“What can Europe do? He should do everything so that Ukraine does not lose the war,” reports the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung
“Opens o Vladimir Putin a second front in the Balkans in an attempt to undermine wavering European resistance to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?” asked the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung under the headline “Will Russia open a second front in the Balkans?”
As the newspaper observes, “at first sight such a possibility cannot be ruled out. The Serbian president Alexander Vucic refuses to support Western sanctions against Russia. For its part, Moscow is channeling cheaper natural gas to Serbia, while turning off the tap for others. Serbian public opinion is sympathetic to President Putin. He does not assess the war in Ukraine as aggressive, but as a tragic civil war between brotherly peoples. According to the Serbian reading, the root of evil is not Putin’s neo-imperialism, but the US, which expanded NATO to Ukraine.”
“A Russian victory over Ukraine as and the breakdown of of a united European front against Moscow would put the Balkans in dangerous situations. In the event that Serbia’s neighboring countries, Hungary and Bulgaria, move away from common navigation and the EU loses its importance as a regional regulatory power, the way is opened for an unpredictable new order in the Balkans. The aspirations for a great Serbia or a great Albania cannot be transformed peacefully, even without the direct involvement of Russia”, it is emphasized.
“What can Europe do? He should do everything so that the Ukraine not to lose the war, while preventing a noticeable westward shift of the Russian sphere of influence. In addition, the European regulatory framework, in which the Balkans are integrated, should be maintained. In this context, the EU and the US must finally take matters into their own hands again.”
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