police and army would not stand aside in that case. And they’re fed up with him, to put it mildly, as is. Everyone is.
BP, you asking the wrong question: “I have also asked many times what use recognising Kosovo would be for the EU and the American Empire.”
The answer to that question, of course, is: amputation of Kosovo was absolutely no use at all; neither to the EU nor to the U$A nor to Serbia. Nor were similar NATZO invasions of Ukraine, Libya and Syria of the slightest use to the parties you mention: in fact, they were a heavy drain on the economic and moral reputations of said parties.
Now ask this question: “What use the EU$A recognising Kosovo would be to Anglo Zio Capitalists who own hydrocarbon pipelines? [Hint, my post at 3.08am]
The US/EU NATO apparatus has consistently, year by year, placed tremendous pressure on Serbia to recognise Kosovo, & the question “what does the EU get out of it” is so – I’m not sure what word to use – let’s say ignorant of recent history, as to be breath taking. Why did NATO bomb Serbia in the first place? Why did NATO occupy Kosovo, & does so to the present day, as with nearby Bosnia. Why did NATO admit tiny Montenegro as a member? That question was answered by then commander of NATO forces Scaparotti in the US senate, it was critical for NATO to close the Adriatic to potential Russian access, via Serbia eventually. As for Kosovo, control over it, & southern Serbia, cuts off Russian gas/oil pipeline routes for potential future projects, as well as existing Turk Strea, & the Chinese One Belt One Road (OBOR). I could go on, the geopolitical significance of this region is immense, just as tiny Israel serves as a gateway to the Mid East.
Yes, and perhaps add that Billy Clinton (or Biggus Dickus.. to his fellow Lolita island resort guests !!) must have had first call on the shares for the wonderful Trepça Mine complex in Mitrovica, Kosovo. This was the largest mining operation in the former Yugoslavia and also the most attractive objective to the earliest pre-NATO Commander, Adolphissimo Shitler… Oil from Romania and excellent lignite coal etc., from Kosovo!!! were major exports from 1941 to 1945 to Der Faderland!! Wunderbar!
Are all ex-US Presidents immune from prosecution and confiscation of illegally acquired business interests?
Be wonderful to see Billy Clinton on trial at The Hague International Tribunal, arriving stoned out of this mind from a coffee shop visit, while Hilary picks up a few solar powered dildos…
Anyway, it is interesting how Chinese business interests are rebuilding a super new Haifa port and other infrastructure in Israelistan-Palestine, and just signed a MASSIVE economic-techno package with Iran and promised a few billions for reconstruction in Syria. Yet again more oil-gas and pipelines…
Also add, building of rail lines and other projects in Serbia while the Chinese Ambassador speaks excellent Serbian and on Youtube a cute Chinese lady speaking wonderful Serbian explains why your language is such a challenge for we dim-witted Anglos.!!
Oh well, just follow the jelly beans…($$ as per Ronald Regan, yet another super-IQ presidentissimo..)
Srbalj, right on! For more than a century Anglo Zio Capitalists have been following a policy from the British Foreign and Colonial Office. The policy which led to the great AZC oil grab known as WW1: “Mesopotamia, oil. Serbia, gateway to Mesopotamia”.
With all due respect Dr. Magoudas, am slightly confused as to the TAPI pipeline, supposedly the Turkmeinstan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline and TAP Pipeline which passes through Turkey-Greece-Albania from Azerbaijan and onto Italy.
From what I can see on, suspect, Wikipedia !!! maps this does not directly pass through Macedonia or the disputed Kosovo region.
Furthermore, TANAP and SCPxxx add to our confused Anglo-Zionist infatuation with pipelines..
Personally, I am 100% for the cheeky Russian SOUTH STREAM which fortunately should pass directly through Bulgaria and Serbia.
But my good Uncle Pontificating Pompeissimo would have yet another cerebral haemorrhage like the demented Bidenissimo, future Pindo President, who has not recovered from the Ukranian slush fund leaks!!! (Slush fund – a very City of London expression for bribes, corruption, extortion..you know the usual Rothschildian operating procedures!!)
