Wrong Again! But, who? Serbs or the media?

by Višeslav Simić, PhD, for The Saker Blog

“Illiterate degenerates, baby killers, butchers, and rapists,” as the then US Senator, and now the US Democratic Party’s Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, described the Serbs, are again in the focus of the global “p(l)andemic” propagators because they have en masse gathered in front of the country’s Parliament to protest “the Covid 19 measures.”

Yet, as in most other cases, the Western media got only part of the story and reported only what conforms with the official and “woke” narrative.

The people have had enough not only of the conflicting, incompetent and plain diabolical “measures” imposed upon them by the “state’s crisis expert team,” which, by the way, were the strictest and longest-lasting in the world, as well as of the pathetic and embarrassing panic and despair stricken “head of state”, but, more than anything else, they spontaneously burst into protests against the decades-long accumulated local governmental abuse, humiliation and psychological torture, in addition to impoverishment, isolation and the sanctions imposed by the “international community,” which is the euphemism for the US-led NATO coalition of states.

The current President of Serbia, who, since June 3, is the only remaining quasi-legal, totally illegitimate, Serbia’s high official, has mismanaged the state into a constitutional crisis, a financial disaster, and into an age of lawlessness, in which his private army of thugs has been employed to maintain him in power. Aleksandar Vučić, who enjoys self-declaring each and every action of his to be something “never before done in Serbian history,” through his political manipulations and blatant abuse of power, forced Parliamentary elections upon the population, which was, for almost as long as NATO bombing lasted in 1999, kept under the illegally and unconstitutionally imposed state of emergency, locked in their apartments during curfews lasting up to 5 days.

While the nation was locked up, he, and his party apparatchiks and ruling coalition members, moved freely all over Serbia, using the situation for election campaigning, simultaneously blocking access to the media to all other parties, providing “care packages” to his supporters, siphoning state funds for it, and blackmailing state employees into voting for his party. While campaigning, he posed as the leader of all citizens, tirelessly laboring for their good, yet, he not only openly propagated his party but remained the party’s chief officer in spite of the Constitutional prohibition against such “double-dipping,” ensuring his loss of legitimacy in spite of his claim that he is a legal officer of the state.

Facing the constitutional and legal obligation of holding Parliamentary elections during a health crisis, he forced their postponement until a date beyond the constitutionally proscribed deadline, thus voiding the legality and legitimacy not only of the elections themselves but of all the state institutions which depended on them – the mandate of the Parliament expired, which automatically caused the Government to become null and void, leaving Serbia without the Legislative and Executive branches, while the Judicial branch had long ago self-abolished itself by total inactivity and irrelevance, since the Supreme Court had declared itself incompetent and with no jurisdiction in all the violation of the Constitution cases, including the imposition of the state of emergency. The office of the President in Serbia is strictly ceremonial and legally its holder has no powers, which are, by the Constitution, in the hands of the Prime Minister. Yet, Vučić has created the biggest and most flagrant organized crime structure in Serbia, which has hijacked the state for its own corrupt, illicit and scandalous ends, so that all Serbian institutions have long ceased to exist and serve any purpose at all. It has not happened only to government institutions but to other pillars of Serbian traditions and identity: The Orthodox Church of Serbia has been bought by large ad hoc and fiat-based “donations” and by threats of scandal exposure; The Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the “intelligentsia” in general, have also long been bought by cushy appanages and privileges, monetary and in terms of titles and honors; The Military – once the greatest pride of the nation and the only European force that successfully opposed NATO, have long been replaced by a spineless slug-like corps, completely irrelevant and thoroughly infiltrated by NATO agents; The Police, once known as People’s, have been staffed by thugs and criminal elements, just like the Military, so much so that full-time officers have operated and protected illegal drugs production and distribution, as well as the illegal arms trade, even with Islamist groups, enemies of the US.

This outright and shameless advertising of reckless power abuse had culminated in the President’s Monty-Pythonesque and irreverently mocking imposition of an incompetent and embarrassingly speech articulation challenged Croat lesbian Prime Minister, with a faux amie sounding last name of Brn-a-bich, who, officially the holder of the highest and most powerful office in the land, addressed the President as “Boss,” and continually announced to the nation that she only fulfills “the Boss’s wishes.” It must be pointed out that her being a lesbian and a Croat wasn’t a big “problem,” in spite of Serbia being known as a quite conservative, traditionalist and nationalistic land, but it was her personal arrogance, breaching of civilized norms of behavior with political opponents, and her incapability to formulate even the simplest thought or to show any genuine interest in the life of ordinary citizens of Serbia. Her cabinet was staffed with proven plagiarists and open criminals. She is also known as a US agent, having worked for years for various Western interests in Serbia, making profitable deals that benefitted her family and friends.

This gross and exhaustive sham of all universal values and norms, violation of European and Western coda of behavior, rupture of social and political ideals, and renting of standards of good governance and public policy mores has been approved, supported, applauded, glorified, praised and rewarded by all Western governments and international bodies, public and private institutions and organizations, businesses and financial corporations, not only because Vučić has allowed a violent and unscrupulous takeover of Serbia’s businesses, a ruthless exploitation and ruinous pillage of natural and human resources, and a scheming and mercenary usage of Serbia’s geopolitical strategic location and influence with Russia, but, more than anything else, he has been most cooperative and instrumental in the grand treason of Kosovo and Metohija, and the final fulfilment of the West’s decades-long sweetest dream of gaining Serbia’s recognition of the NATO-controlled narco/sex slave/organ trafficking “state” locally operated by Islamist terrorist gang of brutal and barbarous West’s hirelings.

Eight long years have passed, filled with Vučić’s daily – actually, hourly! – pitiful provincial-actor-level drama queen performances of hurt feelings, broken heart wailing and weeping, gnashing of teeth in an agony of a misunderstood Messiah, fish-market-wife-like accusations and curses of unfaithful suitors, petty caprices of a high school pageant queen and vicious and vengeful worn out diva… Enough public pathology for generations of political and personal psychopathy doctoral theses!

Thus, the final straw on the back of the long-suffering nation, and the final drop of bile in the bitter cup served the people of Serbia was the re-imposition of the curfew and the state of emergency upon the population of Belgrade (with a possibility of doing it all over Serbia), right after the President’s arrogant and pompous declaration of victory, with over 60% of the votes won by his party, although there were blatant and degrading irregularities at over one-third of polling places, with most political opponents having boycotted the elections, and a vast majority of the people not even bothering to go out to vote, being aware that the whole process was illegal, irregular, and insulting to the intelligence and the honor of the nation.

Before the virus arrived in Serbia, the President and his “public health expert crisis team” declared it, in a live, clown-like TV appearance, “the funniest virus in world history,” announcing to the world that Serbs are genetically stronger than all other peoples of the globe so that the virus was not going to harm them, and that “husbands should send their wives to Milan on a shopping spree” not only because the prices would be low due to the tragedy there but because the estrogens in women render them resistant to it. The President, in a “funny guy” routine, shared his very “secret” method of fighting the virus by consuming a few shots of the strong Serbian plum brandy every morning! The Prime Minister reassured the population that “[they] have the virus under total control.”

Yet, just a few days later the whole criminal clan running the country of Serbia panicked and turned into a freak show. They imposed the strictest and the longest-lasting “public health measures” in Europe, and thousands of people were fined heavily for just going shopping for food at the wrong hour of the day. The population over 65 years of age was imprisoned for months in their homes and left with no organized aid, allowed to go shopping for food only from 4-7 AM – all of this because the President raised the level of panic and hysteria to unbearable levels by constant announcements that Serbia doesn’t have enough cemeteries to bury all the dead if the people disobey his orders. The situation was “so serious” that Easter was canceled, with the Patriarch of Serbia, ever an obedient servant of the President, declaring all churches closed and unnecessary for the religious life of the nation. Yet, the people remembered that even under Nazi and NATO bombs the Orthodox Easter was celebrated as the most important and hope-giving holiday of Resurrection and Life.

Yet, just before the election day, the infections all but disappeared, there were no more deaths, and the virus was declared, yet again, harmless and weak! The people were free and safe to go “vote” for the President!

When the ruling party’s victory was declared, leaving the future (illegal and illegitimate, we must insist on it) Parliament with no opposition at all, the President and his party celebrated all night, crowded all together, kissing and hugging each other in a live broadcast of the debauch orgy of naked arrogance and non-repentant narcissism and idolatry, with many election losers coming to perform obeisance to the “Savior,” hoping for a position in the future government. In the meantime, the nation set in their homes, speechless and horrified by the recklessness and ostentation by those who are supposed to protect and serve them.

Of course, the wages of sin were almost death – many of the celebrants ended up in the hospital, including the former Speaker of the Parliament, the former Chief Negotiator for Kosovo and Metohija, and one of the main election losers, an old-time turncoat, who got fewer votes than there are members of his own family.

The President immediately declared that it was the people’s fault, that the population was unruly and irresponsible, and that the rush to churches and sporting events caused the increase in the number of the sick. As expected, he pronounced, with the whole “expert team” nodding their heads with appropriate seriousness, that “no one got infected while voting!”

So – the people had to be locked up again and the appropriate decision was made by the now non-existent, illegal, and illegitimate government!

That was the trigger for the protests, not their cause!

We all saw the brutality by which the youth of Serbia were dispersed, using tear gas, batons, rubber bullets, police dogs, police Hummers parallel riding the streets in order to run over the protesters, and even the cavalry was called in, galloping at unarmed students and old people who couldn’t even run away from under the hoofs of the horses. Hundreds or even thousands of peaceful protesters were arrested. The number is uncertain since no information has been given to the families who were searching for their missing sons and daughters.

