Vucic is reaching out to the countries of the Western Balkans.
The Greater Serbia project, which sparked the wars of the 1990s, has neither been defeated nor politically delegitimized.
The tabloid media environment in Serbia serves as fuel for psychological preparation for new conflicts and for causing divisions, mistrust, and instability in neighboring countries in order to present them as unsuccessful or unsustainable projects. Nationalist Serbia is dissatisfied with the borders in the region, and therefore the regional policy of President Aleksandar Vučić’s regime is revanchist.
Behind this great power and deeply authoritarian concept lies the dominant current of the Serbian intellectual and political elite, which is the main generator of the wars that the regime of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milošević waged against Yugoslavia and its neighbors. Vucic’s media machine is tabloid in form and neo-fascist and inflammatory in essence.
The intention behind the creation of such propaganda channels is twofold: the first is to maintain a military psychosis and a constant sense of fear and insecurity in order to divert people’s attention from the government’s criminal actions. The second goal is to prepare the atmosphere for new wars, for the second half, as Ivica Dačić once said.
The regime’s media works to “demoralize” people both in Serbia and in the Western Balkans. This is “nuclear waste for poisoning with hatred and division.”
Vucic’s regional policy of destruction clearly reveals the lack of a genuine democratic alternative in Serbia. It is a political matrix according to which Vučić is right when he exerts pressure and expands into Montenegro, northern Kosovo, or helps destroy Bosnia and Herzegovina using methods that are criminal and illegal, but when he does so within Serbia, then it is very bad.
In Serbia, people remember the election manipulations with “traveling circuses” of fake voters when he applied them to Serbs in republican and local elections, but when he did this in neighboring countries, no one in Serbia resisted, quite the contrary.
Only a truly democratic Serbia, which is a peaceful partner to all countries in the region, can end the era of war and change the political matrix. I BGNES
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Analysis by Serbian historian Prof. Milivoj Bešlin