Thanks from a confused Danska pensionst…(that Baltic pipeline is almost completed… snicker snicker!!)
Dear Mr. Biswapriya Purkayastha!
It is Your right to have own opinion on such complex problem as Kosovo (and Metohija) is. Absolutely.
As well as I have right to have some own opinion of the India-China Himalayan problem or the Indian-Pakistani problem of Kashmir. But, it probably would be (at least) funny to You if I, being not expert on those matters even, never ever visiting those areas before but reading articles from time to time, express firm views and opinions relating such a delicate problems.
Namely, I find Your sentence: ”I have said that Serbia has no chance of ever regaining Kosovo” not friendly; no matter that was not Your first intention. You didn’t even distance yourself by: “my humble opinion”.
Ask Yourself please, who gives us (mortal temporary individuals) right to draw with such certainty such a huge conclusions about things that concern eternity, the millennia, to say the least?!
I would here remind You all on the well known Hebrew phrase: “next year in Jerusalem”, spoken more than thousand years.
Further, You say:
”I have myself asked many times what the actual proof, not claims or innuendo, but proof, is that Vucic intends to hand over Kosovo.”
Well, You should really steadily and accurately follow this matter, let say to live here, to be able to catch or recognize those intentions of him. Thou, it would be not hard at all, but it would take whole article to denounce him here. And yes, of course there are articles, but I am afraid in serbian only.
Also, needless to say, then when it happens (if he will be allowed to do so at all), Your sincere confession that you were mistaken, or Youre apology will mean nothing to us. Nor other people confesion to.
On the end, being president, foreign policy is not in his domain at all. Constitutionally, it belongs to government. And yes, about such a crucial things, with a clear platform, approved by an absolute parliamentary majority. Strictly limited with constitution.
The Albanians of Kosovo are of the “Gheg” Albanian variety. They are tribal & nomadic. It may appear that they are many of them in that region, but this is an illusion (there has been no recent formal census) due to their movement, within Kosovo and between Kosovo and Northern Macedonia. (Compare this to the Orthodox Christians who settle in one area and are not double-counted.)
Their most populous generation is the one born during the 1970s and 1980s (the ex-Yu years) who are are now hitting 40 – 50. The Albanian birth rates have collapsed along with the rest of the region. Many of their young have joined ISIS or have exiled themselves from the KLA Mafia hellhole that Kosovo has become.
Their powerful protector, USA, is in terminal decline. They are surrounded by the more numerous Orthodox Christians (Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians) who are by now pretty angry with them. Do you not see their urgency? Their desperation to have a final validation of their “state”? Nothing is lost.
There is no legal/formal acceptance of the name, “Northern Macedonia”, it’s all a defacto project of the West, supported by Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia. It was never approved by the Macedonian people, going against international law and the Macedonian Constitution, and so has validity only in the minds of anti-Macedonians and those who use the name out of ignorance, carelessness or spite.
Dimitar,
Your country officially changed its name to “Republic of North Macedonia” more than a year ago. Ok, I used “Northern” instead of “North”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/12/nato-flag-raised-ahead-of-north-macedonias-prospective-accession
https://www.dw.com/en/north-macedonia-name-change-both-heals-and-divides/a-48194331
Why this reaction? What is the official name of your country today?
I’m surprised at the apparent ignorance of your comment, Serbian Girl. Am I correct in detecting a certain schadenfreude when you ask “what is the official name of your country?” The official name is Republic of Macedonia, and the name North/Northern is imposed by the American and EU overlords, via the illegally installed marrionete government of Zaev, whose task is to dissolve the Macedonian identity and state.The theft of the name is exactly the same as Kosovo being taken from Serbia, ( actually far worse ). Did Serbs approve of that and did anyone ask them? Is that today the “formal” reality/truth, or just the present outcome of Machiavellian geostrategy on behalf of the West, and do Serbs accept that “formal reality” or not?
PS…btw, where is there a “Southern Macedonia”? Just to point out the absurdity of it all. For example, everywhere where there is a Northern, ie; America, Korea, etc. there is a South ), but not in this case. Doesn’t it strike you as idiotic? I hope you’ll get my point, calling Macedonia by its historic name means one has respect for one’s neigbour, fellow human beings, ( and for one’s self ) whereas mindlessly towing the line and believing propaganda outlets like Guardian and DW means the opposite; one is taking at face value seemingly innocent viewpoints which mask nefarious agendas.