While this was happening, the media, totally controlled either by the President or by NATO countries’ corporations, showed entertaining programs and, if at all, informed the citizenry that “outlaws and hooligans” have attacked “the Home of the People” (the Parliament), which was defended by the “servants of the people” (the police). The Prime Minister declared, in a live TV appearance, that it was the students who threw tear gas at the police and not the other way around, and that the police suffered violence by the hooligan youth of Serbia.

The now open tyrant and dictator Vučić has accused his own people of being outlaws for challenging his rules, very plausibly influenced by his adviser, Tony Blair, who in 1999 bombed Serbia and occupied almost 20% of its territory, together with Bill Clinton, and who declared, in London’s Independent (March 27, 1999) that Serbs are “the outlaw nation stubbornly challenging the rules of the international community.” (meaning, his and Bill’s) This Presidential advisor is the same person who was discussed and analyzed at length in Dr. Vojislav Šešelj’s 2005 book titled “The English Fag Fart, Tony Blair,” for which Vucic wrote a laudatory introduction, and from whom he must have received the wisdom of calling his own people “outlaws” for “stubbornly challenging the rules” of Serbia’s Lord and Master.

But, just as Black Lives Matter in the US and all over the “woke” West, so do Serb Lives Matter, and we will defend them, liberate them from abuse and humiliation, and cherish them back to health and growth until Serbia is bursting with life, love and happiness, with this Psychopath safely locked away, and his Criminal Age only a reminder of the value of freedom and strong and healthy democratic institutions.

Višeslav Simić is a multilingual international business and international relations negotiator and marketing contractor; director, manager and supervisor of international development and aid organizations contracts and projects; university level educator in the fields of business and international diplomacy, strategy, negotiations and administration; academic and professional researcher and analyst of international business, diplomacy and public policy with published works; debating and public speaking coach; award-winning fiction writer.

BeliVuk on July 24, 2020 · at 3:23 am EST/EDT

The Trial of the Century you say. Two years and going and the media was silent? Why?
The use of cluster bombs and weapons containing depleted uranium caused hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries in Serbia. This was an illegal and unjustified act of blatant aggression. That it was carried out by the democratic nations of Western Europe and North America for no other reason but self-interest.
The ongoing trial of the former Serbian President, Slobodan Milosevic, can only be seen as a desperate attempt to justify NATO’s criminal actions. It will not succeed even though he will be found guilty.
. For more than forty years, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization protected the West from the very real threat of aggressive Soviet communism. NATO was more than just a powerful military alliance. It was founded on the bedrock of morality and high principle. It stood for the principles of the United Nations Charter. It stood for democracy, for the rule of law, and for all of those things Canadians fought for in two World Wars. All of this changed in the spring of 1999 when NATO bombers launched its unprovoked and illegal assault against the sovereign state of Yugoslavia.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the demise of the Warsaw Pact forces in Eastern Europe, the reason for NATO’s continuing existence began to come under serious scrutiny. Why maintain such a large and expensive military organization in Western Europe when any threat from the former Soviet Union had evaporated? Before this question could be resolved, however, a new role for the Alliance had to be created and justified to the taxpayers in the West.
The breakup of Yugoslavia was orchestrated in the West for this purpose and two other reasons.
1. Give NATO reason to exist
2. American Military Plan for the New Century
3. Globalization

Under the leadership of the United States, NATO intervened in the civil war in Yugoslavia that the west had created aided and abetted. As soon as the bombing started in Bosnia there was no further talk about dismantling NATO. On the contrary, the airstrikes had given new life to the organization. Now the talk was of expansion and for new missions to be undertaken. NATO had a new purpose. I billion to destabilize Serbia, A billion to destabilize Georgia, over a billion to destabilize Ukraine. And you know what is going on in the Middle East.
In the Serbian Province of Kosovo, Rebellion was fomented as we now know by the intelligence services of at least three of the NATO countries USA Britain and Germany who supplied the terrorist organization the KLA the organization created by Ben Laden with weapons and logistics. This provided the United States with the opportunity of employing NATO in an attempt to bring down the Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic who refused to privatize collective property. The United States used a fabricated Racak Massacre to justify the bombing.
Using as an excuse that Serbs refused to sign the infamous Rambouillet Agreement which would have resulted in the occupation of Serbia and Kosovo going to Albania NATO began to bomb Yugoslavia in March 1999. The bombing continued for 78 days until a peace treaty was brokered by the Russians and the United Nations.
The bombing was a violation of NATO’s First Article, a violation of the United Nations Charter, and contrary to international law, against all agreements signed by Yugoslavia as a founding member of the UN. Ironically- and shamefully- none of the democratic leaders of NATO member countries [except for Greece] challenged the US-led bombing. When Madeline Albright, the United States Secretary of State, was informed shortly before the bombing by the British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cooke, that lawyers in his Ministry believed the bombing to be illegal if done without UN approval, she abruptly dismissed his concern by telling him to, “Get new lawyers!”
The niceties of international law and the formalities of obtaining UN approval before intervening in the domestic affairs of a sovereign state were to be set aside in favor of, “conflict prevention,” of
“crisis management,” and “crisis response operations.”

These buzzwords and deionization of a people and its leaders sold well in the West and turned the original treaties into scraps of paper. But nobody seems to care. We now have a “treaty on wheels” that can be used for whatever purposes the United States wants it to be used for. Wheel it out whenever it is convenient and use it when it is awkward to obtain legislative authority to wage war. A sad state of affairs and a dreadful indictment of the readiness of today’s political leaders to mold international instruments and treaties in whatever image serve the interests of the Great Powers and at the same time blame the victim for the criminal acts of the aggressor.
NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia will be regarded by future historians as the act that completely dismantled the international security framework so carefully crafted by democratic statesmen in the aftermath of two World Wars and the advent of nuclear weapons. It will be marked, as the point in history when other so-called democratic leaders acted dishonorably to set the clock back to the days prior to the Second World War when military might was the only criterion that counted in the conduct of international relations.
Why is Milosevic on trial?
To paraphrase: He is charged with aiding and abetting the conflict in a joint criminal enterprise for the purpose of creating a Greater Serbia.
There is little evidence to support this and yet he will be found guilty to absolve NATO of its criminal responsibility. Some Canadians say he is being Lynched:
Canadians.
Ed Schryer former premier of Manitoba: I have been taken in hook line and sinker by the lies of Lloyd Axworthy and I am going to do something about it?
Lewis McKenzie: Maj-Gen. Lewis Mackenzie, now retired, commanded UN troops during the Bosnian civil war of 1992. National Post June 2004. We bombed the wrong side.
Professor Mundell and dozens of Canada’s top lawyers from Osgood Hall Law School and across Canada have launched Criminal proceedings against NATO leadership for their criminal actions against Yugoslavia.
Jo Bissett: Former ambassador to Yugoslavia who was dismissed by Axworthy for opposing and exposing NATO’s illegal war.
Sergeant Rollie Keith from Chilliwack former Bblue Helmet who testified about the breadline and Markale markets massacres as Muslim Croat acts to garner western sympathy. Ken Haynes a Canadian soldier from Canada tells a different story as well
Noted criminal lawyer Eddie Greenspan has condemned the trial of Yugoslavia´s deposed President Slobodan Milosevic as a “kangaroo court” and a “lynching.”
The whole concept of an international court for war criminals is rife with folly and shame. Essentially, it´s winners getting even with losers. Wesley Clark The US general in charge of the bombing when he testified against Milosevich
When Madame Justice Louise Arbour was prosecutor for the IWCT – appointed at the behest of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who was bent on war against Serbia over Kosovo – she suggested Milosevic was guilty of genocide, before she had much more than hearsay evidence. They lay charges and invent evidence later.
For example, Arbour cited a massacre at Racak, in Kosovo, as Milosevic´s, which later turned out to be a fake massacre orchestrated by Albanian Kosovars to frame the Serbs
A case can even be made that NATO and those who plotted the war over Kosovo deserve to be charged with war crimes. Let the war policy be defended in open court
Kosovo was an unnecessary war, a fabricated war condemned by James Bissett, former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia, and now chairman of the Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies. Reviled by Ottawa and dismissed as an ambassador for his outspoken dissent, Bissett and others are dismayed that NATO, formed as a defensive alliance to protect Europe from Soviet aggression became an interventionist force in a civil war that was no threat to other European countries. The only NATO country to oppose the U.S. bombing war that violated both the UN and NATO charters, as well as international law, was Greece. Bissett finds this both ironic and shameful.
Bissett notes that the “bedrock of morality and high principle,” on which NATO was formed, has been eroded: “NATO has become just another tool of American foreign policy.”
The trial of Milosevic seems an attempt to justify NATO´s actions in what is known as “Madeleine Albright’s war.” When Britain initially objected to the bombing war because foreign ministry lawyers advised it would be illegal if done without UN approval, Albright´s reaction was “get new lawyers.”
While none of this may concern Greenspan´s criticisms of how the trial is being conducted, what cannot easily be ignored is that the declared reason for the bombing was to halt alleged genocide and massive ethnic cleansing. In the year prior to the bombing, some 2,000 people were killed in Kosovo – roughly half by Serbian actions, half by the Kosovo Liberation Army, whom NATO and the U.S. supported. Compare this with 100,000 civilians dead in Iraq and over a half million children due to ten years of US embargo.
Hardly genocide. As for “ethnic cleansing” (a euphemism for creating refugees) during fighting prior to the bombing, some 100,000 people were displaced (mostly Serbs). After bombing started, 800,000 fled. The reality of Milosevic´s trial is that the guilty verdict is already in. Only the sentence remains to be imposed. Alexander Pope once wrote, “The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine”.

