Serbia: Vucic Says He Won’t Fold Like Assad

Vucic does not look like the kind of person you would trust.

But it seems that his own interests line up with keeping cool. The Serbian people are extremely pro-Russia, viewing themselves almost as a type of Russian, and they have not been pussified like several other Eastern European groups.

RT:

Western-funded protesters are attempting “regime change” in Serbia but the government has no intention of giving up, President Aleksandar Vucic has said, contrasting himself with ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad.

Serbia has insisted on neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and has not joined the EU’s sanctions against Moscow, despite the increasing pressure from the bloc that it officially hopes to join someday.

As the Syrian government collapsed over the weekend, several opposition activists in Serbia compared Vucic to Assad and wished to see him leave the country as well.

If they think I’m Assad, and that I’ll run away somewhere, I will not,” Vucic said in a video post on Instagram late on Monday.

I will fight for Serbia and serve only my own people,” the president added. “I will never serve the foreigners, or those who wish to defeat, humiliate and destroy Serbia.”

Vucic called out opposition protesters as being agents of outside powers, funded from abroad as part of “hybrid tactics to undermine the country.”

In the Instagram video, Vucic threatened to expose “all the details” about how much money was spent from the outside to “prevent Serbia from being free and independent, from making its own decisions, from choosing its own future, and making it obey and serve someone else.”

The big winner of the fall of Syria is Yanukovich, the Ukrainian leader ousted by the US-instigated Maidan color revolution. For a decade, whenever anyone talked about how they can’t be overthrown, they would say “I’m no Yanukovich” (hilariously, Assad himself actually said that). Now, everyone is going to say “I’m no Assad.”

Vucic has some kind of relationship with Israel.


He’s also been involved in shipping weapons to the Ukraine through a third party.

So I would definitely not trust him.

But again, it doesn’t seem to be in his interest to side with the West.