Crime without punishment and punishment without crime

Over a decade Aleksandar Vučić he constantly constructs emergency situations himself, from which he emerges victorious. There were also real crises during that period: the corona virus pandemic, mass murders inFishmonger" Dubona and Mali Orašje - the president of Serbia didn't do very well here, but somehow he managed to get out of everything. The story of Lithium stirred up passions to such an extent that the government had to seemingly give way in the end to prevent more serious shocks.

The Saga of Belivuk it does not belong to that type of crisis, it was a conflict within its own ranks. Just like "The case of Jovanjica", a scandal of scandals which, however, did not cause any public outcry, eventually reduced to political and media skirmishes until it fell into the living mire of the justice system.

Even the obvious theft of votes in the extraordinary general elections on December 17 did not turn into a deeper political crisis, citizens were not interested in defending their electoral will.

Nothing is the same anymore

Only the fall of the canopy of the Railway Station in Novi Sad on November 1, 2024 caused a real political crisis that has not subsided even after half a year. The government of Miloš Vučević fell under the pressure of protests and blockades. Serbia has been in an undeclared state of emergency since then at the latest.

Although the protest that affected secondary schools was extinguished by denying the means of living to the teachers, the universities are still blocked, just like the Radio and Television of Serbia. The government is now applying the matrix of financial strangulation that resulted in the taming of teachers to university professors and students: teaching staff are deprived of income, regular students are threatened with being left without budget funding, scholarships, places in student dormitories - if classes are not established urgently.

The cessation of the blolade of the faculty would be equal to the capitulation of the academic part of the rebellious society, which would very likely lead to the deflation of the resistance to the regime that has spread throughout the country.

The President of Serbia went a step further in sowing existential fears. If the blockades continue, there will be no increase in salaries and pensions, Vucic shouted threateningly on Wednesday evening on Pink TV. He is not going to give money to millions of ungrateful citizens if they continue to publicly dislike him, because the blockaders are destroying the fantastic Serbian economic progress, so whoever supports them is involved in the destruction of the state and does not deserve state money.

At the core of all these problems is that crimes go unpunished, and punishments are handed down without crimes. The death of 16 people in Novi Sad overflowed the barrel filled with cases of lawlessness.

"We know who is the strongest"

The progressive political system is constructed in such a way that the president of Serbia, to whom he is subordinate, actually has no other option but to continue as he has been - until everything collapses.

The assessment, for now, is that in an irritated society, bare force is not used against the "blockade" because they cannot see the consequences it could cause. Hence, the tactics of mass media deception, pressure on bare existence and threats of retribution for those who disobeyed.

On Wednesday, Aleksandar Vučić said on Pink that he personally will insist on responsibility "due to the consequences caused by the blockades" in Serbia and the "destruction of the country" in the previous six months, and that the state - so to avoid confusion, he - will choose the moment when "chaos, violence and terror will come to an end", that is, when he will order the blockades to be broken up by police force.

"None of us is happy and none of us is a sadist who wants to show someone who is stronger with beatings. We know who is the strongest in the country. We will wait for the last moment, and we hope that we will never have to use that force," said Vučić.

If it passes, it passes.

Visibly hurt and offended that the students declared him an "incompetent subject institution", the President of the Republic increasingly needs to emphasize that he is the most competent, that he will personally solve this and that and everything - he will also write a new Bill on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Higher Education, which will transfer budget money intended for rebellious state faculties to private ones.

"I saw how much more money was spent than what was needed. We financed the faculties through the so-called budget students. Why should we give it to those who do not want to work, who do not want to study when we have people who really work. We have many good private faculties who want to work," said Vučić.

Students, professors and rectors in the blockade will no longer be allowed to "harass the University and the education system", the president said completely outside of his mainly protocol constitutional powers. Those blockaders will have "just as many rights" as he allows them to have - here is your autonomy of the University, but you will have as much money as you earn and not a dinar more than that. So take off your clothes. There is no need to delve deeper into the insanity of Vučić's statement.

You consider me incompetent, says the President of the Republic of Serbia. You will see how incompetent I am when the majority in the Serbian Parliament votes everything I order it to vote.

By saving his own power, Vučić is bringing to the fore everything that ultimately caused the revolt of so many citizens, and above all the students - more and more frequently he is making moves that can only take place in an illegitimate state.

He says that crimes will continue to go unpunished, and punishments will be handed down without crimes, at his discretion. Well if it goes, it goes.

His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije

In all of this, Vučić can count on the wholehearted support of Serbian Patriarch Porfiri.

And he publicly thanked him for that, as His Holiness nicely explained to Russian Patriarch Kirill and Russian President Vladimir Putin that a "colored revolution" is taking place in Serbia at the behest and with the money of the West, but that there is no chance that it will pass.

Perhaps he even boasted to Putin that he was going to write a world bestseller about how he defeated the "colored revolution", so that Vladimir Vladimirovich would also learn something.