Aleksandar Vucic (BETAPHOTO/VLADA SRBIJE/SLOBODAN MILJEVIC)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on March 1 that the "serious disagreement" between the United States and Ukraine suggested an "ever deeper divide between America and Europe," and that Serbia needed to decide how to position itself in a newly divided world.
Following an unsuccessful meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Feb. 28, European leaders rushed to criticize Trump in very strong terms, and "did not even wait until morning to voice their support for Zelenskyy," Vucic said in Knjazevac during a visit to the Zajecar and Bor districts.
"In my opinion, Europe is going to try to present itself as the new beacon of freedom that is not capable of aligning with Trump. They will use the liberal media in America and the (opposition) Democratic Party there, to try and organize every kind of attack on Trump, and I am very concerned about what he will have to go through," Vucic said.
The Serbian president was confident that no strategic partnership in the West would be reestablished in the next 12 months. "Words that were too harsh were exchanged yesterday and over the past few days. America is much too powerful to retreat before Europe. As for Europe, it has a problem: Trump is not burdened by the political history of the war in Ukraine, as it started after his term, and he can say whatever he wants about that war, whereas Europe cannot, which makes it all the more difficult for it," Vucic thinks.
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