Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said, “Serbia won’t allow another aggression against itself,” TASS reported July 10. Vucic also noted that retired Gen. Wesley Clark “left an indelible mark on the Balkans,” but not in the form of support, aid or infrastructure projects, but by carrying out “the murder of our people and our children,” referring to his heading the NATO attack in 1999 on Yugoslavia. He is also referring to the current Western attempt, through color revolutions, to destabilize and remove his current government.
On the anniversary of the bombing campaign of 25 years ago, Wesley Clark, who commanded the bombing of Serbia—at that time the core of the larger Yugoslavia—in a June interview with Voice of America, slandered Serbia as “a magnet, drawing Russian imperialist ambitions into Europe.” Clark praised the bombing, which also split off the ethnic Albanian region of Kosovo from Serbia, and made it an “independent country.”
Vucic blasted Clark, “I see they latched onto us. From [former NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe] Wesley Clark today and U.S. President [Joe] Biden talking about the Balkans and what happened in 1999. It is my business to tell them that we are minding our own business, and we will continue to do so, but Serbia cannot and will never again be anyone’s prey as it was in 1999. Serbia now is serious and responsible. It wants peace, but will not allow anyone in the world to threaten the freedom of our people and our fatherland.”
A feisty Vucic highlighted, “We need good relations with everyone. We will build them with the Americans and the Russians. I ask them only to learn one small lesson about the Serbs, about the fact that freedom is what we love most of all.”
