Is Serbia Ukarine 2.0 For Putin and Russia?

Princess Helen of Serbia who represented the Modern Serbian Monarchy after winning independence from the Ottoman Empire. Her life would intertwine with the Romanovs and the Russian Revolution.

 Russia has been grinding its way through Ukraine. The elites are counting their paychecks and then passing off slow progress as a great victory. The Russians are competent at building up their industrial capacity but is it enough to help allies?

The Russians under the Tsar were willing to help the Orthodox at the expense of the Turks. The Ottomans were riding against the decline of Empire, trying to think of every trick to revive the empire once again. However, history proved to be a force which was breathing down the neck of the Ottomans. The Serbians would gain independence for the first time since the Battle of Kosovo, and they would now be able to become not subject peoples but a sovereign nation in an age of Nationalism.

The Russian Federation does not even have an ounce of the courage needed to help the current Serbian government. They care about making money and sitting on two chairs. The government has some competent people but it is too dependent on the oil and gas money. Russia has many talented people in information technology and engineering. However, it takes more than those sectors to run a massive country such as Russia. Relying on migrants who are causing many social problems and unease among the Russian population is not going to solve the birth rate issue neither will give Russia the respect that it needs among other countries and nations.

Serbian President, Aleksandar Vučić is a man who faces the dilemmas of small nations in this age. 

The Serbian President presides over a country which was beaten by Nato in the 1990s and ended up on an apology tour in the 2000s due to the machinations and depravities of the Yugoslavian government. The country, aging and filled with angry men needed to chart a new course. However, he simply wanted to sit on two chairs.

Serbian protestors have shown impressive people power here. Across the country, protestors are shutting off transport links and are demanding early elections to the Serbian parliament.

President Aleksandar Vučić is a man who seems to going to suffer the same fate as Ukraine's President before the Maidan Revolution overtook the whole country transformed Ukraine into one of the most militarily capable countries in Europe.

Imperial Russia, even when it had corruption and incompetence, still believed in helping the Orthodox. The nations of the Balkans wouldn't have been sovereign nations without the Russians intervening on the sides of all these Orthodox nations.

The Russian elite in Moscow and St. Petersburg, have no willingness to change anything except to get a paycheck and go on television. The same goes for the conduct of Russia's military in the Russian-Ukraine War. It is not a Special Military Operation anymore; it is a full-blown war like in Vietnam or the Soviet Afghan War.

Serbia's President looks destined to be thrown out of power. While his government has tampered down on the protests multiple times, the Serbian opposition look like they have the upper hand this time.

Why?

Because the government isn't trying to stand for anything. That is alone to change an age. While I have become more cynical about protestors in the current age, a government that seeks to sit on two chairs is more vulnerable than the most idealistic man or woman who is running to the barricades to face off with the government and their supporters. 

Aleksandar Vučić's government is weak in achieving the goals of making Serbia truly independent while also being Russia's colleague while also attempting to join the EU. The unwillingness to simply choose a path has made the youth restless and they are hungry for change.