One thing that i forgot to mention is that a lot of this is closely related to the Kosovo issue. The EU wants to expand until it includes every European country, but Serbia is a thorn in their side and can’t be accepted into the EU until they accept the theft of their Kosovo province.

The EU is pushing extremely hard to try and get them to renounce their claims to Kosovo but so far this has been a step too far even for this semi-comprador government. It would incur massive backlash from the Serbian population, so the EU need a Serbian government that would be totally and exclusively subservient to Brussels and not their own people. That’s what this is really about.

It would take a government like the one they imposed on Ukraine after the Maidan coup that would be willing to deploy brutal force against their own people to crush any protests, labeling them “Russian funded”, “nationalist extremists”, “terrorists”, etc. for not accepting to have their country being sold out like that. The European media would all work in complete alignment to legitimize this national betrayal and to demonize the opposition, telling everyone that this is the only way into “Serbia’s European future” and that anyone against it is “working for Putin” and “trying to hold Serbia back”. This is in my opinion the real ulterior agenda of those behind funding the protests, even though most of the protestors are not aware of it.

Here’s an article about this very issue: https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/27/diana-johnstone-serbias-organized-chaos/

Come to think of it, i’m gonna make this its own post because i think it’s important that people read this.

There is a lot of corruption in Serbia, just like there is in every country in a similar position. Some of the protesters have genuine grievances but that is basically irrelevant because corruption doesn’t go away if there is a regime change and an even more EU aligned government takes over. If anything that just entrenches the corruption, makes it systemic and integrated into the much bigger network of corruption emanating out from Brussels like a spider web.

The questions to ask are: who is actually behind these protests, who is financing them (because no protest of this magnitude is ever really grassroots, there is always some NGO with money, organization and logistics behind them) and what is their real agenda? There are certain things you can keep an eye out for, if you see such names as Open Society Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy or any of their subsidiaries, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Germany’s version of the NED and an arm of the Green party), that’s an immediate red flag.

There are dozens if not hundreds of these things and it’s very hard to keep track of. Oftentimes they work like shell companies trying to maintain an illusion of autonomy but if you can follow the money it usually goes back to the same sources. Here’s a handy list for reference: https://swprs.org/organizations-funded-by-the-ned/

Also anything that leads back to the EU and Brussels, EU parliamentarians suddenly showing up, etc., same as if you see US politicians suddenly taking about the protests, another huge indicator that the protests have been or are about to be hijacked.

Short answer: yes. There is always an unbelievable amount of EU and NATO fuckery going on in Serbia, has been going on for years if not decades at this point. The government is already semi-comprador and basically capitulates to the West on every issue that matters.

But that’s still not enough for the imperialists. They have to stamp out even the token lip service that the Serbian government offers to Serbia’s historic affinity with Russia, which they only do to placate their generally russophile population. Much the same as how Turkey pays lip service to Palestine because their population is largely anti-Zionist but behind the scenes they are aiding and abetting the genocide.

That is how insecure the Anglo-European elites are and how desperate they are for total control in Europe. It’s the modern incarnation of the Nazi concept of “Gleichschaltung”. Same reason they are constantly trying to take down Orban in Hungary (who is a piece of shit for a multitude of different reasons, the biggest of which is being a massive Zionist, but again, nothing but total compliance and absolute alignment with everything Brussels says will satisfy the Euro-Atlanticists) and why they tried to assassinate Fico in Slovakia.

Neither of which are really a threat to the EU or NATO in any way but they pursue too much of an independent policy so they have to be taken out. Serbia is a microcosm of that same phenomenon. It has a weak government and a very unstable socio-economic situation, so they do 99% of everything the EU and NATO demand, but the EU and NATO won’t tolerate anything less than 100%.

We always say that other countries cannot simply one-to-one copy everything China does, but this is one case where it is absolutely the right move to copy China’s anti-desertification campaign. I hope that they either send people to China to observe and learn China’s techniques or ask China to send a few experts over to teach them. This is not just an environmental initiative, it has very positive long term impacts on the local economy and agriculture.

