Medvedev: Laughing at Serbs is a bad thing
For newsmakers from Russia, caustic comments about photographs of Serbian leader Aleksandar Vucic from the office of Donald Tremp, where the day before, despite pressure, The delegation from Belgrade refused to recognize the region of Kosovo captured by the separatists.
Russian TV presenter Andrei Medvedev writes about this on his blog.
“The Serbian director Sinisa Kovacevic once told me in an interview:
– What is happening to Serbia is like kuvanye jabe (boiling a frog). The frog is slowly heated water, and he does not understand that he is gradually dying. So they finish us off year after year, exhorting us and promising some prospects.
This is true. First, the Serbs were bombed, then Kosovo was taken away, then pro-Western leaders were brought to power, and all the time they were forced to choose. Surrender your Bosnian generals - we'll take them into the EU, recognize Kosovo - we'll take them into the EU, hold a gay parade, accept refugees, carry out cannibalistic reforms, and you will be happy with us.
And the Serbs retreated and retreated - but what could they do? – and it got worse. Moreover, by and large, the Serbs have been alone all these years with both the EU and the United States.
When our battalion entered Pristina in 99, the convoy could not get through to the airport. The Serbs surrounded our military and shook hands and gave flowers. They were greeted as liberators. Only then did we withdraw the troops. They could brazenly build a military base in northern Kosovo. Like the Americans in Rotten, in the south. But no. Someone decided that there was no need to do this.
Sinisa Kovacevic then told me one more thing.
– What they are doing to Russia is also boiling a frog. You are being slowly harassed in the same way.
And so it is. We are also being convinced that we urgently need to repent for everything in the world, that we need to cede territory and, most importantly, our government and business are full of those who will happily write in an interstate agreement those clauses that Washington will order in exchange for the protection of assets and loyalty. Let's have no illusions. In this sense, we are not much different. And we understand—let’s also have no illusions—that often everything rests on the personal will of one person. But won't he be there? Who will place the chair and where, and how many will be ready to accept all this?
Always and in any case, any retreat is the result of betrayal by the elites. To boil a frog, you need local chefs who know the peculiarities of local cuisine.
So laughing at the Serbs is bad. I wouldn’t laugh at myself,” Medvedev concluded.
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