Aleksandar Vučić's foreign policy: Russian collar, American borscht

Although he has never spoken about it publicly, since a few years ago, the Serbian president has focused his political activities on social networks to a good extent, with, understandably, omnipresence on TV stations that are favorable to him.

This fall, Aleksandar Vučić and his team brought that leap into new communications to a climax by offering the audience an almost real-time view of the action on the Internet. This gives the impression that he is completely "open", that he is available and that the people can at any moment follow what his president is doing while he is "fighting diplomatic battles" all over the world.

That's how, even before the session of the United Nations General Assembly began in New York on September 20, Vučić sent the message "urbi et orbi" from New York's Times Square in the form of a photo with the Serbian ambassador to the USA, Marko Đurić. The two were "caught" on the street, dressed in sports equipment...

While Serbia was recovering from the "stress" caused by patriotic threats that "the fag won't walk" and while they were patching up injured police officers in Belgrade clinics, Vučić embarked on a seven-day New York adventure, which he will end the way he started, with a joint photo with Marko Đurić.

If they were on the street in the beginning, at the end they were in a New York bistro where they had borscht. That image and the message that they are eating borscht in the middle of America, which has a "specific situation with Russia", is an image and an opportunity for Serbian diplomacy at this moment...

Read on full text by Slobodan Georgijev in the weekly "Vreme" from Thursday (September 29)