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Russia is opening a parallel front in the Balkans to destabilize NATO and distract the West from Ukraine. At the center of the game: Vučić, Dodik and the Orthodox Church, under the direction of the Kremlin...
Since invading Ukraine in 2022, Russia has not stopped exporting instability. In Ukraine, it does it with tanks. In the Balkans, with allies. Moscow sees the region as the stage where the West can be brought to its knees without war, through crisis, provocation, and ethnic tension. Its vehicle is Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia, who keeps one hand in Europe and the other in Moscow.
Vučić has deployed the army to the border with Kosovo, 'lit fires' in its north, supported parallel structures, sabotaged elections, and turned the Serb community in Kosovo into an international pressure card. In Bosnia, his ally Dodik has escalated the separatist agenda, defying the international representative and warning of open secession from the federal state. He has been convicted of violating the constitution, but is protected by Belgrade and hailed by the Kremlin.
Putin has met Dodik several times since 2022. Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin calls Dodik’s project “an inevitable union with Serbia.” This is not diplomacy, it is a plan. And the Balkans is where Russia has been betting for years. In Montenegro, the failed coup in 2016 was just the prelude. Now, through the Orthodox Church and pro-Serbian parties, Russia seeks to stop any progress towards the EU.
The objective is clear: if the Balkans explode, the West is powerless. If the West is forced to bring Russia to the negotiating table to defuse the crisis, Putin wins. If NATO intervenes, Ukraine loses focus. In every scenario, Russia comes out with an advantage.
The West must dispel the illusion that Vučić is a factor of stability. He is an extension of Moscow. He exploits the EU for money and uses Moscow for power. His European rhetoric is a sham. His regional strategy is a Kremlin project.
NATO can no longer remain neutral. Now is the time for direct sanctions against Serbian officials. It is time for hybrid warfare structures to target the Belgrade-Moscow axis, destroying the myth of Russia as the protector of “Slavic brothers.” Because in 1999, Russia did not protect anyone. In 1992, it voted for sanctions against Yugoslavia. In the 90s, it sold weapons to Croatia. This is history. And history is the most powerful weapon that the West is not referring to.
Putin lights the fire in Ukraine, Vučić spreads the flames in the Balkans. But it is NATO that will have to put it out. No illusions! / Pamphlet
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