Macedonia itself is an invention of the Hapsburg Empire & their intelligence/secret services of the day, as with other artificial non-existent national entities such as “Bosniak” & “Montenegro”, they have no actual historical cultural distinction or continuity that designates them as a real national entity, they are political nations, creations of outsiders. All the churches in Macedonia are Serbian Orthodox Churches built by the Serbian Orthodox Church at the behest of Serbian rulers, this is a territory, & it is now being gradually partitioned to hand over half of it to the Albanian entity, which was always the intent.
This is the kind of tripe that serves to show the pure fantasy that some people live in. No further comment.
My point is simple: by saying something that is not in consonance with the tone of the article, whether I am right or not, I am offering a different opinion. If my opinion is wrong, all right, it’s wrong, and someone can counter it. But if the article says *in advance* that anyone offering a different opinion is a “bot and troll” then it’s a well known philosophical fallacy called “poisoning the well”, the kind of thing that politicians are adept at (“My opponent is a liar, so you must not believe anything he will say in response to this speech” might be an example). By saying, in effect, “this article will draw adverse comments which you must ignore because they’re all by bots and trolls” the article closes all avenues of reasonable discussion. This is not acceptable behaviour in any journalism or even opinion piece.
I hope it is clear now.
The breakup of Yugoslavia was orchestrated in the west. Wen Slovenia took over the border the Slovenian generals in the Yugoslav army wanted to go in full force but this was vetoed by the government of Stjepan Mesić whose relatives like Marko Mesic served in the Black Legion around the Stalingrad flight school runway known as Stalingradskaja.where he received the Iron Cross; The Black Legion commended by Jure Frankretich during WWII shamed even the Germans for their atrocities as described in the recent Book — Link https://www.novosti.rs/vesti/kultura.71.html:865285-Decenijama-nije-bio-dostupan-javnosti-Dnevnik-Lazara-Trklje—svedocanstvo-o-obracunima-cetnika-i-partizana-i-zlocinima-nad-Srbima
where Lazar explains what took place in Yugoslavia during WWII. The same would have happened in 1990’s. The thing is this if the Serbs had the same heart as the Croats, Croatia would not exist today.
Interestingly, TinEye shows the photo of the exact same brown sacks dated back to Feb 12, 2019 related to an article dated 25 April 2016 at Noslovi.net. It is quite remarkable that Evil Tyrant Who Must Go(TM) Vucic’s thugs arranged their stash in exactly the same way.
Ha! In India we have a website specialising in debunking fake “news”, usually but far from exclusively manufactured by the regime’s professional troll army. It uses TinEye a lot and I have begun using it too in the recent past when Modi’s manufactured border confrontation with China sent the fake “news” factory into overdrive.
Learning of these events is painful to me. I am working hard to become a human being as Elder Paisios of Athos prayed: Dear God, I do not know what you will do. But I surrender myself to you completely, that You will cause me to become a human being!
We are often not acting like human beings and this is especially so with regard to the west and the empire. I know little about Serbia. I know that the western, U.S. dominated NATO tried to bomb them into the stone age based on, as usual, false charges. I know that they are part of the great Slavic people, who the western elite appear to view as sub-human just as the Talmudists view everyone else as sub-human. I know that Orthodoxy is home there.
But I don’t need to know anything at all about Serbia. I do know the deeds of the Empire, that they are wicked, relentless, and never-ending. Everywhere they inject themselves they destroy. They are destroyers, like Satin himself. Given that there is no dispute that the so-called government there is closely aligned with the west, with NATO and the IMF really tells me all the truth I need to know.
I sincerely hope the Serbian people are not near as stupid and dumbed down as those in the west, and North America in particular.
Why is the Saker giving Johnny so much space to attack Vucic?
Johnny’s first piece about Belgrade’s Covid Uprising was mildly amusing and worth a place on this site. But there have been several more contributions, each less amusing than the last, and each increasingly devoid of facts.