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FromSerbia on July 21, 2020 · at 3:17 pm EST/EDT

Thank you, Mr. Simić and thank you Saker and team for posting this.

What an eloquent and 100% spot-on summary of this year’s events in Serbia.
- B.F. on July 22, 2020 · at 3:05 am EST/EDT
  
  FromSerbia
  “What an eloquent and 100% spot-on summary of this year’s events in Serbia”. Really ? This article, as well as articles posted in the preceding weeks by that unnamed author from Belgrade, are 100 % spot-on disinformation, having nothing to do with reality. Let we summarize what happened in the past weeks.
  
  We had Parliamentary elections, which were won by President Vućićes political party. Attempts were made to portray the elections as dishonest, with a minimal turnout of voters. This was not the case. I participated in the elections, and the turnout was solid.
  
  As soon as the elections were over we, all of a sudden, got “demonstrations” in front of the Parliament. No, we did not have “demonstrations” in the streets of Belgrade, but only in front of the Parliament. The “demonstrators” we led by football hooligans, and initially backed by immature teenagers. After a few days, the teenagers started backing off, having realized they were duped and transformed into stooges. After that the “demonstrations” evaporated. The situation is now perfectly calm and normal, as if nothing had happened.
  
  There is no question that these “demonstrations” were planned by Western government agencies and executed by their NGO’s. The intent was to have President Vućić removed by a “popular” color revolution. The attempt failed miserably, as the population of Belgrade did not join a bunch of football hooligans. As for the analysis of Western government agencies, one has to laugh at their “efficiency”. They obviously thought that a color revolution would succeed. The methods used were almost identical to the methods used in Kiev in 2014. In Kiev the West used neo-Nazis from Western Ukraine. In Belgrade football hooligans were used, as there are no neo-Nazis in the country. The end result is one great big flop, a laughable failure.
  
  The author has insinuated that the demonstrations were a popular revolt against President Vućić, which is laughable. Football hooligans do not represent the general population, in any country. As for President Vućićes “private army of thugs”, I was not aware that he had a “private army of thugs”. If the author is insinuating the police, then I will have to disappoint him and give the police full praise, as they have been highly professional.
  
  The author has also stated that many of the opposition politicians did not participate in the elections. These “opposition” politicians are remnants of liberals who in 2000 overthrew President Milosević (or more specifically, middle class parasites, as they are known in Serbia). After that they came to power, showing their true colors. The population, of course, turned against them, with the result that even they knew that they had no chance what so ever in any elections. They thus tried to sabotage the last elections. They failed. After that, at the nod of Western NGO’s, they tried a little color revolution, using football hooligans as storm troopers. As I mentioned above, the football hooligans were initially joined by teenagers, who after a few days refused to participate any more in the “demonstrations”, having grasped what was going on. And no, the police did not use brutality against the youth of the country, as stipulated in the article, as only a limited number of youth participated, and this in a limited time period. And where are the “demonstrations” now ? You will find them in old newspaper articles.
  
  The unnamed author who in the preceding weeks posted articles about the “demonstrations” used a liberal outlook to describe what “happened”, writing a heap of disinformation, which has nothing to do with reality, even listing some unknown kids as political “opponents” and “victims”, which is hilarious. The author of this article has used both a liberal outlook, as well as socialist terminology from the communist period, portraying President Vućić as half mobster and half communist, turning Serbia “into an age of lawlessness”. Indeed. And what “lawlessness” is that ? I am perfectly happy living in Serbia, and I see no “lawlessness” around me, nor do I see any police brutality around me. The author obviously mistook the situation in the US with the situation in Serbia. What I do see is a perfectly calm situation, people going on with their lives, with many gone on their summer vacations. As for the police, I saw more police in the US than I ever did in Serbia. For example, this morning I again did not see a single cop in front of the Parliament building.
  
  And finally, perhaps this author, as well as that unnamed one, can explain why the population of Belgrade did not join the “demonstrators”, and why the “demonstrations” have evaporated. Because of police brutality ? Come on. No infantile excuses. Thank you.
  - Srbalj on July 22, 2020 · at 7:17 am EST/EDT
    
    This is pure 100% disinformation. The elections were completely fraudulent, this is not the first time, but these were quite possibly the most fraudulent. Elections are having to be re-run in numerous constituencies, & as more information comes in about the sheer amount of fraud, it is looking like the entire election process may be invalidated. As to the claim “I participated in the elections” – that tells us absolutely nothing. I went to work today, does that mean that every employed person in the world did as well?
    But, even by Vucic’s regime’s own account, there was a 50% turnout, that mean half the population, by their own admission, did not even vote – & that is nothing knew either, it is not about Vucic, it is about the political class generally, which, as in other countries, is totally criminal.
    - B.F. on July 22, 2020 · at 9:13 am EST/EDT
      
      Srbalj
      “The elections were completely fraudulent, this is not the first time, but these were quite possibly the most fraudulent”. Indeed. If this is true, then why didn’t the population of Belgrade join the demonstrators ? The point is that few people wanted to vote for the few liberal candidates that did participate in the elections. The “demonstrations” were nothing more than a frustrated attempt by frustrated liberals to grab power. The attempt failed of course. And where are the “demonstrators” now ? Hiding from public view. The moment football hooligans were abandoned by the teenagers, this Western sponsored attempt at a color revolution failed. It just collapsed. You know this.
      - Saddam Panonski on July 22, 2020 · at 1:13 pm EST/EDT
        
        (Accusation removed by moderator.) There were no liberals among protesters, and few liberal politicians that wanted to hijack the protests were thrown out.
        If this was western attempt to organize color revolution, why is main NATO propagandist in Serbia, Jelena Milić, director of Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies (whatever that means) so vigorously defending regime? Here you have her accusing Russians for organizing protests:
        
        https://www.blic.rs/vesti/politika/direktorka-ceas-jelena-milic-u-otvorenom-pismu-clanovima-ep-kvazi-demokratska/mz4wvk2
        
        If Vučić is not a NATO puppet how can you explain that open letter?
        
        B.F. on July 23, 2020 · at 2:02 am EST/EDT
        
        Saddam Panonski
        She is not the only one accusing Russians of “organizing” the demonstrations. A cheap trick, the aim being to remove attention from Western instigators of an attempted color revolution.
        
        Saddam Panonski on July 23, 2020 · at 8:21 am EST/EDT
        
        B.F.
        
        But where do you see Western support for demonstrations? When CIA was conquering Ukraine in 2014. Radio Free Europe (their mouthpiece) had thousands of articles about “democratic freedom fighters” against evil “dictatorship”. You can go now on their site, they write about “dictatorship” in Belarus, but not a single article against Vučić.. Color revolution cannot succeed without massive propaganda campaign. And i just don’t see any campaign here.
        
        B.F. on July 24, 2020 · at 2:15 am EST/EDT
        
        Saddam Panonski
        When the football hooligans attacked the police in front of the Parliament, there was no public support, and hence the West did not show any overt support, relaizing the instigated color revolution would fail, as it did.
        
        Saddam Panonski on July 25, 2020 · at 5:17 am EST/EDT
        
        B.F.
        Public support doesn’t happen just like that. It is usually being built with weeks of media campaign, no holds barred, with stories about peaceful people confronting inhuman regime. And all western media supporting that narrative. As we can see, this is obviously not the case here: I haven’t seen even one Western anti-Vučić article (unless we consider Croatian media as Western). So there remains a question, how did the West instigated protest without supporting it? With mind control?
        And don’t you remember: when hooligans in Kiev attacked, even murdered, members of police in Kiev, they had full and open support of all Western media, politicians and NGO-s. Why would it be so different here?
    - FromSerbia on July 22, 2020 · at 9:28 am EST/EDT
      
      B. F. I hope you at least got your bag of sugar, your bag of flour, and your carton of eggs.
      - B.F. on July 22, 2020 · at 10:12 am EST/EDT
        
        FromSerbia
        No I did not. However, I always keep an extra bottle of gin at home. In summertime I prefer gin and tonic to scotch and soda.
      - Michael'sSon on July 22, 2020 · at 11:41 am EST/EDT
        
        They told me that engineers are asking 2000e net per month?! I am sure they can buy a lot of sugar with my friend.
        
        Anonymous on July 22, 2020 · at 1:49 pm EST/EDT
        
        Whatever the truth of the current situation, considering the level of conflict on fundamental news reporting here, could someone please refer me to a site where views and and experiences of the last weeks by Serbian’ people and journalists are shared ?
        I would appreciate this, and also if possible, information as to journalists covering the events at Kiev 2013 – 15, who were they, were they voluntary, paid etc //
        Thanks in advance.
    - АммА on July 23, 2020 · at 4:54 pm EST/EDT
      
      @ B.F.
      
      Your “arguments” remind me of an old joke where Mujo, caught red handed cheating, tried to convince his wife Fata that he is in fact innocent :
      
      – Mujo: “Nope, it wasn’t like that at all”.
      – Fata: “Yes it was, I saw it with my own eyes”!
      – Mujo: “Honey, do you believe me or your own eyes”?
      
      Buddy… as you were riding the Bulgarian voting train, while waiting to honor your Progressive paycheck (after paying regular 5% racket), some other people were indeed on the streets of Belgrade, simply carrying national insignia, singing to St. Sava while expressing their disagreements with wearing compelled muzzles that Vucic’s “experts” recognized as main tool in sealing people’s mouths, literally and symbolically. As a sign of appreciation, they were fed with large portions of “brother Xi’s” most improved tear gas supplies, courtesy of Chinese corona experts recently “helping” during pandemic, whose expertise Vucic announced to implement in a month or two, being proudly first in Europe to inject whatever is in those Chinese vials into veins of “ungrateful, lazy and stupid Serbian mythomaniacs”, as he frequently identify them by.
      
