Except that Serbia has ties to Russia that go way, way, waaaaayyy back. The US isn’t cutting those ties anytime soon.
Serbia's political ties to Russia have been greatly exaggerated in the MSM, because they have nothing else to say -- they don't know enough because they can't be bothered to understand history.
For close to the last 100 years, Russia & Serbia have been more at odds with one another than "tied". Between the Russian Revolution and WWII, there was virtually no closeness. Yugoslavia was where non-communist Russians ran to to escape the Bolsheviks. Shortly after WWII, Tito broke with Stalin and from that time on, no Russian soldier was allowed to set foot in Yugoslavia. Tito was more afraid of a Russian invasion than he was of the West.
It's true that the Russian people and Serbian people have always been friends, but not their governments. Post-Milosevic, Serbia has turned itself inside out to try and make peace with the US, but all we have done is continually screw them over in favor of Muslims and Germany's proteges, Croatia and Slovenia. Russia rode to their rescue. That's not their fault, it's ours.