Not even Serbia will acknowledge the referendum farce Russia is putting together in eastern Ukraine:
@useless_idiot don't be fooled though. They do it only because their whole national identity revolves around the Kosovo issue, and recognizing these "referendums" would seal any remaining whiff of coherence in their "Kosovo je Serbja" mantra... Serbs still are the most russophile of all nations. Not even russians themselves unironically put Putler's face everywhere, from tshirts to street graffitis. They still love themselves some good genocide, just like their ruzzian brothers
Actually, I support the Serbian claim on Kosovo. That divorce should have taken generations.
The West is hypocritical. They were wrong about Kosovo and are right about Ukraine.
Of course that doesn’t justify Putin in any way, nor the support of Serbians for him. I can feel a little empathy though. They are surrounded by unsympathetic nations and want a strong ally.
(I was sometimes treated like shit in Serbia just for being Dutch, btw. Made friends there and in Kosovo though).
@useless_idiot I used to think like you. I used to think (and still do) that irredentism and land grab based on ethno-historical reasons is 20th century thing. I was highly sceptical of the claim that Serbians committed genocide. However, seeing how they cheer and wave Russian flags under today's circumstances opened my eyes. I don't doubt any second now how bloodthirsty Serbians are, how sadist they are in their comments on the situation. When the war started, I was convinced that this steer Serbians from Russian sphere of influence for good, since they should understand better than anyone how it feels when your country is being dismembered on some bogus ethnolinguistic basis and when you try to intervene, you get bombed. Not to mention that the level of death and destruction in Ukraine is not even comparable to what happened back then in Serbia... Yet not only they aren't disgusted by Russia's actions, they are mostly supportive of it. Serbian ideology is clear to me: whoever is even slightly sympathetic to the west must suffer 100x over what they have endured. I don't pity them. I pitied them before but they clearly have shown they aren't after justice, they are after revenge and preemptive ethnic cleansing of any nation that sympathizes with NATO. Worst of all, the conversation with Serbs is remarkably similar to conversations with a Vatnik: they will tip toe around the subject, saying how any war is bad and lament the death and destruction but will always end up blaming "the west", ukrainian nationalists, NATO etc... Anyone except Russia and if you pressure them even just a little, they will snap, call you a western bootlicker and direct you to look old maps as "proof" your nation shouldn't exist and call you racial slurs... Even if one minute ago they were calling you "orthodox slavic brother" or some shit like this. And it's always the same... They are like a carbon copy of each other. I really have absolutely nothing positive to say about Serbians. At least Russians are brainwashed... Serbians live in a country with a much more diversified source of information and consciously chose to idolize a genocidal nation. I have no respect for them whatsoever
@biomedmax
Yeah, that sounds very much like a Vatnik or Putinista. Serbia probably gets a lot of attention from Dugin and his ilk 🙁. I haven’t been there for quite a while, but I hope and pray they will come around eventually.
It’s good to point out the hypocrisy, weakness, and corruption of the West. It’s completely absurd to see Putin as the solution to that.