      So here are my two cents against few blatant, cheap… disinfo.. that you tried to sell for big money:
      
      – People on the streets of Belgrade were, well, from Belgrade, not some outsiders. Citizens of Novi Sad, Nis, Kragujevac and other major cities were preoccupied with demonstrations on their respective streets, they had no need to travel, as they would be stopped anyway. Vucic is capable of shutting down the whole country so few barricades on highways wouldn’t be an issue whatsoever. It happened before.
      
      – Demonstrators weren’t football hooligans, although hooligans did participate, primarily as “instigators” of “confrontation” with the police, then quickly stepping aside, letting police to “retaliate” against actually very peaceful, young, smart and, unlike Vucic’s agitprop apparatchiks, highly educated people, and, eventually, we could see those hooligans actually joining police in applying brutal force against, among others, some of the best students Europe has seen in quite some time, young people who invested their brains in well being of the entire humanity, not into AV’s sociopathic displays of Dark Ages measures, youngsters who are sick to their stomachs watching their parents being bullied and blackmailed into El Presidente’s eternal cycle of buying votes for a bag of flour and package of cooking oil.
      – So, as we could see (with our own eyes), Vucic does have the private army of thugs, criminals being deputized and endorsed by the very police, with the whole array of powerful resources at their disposal. We could see them trying to infiltrate young protesters seating on the grass the other day, but being quickly recognized (by their pathetic display and bully demeanor) and asked to leave. We could see them acting over regular police, while arresting a Serbian monk, we could see them jumping out of ambulance vehicles (yep, that’s AV at his best) and dragging protesters into them, dropping them into court houses, before the “judge”, who needs less than 10 minutes to summarize the whole case, eventually giving 60 days jail sentence(!) to youngsters, taking effect immediately, most of them barely stopped being teenagers, while being unable to contact lawyers and family for days.
      
      – Western powers brought Vucic to the fattest chair in Serbia, as they did every other guy since 2000. American embassy congratulated then-president Nikolic (Vucic long time buddy) on winning elections hours before polls were closed. They do tend to control both sides and circling them at will, but there is no reason at this very moment to do that against Vucic. He’s Deep State’s prodigal son. He is the very same Vucic who contributed $2 million Serbian people’s money to Hillary’s campaign in 2016 (because “I’m smart” he said), he got a tap on his shoulder from Hillary’s hubby, one of most recognisable faces of the inner circle you’re betting against in your argument, dear B.F. Vucic is Merkel’s darling, Macron’s intimus, while flying to Russia only weeks prior to the next election.
      
      I’m pretty sure you’ve seen all these examples (on social media, of course) but it comes eventually to the point where you believe more to your cow**dice than your deceiving eyes.
      I mean… seriously… who is being infantile here?
      - B.F. on July 24, 2020 · at 2:08 am EST/EDT
        
        AMMA
        Well, I never met Mujo, while I do believe my own eyes. As for my “arguments”, they really are arguments, and not just “arguments”. You wrote plenty without saying much.
        
        Yes, there were “demonstrations” in Novi Sad and some other towns. Again, the bulk of these “demonstrators” were misled kids. The “demonstrations” outside Belgrade evaporated faster than the one in Belgrade, as the kids realized they too were being misled and turned into stooges. Also, their numbers were smaller than the numbers in Belgrade.
        
        The trouble with the liberal mind is that it cannot distinguish between wishful thinking and reality. One more time: There were no demonstrations in Belgrade enjoying popular support, only a riot outside the Parliament building led by football hooligans and, initially, supported by kids. When the kids realized they were being duped and turned into stooges, they backed off, leaving the football hooligans, who went home, as they did not want to look ridiculous rioting on their own. Where are the demonstrators now ? I don’t see them.
        
        I keep asking the two authors why the “demonstrators” were not joined by the population of Belgrade. I did not get an answer. The point is that the population of Belgrade was not behind the “demonstrations”, an attempt at a Western sponsored color revolution and a coup d’etat which, of course, failed. That’s the essence of these “demonstrations”, which Western NGO’s and intelligence agencies instigated using out of date manuals.
  - Lara on July 23, 2020 · at 4:09 pm EST/EDT
    
    Dragi BF,
    It was already in the 1990s that so-called liberals and the extreme right, including monarchist admirers, pulled together. The common enemy was the communists, who were actually socialists. They believed that if this was defeated, peace, joy & wealth would return to Serbia. The opposite was the case. The leaders and their clan of all three sides were princely rewarded, the people were driven into misery or emigration.
    
    The author does not belong to the liberal side but to one of the others. Whereby it doesn’t matter, because the methods of slander, of assertion without facts are common to all 3 sides. So also the language: it is written about tyranny, plague, epidemic, psychopaths etc. I find this language highly uncivilized and it reminds me of expressions of the so-called Western community of values, which calls every state representative that does not dance to its tune that way, including Putin.
    
    What concerns me most is the barbaric shadow that these guys like the author and his jubilant heirs cast over Serbs in general. With every text with this style, I sense an aversion to this people among non-Serbs. I am desperate and want to scream: Hey Serbs, stop establishing yourselves as janissaries forever and ever!
    - B.F. on July 24, 2020 · at 4:58 am EST/EDT
      
      Lara
      Thank you for your comment, which I enjoyed reading. Поздрав.
Serbian girl on July 21, 2020 · at 4:20 pm EST/EDT

I know of people who have voted for Vucic at one point or another. The nicest thing they could say about him is, he is “the least worst” of our political leaders. Nobody actually likes him.

This is why I found the exaltation of Vucic in the previous comments sections (Johnny-on-the-spot’s accounts) extremely bizarre…

Some have pointed out Vucic’s handling of the economy and the “boom” in GDP. They do not understand that 1/5 of Serbia’s economy is manufacturing. The uptick in FDI (foreign direct investment – a number that feeds into GDP) is achieved by giving away qualified manufacturing labour for almost free. The GDP and the FDI numbers have made the government look good but have increased precarity in the population.

Regarding the prime minister calling the president “boss”. Do you remember when Popovic from OTPOR referred to Gene Sharp as “master”? It’s 20 years later and we still have the same mindset in our ruling class.

Finally, I don’t mean to poke holes in an otherwise very good article, but I would feel better about it if the protests in Serbia are not compared to Black Lives Matter, which I feel is an entirely different phenomenon.
- Serbian girl on July 21, 2020 · at 4:43 pm EST/EDT
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/t-magazine/gene-sharp-theorist-of-power.html
  
  Here is the 2012 article where Popovic refers to Gene Sharp as “the Master”.
- Z on July 21, 2020 · at 6:12 pm EST/EDT
  
  — Nobody actually likes him.
  
  How big and stratified is your sample?
  
  — giving away qualified manufacturing labour for almost free
  
  Hyperbole does not help. Labor in Serbia is cheaper than in the west, but it’s not “almost free”. Besides, isn’t that how China achieved its economic boom?
  - Serbian girl on July 21, 2020 · at 7:29 pm EST/EDT
    
    The foreign corporation gets workers who are locked into Serbian minimum wage, with no social benefits or contributions. Taking into account the multi-year corporate tax breaks, free use of infrastructure, and extremely heavily subsidised electricity, I would say my comment about having “almost free” labour is being conservative.. (Some have claimed that when you add and subtract everything, we are actually paying them…)
    
    Don’t get me wrong, this is not waitressing or driving tourists to and from a beach. The Serbs are proud to work in manufacturing. But lets face it, the working conditions are tough, the net economic benefit is debateable.
- B.F. on July 22, 2020 · at 6:02 am EST/EDT
  
  Serbian girl
  The Black Lives Matter movement in the US is a Soros funded and organized subversive “institution”, created for ethnic conflict. The NGO’s in Serbia are, of course, under Western control. However, the Western government agencies who control the NGO’s came to the laughable conclusion that a color revolution in Serbia was “possible”. They obviously thought that the present unrest in the US would be an “inspiration” for a color revolution in Serbia. This laughable conclusion saw “demonstrations” in Serbia evaporate, as if they never existed. And no, President Vućić does not have a ““private army of thugs”, as outrageously and fraudulently stated by the author of this article. If such an army of thugs did exist, then the demonstrations would not have evaporated. The people of Belgrade did not join these “demonstrations”. Поздрав.
  - Mairon on July 22, 2020 · at 5:50 pm EST/EDT
    
    It’s typical not to consider those who we disagree with as ‘people’. This is precisely the kind of rhetoric those pro-Western, foreign-funded (Soros is always mentioned) use, in dividing Serbia between them, them ‘Decent Serbia’ and all others.
    
    We have much evidence pointing at the regime using criminals as provocateurs to cause problems with the police and justify the use of violence towards peaceful protesters. Criminal elements in the police and intelligence agencies. The same thugs in civilian clothes who used to drag bystanders and protesters alike. We had people getting arrested for Tweets, people randomly arrested for being seen near the place where the protests were held. Police violence and repression at every corner and a total media blackout.
    
    It is very interesting to see you and the regime you support on the same side with CEAS (Center for Euro-Atlancic Studies, political figures like Cedomir Jovanovic and Canak, printed media like Blic and Kurir and other prominent tools of Western influence in Serbia). Not one of them has raised their voice against police brutality towards the protesters and have openly backed the regime.
    
