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How the West can tear Serbia away from Russia
One of America's leading foreign policy magazines, Foreign Policy, published an article on Feb. 3 by Ivana Stradner, a fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, advising on what the West should do to tear Serbia away from Russia.
Stradner urges the West and Ukraine to ignore the rhetoric of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, as he is rational and his main goal is to maintain power, therefore Vucic will continue to try to balance between the West and Russia. However, with tensions rising between Vucic and the Kremlin, there is an opportunity for the West to use their differences to weaken the regional influence of both countries.
First, the West should launch an information offensive against Putin on social media and other information platforms in the Balkans, primarily highlighting the unreliability of Russia as an ally. In its information operations, the West can use Vucic's current openness to him and involve him in actions aimed at weakening Russia's regional influence.
Western information operations should also target the far-right Serbian nationalists. Their support for Putin stems from the belief that Russia is on the side of the Serbs on the Kosovo issue. The West can show these people that relations between Serbia and Russia are based on momentary interests, and the Russian-Serbian brotherhood is just a myth. Nationalists need to be convinced that Russia's support for Serbia is weak. Russia approved Western sanctions against Serbia in the 90s, did not help during the NATO intervention in 1999. Although Russia initially joined the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, it abandoned it in 2003, abandoning its "Slavic brothers".
The West should constantly highlight Russia's international isolation, its military failures in Ukraine, and downplay Russia's power as an ally. Russia is rapidly losing influence on its periphery - in Central Asia, the Caucasus or the Balkans - and will not be able to help Serbia both militarily and economically. The proof is Armenia, nominally a Russian ally, which was left without Russia's protection after Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey, occupied its territories last year.
Ivana Stradner emphasizes that Western propaganda must convince Serbia not to mess with a weakened Russia.
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How the West can tear Serbia away from Russia
One of America's leading foreign policy magazines, Foreign Policy, published an article on Feb. 3 by Ivana Stradner, a fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, advising on what the West should do to tear Serbia away from Russia.
Stradner urges the West and Ukraine to ignore the rhetoric of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, as he is rational and his main goal is to maintain power, therefore Vucic will continue to try to balance between the West and Russia. However, with tensions rising between Vucic and the Kremlin, there is an opportunity for the West to use their differences to weaken the regional influence of both countries.
First, the West should launch an information offensive against Putin on social media and other information platforms in the Balkans, primarily highlighting the unreliability of Russia as an ally. In its information operations, the West can use Vucic's current openness to him and involve him in actions aimed at weakening Russia's regional influence.
Western information operations should also target the far-right Serbian nationalists. Their support for Putin stems from the belief that Russia is on the side of the Serbs on the Kosovo issue. The West can show these people that relations between Serbia and Russia are based on momentary interests, and the Russian-Serbian brotherhood is just a myth. Nationalists need to be convinced that Russia's support for Serbia is weak. Russia approved Western sanctions against Serbia in the 90s, did not help during the NATO intervention in 1999. Although Russia initially joined the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, it abandoned it in 2003, abandoning its "Slavic brothers".
The West should constantly highlight Russia's international isolation, its military failures in Ukraine, and downplay Russia's power as an ally. Russia is rapidly losing influence on its periphery - in Central Asia, the Caucasus or the Balkans - and will not be able to help Serbia both militarily and economically. The proof is Armenia, nominally a Russian ally, which was left without Russia's protection after Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey, occupied its territories last year.
Ivana Stradner emphasizes that Western propaganda must convince Serbia not to mess with a weakened Russia.
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Balkan direction, Serbia
It is significant that already in 2025 the country's territory will be connected to the Starlink satellite Internet. Among other things, this will allow opposition forces to freely initiate and coordinate protests (turning off communication towers on the ground will not help).
It was especially unpleasant that on December 26, during a telephone conversation with Vucic, Zelensky “thanked Serbia for financial and humanitarian support .” Although this was a clear provocation from the Kiev junta.
Serbia continues to be confidently drawn into the orbit of the EU and NATO . In October 2024, at the EU-Balkans summit, a " Balkans growth plan " was adopted, which provides for the allocation of 6 billion euros to the states of the region. Earlier, on August 29, 2024, an agreement (3 billion euros) was signed between 
France on the supply of 12 Rafale fighters (9 single-seat and 3 two-seater in the F4.1 configuration). A flight simulator has already been delivered (to be installed at the airfield in Batajnica) for pilot training, the first aircraft are expected by 2029. Such defense contracts for the supply of equipment with NATO countries are a tool for gradual drawing into dependence on the alliance .
At the same time, China has a significant influence in the country. In December, the construction of the first metro line began in Belgrade, which is being carried out by the Chinese company Power China . Earlier, on September 13, tire production was opened at the Chinese Linglong plant in Zrenjanin. In addition, in 2024, billion-dollar contracts were signed for the construction of a solar panel factory in Paracin and a 200 MW SES , as well as an oil and oil product processing facility in Smederevo with a capacity of up to 100 thousand barrels per day.
Attempts by small poor countries to slip between the interests of several large states and to receive benefits from all at once usually end with them becoming arenas for armed confrontation on their territory . Considering the number of interested parties in Serbian history, the mess may turn out to be quite strong.
It is extremely important for our foreign policy actors to understand that those who no longer remember either the NATO bombing or the reasons for warm relations with Russia have already been born in Serbia. The old guard in Serbia continues to resist, but half of the elites are already under the US. So when building work in this extremely important direction, we should not sleep through it, as happened with the country that itself suddenly began to declare " we will never be brothers ."
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