"In Croatian politics, care is taken to create a sanitary corridor around the HDZ, instead of it being created around the Homeland Movement, the radical right," Dejan Jović, a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb and the FPN in Belgrade, told Vreme and added that the left is responsible for that
"Although Serbia constantly says that it does not accept the formulation of the guilt of both sides, its goal is exactly that, because the Kosovo leadership has always been able to count on the support of the West until now. If it succeeds, Serbia will wait and hope that the Western hegemony will collapse. Whether they will see it depends on the outcome of the war in Ukraine"
"Serbia's goal is to first come to a policy in which the West blames both sides, although Serbia constantly says that it does not accept the formulation of the guilt of both sides; so far, the West has blamed only one side, Serbia, and the Kosovo leadership has had its support. If it succeeds, Serbia will wait and hope that the Western hegemony will collapse. Whether they will see it depends on the outcome of the war in Ukraine. As Budimir Lončar said recently, today we live in a world that is no longer unipolar, but not bipolar either, but somewhere in between. It is possible that the world itself, and thus the Balkans and Europe, will remain in that gap in the long term"
"Vučić will create an opposition for himself, perhaps stronger than he ever had. It will probably also be supported from outside, from Russia. Russia is not popular or present in the media and on the social and political scene, not only indirectly, but also directly. On the other hand, liberal-democratic institutions were destroyed for a whole decade, and the so-called The other Serbia was moved to the margins. Therefore, it should not be surprising that today there is no strong Western opposition and that the opposition is very different in terms of its relationship to the West and Russia. The paradox is that in that situation, many in the West will ask Vučić, who has been criticized for ruling with a firm hand, to deal with the pro-Russian opposition even harder than he dealt with the pro-Western opposition. They will no longer be bothered by an increase in authoritarianism or ignoring the 'people's will'"
"Vučić will create an opposition for himself, perhaps stronger than he ever had. It will probably also be supported from outside, from Russia. Russia is not popular or present in the media and on the social and political scene, not only indirectly, but also directly. On the other hand, liberal-democratic institutions were destroyed for a whole decade, and the so-called The other Serbia was moved to the margins. Therefore, it should not be surprising that today there is no strong Western opposition and that the opposition is very different in terms of its relationship to the West and Russia. The paradox is that in that situation, many in the West will ask Vučić, who has been criticized for ruling with a firm hand, to deal with the pro-Russian opposition even harder than he dealt with the pro-Western opposition. They will no longer be bothered by an increase in authoritarianism or ignoring the 'people's will'"