    Today, the FM has attended the 8th Belgrade NATO week. Interesting timing, no doubt.
- azra on July 23, 2020 · at 3:47 pm EST/EDT
  
  I value your comments so much, you are smart and measured in your words, dear Serbian girl.
  
  This is it:
  ‘Some have pointed out Vucic’s handling of the economy and the “boom” in GDP. They do not understand that 1/5 of Serbia’s economy is manufacturing. The uptick in FDI (foreign direct investment – a number that feeds into GDP) is achieved by giving away qualified manufacturing labour for almost free. The GDP and the FDI numbers have made the government look good but have increased precarity in the population.’
  
  The typical MO of any colony.
  The same is happening all over the region, the dismembered country of Yugoslavia.( for now, I say)
  Impoverishment coming after the total destruction of the economy, planned and slavishly followed up by the puppets on the helms of all our little stupid colonies.
  
  I thank you for your comments, I have learned to trust you and respect you.
  
  Some links you might like, if you have not already read it:
  1) https://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/naomi-klein-the-shock-doctrine.pdf
  2) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3713/2098706a376c75117abcd7145adaf65d93a7.pdf?_ga=2.156083387.1668392045.1593714450-1323408272.1593714450
  
  Explains all what happened and was inflicted on us.
  
  Kindest regards
- tomo on July 23, 2020 · at 4:28 pm EST/EDT
  
  Everyone I know in Serbia hates Vucic (apart from my uncle who thinks he is great)
  - Lara on July 23, 2020 · at 5:09 pm EST/EDT
    
    Tomo,
    
    My aunts also like him because the opposition can’t offer alternatives.
    
    What annoys me is the extreme language again. Hate is the opposite of love, in psychological terms a feeling that only arises in an interpersonal context. How can you hate someone you don’t know? OK. _ the Nazi Germans could do that, but are we like them?
    
    Maybe you mean dislike? I don’t like Vucic either, think his neo-liberal policies are wrong, but I don’t hate him. He pursues a different political agenda than I think is right and important. There must be a discourse about this in politics and in society. This is not possible, however, if an opposition or individuals who think they represent a society do not orientate themselves on facts and offer solutions but attract attention through verbal aberrations. It seems to me that a large part of the Serbian opposition, fed and fattened up by foreign embassies, but also a large part of the politicians commenting here have not understood the main features of the policy, and are writing away their frustration in the comfortable chair in front of the PC, confusing moaning, lynch law wishes etc. with constructive criticism.
    
    Many do not recognise the lack of freedom of movement for a state like Serbia to guarantee the interests of the country and its citizens, regardless of who is currently in power. Not innocent of the Serbian stalemate are all those who were on the streets in October 2000 and intrigued before that. Instead of demonstrating unity for the interests of the Serbs with all the associated disputes, many took part in the murder of the so-called tyrant and dictator. What was a tragedy at the time is now a farce. Wake up!
- Lara on July 23, 2020 · at 4:37 pm EST/EDT
  
  Dear Serbian Girl,
  
  The situation of Serbs in KOSMET, Croatia and parts of Bosnia outside the RS can be compared to discrimination against a section of the population in the USA.
  
  A movement with the slogan ‘Serb Lives Matter’ makes sense, but not in the context the author wants to suggest.
Hawaiiguy on July 21, 2020 · at 4:41 pm EST/EDT

Made me want to head to Serbia and go 10,000 Rambos on the filth in control of the beautiful country. I hope they get the full on Ceaușescu treatment from the beautiful yet starving people real soon. It can happen, you must just be willing to suffer to get to the truth.
- Richard on July 21, 2020 · at 8:57 pm EST/EDT
  
  @ Hawaiiguy
  
  Rest assured that your hopes are to materialise. Vučić … Popović… The 5th column in Serbia will get its just comeuppance. Its illusory “ubiquitousness” (even here feigned by bizarre hit-and-run comments) won’t shield it. Every nation in history has had its refuse – only to be terminally flushed down the toilet when the time came.
- Monica on July 24, 2020 · at 3:42 am EST/EDT
  
  Greetings from Romania. There is a growing sense here that we were duped in that revolution. Ceaușescu’s treatment of his people was cruel in the extreme, but he had removed the national debt and the country was financially independent. (Some similarities to Ghadaffi and his fate are interesting). The country is rich in minerals and stretegically placed with access to the Black Sea. Ultimately the globalist cabal could not allow him or his party to go on an build a future for Romania. I am not saying the soclialists would have been successful. Indeed I doubt they would, but that is not the point. Romania had its independent soverignty removed. We are now pimped by the Atlanticists, we have nothing of our own and are simply a pawn in much larger geopolitical powerplay.
  Something similar is at work in Serbia (it has large deposits of Lithium – think Bolivia). The future is not bright. The truth is ugly, and Serbia is dying, literally in demographic freefall. You don’t have to support the current goverment to realise that opposition to that government is being orchestrated by those who wish to see Serbia cease to be. The current silence of the Orthodox church in matters is actually quite wise, though with passions high, it doesn’t seem like this to my Serbian friends.
Anonymous on July 21, 2020 · at 5:12 pm EST/EDT

Sadly, I see no hope for Serbia or its people. We sold our freedom and country in 1918 and it’s been getting progressively worse ever since. Church was our last hope and it is now also gone. God help us.
- Pamela on July 21, 2020 · at 7:32 pm EST/EDT
  
  Never say that. When you believe that “they” have won. It’s what they want. Centuries ago, the Benedictines in England taught that despair was a sin – because it accuses God of having turned his back, and He never does. Not really.
  
  Hope dies last they say – I say, it only dies when the last person stops clinging to it. I’ve been catching up on a very little of Serbia’s’ history. She gone through so many tumultuous, tragic times. Yet still, here she is, “Still Standing” as the song says.
  
  Refuse to believe it, never ever give in to despair, and the nation will indeed survive, somehow. Battered, maybe, reduced, decimated, saddened, but still standing to fight another day.
  - Петар on July 21, 2020 · at 10:22 pm EST/EDT
    
    @ Pamela
    
    Thank you for shining the truth. A reminder that is so essential for the life of any nation – and indeed of any person.
- Vojin on July 22, 2020 · at 9:24 am EST/EDT
  
  Do not ever say such things. It is not over as long as long as there is anyone of us alive, who can carry the spirit of freedom.
Z on July 21, 2020 · at 5:13 pm EST/EDT

This text only confirms the well known fact that PhDs are not immune to biases…especially when they are far removed from the land they are attempting to lecture. Most of the conclusions in this article seem to be based on social media rumors and innuendo. Sorry, but I don’t find it convincing.
- Z on July 21, 2020 · at 8:32 pm EST/EDT
  
  The number of unsubstantiated claims in this article is too numerous to argue on a point-by-point basis (the church is bought, the intelligentsia is bought, the police is staffed with thugs and criminals, etc., etc.), but to give just one example of the misleading narrative, let’s look at the following claim:
  
  “The office of the President in Serbia is strictly ceremonial and legally its holder has no powers, which are, by the Constitution, in the hands of the Prime Minister. Yet, Vučić has … hijacked the state”
  
  The fact is that the most powerful person in Serbian politics is the head of the ruling party. This has been the case from the very beginning of parliamentary democracy in Serbia and it is true both de facto and de jure. The parliamentary majority can give boot to the Prime Minister any time they want…by the Constitution. Therefore, the person who controls the ruling party controls the government.
  
  Given all his credentials, Mr. Simic HAS to know all that, so it’s hard for me to view his comment as anything other than disingenuous.
  - Mad Serbian on July 22, 2020 · at 5:35 am EST/EDT
    
    With all due respect Z I appreciate your admiration and devoted love for the President but the Constitution clearly states what the duties are – see sections 111 – 121, where section 115 states “That the President must not undertake another open function or professional duty, so how can Vucic still remain party leader and have his name on the list of parties during these fraudulent Parliamentary elections if he’s role is President of all the citizens and not only SNS voters…? Interpret that how you like but President is only a ceremonial duty like the Queen in the UK!
    
    Check again the ballet papers and you will see that it wasn’t SNS #1 but Vucic, For the Future of Our Children (mirroring the NAZIs pre WW2 slogan), throughout Serbia? His predecessor was a true President as his functions involved holding banquets, issuing awards, welcoming foreign dignitaries which is very far from Vucic who seems to run every institution, barring the SOC and even then he’s practically made the Patriarch compliant and passive.
    
    Nobody is denying Vucic is the leader of the SNS but legally he can’t stay party leader and remain President so Prof, V. Simic is correct and no amount of coercing of the Courts can deny its Unconstitutional. If anybody is being disingenuous than its you as throughout the past few articles you have been super quick to deny every statement against Vucic, despite multiple posters giving sources that back up their views.
    
    ad hominem removed … mod its as clear as day that Vucic is a crony and puppet of the West who is allowed to rule, cheat and steal as long as he does what they command. Its our job as truth seekers to point out the facts and I greatly appreciate the Saker for shedding light on the developments in Serbia and surroundings.
    - Z on July 22, 2020 · at 7:29 am EST/EDT
      
      — Nobody is denying Vucic is the leader of the SNS but legally he can’t stay party leader and remain President
      
      Yes he can. Party leader is neither a public function nor a professional duty as defined in the Constitution.
      
      So, the latest claim is that the Courts are being coerced. Let me see: The church is bought, the military is bought, the academics are bought, the health officials are bought, the judiciary is bought… Did I miss anyone? Ah, yes…the electorate is also bought (with sandwiches). Is there anyone in Serbia that is *not* bought by Vucic?
      
      Now, all one has to do to counter these *allegations* is to prove a negative…or two…or a dozen.
      
