Jean-Claude van Damme, a great friend of Kosovo and Albanians, became an honored guest of Niš by the decision of the city government, and he was given the honor of opening the first International Film Festival. Something is strange here
Even though it was three years ago Jean-Claude Van Damme hugged strongly and brotherly Ramush Haradinaj, former Prime Minister of Kosovo and commander of the KLA, and crossed his fingers with the mayor of Glogovac to make the Albanian double-headed eagle together, the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and his entourage does not mind that he now hugs them just as strongly and brotherly.
They even hug him back and are very proud of it. They believe that he is doing honor to them personally, and thus to their people.
Where the progressive rule was lost
They promote him as a great friend of Serbia and show him special honors: the president organizes a dinner for him and the people inform that they had a great time, the City of Niš declares him the guest of honor of the first edition of the International Film Festival, Željko Mitrović goes to pick him up in his plane to Sardinia, then arranges a dinner for him in Belgrade attended by Dragan J. Vučićević and businessmen Branko Babić and Toni Bijelić, and finally brings him to Niš to walk him on the red carpet from the hotel "Ambassador" to the Fortress, to the pride of the progressive city government.
Where did the progressive rule "who is with them is not with us" get lost in all this?
Dragan J. Vučićević suddenly it's not bad to have dinner with someone who is good with the "terrorist" authorities of "so-called" Kosovo, who are "persecuting" Serbian life from its centuries-old hearth, not to mention Vučić.
TV Informer didn't say a word against Van Damme, even though he was doing what he was doing.
Question for the President of the State
It would be interesting if the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, was asked about Van Damme by one of the citizens he is talking to during the current pre-election walk through Serbia. Just like that lady asked him why his people didn't hire her even though they promised her.
For someone to ask, for example, if Van Damme is an enemy of the Serbian people because he hung out with Kosovo politicians and made an Albanian eagle with them, and why, or maybe something has changed? It would be the president's turn to say, to make it clear to the people.
The way the government and its media are treating the case now, it seems that they did not know about the Kosovo detail from the career of this famous actor of action films, and when they found out, they did not know what to do.
It is true that photos and videos of Van Damme's visit to Kosovo appeared on social networks literally a day before he will become the pride of Niš and open the International Film Festival.
At that moment, they had already announced to everyone and everywhere that, unlike the blockade festival that was happening almost simultaneously in Mediana, the opposition part of the city, they had a Hollywood star as their guest. Van Damme has already arrived, he already had dinner with the president, how can they say that the special and important guest is an enemy of the Serbian people?
The only thing that could be done in such a situation is to pretend that those photos, newspaper articles and recordings are not true, that Van Dam doesn't even know what Kosovo is, let alone that he was making an Albanian eagle. And that all this talk is another subterfuge of the blockaders against the president because they are jealous.
They behaved as they always do when they dress up, and that's how they pretend to be crazy, and present their stupidity as the truth.
That's why Dragan J. Vučićević, as soon as photos and videos appeared on the networks showing Van Damme and Haradinaj, and then the mayor of Glogovac, Ramiz Ladrovci, crossing their arms in the shape of the Albanian eagle and moving their fingers as if they were eagle's wings, immediately spread some kind of photo proving that it was the work of artificial intelligence.
And that all this was set up by Dragan Milić, the leader of the citizens' group of the same name, probably because he publicly showed Van Dam's price list on local television, which clearly shows that he charges 300.000 to 500.000 dollars per engagement.
Mayor Dragoslav Pavlović, who is also the commissioner of the Serbian Progressive Party for Niš, quickly announced that Jean-Claude came as a friend for zero dinars. Insiders say that this is true, that the City of Niš did not pay Van Dam, but rather Željko Mitrović. But that's for another story.
Jean-Claude as proof of the greatness of Aleksandar Vučić
Now it was important to show that everything is fine, that the arrival of Jean-Claude van Damme is actually a proof of how great progressive Serbia is, and that famous Hollywood actors are flocking to its embrace, and that the film festival that the City of Niš concluded with the productions of Željko Mitrović, is at the level of Cannes and the like. Because Van Damme came.
And the gathered people applauded him. After all, why not applaud the guest whom he saw on television and who hugged the president and the mayor. It is possible that they heard something about his Kosovo affairs, but if their local TV Informer says that it is all blockade oil, then it is surely true.
That with the people and Jean-Claude van Damme is understandable. In truth, it would be easier for him if he knew which path we are on, and is the recognition of Jean-Claude van Damme, a friend of Kosovo, as a friend of Serbia a hint of some change?
Just one more thing, to make sure there's no confusion: Jean-Claude Van Damme is totally okay with this whole story. That man is just doing his job and bears no responsibility for anything, not even for the mistake of opening the 60th anniversary and not the first International Film Festival in Nis.
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