#Serbia state #TV RTS suddenly presents @ec.europa.eu in positive light, showcasing benefits of membership for all Serb citizens. Same pattern as in 1994 when Milošević isolated & sanctioned #BosnianSerb war criminal regime to save own rule. Is #Vucic, painted in a corner, about to ditch #Russia?

Of course, they are fact-checking it: 1/ Just because someone is opposed to MAGA, doesn't mean they're not idiots on fool's errands 2/ Pearl clutching over Trump is a big market 3/ Journalists also gotta hit KPIs, so why write about something serious when they can write something populist and safe

1/ Re: those foreign MAGA and alt-right bot farms from Nigeria to Serbia and why they are here to stay. First of all, it's profitable for the people who do it. Yes, plain and simple, it's about the money. Maybe they personally agree with such policies, those places are mostly pro-autocracy ⬇️

“Nobel Prize-winning economist Simon Kuznets is often cited, perhaps apocryphally, as having said that there are four types of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina.” You mean to say, a guy with a chainsaw isn’t likely to fix it? Great lede to an illuminating essay.

In the words of the contemporary American political scientist Justin Timberlake: cry me a river.

Russian Air defense against a Flamingo cruise missile, carrying the only peace proposal that Russia understands, which hit the Kristal oil depot on the 14th of November. Shooting high-caliber rounds in the general direction of a populated area seems totally safe without any collateral casualties.

Studentima takvi zahtevi ne bi bili dozvoljeni u smederevsko-požarevačkom kraju. A svakako ni jašenje.

Hau du ju do? Ajm veri vel, tenk ju.

1/ Serbian director Emir Kusturica stated that Russia is waging a "Holy War" in Ukraine, a fight for faith, truth, and Orthodoxy. He got a nice flag of the Wagner PMC and the Serbian student movement (we call it the curly Jesus) at the RT Doc festival opening in Mećavnik. ⬇️

1/ A two-way Anschluss is happening today, as thousands of cars carrying auxiliary voters go from Serbia to Republika Srpska, which is holding snap presidential elections. Thousands of cars and buses come from there to Serbia when there are elections here. ⬇️

Ukrainian peace drones, bringing the counterproposal plan. Were there 28 of them, I wonder?

1/ The planet was shocked and shaken by the news that Novak Djokovic and his family had to move from Serbia to Greece due to supposed political tensions with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Which is another one of those nothingburgers, considering how he moved to Greece from Spain. ⬇️

1/ Boris Bondarev is a Russian diplomat who resigned in protest at the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. He writes that Putin still won’t accept Trump's peace plan, even though the "plan" favors Russia.

The supposedly objective and independent Serbian daily "Danas": The West plans to eradicate the Ukrainians in a similar way that Hitler planned to eradicate the Slavs. Mind you, this media is not affiliated with the government.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, based in the United Arab Emirates, is in negotiations to acquire the Russian stake in the energy company NIS.

Exactly. Serbian political discourse is in enamored with everything and everyone totalitarian/authoritarian, preferably to the right, but Stalin and Pol Pot are also considered cool.

Left: Serbian government hunger striker + war veterans Right: Serbian student and civic protest hunger striker + war veterans

Jeste li nekad terali u tri lepe ove svisuisti intelektualce, znate ih sigurno, to su nam porodice, komšije, kolege, i zašto niste?

Trump's "plan" is nothing but deluded fantasies of MAGA and Kremlin geriatric. It cannot be forced upon anyone. A small reminder that just before invading Ukraine again in 2022, Russia issued an ultimatum demanding all kinds of ludicrous things, such as Eastern European countries leaving NATO etc.

1/ All things wrong with this particular logic that seems to be some common wisdom on the planet outside Serbia, espoused by this TAZ article:⬇️

Aleksandar Vucic said to have been present at a military position from where foreigners allegedly shot at the city’s residents during the Bosnian War. (Videos in the article, the top officials of the Radical and later Progressive Party are on them).

According to the radio station RMF FM, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are secretly training Polish military personnel in counter-drone warfare. The exercises are being conducted under an agreement signed a month ago in Kyiv by Poland’s Minister of National Defense, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.

One of the reasons for the failure of the student protests in Serbia is that they are supported by the supposedly objective and fair N1 media portal N1 (nicknamed Z1). Here we have them parroting Zakharova blabbing nonsense about "forcibly mobilized Ukrainian boys" who "should run, seriously".

Totalno. Nego šta. Đeneralštab. "Možda bi mu pre koju godinu afera Generalštab prošla, ali više ne može, Srbija se u 2025. godini mnogo promenila i to nije zemlja koja je bila pre pada nadstrešnice u Novom Sadu". Jeste, sad imamo ne jednu, nego dve grupe protiv-pederskih anti-šiptarijanskih idijota.

Branislav Ivković, a longtime Serbian government and SPS/SNS official has passed away today. Claims: • “Republika Srpska is the wartime objective of the 🇷🇸 people” • “A 🇩🇪 conspiracy against 🇷🇺 and Serbs” • “Subservient Banderite 🇺🇦” • “🇩🇪 shot itself in the foot with sanctions on 🇷🇺” And more 👇

Sure, people shooting back at Russian and North Korean invaders must be a "military mafia". He should get a better hairstylist, btw. Same energy.