I know that Johnny will denounce me as a Vucic flunkie, but I have to say that I can’t find many faults with the current Serbian President and I can certainly find many good things to say about him.
I am not a military man, but Serbia’s armed forces seem much stronger today than they were when Vucic came to office. The airforce now has a dozen state-of-the-art Mig 29s, and they are planned to order 20+ Mig 25s. New rocket systems, tanks, rifles, and a professional army are good things for a country that is often the target of aggressive foreigners.
The economy has picked up. True, this is largely due to foreign investment much of which has been attracted by low wages and state subsidies, but these companies are in Serbia not in Croatia or other neighbouring countries. Unemployment has gone down from 25% to 10%. Salaries have risen. In Serbia many people live in extended family units. In a single large dwelling you can often find grandparents with pensions, the son and daughter-in-law both working, and grandchildren also working. In such a household the total disposable income could be 2000 euros a month. This is by no means unusual, thought it is true that others live is desperate poverty.
As for betraying Kosovo, what evidence do we have that this is planned? Johnny presents none. In my opinion, for what it’s worth, I think any Serbian leader who betrayed Kosovo would be overthrown that same day. That is not an attractive option for any leader, even the most treacherous. A deal with the Albanians is no bad thing and Serbia should strive to make such a deal that satisfies both Serbs and Albanians. Such a deal would involve some self-rule for Albanian towns in Kosovo but not separation from Serbia. I think most Serbs would welcome such a deal if it meant Kosovo stayed in Serbia and Albanians stayed in their enclaves.
Will Serbia be a dumping ground for western Europe’s unwanted migrants? I can’t see it. It is western Europe which has marketed itself as the land of milk and honey, and it is this that attracts migrants from around the world. Migrants will not move to Serbia. If they are taken to Serbia at gun-point, they will climb over any fence to get back to Germany and Sweden.
Vucic has to deal with the same Imperialist monsters that President Putin has deal with. Russia struggles to manage these relationships and it has 20-times the population of Serbia and a territory 200-times larger than Serbia. What is Vucic to do what he speaks to the Imperialists? He smiles and shakes their hands and makes empty promises. This way he keeps them under control. They can spit their bile at Russia if they wish but Serbia under Vucic is safe.
Well said, Michael Thomas.
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Even if Johnny-on-the-Spot were telling 100% truth, the tone and way he speaks with people on the forum is rude and offensive. Mr. Biswapriya Purkayastha tried to reason, but no, Johnny basically told him to stay out of Serbian affairs, in not so politely tone. So we have it: Serbs who oppose Johnny are trolls and bots! Non-Serbs are not welcome to discuss, either. So who does johnny want to talk to? Only to people who support him?
There is also issue of sandwiches. Reminds me of Ukraine, when Victoria Nuland was delivering cookies, and, yes, sandwiches. She was in business of bringing down elected president, which was far from saint, yet he was elected. Just like Vucich. Far from saint, but elected. Voting fraud is suspect when results are close, like Montenegro leaving Serbia, 51:49 or something like that. Back to sandwiches – in this case it is johnny delivering sandwiches, just like Nuland. And they seem to be in the same business – bringing down legitimate government. It is pathetic to mention judiciary system, when everybody in Serbia knows that the system has not changed at all, same people are in courtrooms as judges and prosecutors – Vuchic inherited them from previous administration. Being a tyrant, he did not fire anybody, not even replaced them with ‘his’ cadres.,
People on the Serbian Saker are the same people that joined Johnny in his series of articles. It used to be a patriotic forum, with historical stories, known and recently uncovered. There were almost no comments at all. Does it mean readers agreed or disagreed with authors? Since few weeks ago, Serbian Saker has not been the same – it is much Johnny like.
It would be a shame to leave the forum after many years. I noticed that people who tried to offer opposite view, are not replying any more. why would they when they would be insulted by Johnny. My respect to BF, whose sin is he believes his own lying eyes, instead of Johnny.