      Here…hold my sandwich.
      - Vojin on July 22, 2020 · at 9:15 am EST/EDT
        
        ” Is there anyone in Serbia that is *not* bought by Vucic? ”
        
        Those that are not bought are beaten down with clubs and choked by tear gas, if need be. There are also numerous unsolved political smelling murders, people’s homes set on fire etc. etc. etc.
        
        Too many to list here, but anyone living in Serbia knows exactly what I am talking about.
        
        But you know what, it is all in vain. The Serbian people shall prevail.
        
        And the traitors will get their day in court. If they don’t get lynched that is. I’d prefer the former.
        
        Sooner or later. Mark my words.
      - Richard on July 23, 2020 · at 7:53 pm EST/EDT
        
        @ Z
        
        “… hold my sandwich …”
        
        Sure, after the meal, time for your cookies from the American embassy.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcQNa1ZAa8k
Michael'sSon on July 21, 2020 · at 7:33 pm EST/EDT

Maybe Mr. Simic would like to go more into “financial disaster” topic? Based on which parameters? Compared to which economies? I mean with such a background that cannot be too difficult Mr. Simic?
- Srbalj on July 22, 2020 · at 7:22 am EST/EDT
  
  Here is just one datum for you, Serbia’s industrial output currently is a fraction of what it was in 1999, that was during the NATO bombardment & UN sanctions. Serbia’s economy is a total disaster, it is a Third World country in Europe, only a few 100 miles from filthy rich Austria – because it has been robbed blind, by the domestic oligarchy & their western backers.
  - Michael'sSon on July 22, 2020 · at 11:39 am EST/EDT
    
    Incorrect, please point to exact data.
    
    Serbian manufacturing output was better only in time of Vojislav Kostunica, in a period between 2004 and 2007 and immediate effect in 2008. At that time Serbian debt was only 28% of GDP.
    
    And then opposition came to power in a mini color revolution, the same opposition today in the streets. After June 2007, Serbian debt skyrocketed to reach 76% in 2013 (grace periods) while manufacturing was hanging around the number reached by Kostunica’s government.
    
    Today the debt is 53% of GDP (returning debt opposition left) and manufacturing output is growing at steady pace already three years in a row, almost at the best Kostunica’s level.
    
    Serbia economic growth for 2019 was $51.41B, a 1.6% increase from 2018.
    Serbia economic growth for 2018 was $50.60B, a 14.68% increase from 2017.
    Serbia economic growth for 2017 was $44.12B, a 8.59% increase from 2016.
    Serbia economic growth for 2016 was $40.63B, a 2.53% increase from 2015.
    
    Well Kostunica is not there anymore, but you want me to vote for the ones that almost brought a disaster on us?
    - Mairon on July 22, 2020 · at 5:58 pm EST/EDT
      
      Excuse me for asking, are you an economist? Too often we see raw statistical data being instrumentalities for political means. Politicians, naturally, do it on a regular basis, Vucic is far from being the only one. However, he and other govt. officials are giving all sorts of wild claims in regard to the Serbian economy.
      
      To laymen, these numbers actually mean very little making it easy for politicians to give their own interpretation. As I’ve stated previously, Serbia’s economic model hasn’t changed since 2000, so it’s moot to talk about Kostunica, Tadic, Vucic or someone else, as they all followed the exact same economic model.
      
      The health of the Serbian economy will be put to the test very soon when the economic crash caused by the virus picks up steam. I have all right to suspect the results will be the same as with the deceptive growth of the 2000 – 2008 era, which was also based on direct foreign investment and income from privatization.
      - Michael'sSon on July 23, 2020 · at 4:03 am EST/EDT
        
        What you consider being deceptive growth 2004-2007, was based on manufacturing output growth and was as real as it can get, Kostunica government. And what happened? Serbs were “clever” enough to replace him by “opposition”.
        
        Each time Serbia experiences a kind to consistent growth “something” happens.
        
        Color revolutions are like a virus, they adapt to the social environment and mutate accordingly. These ones deployed many themes patriotic, liberal, neoliberals, ultra patriotic, women in black, anti 5G, pro vaccination, anti vaccination, foreigners, …
        n1 was supporting (check the ownership), it was disgusting almost cheering for violence.
        
        I think I have explained about foreign direct investments once and I will just say one thing, think about China in 1990s. I have explained in details to you and you can always consult the previous article comment section.
        
        https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/IMF003/02587-9781451974171/02587-9781451974171/02587-9781451974171_A001.xml?language=es&redirect=true
        
        So the result of properly managed FDI we can see now 20!!! years later. After 5, Serbia experiences growth in all sectors with debt decrease of 20% which is in my opinion remarkable and big success. (just look at US economy and their unsustainable debt supported by $ users, arm twisting other nations against all international rules…).
        
        I am still waiting for an answer from you though. How would you approach it in practice?
Dr.NG Maroudas on July 21, 2020 · at 11:40 pm EST/EDT

Not only in Serbia; “the virus” Con-19 is as imaginary as Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. Therefore, it can be whatever these agents of Anglo Zio Capitalism declare it to be: deadly on Monday, harmless on Tuesday, and even more deadly again on Sunday.

(I refer to this passage by the author: “The Prime Minister reassured the population that “[they] have the virus under total control.”

Yet, just a few days later they imposed the strictest and the longest-lasting “public health measures” in Europe, and thousands of people were fined heavily for just going shopping for food at the wrong hour of the day. The population over 65 years of age was imprisoned for months in their homes – all of this because the President raised the level of panic and hysteria to unbearable levels by constant announcements that Serbia doesn’t have enough cemeteries to bury all the dead if the people disobey his orders. The situation was “so serious” that Easter was canceled, with the Patriarch of Serbia, ever an obedient servant of the President, declaring all churches closed and unnecessary for the religious life of the nation. Yet, the people remembered that even under Nazi and NATO bombs the Orthodox Easter was celebrated as the most important and hope-giving holiday of Resurrection and Life.”
Australian lady on July 22, 2020 · at 2:38 am EST/EDT

Thankyou for your impassioned essay Mr Sumic. And how enlightening it is to learn that the Serbian president is advised by none other than the diabolical Mr Blair! This reminds me of an observation by the political analyst George Eliasman. He claimed that the 2016 U.S. Presidential election was lost by Mrs Clinton because of the “anyone but Clinton” voting of Michigan’s Serbian Americans. Serbia continues to suffer the vain follies of Clinton and Blair, it’s leaders cast as clowns and pawns. In their quest to restore integrity to their country, the Serbian people have our support.
Marko on July 22, 2020 · at 4:30 am EST/EDT

The text is 100% truth.
Vucic is now going to betray, not only Serbia, but Russia also.
- Vojin on July 22, 2020 · at 6:13 am EST/EDT
  
  Of course he is, he’s a professional traitor and spin-meister.
  
  He’ll be lucky to escape alive if he goes ahead with the final stage of treason. Oh and if we, the Serbian people allow the courts, media and the state security apparatus to survive his downfall unscathed, we are doomed.
  
  Archives of the secret police from the communist era have still not been opened. Even after 30 years of ‘democracy’. That fact alone speaks volumes.
  
  These traitors will get their day in court, if the people don’t rip them apart in the streets first.
- Lara on July 23, 2020 · at 4:21 pm EST/EDT
  
  Marko,
  
  Poor Russia, which can be betrayed by a geopolitical no-name like Vucic ;-)
Ivana on July 22, 2020 · at 7:42 am EST/EDT

The country of Serbia’s politics has touched a nerve, or better described, set off an alarming fuse… so, riders of the storm, how could this have happened ?
Epithet on July 22, 2020 · at 2:29 pm EST/EDT

B.F,

Here’s a hypothetical, although all too plausible scenario for you; What would you think of Vucic if he were to officially recognize the NATO/Albanian Terrorist theft of our Kosovo and Metohija, instead of the “death by one thousand cuts” method of recognition, and abandonment of rights, currently employed? Would you then stand against him and his band of traitorous thieves?

I couldn’t care less about the motivations of a nihilistic, .gov mouthpiece, like Z, but you’re someone who obviously knows Serbian history and cares for the plight of our people. How does someone with such an extensive knowledge of historical truths, become a staunch supporter of our country’s traitors and enemies? Forgive me, I truly don’t understand.

Instead of tirelessly defending our people’s present persecutors, why don’t you help educate your people and others here about the truth about the Balkans? How our lands, from north of the Adriatic, to the Black Sea, have been stolen and our people exterminated or converted by these ancient enemies.

I’m sure that the Saker would welcome such well-sourced, accurate articles. Please consider the impact these revelations would have on understanding the current plight of our nation. And for the love of God, please stop this liberal/conservative nonsense (always considered myself “conservative” before I realized these words are meaningless). Let’s focus on the truth and help those seeking to do good.

Pomaže Bog
- Carlton Meyer on July 22, 2020 · at 10:12 pm EST/EDT
  
  For those too young or misled by propaganda to know about the 1999 American/NATO destruction of Serbia, here is a short documentary about these war crimes.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsRkqnFn8DA
monnalisa on July 22, 2020 · at 2:50 pm EST/EDT

I wonder why some readers take any article, essay for truth ! It should always regarded with a certain degree of salt in the eyes.
Just looking into the economy of Serbia shows that there is a good increase and even the PPP of 2019 looks not so bad !
Any country having an increase in economy has a good standing or is on a good way to have it.
Just to remember: 1999 Serbia was heavily bombed ! How many countries can rebuild within a short period of time ? Especially when permanently Western countries try to interfere.
Also true: Western countries, I mean EU in this case, are looking always for cheap labor where manufacturing could take place. This is, to my knowledge no secret.
- Anonymous on July 22, 2020 · at 3:54 pm EST/EDT
  
  ‘I wonder why some readers take any article, essay for truth ! It should always regarded with a certain degree of salt in the eyes.’
  