Context of Altman's "we need more electrons" idiocy does matter. Yes, he meant more energy. That makes him an even bigger bozo trying to sound profound and no one should let him handle sharp objects, let alone spend obscene amounts of money to bail out his company when the "AI" bubble bursts.

Dejan Šoškić at TV N1 today. Not a single word about Russian hybrid influence in Serbia, nor any criticism of the Serbian government granting 🇷🇸 the right of first refusal on 🇷🇺’s NIS shares. Instead, he criticized the U.S. for “unilateral,” and potentially “illegal” sanctions against 🇷🇺 👇

NIFA has already published his pro-Russian dossier on him as well: nifainfo.org/individuals/...

NIFA presents SPC Missionary department: nifainfo.org/organization... Supported by the government of Serbia, it labels minority religious groups as “sects” while following the Russian Orthodox Church portrays liberal democracy as sources of moral collapse. Jelena Stefanović (1977) 👇

Ready for what? Another press conference complaining about it to the void? Do Westerners realize that when there's a press conference reaction to such a thing, it only enhances the propaganda coup for Russia (and PRC, when they do it)? If they ignored a hybrid attack then they shouldn't speak of it.

1/ Opozocija opet pronađena glupa k'o tocilo. Neka neko javi političkom misliocu da je Kos rekla nešto drugo: "Ako učestvujete u akciji vojske koja ubija ljude u Ukrajini, zaboravite na proces pristupanja, na poglavlja..." Znači na pare da se zaboravi, genije. ⬇️

1/ Serbian Energy Minister Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said on that the Russian majority owners of the NIS oil company agreed to sell their shares, but did not specify to whom. She said that the name of the buyer will not be released “because these are business talks between serious companies”. ⬇️

🔹 And make anime real. Seriously, we heard all this before. You know, before a good portion of Russia was on fire, like it is now. Why would anyone in Ukraine accept it now, when they wouldn't accept total surrender in 2022 or this same nonsense during "negotiations" later?

My sense of national pride has sky-rocketed ever since i learned that i live less than an hour away from a place locally known as "Pičkovac" (Which roughly translates to "Pussyville")

The problem with the Serbian political discourse is that you can hear only two sets of nationalist radicals here: the Serbian government, which goes by the name Serbian Progressive Party these days, and those who go by the name of students these days. And hunger strikes, those suck as well.

The result of the noise made by Serbia’s so-called “pro-Western” activists, with few exceptions, is that EU and 🇺🇦 flags should not be carried on the pole because: – “it’s not the right time” – “we must all stand together” – “the majority won’t like it” – “let’s first get rid of this regime”

"Oslo can now argue — with NATO-grade data — that any Russian pipeline would cross Norwegian subsea infrastructure and must be relocated (read: blocked). Cost to Moscow: $60B project frozen, $200M in seismic work wasted, Bear Gap toll revenue gone." Awesome, if true.

Of course the Serbian neighbours are armed, they don't want Serbian "Greatness" to return to them. Serbian nationalism defines all perceived enemies as "criminal", and it defines all peace treaties as "temporary ceasefires until the time is right". Yes, sometimes foreigners parrot these lines.

1/ Oh, this definitely bodes well. "The pro-government Politika daily said on Wednesday that the first shipment of parts for a new bridge across the Sava arrived in Belgrade from China." ⬇️

#Serbia: Waste motor oil is classified as hazardous waste as it can contaminate soil, water, and air. Although state regulations for its management are clear, tens of thousands of tons are unaccounted for every year. balkangreenenergynews.com/tens-of-thou...

My Interview today for Vreme Weekly 👇 vreme.com/ekonomija/ka...

1/ Marta Kos on Serbia: You cannot sit on two chairs - to ask for money from the EU for money and the other side for gas. The European Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos, said that she wants to see a democratic Serbia in the European Union, but that she expects a clear orientation from Serbia.⬇️

Such practice is allowed in former Yugoslavia, and it did deteriorated the quality of healthcare, increased overall costs plus it undermined the public trust in medicine as a profession and a science. Bad idea.

So it's been a year of what is commonly known as student protests in Serbia. I wrote this back in January, along with a few other texts, stating that these protests are only prolonging the agony of the rule of our local kakistocracy. No, I don't feel vindicated for being right about it.

NIFA presents: Mehmed Buštalija (1946), a pro-Russian propagandist linked to multiple Serbian GONGOs. Today at alleged 🇷🇸 "independent" media: – “🇷🇺 overpaid for 🇷🇸 NIS in 2008.” – “Absolutely no nationalization of NIS; they’ll take us to court.” – “Only Russian gas; Western gas is ‘more expensive.’”👇

Former NATO Commander Wesley Clark testified in The Hague that Slobodan Milosevic once told him Serbia had “killed all the Albanians before.” Clark said Milosevic implied Serbia could repeat such actions during future campaigns. About 13,000 were killed in 1999 and around 1,600 remain missing.

1/ Update on the status of Serbian protests. In a wonderful display of Serbian national unity, both the ruling big-tent coalition and the protesting hunger strikers now agree that everything is Dragan Djilas' fault. Mr. Djilas is a former high-ranking member of the Democratic Party. ⬇️

"We Have Gone On So Many Adventures Together" - Video Game Icon Rebecca Heineman Has Passed Away, Aged 62.