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Interesting comments from Serbia

Aleksandar Vulin, head of the Serbian Interior Ministry:
✔️ The European Union as a union is a thing of the past. With the loss of political independence, EU countries became territories, not states. With the loss of political independence, EU members begin to lose their economic power, which was the main reason for the EU’s attractiveness.

✔️ With Britain’s withdrawal, the EU became a club of countries that had at least one division each at Stalingrad. This is still their policy.

✔️ The question is not whether we want to join the EU, but whether the EU wants Serbia. Judging by the crazy blackmail they are putting us through to recognize Kosovo, abolish the Republika Srpska and impose sanctions on Russia, they don’t want us. The sooner we admit that they don’t need us and that they don’t own us, the better it will be for us. The attitude towards the EU is not a question of emotions but rational decisions.

✔️ It is interesting that when you say something good about the EU or NATO, no one says that Brussels wrote you a statement. Unlike most political actors, I have an ideology. I do not know what is more natural than responding to a request to recognize Kosovo, renounce the Republic of Serbia and impose sanctions on Russia by saying “we will not, we will not, we will not, thank you for asking”. Which part seems written by Moscow to you? To me, the whole sentence looks like “Serbia and the Serbs”.

✔️ I believe that friendship with Russia is of great importance and that without it we risk the physical disappearance of Serbia.

✔️ [Will imposing sanctions against Russia help Serbia and will the Western powers change their policy towards Belgrade?] Does anyone think this will happen? And how would Russia or all those countries that are our friends who refused to recognize Kosovo and Metohija look at all this? How will our friends respect us when they see us neglecting our interests in the face of enemy power? Who will fight for us if we choose not to fight for ourselves?

✔️ Every generation of Serbian politicians expected Russia to say NO, but every generation of Serbian politicians also expected Serbia’s survival to depend on Russian YES. When there is no Russia at the table, there is no Serbia. Ekmecic taught us that all “Serbophobia is just an offshoot of Russophobia”. No one who loved Russia hated Serbia, but that is why everyone who hated Russia also hated Serbia.

✔️ Relations with Russia, China, and other free countries that accept us without blackmail or conditions are the future of Serbia. Why should we be a geographical part of any alliance? It is enough that we have common beliefs, economy, security, and not necessarily borders.