Another day, another DPRK banger.

Inshallah 🙏

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The DPRK never miss (in foreign policy). They are literally the world’s moral compass in geopolitical matters.

i love you warmongers

ah yes, we “warmongers” who warn against bombing the energy infrastructure of another country because we don’t want a war

a nuclear war caused by China

talks about Russian-Chinese pipelines getting bombed and then claims that the resulting war would have been “caused by China”… 🤡

Rookie numbers

It’s one thing to bomb the pipeline of a completely cucked and subservient vassal state like Germany that will just meekly take it and say “thank you sir, may i have some more”.

It’s another to do it to a sovereign nuclear superpower like China. At that point you’re declaring war on one and a half billion people who produce one third of the entire world’s manufacturing output.

Good luck and have fun with the consequences.

After Tiananmen they can’t believe in #1

But they did. For a long time they still believed that they could do achieve their goals in China via a slower more subversive approach than the overt 1989 color revolution attempt, via gradual elite corruption and infection with liberal ideology.

This is why up until the “pivot to Asia” happened you still had fairly positive coverage of China in the Western media and cultural sphere. In the 90s and 00s China was portrayed relatively positively in the media. The war propaganda faucet to demonize and dehumanize Chinese people in the eyes of Westerners was only turned on relatively recently.

If they really thought there was no hope of regime change after 1989 they would have started this much earlier when China was much weaker. They didn’t because they didn’t understand China (they still don’t) and they deluded themselves into thinking things were still going their way.

#2 is possible but requires that the elite mistakes money for power

Well, that is how they think. But that’s not the point that was being made. The point is that the logic of capitalism made it impossible for them to resist outsourcing to China, because the profits were too juicy to pass up. China understood this and took full advantage of it.

By the time the western elites noticed their catastrophic strategic mistake it was too late. Now they are panicking and for the last decade or so have been scrambling to try and find a way to reverse what has happened before the window of opportunity permanently closes.

Hence their increasingly reckless and self-harming escalations, with Ukraine, Taiwan, now Iran… They feel they are out of time and nothing is working anymore so they have to constantly take crazier and crazier gambles in hopes of digging themselves out of the hole.

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Manufacturing new munitions takes resources, a skilled workforce, sufficient production facilities, and most importantly time. They can’t conjure weapons overnight out of thin air by simply throwing money at the problem no matter how many billions of dollars of profit stand to be made. For now they are reliant on whatever they still have in stockpile, which is probably not as much as you might assume, given the fact that the West’s military industrial comple is deeply infected by the neoliberal disease and knowing neoliberalism’s propensity for “just-in-time” supply chains.

they aren’t even able to grasp the logical contradictions in their argument

Because it’s not a logical contradiction. When one side is “The Good Guys™” and the other side “The Bad Guys™”, of course “The Good Guys™” have a right to get everything they need to make weapons and “The Bad Guys™” don’t. Trying to deny “The Good Guys™” their weapons just proves that you are a “Bad Guy™” and justifies why you should not be getting weapons. It’s a logical argument so long as you axiomatically accept the premise that one side is ontologically Good and the other Evil.

I don’t think so. “Israel” is vital to the US empire’s strategic goals in West Asia. Without the neocolony to serve as their proxy and military outpost, their entire regional hegemony collapses.

That’s what they intend, yes, but Iran isn’t Gaza. And even there, with all the destruction they caused, they are still losing the war. They are failing to achieve their objectives.

well then this war is destined to come down to a negotiated stalemate at some point

Yeah i think that’s probably how this will end.

with the side who inflicted the most damage having the upper hand.

Not necessarily. The side that can endure the most damage will have the upper hand.

And the neocolony is incredibly fragile when it comes to its capacity to actually take hits.

Neither aircraft nor missiles win wars. Ground troops do. Everything else is just support.