Currently, there are significant protests happening in Serbia, but for the most part, the Western media is overlooking them. I can picture Vucic attempting to create a distraction by deploying the military against Bosnia.
You've been doing the same. Unless you mean that some Kurdish guerillas are worth spending billions in missiles,frigates,submarines,aircraft carriers,aircraft.
That is more of a rational reply than hyperman's. Vucic could pull something like that,although I doubt it,but still...he's weird. If he and his friends wanted to stay on power or felt threatened by the people to lynch them....they could pull somehing like that off.
I was going to mention it in the post above,it's not just Serbia,others are buying new equipment and weapons too,but I think it's simply because ever since the late '90s they hadn't bought anything serious to modernize their Armed Forces. Specifically Croatia and Slovenia. The rest,Albania and FYROM only got money they can spend on weapons the last few years. If you saw their equipment from the mid-2000s until a few years ago,you'd be shocked. I'm sure you know their inventories,it was more like a huge police force and militia.
War in Syria is over,it was between weak forces and guerilla groups. You guys say you're already too strong for Iranians so no problem there either. You're ok with the Iraqis,you don't have anything to be afraid of from Armenia,no problem from Lebanon,you keep insisting Israel is far and you can easily crush it,nothing going on with Bulgaria and both Ukraine and Russia are supposed to be in good terms with you. So maybe you wanna launch something yourselves
War in Syria is over,it was between weak forces and guerilla groups. You guys say you're already too strong for Iranians so no problem there either. You're ok with the Iraqis,you don't have anything to be afraid of from Armenia,no problem from Lebanon,you keep insisting Israel is far and you can easily crush it,nothing going on with Bulgaria and both Ukraine and Russia are supposed to be in good terms with you. So maybe you wanna launch something yourselves
Another theory i had was,if Vucic wanted to go pro-West and is afraid of any retaliation from Russia.
Balkan countries like the Yugoslavs,Bulgaria,Albania and Romania really needed to modernize their armies. Serbs had been doing it slowly since the mid-2000s,but the others were too late. Croatians,Slovenians,Romanians. And now Albanians and Bulgarians. Although Albanians still have a way smaller budget.
Personally,I think it's mostly because of the geopolitical trouble the last 5 years. The instability and sudden changes with invasions,wars here and there. Vucic doesn't seem like the type of super patriot,so the only reason to see him starting a war is maybe some excuse to boost his popularity or unite the nation if protests come to the point of him getting chased in the street.
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