Analyst: Vucic’s Scaremongering With Aggression Against Serbia is Radical Political Marketing

Aleksandar Radic(BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

Military analyst Aleksandar Radic stated on July 6 that President Aleksandar Vucic’s warnings about possible aggression against Serbia and the announcement of a ban on weapons exports were actually radical political marketing.

Radic told BETA that Vucic’s goal was to create tension in the country in the wake of the growing “Serbia Against Violence” protests. He stated that a ban on exporting weapons and ammunition that Vucic has announced would most probably not be put in place.

“That decision would create large financial losses for the country. Life in the cities where the defense industry is located depends on the situation in those factories, or primarily on the exports of defense products. Vucic should not be toying with the people’s jobs and salaries for his own political marketing,” Radic assessed.

Asked by BETA if Serbia was under threat of aggression, as Vucic has claimed, Radic replied that this was just another political and marketing manipulation. “Vucic needs a better political rating and, in this way, he is making a rallying call for support. So far, his attempts to form the so-called Movement for the State have been failing, while people are protesting in a growing number of cities because of the authorities’ bad conduct. There is no limit to how radical the authorities’ response to the people’s protests can be,” Radic stressed.