Wow, Cory. Don’t hold back. Please let us know how you really feel.
You could have easily left out “ultra-nationalists” from that first sentence/paragraph. Seems like that’s what you really wanted to say. That’s what most people will get from it anyway. Serbs and rape-camps, genocide and ethnic cleansing in the same sentence. There’s that familiar sentiment.
This looks like the same language Trump uses when he talks about Muslims, or Mexicans, or whatever racist bullshit he’s spouting. Trump himself would be proud by it.
Notice the style when you talk about the crimes of that other tribe, it’s all factual. Now compare it to the style when you talk about crimes of your own tribe. What they “perceive”. They think. Imagine if Russia, or Iran, or whoever was bombing US, for legitimate reasons or not. Civilians were dying, children, by mistake or not. Would American people “perceive” Putin to be responsible.
But it’s different, right. It was for a good reason.
Our great prime minister was mentioned. And that was a fairly good description. What was conveniently omitted is that that same prime minister was “special and dear guest” at Clinton Foundation event held recently in New York. And while he’s slowly dragging Serbia into another dictatorship he is strongly supported by the US. Because US doesn’t care about rape-camps, genocide and ethnic cleansing, as long as you follow US foreign policy. Today there’s hardly any free media left in Serbia. That same prime minister, now loved and supported by the US, was Milosevic’s propaganda minister during the wars and bombing. In charge of that same state television building bombed by NATO, which by the way resulted in death of 16 civilians that were working there. But it’s ok, it was for a good reason. AI considers it a war crime. Chomsky called it an act of terrorism. To this day nobody was held accountable for the attack itself.
Cory mentioned in an earlier article about Serbian major ultra-nationalist party leader endorsing Trump. He actually called him war criminal (he was freed on all charges, appeal process still going on). That party is in the parliament again. Our prime minister was that man’s second deputy. And, get this, his first deputy was our current president. In fact, the current ruling party, that gave us our current prime minister and president, was formed (with a “strong backing” from US government) by splitting from that same major ultra-nationalist party. The are called “reformed conservatives”.
But that’s ok, he’s our friend and ally in the region now. At least for now, while the love holds. When it breaks we may get another democracy adjustment by our friends from the US. This time it may even be by Trump. Wouldn’t that be a nice play of irony for those Trump loving Serbs.
Of course, Cory didn’t see fit to mention any of this in these articles.
The news here is Serbs support Trump. Some small insignificant country you wouldn’t even now about if you haven’t bombed it back to stone age. It’s certainly more important than noting that half of the 300M strong nation, leader of the free world, basically voted for a fascist. Or US government’s, regardless of the president, support for dictators around the world. That’s not worth mentioning in this context. You don’t see any parallels here?
What’s up with you and Serbs lately? Have you run into some Serbian asshole? I understand the frustration, I run into them every day.
I imagine idea was to compere Trump to those who endorse him, but it actually sound more like shifting the blame. Congratulations, Cory. You are now part of that same “independent objective and unbiased” media machine.
Let’s just simplify everything and blindly believe what ever we want to believe. Long live the tribalism.
The amount of hypocrisy in the world is astonishing.
