How Orbán’s Fall Changed Serbia’s Political Future

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The political future of Serbia is examined in light of the fall of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, with historical context on Russia's 1999 military operation against Belgrade invoked by Vladimir Putin to connect NATO's actions in Yugoslavia with the current Ukraine conflict. The analysis outlines Serbia's evolving geopolitical stance.

In the speech announcing his invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin took only minutes to arrive at the original sin in his catalogue of Western crimes. Before Iraq, before Libya, before Syria, came Belgrade: “First a bloody military operation was waged against Belgrade, without the U.N. Security Council’s sanction but with combat aircraft and missiles used in the heart of Europe.” The placement was not incidental, as Putin was telling Serbs that Russia’s war in Ukraine and NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia belonged to the same story, and that he, unlike the West, remembered. Aleksandar Vučić has been The post How Orbán’s Fall Changed Serbia’s Political Future appeared first on War on the Rocks.