Armed with the blessing of Patriarch Porfirio and with the brotherly support of Milorad Dodik, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, is accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Marko Đurić headed for a meeting in New York, where on May 23 the General Assembly will vote on declaring July 11 as the International Day of Remembrance of the Genocide in Srebrenica.
In the midst of the campaign for the local elections on June 2, representatives of the government and the regime media raised this issue to the level of the survival of Serbia, to which the world powers want to stick the genocidal label, although the text of the draft resolution emphasizes individual responsibility for the planned, mass liquidation of over 8000 people, which was committed carried out by the former General of the Army of Republika Srpska Ratko Mladić, who was convicted of genocide.
The marketing-psychological approach is clear and is based on the well-known pattern of the fight between David and Goliath, Rocky Balboa against stronger and younger opponents or a small Gallic village against the Roman Empire - people like to watch how a small man, underdog, the underdog, wins in an unequal battle. Nothing bothers the Serbian case that Vučić announced the failure in advance, because since Vidovdan in 1389, a tradition has developed among Serbs that defeat can be equally celebrated, only if the death of the participant was sufficiently heroic.
The staging of the blessing of the Serbian hero, Vučić, in the Church of St. Sava on Monday before going to battle with the world powers corresponded to the spirit of the Kosovo cycle, and the message was derived from Gorski vienci: "Let the fight be unceasing, let the impossible happen", so let flowers sprout in the cemetery for a generation far away.
Messages about upcoming voting resolution on Srebrenica in the UN are suitably melodramatic and pathetic, aiming to stir up national pride and call for the rallying of a small but proud and defiant people around a leader who defends them against powerful enemies. What does the sewage system have to do with Borča, when "the most sacred human duty is to put a foot on the neck of tyranny".
"Immense" pressure
"We are considering country by country, making additional efforts and looking at what we can do in these remaining 48 hours," said Marko Đurić on Monday evening and emphasized that it will be a "serious fight", i.e. that the result of the vote in the General Assembly will not be what Germany and the United States had hoped for, i.e. we have to show them who they are targeting.
Photo: Jadranka Ilić / TanjugMarko Đurić / Photo: Jadranka Ilič/Tanjug
So he underlined that we must be aware of the "enormous" pressure exerted by countries that are "20 times stronger" than Serbia, and some "even more than that".
"The countries that declare themselves, African, Asian and Latin American countries, literally face political blackmail in certain segments and in certain situations," explained Đurić, but that Serbia's "credibility" thanks to its "principled policy" is so great that some of they resist all those unprecedented pressures.
Vučić previously spoke about the Serbian tricolor, which will be proudly flown in New York, and all freedom-loving countries will gather around it.
hard "fight"
"I expect a tough fight and I expect a fight until the last moment, but I have no doubt that the delegation of Serbia, led by the president, will do absolutely everything that is humanly possible, investing absolutely everything from political and state credibility, in order to get the best possible result for Serbia", said the head of Serbian diplomacy, as reported by RTS.
So he explained that "no one even expected that someone would dare to oppose something that was already planned in advance as a political condemnation of Serbia, as the creation of a moral stigma that should be borne not only by the present, but also, unfortunately, by future generations and that virtually along with the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, an event in which millions of people died, millions of people were killed, and the Serbs are marked practically in an indirect way as responsible, as morally guilty before the conscience of humanity".
However, the world powers have made a calculation without Vučić, who, well, dared to oppose them because he is not afraid of anyone or anything.
The marketing slogan repeated by government representatives is somewhat comical, that after the UN vote you will see who is Serbia's "friend and who is partner", from which it follows that progressive Serbia does not have "enemies", but that "partners" want to attach the label to Serbs. genocidal people". Because if the usual division into "friends and enemies" had been used in such "epic battles", the carefully built image of Vučić as a statesman who has all his "friends" in the white world, unlike Kurti and the rest of the Serb-hating Balkan brothers, would have been undermined.
Therefore, Đurić's conclusion is that, although we will suffer a defeat, everyone will respect us "because we did not allow ourselves to be trampled on and because we raised our voices to protect our interests."
It does not sound bad for internal use, but it is incorrect because from the point of view of those western "partners" who are important for Serbia, the country is returning to the factory settings from the 1990s, i.e. he gives up his earthly European perspective for heavenly songs.
