According to the Global Network, on the 30th local time, Vucic said in a speech that Serbia will continue to resist the pressure and refuse to impose sanctions on Russia.
Vucic joked that since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, all the pressure exerted by the West on Serbia over the sanctions imposed on Russia can be written into a book, thicker than Marx's Capital.
It can be seen that after Serbia and Kosovo reached an agreement on the issue of Serb identity cards, Vucic's mood was much more relaxed, and he was still joking, after all, he was ready to protect the interests of Serbs at all costs.
However, Vucic also said that this does not mean that the Kosovo problem has been perfectly solved. In fact, negotiations between the two sides have been both failed and difficult, and such a small agreement can be reached purely out of practical interests and cannot achieve the goal of cooling the situation in Kosovo.
Indeed, after the resolution of the identity card issue, demonstrations against The European Pride Month broke out in Serbia, mostly orthodox conservatives against sexual minorities. But it is not just a religious act, but a significant number of people are holding Russian flags as a sign of support for their allies.
In Vucic's words, East and West are fighting a proxy war in Serbia. In other words, the conflict between Kosovo and Russia and Ukraine is nothing more than a pretext for them to stir up war.
Western media interpreted Vucic's remarks as Serbia trying to maintain a balance between East and West, and if you are not careful, the "Balkan powder keg" will explode again.
In people's minds, the Balkans have always been synonymous with war. From ancient Greece to Rome, from the Ottomans to Tsarist Russia, various peoples fought and fought in this land, leaving countless legends about the "Powder Keg of Europe". There are many reasons for all this tragedy, but the root causes lie in the complex geopolitics of the Balkans.
From the map, the Balkan Peninsula is located in southeastern Europe, surrounded by the sea on three sides, and the border with the interior of Europe is only a danube river that is not wide, without any difficulty in crossing, which cannot help the peninsula resist foreign invasion.
The relatively independent geographical location did not make the Balkans an independent center of power, because 70% of the peninsula was mountainous, and it was a good place to fight guerrilla warfare, and it was difficult to develop agricultural civilization.
There are two drawbacks to the distribution of plains that are too scattered: first, the development potential is limited, and second, it is difficult for civilizations in various regions to be integrated into one piece to form a unified regime. Otherwise, there would be no strange phenomenon of more than 500,000 square kilometers of land distributed in 11 countries.
In this way, the countries and peoples of the Balkan Peninsula cannot unite against foreign enemies, only the fate of being abused. However, the greatest misfortune of the Balkans is not that it is weak in combat effectiveness, but that its geographical value is extremely important, in one sentence, that is, "Pifu is innocent, but he is guilty".
Located between the three core regions of Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, the Balkans are strategic locations to the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa. For European countries, the Balkans are a springboard for attacks on Asia and Africa, just as the Balkans cannot be bypassed to enter Europe from West Asia.
In modern times, Tsarist Russia wanted to open up the sea and enter the Atlantic Ocean through the Balkan Peninsula. The Balkans really don't have much resources, but if you want to expand you have to take it down.
For example, in the First World War, which we are most familiar with, it was because after the Ottoman Empire was expelled, the Austro-Hungarian Empire set its sights on the Balkans, so serbian nationalists assassinated Archduke Ferdinand and ignited the flames of the First World War.
The situation is further complicated by the ravages and baptisms of the empires, when the Balkans have become the intersection of Catholicism, Islam and Orthodoxy. Bloody clashes between religions are the most frightening than the expansion of political power, and aren't the series of Yugoslav civil wars that broke out in the 1990s all related to religion?
After the collapse of Yugoslavia, NATO and the European Union expanded eastward, extending their hands to the Balkans, further exacerbating instability in the region. As the main successor state of Yugoslavia, Serbia does not belong to either side, so it naturally has to bear a lot of pressure.
Vucic's greatest problem is the internal confrontation between pro-Western and pro-Russian factions in Serbia, specifically the rift between the pro-Western political elite and the pro-Russian nationals. That's why, after winning the April election, Vucic has been delaying the formation of a cabinet as much as possible to form a neutral government that is neither pro-Western nor pro-Russian.
But with the prolongation of the Russo-Ukrainian war and the intensification of provocations by kosovo authorities with the acquiescence of the West, Vucic's desire to remain neutral has become almost impossible. The upcoming elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina have created more uncertainty about the situation in the Balkans. In short, the Martian seeds have begun to stir.