Plus, Johnny is repeating himself. In this article, he keeps reminding us that Vuchich tried to impose another curfew, and people reacted spontaneously. But then he chooses not to repeat that on the same day, the proposition was pulled back. I have been watching what is happening in ‘civilized’ countries and do not remember seeing anything like that. A tyrant announces something, people protest and the decision is changed.
Even if Serbia is really that poor, miserable and trashy, the way Johnny tries to help is not helping.
That is all.
What evidence that Vucic is planning to surrender Kosovo? The Brussells agreement (Briselski Sporazum) which Vucic on behalf of Serbia implemented one sided, undoing all Serbia’s institutions that remained after 1999. Vucic is committed to “razgranicenje” – partition, which basically means surrendering the vast bulk of the territory. The evidence is overwhelming, he is not buying time as his fan boys try to argue, he is committing high treason, he has already comitted it.
High treason, by definition, is an attempt to overthrow a sovereign or an elected government.
…Provided it is sovereign & fairly elected, and is not a puppet of a hostile, foreign power.
I’m struggling to find a definition that includes these postulates…probably because they are too vague and ambiguous.
When You say ‘elected government’, do not forget to emphasize ”regularly” elected government, please. The new one will be all but not that. The old one is out of mandate and had no right to call elections, but they still did it.
@Радо Мир
Would you cite the part of the Constitution (or other law) that regulates these things. I’m genuinely curious as to who was supposed to call the elections once they were postponed due to pandemic.
@ SerbianGirl: “…Provided it is sovereign & fairly elected, and is not a puppet of a hostile, foreign power.” Please find any president that is NOT a puppet of a “hostile, foreign power”. Claims about sovereignty and fair elections are just that – claims. I have asked before – who would you bring instead of Vuchic? You claim not to support current opposition (“the yellow”). They certainly do not pass the test of non-corruption and patriotism. They sent to Hague everybody and his brother. When one of those extraditions happened, there were protests, and Mr. Vucic was on the protest side, ended with bloody face, by police controlled by government of the time – yellows. I saw it with my own lying eyes, on government controlled TV (yellows). I don’t like him, did not like him back then, but facts are facts. Sometimes it makes sense to show respect even to those who you don’t like
Requests for bringing down elected government are reasonable only if there is a viable proposed solution. Otherwise, many bones are broken and faces bloodied. Violence without purpose is meaningless.
So, down with Vuchcic, do not let current opposition grab the power, who then? I am not aware of any third option in Serbia at the moment that does not fit your description of Vuchic. We had puppet presidents in the past, a puppet we have today, and the next one will also be a puppet of foreign forces, whoever it is, with or without experience in being a puppet. Each of them was “highly likely”, bought or blackmailed. If it was a case of corruption, it is always hard to prove. See how democrats i USA have problems with proving anything about Trump. You sound exactly like them.
Johnny and others do not have monopoly on patriotism, we too worry about Serbia. We are adults, and we are aware that some people may be more radical, but that does not allow us to behave like Johnny and the gang.
Back to question, what is your constructive proposal? We know that Vuchic must go and will be thrown under the bus by his handlers. I don’t like him either. But my parents voted for him, yes, pensioners, 90+ years old. My brother and my nephews probably not. yet they still respect each other. No insults, no bad blood.
Until you come up with a constructive proposal for the inevitable change, there is nothing to discuss. You sound like you don’t know what you want, but you perfectly know what you do not want – Vuchic.
Please grow up, and then we can all go and bring down the regime, violently if necessary. We old geezers don/t have much to loose so we will fight, heroes die in their boots.
I am not qualified for that matters, but I know who is. Mr. Srdjan Nogo is right person, and he used to explain it as I remember, in a days before false election. Mr. Slobodan Radulovic used to talk about that many times, too. I am sorry, have no time to search YouTube for link now.
Further, I sugest: ”Izbori neustavno raspisani” (Elections unconstitutionally called) by full professor of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, Mr. Tanasije Marinković https://www.danas.rs/drustvo/vladavina-prava/izbori-neustavno-raspisani/, where he claims:
”The Constitution stipulates that elections be called 90 days before the expiration of the mandate of the National Assembly (Article 101, paragraph 1). Elections called on that day are regular. Those called before that day are ”early elections”, which means that the President of the Republic needs a reasoned proposal of the Government to dissolve the Assembly (109 paragraph 1 of the Constitution), and there was not such that proposal for making a decision on calling elections on March 4, 2020….”
