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When politics turns into psychology: Vučić, Putin and the inferiority complex
In one of the darkest moments of modern Balkan diplomacy, Serbia has chosen not to participate at all in the UN General Assembly vote on a resolution condemning the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, an act that the democratic world rightly calls one of the most serious crimes of this century.
While 91 countries voted in favor of the resolution, including all European Union states and most Western Balkan countries, Serbia chose to remain silent.
More precisely: he chose to leave the hall, in a gesture that is neither neutrality nor pragmatism, but pure submission to the will of Moscow.
The Ukrainian Embassy in Belgrade reacted with caution, recalling that Serbia, as an EU candidate country, must uphold the fundamental values of humanity and international law. But what happened speaks louder than any statement: a country aspiring to Europe silently sided with Russia in the face of a crime that has no justification.
Many might say that this is the result of Russian energy pressure, of dependence on gas and the NIS company. But what rises above this dependence is a deeper and more painful truth: Serbian policymaking is not guided by values, but by fear and personal subjugation.
Opposition representatives and analysts in Serbia, such as Robert Kozma and Aleksandar Olenik, have made it clear: Vučić is not acting as a leader defending the country’s interests, but as a man humbled before the authority of another man – Vladimir Putin. Just as he once saw Šešelj as a sacred political figure, today Vučić treats Putin as the supreme external authority. And when personal dependence becomes state policy, the country ends up stripped of all morality and dignity.
This is not simply a "no vote". It is an abandonment of a human minimum, the condemnation of child abduction. Serbia today cannot even condemn an act that any civilized society would despise without hesitation.
In this silence, Serbia once again missed the opportunity to prove that it is a country that strives to belong to Europe, not only geographically, but also morally. Instead of joining its neighbors like Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, who voted in favor of the resolution, Belgrade chose to remain in the shadows, in silence, in shame.
And this silence is louder than any “yes” or “no”. Because it is the silence of a politics gripped by complexes, of a diplomacy without courage and of a leadership that is afraid to say “no” to a despot, but does not hesitate to turn its back on his victims. / Adapted from “Pamphlet” by “Danas”
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