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Manipulation of fear and the price of populism: Peace, stability - Vučić

March 19, 2022, 14:58 p.m Radmilo Marković

Catastrophe, cataclysm, destruction of the world, Armageddon, Apocalypse: Aleksandar Vučić

The pre-election scare of citizens with possible catastrophic consequences of the war in Ukraine is nothing new, the same matrix was applied in the 2020 elections, only then the apocalypse was threatened by the corona virus. When the fear is instilled in the voters, Aleksandar Vučić presents himself as the only savior with the tabloid thirds

As it is in 2020, so it is now Aleksandar Vučić "rode" on the waves of the crisis, fully using the irreplaceable advantage that the party-controlled "media" has served him on a plate for the last 10 years: he is calling emergency meetings of the National Security Council (for the day after tomorrow), he is talking to all world leaders ("Hello" had a spectacular headline on February 21 that read: "Vučić and Macron are talking from 18 p.m. - The fate of the planet may depend on this"), he buys peas, husked rice and sardines, he informs the citizens how much gas and diesel reserves we have, he constantly addresses the citizens on all televisions with national coverage, he raises panic with catastrophic announcements that we are in an extremely difficult situation, that the "complete security architecture of the world" has collapsed. that he is "terribly afraid", that a "great crisis" awaits us, that "we need the peace of our wives, mothers the most", that "it will be more difficult every day", that he "God he is asking for an end to the war in Ukraine", yes used to go to church several times a year, but now he "doesn't know what to do anymore, he goes every day to pray to God for help", that "now we ask God to find coal somewhere else", because "it's not worth it, a cataclysm ”, that he will not return sons to their mothers in coffins, that there is no powdered milk or palm oil...

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