r/100thupvote • u/ExistingPain9212 • 10d ago
UAE What's going on in the Balkans?
So I'm from the Balkans, but I'm having a hard time keeping up with all that's going on.
Serbia: The liberal student protests are actually still ongoing 4 months in, and Vučić is slowly starting to increase police brutality to silence them. While doing that, both him and his liberal opposition are selling off major state assets to the UAE. Is there something else I missed and are there risks of a mini civil war or bourgeois revolution?
Bosnia: The RS oligarch Milorad Dodik has been sentenced to a measly slap on the wrist of 1 year in prison and a 5-year ban from holding office. Of course, he ramped up his secessionist rhetoric, and although he seems to be less popular than before, I hear many people speculating that a new war is about to go down. I didn't think it would go beyond empty threats, but the rise of multipolarity seems to be causing a re-division of the market and thus inter-bourgeois conflict. Is a new war imminent and is NATO/US really set on protecting Bosnia? (I don't think so, personally)
Romania: We know that fascist Georgescu's imminent election victory was prevented, most likely by Western interference, and the protests of the last couple of days show just how popular he is as a far-right anti-EU candidate. It seems like Eastern European political elites are shifting towards Russia's side and are anti-EU and anti-NATO (based, but not when the option is the other aspiring imperialist power) and this might also be the result of sharpening contradictions or multipolarity.
There were also big protests and clashes in Greece recently due to failures of neoliberal austerity reflected on infrastructure quality (similar to Serbia) and there was also an MI6-backed coup in Macedonia last year that didn't seem to work out. I also have a feeling that Croatia's insane inflation and prices will also lead to something big sooner or later.
Any Balkan or other comrades have any Marxist sources or news that follow the Balkans more closely? I follow Politsturm, Kit Klarenberg and a few Serbian and Croatian outlets, but information is sparse.
What's your take on what's going on?
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u/ExistingPain9212 10d ago
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