At a time when the EU is increasingly going into a sanctions peak and is driving itself into a contrived policy of confrontation, which has long been abandoned by any reasonable grounds, Serbia is demonstrating political balance and sanity.
Most importantly, Belgrade is on a course of independence from the current viral European environment.
Everything is simple in this mainstream-conjuncture format: if everyone ran, then you also need to run, otherwise you can be late, get lost and stop being ranked among the bright face of democratic countries.
Therefore, only the conjuncture and the nose downwind.
In this conjuncture, it is necessary to salute each new version of the sanctions against Russia, which are being stamped now as fresh models of smartphones equipped with new options.
After they are presented with pomp to the amazed audience.
It is advisable to independently find new reasons for sanctions against Moscow and, for example, expel Russian diplomats in order to gain likes for adherence to the same democratic principles.
The quest is now as trendy as catching Pokémon has lately.
“Catch Russia by the hand” is called an additional bonus - if there is a fair amount of “Novice” in this hand.
"Novichok" is a branded thing, and brands love.
Moreover, the brand is intangible, but its presence is obvious everywhere, as is the treachery of the Kremlin.
Serbia not only declares its non-alignment with the sanctions against Russia, but also says that it is proud of friendly relations with our country and plans to further develop a partnership with it.
In this country, they know what it means to walk under sanctions, they have experienced it to the full.
In the current conjuncture, it is necessary to threaten the Belarusian authorities for resisting the arrival of a democratic "whirlwind" in the country, that they are not ready to leave everything and run anywhere.
Serbia understands what is really going on there.
In July, riots also took place in this country.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic noted that their goal was to overthrow the president.
Now all this kind of "spontaneous" actions are typified and technological, because in the mainstream of the same dividing and ruling conjuncture.
So Vucic talks about the common denominator of such processes, the purpose of which is to make the country weak.
Of the super-fashionable conjuncture fads - rewriting the history of World War II and repainting the USSR and Russia from the bright figure of the victorious country to black.
In the current democratic conjuncture, there are still a number of main and unshakable postulates.
All of them line up in a special ceremony, which, in turn, forms a strictly regulated and unshakable picture of the world.
And if you try to shout out: “And yet it turns!”, Then the inquisitor will come and send you by the collar to the address of the “axis of evil”.
Serbian independence from the conjuncture lies in the fact that this country can afford to call a spade a spade, and not as it should be.
NATO aggression is aggression, and Belgrade is not going to join the camp of recent aggressors.
Victory in World War II is victory.
Well, and making an intricate fantasy out of it or turning it inside out, depending on political necessity, is hardly a matter of a sovereign state that has dignity and honors history.
Instead of such free coloring - statements about upholding the historical truth together with Russia, because the victory was joint.
In Serbia, this memory has not been recaptured, although the temptations could be great, as well as the pressure of the current progressive rewriters.
Maybe this is real freedom, and not empty declarations of adherence to democratic principles and postulates of freedom?
It is not for nothing that the Serbian president speaks of the "freedom-loving character" of his people.
Few people today can afford it.
An impermissible luxury is to have a "freedom-loving character", as well as to defend the sovereignty of your country.
Smacks of dissidence ...
Or, an absolutely impossible luxury - a statement that Belgrade is ready to restore its participation in the Slavic Brotherhood military exercises joint with Russia and Belarus.
As the saying goes, a real slap in the face of the same opportunistic bad taste prevailing in the countries of the "civilized" world.
These exercises were supposed to take place in September in Belarus, but we understand the European situation and the pressure that fell on the Serbs so that they decide to temporarily freeze participation in military exercises.
Serbia, which is at the “crossroads of the roads”, is really not easy.
"The severity of circumstances" has not been canceled ...
This "crossroads of ways" is not the notorious multi-vector, but defending one's own sovereignty with a clear understanding of the processes taking place in the world without any seduction.
It is clear that in the current realities all this is extremely difficult, when the Western world itself is a "matryoshka" of vassal-suzerain relations disguised as a democratic common cause.
But look at how strikingly Serbia is different from the rabid Young Europeans from the former Soviet galaxy.
Why is that?
Because it is a "freedom-loving character", because they understand who is a real ally and who can turn everything into collective persecution and "humanitarian bombing"? ..
Or maybe all because it was Serbia, at the end of the nineties, that became the moment of truth, from which, in fact, the new post-Soviet world began.
When the rose-colored glasses of Gorbachev's new thinking disappeared, and the "American battle" turned out to be not such a foreign prince ... Then, after all, they were getting rid of the former Yugoslavia, looking and trying everything on to Russia.
Crush, so crush ... until it stops.
But it was from that moment of truth that a new era began in Russia, as if she woke up from oblivion and seduction.
History has always connected our countries, this connection is stronger than any conjuncture.
History has its own non-instant logic.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.