@Радо Мир
”The Constitution stipulates that elections be called 90 days before the expiration of the mandate of the National Assembly”
and from the same article:
“they are, however, called on March 4th – 91 days before the expiration of the mandate of the National Assembly”
So this is what we are quibbling about? The elections were (arguably) called ONE DAY too soon?
As Emma Goldman once said, “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” There is no such thing as DEMOCRACY unless both political and economic equality is present. There is no such society today. Everything is bought and sold in the market place. Supply and demand is not democracy when it only works on the basis of Cateris Paribus or when all other factors are held constant. Supply and demand in a capitalist economy is a process of fior exploitation.
Just because elections are currently meaningless this not an excuse to not struggle to make them meaningful.
What else do you propose? A civil war? Well we’re on the right track for that. And all the enemies of the Serbian people are gleeful at the thought.
But all things considered, I think we won’t even be asking ourselves these questions by the end of the year.
The world is going to hell in a handbasket. All will suddenly remember God when the dung hits the fan. But it will be far too late for most.
You think I’m exaggerating?
‘Someone’ just detonated a tactical nuclear weapon in Beirut, yesterday.
We in the West have a two standard philosophy. about everything because everything that we do or Israel is well-intentioned. If we rig political outcomes as we have done in all the colour revolutions and destabilizing killing innocent people in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Venezuela and hundreds of other places over the past century and we lie about it we ell it as it was done for the good of humanity but if Russia does it they are destabilizers, terrorists, and war criminals.
Just imagine what CNN would say if Iran had assassinated some American General, or if Iran bombed some places in Afghanistan like Israel is doing in Syria. Whatever CNN and New York Times write the sheeple bleat applause.
Recently we had American Media telling us that Russia was stealing US research in COVID 19. If Russia is first with the vaccine it will be sold in the West as THEFT. Medical information should be shared, free and available like clean air and water.
Tesla did his work for humanity, not for profit. When Tesla offered free electricity his backer asked how will it be metered? He responded no meter it will be free well the research funding ended.
When we work together we are all better off. Competition is not progress, cooperation is progress. Why do we teach children to cooperate, work together, share, and team play and then we give rewards to individuals rather than to the group.? Same is true with Capitalism where rewards are never shared. The elections just perpetuate this inequality.
You ask what do I propose? We need to turn the system upside down. The virus is a threat to society just like an invasion from some distant planet would be a threat we need to cooperate, share and work together. to eliminate the threat
Vojin the only enemies are those who seek to use your misery for their own gain which is abhorrent human behavior/. When BBC or CNN condemn China or Russia for using draconian methods to eliminate the virus even if they resort to stealing the information and are successful in developing a vaccine and sharing it that is praiseworthy while the reporting by CNN and BBC is repugnant.
Noone is advocating civil war. All we are doing is discussing and analysing those who rule over us. Is this not a healthy exercise?
Vucic is the default president for lack of better options, but for a “default option” he will sure have a lot of power in Serbia!
Does this not warrant some scrutiny? why the overreaction to the vigils in front of parliament? Why the shutting down of any dissent?
Our world is on the brink of major geo-political shift. Vucic had better think hard about making any major moves now.
Supply and demand is not democracy when it only works on the basis of Cateris Paribus or when all other factors are held constant. Supply and demand in a capitalist economy is a process of fior exploitation.
Indeed! Ominously, the current supply of humans far exceeds the demand for their services. Therefore, ceteris paribus, market forces decree that the supply of humans (naturally selected, of course!) must shrink drastically. That process is unfolding in the headlines everyday as we speak, especially in the economically developed west and the countries it makes war on. Global capitalism on steroids reveals its ugly face.
This will happen as Malthus predicted “Malthus argued that left unchecked, a population will outgrow its resources. He discussed two ways to ‘check’ a population: preventive checks, like the moral restraint of postponing marriage, or positive checks, like famine, disease, and warfare. Malthus ignored human ability to adjust through science and technology.