Donald Trump finally twisted Aleksandar Vučić's hand to the point of shooting, so the progressive regime in front of the Russophile electorate creates an alibi for itself to expel the Russians from the NIS - if not by grace, then by force
Seseljev political student who is pre Vladimir Putin humbly stuttered Russian and once postponed a military parade in Belgrade due to his schedule, he was finally forced to cut the umbilical cord with his Orthodox Russian brothers. Donald Trump, also a "great friend of the Serbs" in front of whom Aleksandar Vučić crouched in the White House, made sure of that by introducing sanction to the Serbian Oil Industry.
It turned out that even Moscow does not care about the energy concerns and troubles of Serbian progressive friends and only looks out for its own interests, so the citizens of Serbia found themselves as collateral damage in all of this.
Until now, the pro-Russian-oriented regime media, which has been spitting fire at the evil West, which is fomenting a "color revolution" in Serbia, suddenly turned the tables and under the label "urgent" began to prepare the ground for the expulsion of the Russians from ownership in NIS - by grace or force. If Serbia does not do this, factories will shut down, there will be no heating in hospitals, and bread bakeries, transport will stop, foreign investors will flee, and salaries and pensions will hang in the balance, the regime's media outlet "Informer" has been saying for days.
Since the informer barrage prepared the ground for him and Vučić is at a press conference on Tuesday put the Serbs in front of a choice: either the apocalypse, or the Russians will leave the NIS - by grace or by force.
That is the essence, regardless of all the appeasement to Putin by extending the 50-day deadline for the Russians to find a suitable solution for them and the announcements that Serbia will, if necessary, buy their shares in NIS for a price higher than any other potential bidder.
Now suddenly those analysts of the regime media point out to what extent the European Union is by far the most important foreign trade partner of Serbia, the love affair with the Chinese and the brotherhood with the Russians fell out of the air. For years, the pro-Russian Serbian public is preparing an alibi to "stab Putin in the back".
Under the threat of the collapse of the energy sector and the entire Serbian economy, the White House kicked Serbia out of Russia's embrace and into the arms of the European Union, where they look in the direction of Belgrade with utmost distrust. Serbia was pushed into the arms of those "who bombed us and stole Kosovo from us", there "from where the evil centers of power work against Serbia".
Nor will the expulsion of Russia from ownership in NIS in any way financially affect its military campaign in Ukraine (which is the formal reason for the US sanctions), nor are revenues from Serbia particularly important in the oil and gas empire of Gazprom and Gazprom Nefta. Simply put, in the global game it was Vučić's turn to play on a tightrope between Moscow and Brussels and Washington. Even though it was known for years that this schizophrenic foreign policy was unsustainable, the regime did not prepare for its downfall, and now, like a disobedient child who has lost the affection of both parents, they are panicking.
If the sword of winter, fuel shortages and rising prices were not hovering over Serbia, which was imposed on it by Aleksandar Vučić's policy, it would be almost amusing to watch him, who likes to stick around everywhere and to decide everything, suddenly push the Government of Serbia, Prime Minister Mazut and Minister of Energy Đedović Handanović to the forefront, so that they can try what he has done.
The time has come for Vučić to say painfully "goodbye Putin". And will it cost? Well, it will cost, and dearly, because of a decade of failed foreign policy.
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