• Red_Scare [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    8 days ago

    Thank you! Do you know what the protests are even supposed to be about? All I could find was “anti-corruption” which is vague as shit and reminds me of Navalny who somehow fought “corruption” by calling to exterminate immigrants like cockroaches…

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 days ago

      There is a lot of corruption in Serbia, just like there is in every country in a similar position. Some of the protesters have genuine grievances but that is basically irrelevant because corruption doesn’t go away if there is a regime change and an even more EU aligned government takes over. If anything that just entrenches the corruption, makes it systemic and integrated into the much bigger network of corruption emanating out from Brussels like a spider web.

      The questions to ask are: who is actually behind these protests, who is financing them (because no protest of this magnitude is ever really grassroots, there is always some NGO with money, organization and logistics behind them) and what is their real agenda? There are certain things you can keep an eye out for, if you see such names as Open Society Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy or any of their subsidiaries, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Germany’s version of the NED and an arm of the Green party), that’s an immediate red flag.

      There are dozens if not hundreds of these things and it’s very hard to keep track of. Oftentimes they work like shell companies trying to maintain an illusion of autonomy but if you can follow the money it usually goes back to the same sources. Here’s a handy list for reference: https://swprs.org/organizations-funded-by-the-ned/

      Also anything that leads back to the EU and Brussels, EU parliamentarians suddenly showing up, etc., same as if you see US politicians suddenly taking about the protests, another huge indicator that the protests have been or are about to be hijacked.

        • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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          8 days ago

          One thing that i forgot to mention is that a lot of this is closely related to the Kosovo issue. The EU wants to expand until it includes every European country, but Serbia is a thorn in their side and can’t be accepted into the EU until they accept the theft of their Kosovo province.

          The EU is pushing extremely hard to try and get them to renounce their claims to Kosovo but so far this has been a step too far even for this semi-comprador government. It would incur massive backlash from the Serbian population, so the EU need a Serbian government that would be totally and exclusively subservient to Brussels and not their own people. That’s what this is really about.

          It would take a government like the one they imposed on Ukraine after the Maidan coup that would be willing to deploy brutal force against their own people to crush any protests, labeling them “Russian funded”, “nationalist extremists”, “terrorists”, etc. for not accepting to have their country being sold out like that. The European media would all work in complete alignment to legitimize this national betrayal and to demonize the opposition, telling everyone that this is the only way into “Serbia’s European future” and that anyone against it is “working for Putin” and “trying to hold Serbia back”. This is in my opinion the real ulterior agenda of those behind funding the protests, even though most of the protestors are not aware of it.