  Truth and salt in my eyes ! That is unusual.. . readers mostly make some criticisms or add some things, or are pleased for news,, but all these essay stories on Serbia, with pictures or not, ring with strange phony tone, this in the whole impression, so eyes here are limited, if with salt I don’t know…
  - monnalisa on July 22, 2020 · at 4:45 pm EST/EDT
    
    to Anonymous:
    Don’t you know that pictures can be manipulated ? Or better to say: you see pictures and have some information either written or talked about with and voilà you believe … I personally don’t believe too much especially nowadays. Mass media in Europe is already almost same sort of US namely: brainwashing people. If you get too many information with the same content of info …. I personally start to doubt. This means with pictures: to show pictures, short videos etc. in order to “inform” any populace of something. If you have already some sort of a proof or some doubt because you had have some experience of how much is the extent of deception going. Several times were either in TV or in news papers pictures, short videos launched which had already used somewhere else …. and to read the additional “info” than you are somehow hooked except you remember to have this picture or videoclip already seen concerning different situations or different additional information and on different times.
    There was once some organization in France who made public if something like this happened, however, I don’t know if it still exists. Maybe not.
    
    Too many news (of different news papers, TV’s infos etc.) with the same content should always be regarded with some doubt.
    Except if you have direct personal information which is most of the times difficult to get.
    
    Don’t forget: nowadays there are only less than a handful of reporting organizations (Reuters, APA etc.). And depending in which country you live or from where you get your info most are taken from a very few reporting organizations. Which means: nowadays the “great information copying” works.
    Completely legally because there are agreements.
    
    If you prefer some sort of balanced information you will have to spend some time preferable together being fluent in some different languages and therefore able to get different points of view by Internet or TV-/Radio-/newspaper-information from different countries.
djole on July 22, 2020 · at 6:20 pm EST/EDT

Simicu, let’s be objective…..where are you to say a word or two in front of the people at the protest? Furthermore, where are the Russian allies in all this? I mean you didn’t mention it :)), but you left a business card.Those who are giving him so much space in only “russian newspapers” in Serbia, Sputnik? Who gave him the medal? Who come before every election to support a candidate? Does he suit them as “the horse that everyone is betting on” to solve the issue of Kosmet peacefully (but to the detriment of the Serbs) so that they don’t ruin trade relationships with Western Europe?
tomo on July 23, 2020 · at 4:23 pm EST/EDT

you are right about the croat lesbian
One of my cousins worked for her (previously he was a deputy of I think the main minister in the gvt)
When she became a PM – she told him that my cousin needs to give a contract for I think computers, hardware to her brother. Without bidding. My cousin refused (they used to be equal rank previously and were on friendly terms, chasing chicks together etc).
He told her there is no way he would do it without a proper bidding process. She said : Are you saying no to me? He said yes
she fired him immediately and tried to get his wife fired (she works for a big international firm in Serbia). The lezbo also employed spies to follow my cousin and his parents, uncle etc for about a year.
Whenever he got a job – she somehow threatened the new employer and they had to withdraw the job offer. After about a year – through his contacts he managed to get her to stop with spies following the whole family and he managed to get a job with a foreign firm
I have no doubt she is definitely a psychopath – to try to completely ruin my cousin because he would not engage in her criminal deals, to try to get his wife fired (I Think she would probably love to get him killed as well) – is a proof that she is a complete psychopath.
- Lara on July 23, 2020 · at 5:23 pm EST/EDT
  
  Tomo,
  
  Wow, you have a cousin who could have worked for the prime minister! Is apparently a very successful entrepreneur in the tyrannical state of Vucic. How is that possible?
  
  Does she have a name or is she just a ´Croat lesbian´ & ´psycopath´?
  
  You know, the words you choose reveal a lot about a person’s character.
  - Vojin on July 24, 2020 · at 3:02 am EST/EDT
    
    The terms Tomo is using are perfectly accurate, factual. This is not the time for euphemism. Nor do these people deserve kiddy gloves.
    
    As for the fact that he is not mentioning the name, there is a term in the Serbian language, nepomenik, here you have its semantic field https://www.kontekst.io/srpski/nepomenik
    
    It would translate to ‘one whose name is not spoken’
    
    I don’t think there is a particular need to explain why their names are better not uttered.
  - tomo on July 24, 2020 · at 4:56 pm EST/EDT
    
    Lara
    My cousin has been in the government at least as long as the psychopathic lesbian.
    They were equal rank and occasionally his rank was above hers before she fired him and the rest (for refusing to do crimes she ordered him to do).
    He was very successful in the gvt and saved the Serbian gvt a lot of money (unlike the ugly, criminal she-male, he is very well educated, was always the best in his school, best mathematician in the country many times, well traveled, with a beautiful intelligent successful wife and kids etc…and a good looking guy with a sense of humor). Everything the criminal lezbo wants to be probably
    The reason I don’t mention her name is first because the way I address her is more interesting to Serbs like myself and second, I don’t even know her name.
    And I even heard the ugly story by accident one day while driving with my brother while we were stuck in traffic (he saw my cousin a few months before in Belgrade).
    I don’t live in Serbia
BeliVuk on July 24, 2020 · at 3:23 am EST/EDT

The Trial of the Century you say. Two years and going and the media was silent? Why?
The use of cluster bombs and weapons containing depleted uranium caused hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries in Serbia. This was an illegal and unjustified act of blatant aggression. That it was carried out by the democratic nations of Western Europe and North America for no other reason but self-interest.
The ongoing trial of the former Serbian President, Slobodan Milosevic, can only be seen as a desperate attempt to justify NATO’s criminal actions. It will not succeed even though he will be found guilty.
. For more than forty years, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization protected the West from the very real threat of aggressive Soviet communism. NATO was more than just a powerful military alliance. It was founded on the bedrock of morality and high principle. It stood for the principles of the United Nations Charter. It stood for democracy, for the rule of law, and for all of those things Canadians fought for in two World Wars. All of this changed in the spring of 1999 when NATO bombers launched its unprovoked and illegal assault against the sovereign state of Yugoslavia.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the demise of the Warsaw Pact forces in Eastern Europe, the reason for NATO’s continuing existence began to come under serious scrutiny. Why maintain such a large and expensive military organization in Western Europe when any threat from the former Soviet Union had evaporated? Before this question could be resolved, however, a new role for the Alliance had to be created and justified to the taxpayers in the West.
The breakup of Yugoslavia was orchestrated in the West for this purpose and two other reasons.
1. Give NATO reason to exist
2. American Military Plan for the New Century
3. Globalization

Under the leadership of the United States, NATO intervened in the civil war in Yugoslavia that the west had created aided and abetted. As soon as the bombing started in Bosnia there was no further talk about dismantling NATO. On the contrary, the airstrikes had given new life to the organization. Now the talk was of expansion and for new missions to be undertaken. NATO had a new purpose. I billion to destabilize Serbia, A billion to destabilize Georgia, over a billion to destabilize Ukraine. And you know what is going on in the Middle East.
In the Serbian Province of Kosovo, Rebellion was fomented as we now know by the intelligence services of at least three of the NATO countries USA Britain and Germany who supplied the terrorist organization the KLA the organization created by Ben Laden with weapons and logistics. This provided the United States with the opportunity of employing NATO in an attempt to bring down the Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic who refused to privatize collective property. The United States used a fabricated Racak Massacre to justify the bombing.
Using as an excuse that Serbs refused to sign the infamous Rambouillet Agreement which would have resulted in the occupation of Serbia and Kosovo going to Albania NATO began to bomb Yugoslavia in March 1999. The bombing continued for 78 days until a peace treaty was brokered by the Russians and the United Nations.
The bombing was a violation of NATO’s First Article, a violation of the United Nations Charter, and contrary to international law, against all agreements signed by Yugoslavia as a founding member of the UN. Ironically- and shamefully- none of the democratic leaders of NATO member countries [except for Greece] challenged the US-led bombing. When Madeline Albright, the United States Secretary of State, was informed shortly before the bombing by the British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cooke, that lawyers in his Ministry believed the bombing to be illegal if done without UN approval, she abruptly dismissed his concern by telling him to, “Get new lawyers!”
The niceties of international law and the formalities of obtaining UN approval before intervening in the domestic affairs of a sovereign state were to be set aside in favor of, “conflict prevention,” of
“crisis management,” and “crisis response operations.”

