President Aleksandar Vučić gave a "motivational speech" to the members of "Cobra", promising them even higher salaries and thundering at "traitors", while officers stood behind him and nodded their heads. You should be with the leader and preserve your privileges
A series of political abuses of the Serbian Army that he has been doing since coming to power, either as the Deputy Prime Minister, Prime Minister or as the President of the State, Aleksandar Vučić he continued on Saturday (August 24).
His spin-doctors have arranged for him to attend the laying of the foundation stone for the new facility of the Cobra Special Purpose Squad, the unit that takes care of his and his family's safety.
Vučić gave a "motivational speech", promised better conditions and higher salaries for the members of the Army, especially the "Cobras", who allegedly have a salary of 2.000 euros, so when you add a five to ten percent increase to that... hahaha.
More attentive viewers could notice that Vučić has a vision problem, as he flipped through the pages of the written speech, you could see that the letters were large, huge.
Officers on stage
And then, when the ceremony was over, three members of "Cobra" shoveled concrete into the dug hole, Vučić remained on stage to answer the "spontaneous" questions of journalists, first of course Pink, then Informer... and opened fire on Dragan Šolak, the environmentalists , the opposition, saying that they will not allow "a new Fifth October".
And all of this would not be strange if he did not say those words with the "Cobra" emblem behind his back, while the deputy chief of the General Staff, General Želimir Glišović, and the "Cobra" commander, Colonel Darko Đošić, Vučić's longtime head of security, were standing behind and nodding their heads.
Those two officers did not find it appropriate to leave the stage, because the army is depoliticized. Or maybe no one told them about it.
Conscripts are members of various parties, or activists, ecological, civil, anti-government... Conscripts are also men employed in "Šolak's media", which Vučić and the regime's tabloids target as "traitors and foreign mercenaries".
Perhaps, during his long military career, Glišović was also the commander of some of them. Glišović, by the way, was born in 1964 and long ago met all the requirements for a pension. Both in terms of age and years of service, but something is not right for him...
Never a pension
This certainly causes a revolt among the officers, who believe that this sends a bad message to their superiors, that their progress is being slowed down. What to expect if the deputy head is four years older than the head.
But there are those generals and colonels who are digging for the age limit to be extended, so that they can stay in the army as long as possible and use the privileges they already have, says one of the elders who has been serving as a deputy for many years, because the "boss" refuses to retire.
And then these people are simply waiting for their pension, to reach the age of 55, which is the legal requirement. They do not hide that pensions are not bad, taking into account the average in Serbia. But some bitterness remains.
Glišović is also criticized for leaving the army as a lieutenant after the outbreak of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the decision to do so was published in the Official Military Gazette. After that it was activated again.
Vučić's message
By placing the officers behind him, for the cameras to record them, Vučić is clearly sending a message that the army stands behind him and that no one should even think that they can topple him from power.
The fact that members of the military participate in environmental protests, despite the threats coming to them from the Military Security Agency, is certainly a warning signal for Vučić, and that is why he is doing what he is doing.
"When active generals and colonels in civilian clothes can participate in rallies in support of Vučić, what could we not be able to do in the fight to preserve Serbia's natural resources," says one of them.
How the officers who stand behind Vučić on the stage feel, while he is dealing with political opponents, is something that they themselves need to reassess, and come up with an answer to when they are asked about it by their family, neighbors, friends, many of whom participated in wars, especially that of 1999.
They will certainly not be asked by the Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Goran Vesić, who in 1999, when he received the call for mobilization, deserted and fled to Montenegro. Because of this, he was sentenced to two years in prison, and after the "October XNUMXth changes" his fingers were seen through.
He even immediately became a "special adviser" to the then Federal Minister of the Interior, Zoran Živković, completely against the law, because people who have been convicted cannot be employed in the MUP.
But since then, and especially since 2012, anything is possible. If the Constitution and laws and Vučić are in conflict - Vučić applies!
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