The citizens of Serbia are impatient and do not agree to the nonsense offered by the regime of Aleksandar Vučić. How could they not be: for thirteen years they have witnessed the destruction of the country and their own lives, so even these 11 months of rebellion seem slow and ineffective to them. This impatience is often expressed in aggressive verbal outbursts addressed to less impatient citizens, so those who are on the same side just cope better with tense nerves.
Therefore, instead of non-violent protests, our impatient fellow citizens would prefer to physically clash with the regime. They are attracted to pictures from Nepal where a crowd runs over the police, then puts a helmet on that chubby finance minister's head, walks him through a shallow stream, and slaps his limp bare ass (and a sturdy helmet) a little along the way. However, those pictures do not show the dead. And somehow they don't seem important, they are far away.
Smoking and the Color Revolution
That is why our impatient fellow citizens could perhaps focus a little more attention on the actions and rhetoric of the regime, which, collapsed like this, is rapidly preparing for elections.
Let's say, after a crazy military parade that served nothing other than to fill the program of the regime's propaganda newsletters - admittedly, we didn't do badly either, the young lady who waved at the students from the tank became, as they say, viral - followed by a pre-election promise to increase pensions, salaries (with an emphasis on teachers), and regulation of illegal construction for only one hundred euros. All this was announced by - and who else - the president of all citizens. Along the way, he once again defeated the color revolution.
And Mark Twain would envy him. An American writer once said that quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world: he quit smoking a hundred times. So is the president of all citizens: nothing easier than victory over the colored revolution: here he is winning, I guess, for the third time. True, the cigars that Mark Twain talked about were real, while the colored revolution exists only in the head of the president of all the citizens who trust him.
Pre-election campaign or simulation?
So, the regime is preparing for elections. How to understand that circumstance if, undoubtedly, at this moment it does not stand at all well, that is, if at this moment the chances for a quality theft would be weaker than at any time in these 13 years?
This indicates that the regime is no longer sure that postponing the elections will work for them. Citizens and students are not calming down, the tension in high schools and colleges is enormous, poverty is corroding like rust, November 1 is approaching, and the regime does not give the impression that it knows where to go next and how.
On the one hand, postponing the election seemed to be a good strategy because it plays to calm the situation and open up room for maneuver for the regime for new acts like idiotic laws on sex without consent, the ban on gatherings, attempts to shut down N1 and Nova, and a whole series of repressive measures. If, however, so, then why the fierce campaigning at this time?
There are two possible answers. Either it is an attempt to calm the citizens, or the regime estimates that time is not working in its favor. The first answer seems too sophisticated for the radical mind. Pretending that you are going to the elections, but in fact you do not think of calling them, does not seem convincing, regardless of the fact that the president of all citizens who believe in fairy tales announced the elections only for April or December next year.
Dead souls
The announcement of the elections for April or December 2026 was at the expense of impatient citizens, for whom those dates seem as far away as eternity, so, the president of all citizens who swear at female journalists reckons, it will induce them into apathy.
At the same time, however, time is far from working in his favor. Whatever the regime tries, it turns into mud. The cheapening of the chicken Parisian did not meet with a warm welcome and universal enthusiasm. Even this military parade in honor of the people's unity with all the armored police preventing the citizens - non-unified, I guess - from approaching the parade. If until now time has brought happiness to Vučić - it didn't go well for him then, but it happened that Putin was on an island in Ukraine, so Vučić, who had nothing to offer, transformed overnight into a factor of stability and security - now everything is so bad, he has ruined the country so much that every day brings him new uncertainty and trouble.
Soon, the price of electricity will skyrocket, followed by everything else, which will not be compensated by any increase in pensions and salaries, not to mention inflation or the arrival of loan repayment deadlines.
On the other hand, the regime is not able to produce an event that will stabilize it, because the so-called Expo, frankly, is nowhere near enough. Finally, the question is whether stabilizing the regime is still possible.
We should not forget that this rebellion did not happen out of nothing, but that behind us are the shot children from "Ribnikar", bodies crushed under the concrete of the Novi Sad canopy and all those people killed in Dubona and Orašje. That's a lot of dead souls, and the regime of Aleksandar Vučić is responsible or to blame for all those deaths, in one way or another.
Even if the storm calms down for a moment, it will rise again even stronger and more destructive. For this reason, perhaps, the regime estimates that by the end of the year it still has the chance and strength for a sufficiently good election theft.