The torments of a lonely whipper

Of so many the desired return of Trump to power, Vučić didn't get anything at all. Kosovo is no longer a topic for Washington. The same goes for US customs to Serbia, otherwise the largest in the Balkans. And there are sanctions against NIS. Trump is not interested in how this will affect Vučić's position.

Not even Putin, thanks for the question. The contract on the supply of gas to Serbia is valid until the New Year, as long as fuel supplies will last. There is no clearer Russian position on solving the NIS problem due to American sanctions. Any economic damage suffered by Serbia and Russia itself, for the Kremlin, is incomparably less than the political damage if it turns out that it is powerless even in Serbia.

Under this burden, the President of Serbia welcomed Ursula von der Leyen. Unlike the earlier threshing of empty straw, this time it is faced with a choice – either acceptance of European demands or further marginalization of the country with all that goes with it.

The unrest and instability factor

How did this happen?

Vučić's policy of "comprehensiveness" certainly influenced von der Leyen's speech. Namely, for a long time he played the role of a diplomatic juggler who extracts the maximum benefit from conflicting world interests. Now it can be seen that all that Serbia gained was its transformation into a buffer zone between the big players and that is not particularly important.

Bragging to the domestic public about powerful brothers on all four sides of the world is one thing, but the strategic goals of large countries are something completely different. "Brother" Erdogan just demonstrated this to Vučić by delivering a thousand drones to Kosovo, not to mention the brothers from the White House and the Kremlin.

However, it seems that the European Union was more affected by the deep crisis in Serbia than the collapse of Vučić's "comprehensiveness" policy. Quite simply, he went from being a reliable stabilocrat to becoming the biggest threat to stability in his own country and thus the entire region. That is why von der Leyen's arrival should be seen as an offer to Vučić to resolve the internal crisis as painlessly as possible. And that is a return to the European path by going out to meet the demands of the citizens of Serbia.

The most striking result

 Without batting an eyelid, the head of state and the whole of Ćaciland accepted for von der Leyen what he had refused for so long - the arrangement of voter lists according to the CRTE proposal and the election of a more or less functional REM.

Will this also remain empty words? What will happen with the application of those solutions? And what is the fate of other requests from Brussels?

Only one thing is certain - Vučić would not be what he is without trying to play matches and that much. But the maneuvering space in which it moves is getting smaller and smaller - both in the world and even more so in the country.

After all his victories of the "colored revolution", consolidation and similar threes and coups, the latest survey by CRTE shows that 43 percent of citizens want to leave the government so much that they are not interested in who will come next.

It is also his most impressive result of the policy of killing and destabilizing Serbia by refusing to call for extraordinary parliamentary elections. Now Ursula told him that too.

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