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From circles close to the Democrats in the United States, two short documents of the program of their candidate for president of the United States, Joseph Biden, were recently published: one on the vision of relations between the United States and Albania, aimed essentially at Albanians. of Kosovo and Albania, and the other on the future of relations between the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sasa Jankovic Photo: Media CenterIn both documents, Biden highlights, on the one hand, his help to Kosovo, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina and, on the other hand, the suppression of the harmful influence of Serbia and certain Serbian politicians.
After Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić joined Donald Trump’s election campaign, Biden took office from the position “Serbia has chosen its side, I am choosing it too.”
Improving relations between Serbia and the United States is certainly in the Serbian national interest. However, the call for an economic agreement with Pristina under the patronage of Trump, in the middle of his presidential campaign, Aleksandar Vucic approached Trump, not the United States; He made a risky move, entered the stakes of an extremely uncertain US presidential election, and put Serbia at stake.
It is clear why Vučić decided to bet: he is slowly losing his balance in the European Union, especially in Germany, and without prior open support from abroad, his government is on glass legs. But Serbia, which still inherits the remnants of a balanced and stable Yugoslav diplomacy, did not need that game.
In previous presidential elections in the United States, Vučić supported the candidate he lost. There, a much less visible mistake, he paid with a cold attitude of a winner of three and a half years. Now, at the end of Trump’s (first) term, Vučić is paying a ticket to fly to his bank by disrupting Serbia’s diplomatic relations with Russia, the EU, the Arab world and Palestine. In the event of Biden’s victory, Serbia will pay even more for Vučić’s new cube.
It would have been better for everyone if Biden had ignored Vučić’s standings with Trump. Especially since Aleksandar Vučić does not really control the will of the Serbian diaspora: in the last presidential elections he won only 10% of their votes in the US, and the second place in those elections, the opposition, 60%.
If Biden found the strength to stand up and reach out to Serbia, it would be a true sign of a winning mentality.
That sign would be noticed and rewarded by Serbs in America. And no matter how small the electorate, it seems that every vote will be decisive. On this side of the ocean, the Serbian government should pursue state, not private and partisan policies.
And the opposition should not rejoice, expecting someone from abroad, including Biden, to punish Vučić. As in 1998, Serbia and its citizens would pay the highest fine in such a scenario.
The author is a former protector of the citizens of the Republic of Serbia and a presidential candidate in the 2017 elections.
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