Posted on 03/15/2025 4:53:29 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
On Saturday, March 15, 2025, an estimated 100,000 Serbians and others held one of the largest protests in Belgrade in history.
The demonstrators called on the democratically elected government led by President Aleksandar Vucic, to step down. The protesters accused the government of corruption.
In truth, Serbia officially aspires to EU membership, but the current leadership is strengthening its ties with Russia and China. This is forbidden for The EU called for the safety of protesters and the avoidance of violence. The opposition is likely to support integration with the EU, but its position on Ukraine remains unclear.
President Aleksandar Vucic is expected to address the nation at 10 PM.
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They are using stun grenades?
Maybe we should try that here the next time the hamass DEMONstrators block the streets. We could also fire rubber bullets at their megaphones.
I’d love to see a cop shoot Maxine’s wig clean off her looney head.
It has been some time since the US has messed around in the Balkans. Luckily Trump won’t get us involved.
The EU can do this as well I wonder the attitude of Turkey is towards Serbia.
The Serbian government has kissed up to Erdogan but who knows the Serbs and the Muslims in their region don’t get along.
The Turks want more influence in the Balkans IMHO.
Conflict of interests with a Free Republic?
We have no business in the Balkans they are a mess and always have been. A hot bed of racial identity and bigotry.
During the war under Clinton they had soldiers throwing babies in the air and catching them with their bayonets when they took a town.
The hatred there is off the charts, best to stay out completely, there is no winning there.
Why don’t they wait for the next election? Isn’t that the whole idea behind elections — to to remove mob rule?
“A hot bed of racial identity and bigotry.”
You mean like the U.S.?
If she starts passing out cookies watch out.
They make the US look like a family reunion.
The divide between Serbia and the Croatia runs really deep. There have been government apologies and other attempts but at a individual level it is ugly.
“throwing babies in the air and catching them with their bayonets when they took a town”
Sounds like you have the Balkans of the 1990s confused with WWI propaganda about Belgian babies on Prussian bayonets. Oh well, similar propaganda, different war, different decade.
No I don’t that was happening in the 1990s
Funny how stupid Hoft never mentions what the protests are about: the collapse of a railway station in Novi Sad that killed 15 people.
Turks are Muslim Brotherhood Erdogan is the Sultan of the New Ottoman Empire one could argue as well.
I was there during the 1990s conflicts. I heard about every sort of atrocity (real and fake) you can imagine. I witnessed some real ones, investigated many more, some real, some fake. But babies on bayonets never came up. Babies in a cement mixer did, though.
Bayonets weren’t a thing there in the 90s. I saw lots and lots of military rifles carried by various armies, factions, militias, but don’t recall seeing a single bayonet.
Good thing, because when that staggering shaky Bosnian Muslim soldier (Hamza Brigade out of Bihac) stuck the muzzle of his AK-47 in the side of my neck, causing my Macedonian interpreter in the passenger’s seat to wet his pants ... well, I’d be dead now if there had been a bayonet on the end of it. Instead, I was glad my pickemup truck had vinyl seats that day, and here I am typing.
Good point. But the deal in that situation is that the contracted work on the Serbian train station that collapsed was done by a Chinese construction company.
This may be a US operation to take down Serbia’s government after all in the interest of reducing Chinese influence in the Balkans.
Back in the Clinton War against Serbia the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was bombed.
I can’t argue against your experience, as I can only go on what was reported. As such that may not be true (it was reported though). Babies in cement mixers though is literally no better.
My point was the deep hatred and atrocities which you have just attested to.
I will not make a stand on the bayonets however that does not take away from my point of how ugly they divide is there.
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(During the war under Clinton they had soldiers throwing babies in the air and catching them with their bayonets when they took a town.)
The Japs did the same thing to Chinese babies when they invaded China.
If you weren’t there, I can’t blame you for believing what our media reported.
There was propaganda galore about the 90s conflicts in former Yugoslavia. For those of us who were there, it was like living in a hall of mirrors. What was reported in the Western media bore very little resemblance to what we saw before our eyes. There were multiple international agencies reporting facts (UN, ECMM, UNHCR, ICRC), but the media chose to report whatever the US or the Bosnian Muslim or Croat officials handed them, no matter how ridiculous.
I could tell lots of stories about not-so-brave reporters claiming to be bravely reporting from conflict areas who were actually sitting in the InterConti bar in Zagreb. Daniel Pearl was an exception. He actually went places and reported real stuff. Too bad he wasn’t there much or for very long when he was there.
Anyway, for those of us who were there, going home was weird because everyone believed all the propaganda. I remember when I went home for Christmas 1995 and people kept asking me if I’d been held hostage by Serbs. When I replied, no, but I had been by Croats (which was true), they looked at me like I had two heads. My British, Dutch, Czech, Danish (and so on) colleagues reported the same about trips home.
I thought maybe after 30 years, the truth could be told about the conflicts there, but no. Not allowed.
I wonder how long before the truth about the war in Ukraine can be told?
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