These buzzwords and deionization of a people and its leaders sold well in the West and turned the original treaties into scraps of paper. But nobody seems to care. We now have a “treaty on wheels” that can be used for whatever purposes the United States wants it to be used for. Wheel it out whenever it is convenient and use it when it is awkward to obtain legislative authority to wage war. A sad state of affairs and a dreadful indictment of the readiness of today’s political leaders to mold international instruments and treaties in whatever image serve the interests of the Great Powers and at the same time blame the victim for the criminal acts of the aggressor.
NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia will be regarded by future historians as the act that completely dismantled the international security framework so carefully crafted by democratic statesmen in the aftermath of two World Wars and the advent of nuclear weapons. It will be marked, as the point in history when other so-called democratic leaders acted dishonorably to set the clock back to the days prior to the Second World War when military might was the only criterion that counted in the conduct of international relations.
Why is Milosevic on trial?
To paraphrase: He is charged with aiding and abetting the conflict in a joint criminal enterprise for the purpose of creating a Greater Serbia.
There is little evidence to support this and yet he will be found guilty to absolve NATO of its criminal responsibility. Some Canadians say he is being Lynched:
Canadians.
Ed Schryer former premier of Manitoba: I have been taken in hook line and sinker by the lies of Lloyd Axworthy and I am going to do something about it?
Lewis McKenzie: Maj-Gen. Lewis Mackenzie, now retired, commanded UN troops during the Bosnian civil war of 1992. National Post June 2004. We bombed the wrong side.
Professor Mundell and dozens of Canada’s top lawyers from Osgood Hall Law School and across Canada have launched Criminal proceedings against NATO leadership for their criminal actions against Yugoslavia.
Jo Bissett: Former ambassador to Yugoslavia who was dismissed by Axworthy for opposing and exposing NATO’s illegal war.
Sergeant Rollie Keith from Chilliwack former Bblue Helmet who testified about the breadline and Markale markets massacres as Muslim Croat acts to garner western sympathy. Ken Haynes a Canadian soldier from Canada tells a different story as well
Noted criminal lawyer Eddie Greenspan has condemned the trial of Yugoslavia´s deposed President Slobodan Milosevic as a “kangaroo court” and a “lynching.”
The whole concept of an international court for war criminals is rife with folly and shame. Essentially, it´s winners getting even with losers. Wesley Clark The US general in charge of the bombing when he testified against Milosevich
When Madame Justice Louise Arbour was prosecutor for the IWCT – appointed at the behest of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who was bent on war against Serbia over Kosovo – she suggested Milosevic was guilty of genocide, before she had much more than hearsay evidence. They lay charges and invent evidence later.
For example, Arbour cited a massacre at Racak, in Kosovo, as Milosevic´s, which later turned out to be a fake massacre orchestrated by Albanian Kosovars to frame the Serbs
A case can even be made that NATO and those who plotted the war over Kosovo deserve to be charged with war crimes. Let the war policy be defended in open court
Kosovo was an unnecessary war, a fabricated war condemned by James Bissett, former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia, and now chairman of the Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies. Reviled by Ottawa and dismissed as an ambassador for his outspoken dissent, Bissett and others are dismayed that NATO, formed as a defensive alliance to protect Europe from Soviet aggression became an interventionist force in a civil war that was no threat to other European countries. The only NATO country to oppose the U.S. bombing war that violated both the UN and NATO charters, as well as international law, was Greece. Bissett finds this both ironic and shameful.
Bissett notes that the “bedrock of morality and high principle,” on which NATO was formed, has been eroded: “NATO has become just another tool of American foreign policy.”
The trial of Milosevic seems an attempt to justify NATO´s actions in what is known as “Madeleine Albright’s war.” When Britain initially objected to the bombing war because foreign ministry lawyers advised it would be illegal if done without UN approval, Albright´s reaction was “get new lawyers.”
While none of this may concern Greenspan´s criticisms of how the trial is being conducted, what cannot easily be ignored is that the declared reason for the bombing was to halt alleged genocide and massive ethnic cleansing. In the year prior to the bombing, some 2,000 people were killed in Kosovo – roughly half by Serbian actions, half by the Kosovo Liberation Army, whom NATO and the U.S. supported. Compare this with 100,000 civilians dead in Iraq and over a half million children due to ten years of US embargo.
Hardly genocide. As for “ethnic cleansing” (a euphemism for creating refugees) during fighting prior to the bombing, some 100,000 people were displaced (mostly Serbs). After bombing started, 800,000 fled. The reality of Milosevic´s trial is that the guilty verdict is already in. Only the sentence remains to be imposed. Alexander Pope once wrote, “The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine”.
- Pindos on July 24, 2020 · at 11:48 am EST/EDT
  
  BeliVuk
  
  What a terrific synopsis! I am putting yours in my permanent files.
  
  And Milosevic was exonerated – even by a Kangaroo court.
  - BeliVuk on July 25, 2020 · at 10:17 am EST/EDT
    
    Diana Johnstone’s book “The fools Crusade” is one of the best on this issue. Her books and comments are verifiable and documented. The following is dated from the Canadian News media “Globe and Mail’ from Mr. Bissett, Canada’s ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1990-92. This should tell you all you need to know.
    
    In the early 1990s, James Bissett spoke in Belgrade for all Canadians. About a decade later, Ottawa doesn’t want him even speaking to Canadians in Belgrade.
    
    Mr. Bissett, Canada’s ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1990-92, was paying a social visit to friends and former colleagues at the Canadian embassy this week when officials told him they had orders from Ottawa to prevent him from speaking to staff on embassy property.
    
    Now retired, Mr. Bissett was in the region as a guest of a U.S.- based academic organization that had organized a seminar to discuss the postwar future of the Balkans.
    
    Ottawa’s gag order follows the publication of a column Mr. Bissett wrote earlier this month in The Globe and Mail, in which he criticized the Canadian government and other NATO countries for their handling of the Balkan crisis.
    
    “Hailed as a victory for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the bombing, on closer analysis, can be seen as an unmitigated failure with far-reaching implications for world peace,” Mr. Bissett wrote. “Canada must demand more of its political leaders before they lead us into another war.”
    
    Mr. Bissett, a career diplomat, also wrote that Canada’s “flagrant violation of international law” was conducted without public awareness or parliamentary debate. He was particularly critical of NATO’s bombing campaign, which he said was a direct violation of the United Nations Charter and NATO’s own treaties and was responsible for the deaths of more than 2,000 Yugoslav civilians.
    
    “So much for humanitarian intervention.”
    
    Mr. Bissett is still traveling in the region and could not be reached for comment. But his wife, Leslie Bissett, said her husband was upset by the incident. “It’s such a petty thing to do.”
    
    Mrs. Bissett said there was no question but that Ottawa’s gag order was the result of her husband’s decision to take a public stand on the Balkan crisis. “I have no doubt in my mind.”
    
    A senior official with the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed this.
- Maliviski on July 24, 2020 · at 5:41 pm EST/EDT
  
  Dear BeliVuk,
  
  Thank you so much for this excellent reply.
  
  Hvala
  - Belivuk on July 25, 2020 · at 2:15 pm EST/EDT
    
    I have lived in the West since I was a ten-year-old boy. The political system has always represented a “mefirster” (my new word) attitude. UK upper class represents a culture devoid of honor. The US has joined that culture and both resemble the mantra of the provincial Italian mafia. You are with us or you are dead, you do as we tell you or we will bomb you. We’ll poke out your eyes or break your leg.
    
    That key is the national interest of states. It cannot be in accordance with the interest of the safety of nations that UK and USA should occupy and force on nations their view of history or tell Russia what pipeline to build and who can use it or steal land in Kosovo to build the largest military base outside of USA shores, or that they should overrun the Balkan States and subjugate the peoples of southeastern Europe.
    
    The people Eastern and Southern Europe have a long history of being invaded from every direction, in the attempt to destroy them once or twice a century, be it by Britain, Italy, Austria, Hungary, France, Germany, or some combination of these countries. One has to be a “dumb dodo” not to see the similarity between Napoleon and Hitler who invaded Russia with a European army.
    
    Andre Vltchek writes “It appears that there is absolutely no shame left in Washington, in London, and in several other ‘provincial capitals’ of the Empire. Insults are piling on insults and then shot to all corners of the globe. Lies are being spread barefacedly, and bizarre deceptions and fabrications have been manufactured with impressive speed.”
    
    The shameful part of all this is not the lies for they have always lied, the shame lies in the fact that the masses believe the lies. Some years ago I was in Finland with a group of students on a tour bus on our way back from Russia. We were downtown Helsinki when the tour bus stopped and some students started taking photos at the embarrassment of the tour guide, of some drunk Fins on the sidewalk. I asked them why were they taking photos here when on any day they could take hundreds of such pictures on the main streets in the cities where they live.
    
    Robert Burns a Scottish poet said it well when he wrote “O wad some Power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us!” Or, in modern English, “Oh would some Power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us.”
- Goran on July 29, 2020 · at 11:15 am EST/EDT
  
  Clinton, Blare, Clark, Albright, Solana were accused of war crimes in front of Serbian Court in 1999. and found guilty.
  
  After colored revolution, those sentences were overturned.
  
  furthermore, they have removed High treason category from Constitution in 2006.
Pindos on July 24, 2020 · at 11:30 am EST/EDT

From the Simic CV; Was he was actively consulting in america to destroy Serbia in the 90s? Is he OPTOR too? This article is nonsense.

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Borce1990 on July 26, 2020 · at 4:20 pm EST/EDT

The very fact that this author claims that President Vucic is illegitimate is laughable and even ignorant.
He won on direct elections with amount of votes that surpass previous presidents.
I didn’t vote for him, but I respect the will of the people, unlike the author who is gaslighting saker community with this misinformation and misinterpretation.
I shall write an email to Saker about this “analysis”.
Goran on July 29, 2020 · at 10:58 am EST/EDT

to The Saker:

please, consider changing mr. Višeslav Simić (Višeslav is a Croat name, do not know any Serb named Višeslav), and mr. Johnny-on-the-spot as authors from Srbia, because those two are great candidates for CNN, BBC, or likes, but have no place here, in your blog… Two text which, in essence, represent neoliberal rant against Vučić, and there is nothing different from similar analysis published in Soros financed media like N1 (CNN) or Blic (German owned)…
Furthermore, Mr. “Johnny-on-the-spot” accuses anyone with different opinion in a comments section of “sendwich” eating, which could be interpreted as huge arrogance, insult, and it is so similar to soros mob tactics that is beyond good taste…
I do not know who recommended those two to you, but I would be aware of further “recommendations” from the same source….