We will find a way, we will fight, we will write letters to the capitals, we will not carry out ethnic cleansing... that's what Serbs from Kosovo - and everyone else - could do. they hear from President Aleksandar Vučić on Friday.
Garnished, of course, with great successes in all fields, salary increases and general progress, because a part of the opinion intravenously attached to Vučić's "addresses" swallows bitter pills more easily when they are with ice cream.
These days Aljbin Kurti destroys the last remnants of the Serbian state in Kosovo. Remains that meant survival for those Serbs who remained there.
Abolition of the dinar and arresting people according to Serbian institutions could easily be the last part of Kurti's Stalinist enterprise - no Serbs, no problem.
With the message, it is understood, that roses would bloom for those Serbs only if they became loyal citizens of Kosovo and freed themselves from the "claws" of Serbian "parallel institutions".
The downfall of Vučić's policy
The lukewarm reactions of both Belgrade and the West - minus the letters and words, there is no reaction at all - suggest that Brussels, Ohrid, Washington and who knows what other behind-the-scenes agreements, signed, unsigned, oral and written, are being implemented here.
The only concrete move by the state of Serbia in January was to allow cars with RKS registrations to drive on Serbian roads. And the fact that Komercijalna banka shut down all branches in Kosovo.
Aleksandar Vučić is standing on the ruins of his "Kosovo policy", if such a thing existed at all, if everything was not a little push, a little braking in the movement towards the known end.
For more than a decade, Vučić's public rants have alternated with the raising of the army and weekend wars, crazy moves such as abandoning the Kosovo police, and then leniency because "the peace must be preserved." After each stage, Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo have fewer rights than they had before.
Who would say that it wasn't smart to implement Kosovo's politics through shady guys from four grades of elementary school, while at the same time a video on Pink was aimed at one Oliver Ivanovic.
Double goal for the Serbs
The stubborn rumor that foreigners "brought" Nikolić and Vučić there seems more logical than ever these days. Vučić was supposed to "finish" Kosovo, to do what Boris Tadić would have been figuratively or actually hanging on Terazije.
For years, the Western press has been writing that Vučić "delivers", "supplies","delivers", just slowly.
And he does it so thoroughly that nothing remains of the "Kosovo is Serbia" policy except for a few lines in the Serbian Constitution, which is just a piece of paper - nothing else written in it is respected.
Today, because of Kosovo, there is no one left to go out on the street. The right in Serbia was prone to decline anyway, so today it's either Vučić's or Russian's or it's been drilled and devastated. Kosovo is leaving, but neither is the demonstration. Maybe the SPC will wake up when it comes to dealing with the bigger dragon, gender-sensitive language.
"Western partners" paid for Vučić's "completion" of Kosovo by turning a blind eye to the abolition of democracy in Serbia, which, here, culminated in the theft of the elections in December.
Serbian institutions in Kosovo were expelled by Kurti, and those in Serbia were abolished by Vučić himself. From the whole Kosovo soap opera - tragic, because some people will once again pack their bags and leave forever - for the Serbs, it turned out to be doubly naked: there is no Kosovo, and there is no democracy either.