Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic addressed reporters in Belgrade on Wednesday – after rejecting the West’s call for new sanctions against Russia – and predicted that 2023 will be “much more difficult” than the previous year.
He cited many of the factors that The Trends Journal has warned about since the beginning of the Russian invasion in 24 February. He noted how the U.S. Federal Reserve has raised interest rates, and recently hinted that more hikes are on the way. He also noted that China’s growth as slowed to a crawl and the EU is approaching recession.
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RT.com, the , the Russian state-controlled television network, noted that Vucic said his country is already stockpiling natural gas and coal. He noted that there will likely be a dramatic food shortage.
“We have to stock up, there will be less and less food around the world,” he said. “We have to have salt, sugar, wheat and corn. For the immediate future, we do.”
The report noted that Vucic’s refusal to join the EU’s call for new sanctions against Russia comes as Belgrade seeks membership in the European bloc. Vucic took issue with countries “meddling” in Serbia’s “internal affairs.”
The Associated Press reported that there are “increasing suggestions from EU-member states that Serbia’s membership bid should be suspended until it complies with the bloc’s foreign policies.”
Serbia historically takes a neutral stance when it comes to NATO and Moscow.
Aleksandar Vulin, the Serbian interior minister, said in October that the EU has been inconsistent in its messaging since the war broke out. He said the only “consistent” element of EU policy is that the bloc takes “revenge on free nations.”
TRENDPOST: Russian President Vladimir Putin believes the Western alliance will begin to fracture as the winter months drag on and economies suffer and Europeans are huddled in their dark, cold, homes and decide to demand an end to Russian sanctions and immediate negotiations in Kyiv.
President Joe Biden said last week that he does not know Putin’s “off ramp.” That is his off ramp. When Paris, Rome, and Berlin face massive protests due an economic catastrophe, Kyiv will be forced to work out a deal with Russia that includes demilitarization, assurances that it will not join NATO, and cede the four regions that voted for annexation in the Donbas.
While the Trends Journal has been opposed to Russia’s invasion, we understand why they launched the war and wrote about its beginning in our Spring 2014, when the United States overthrew the democratically elected government of Viktor Yanukovich. (See “Washington is Driving the World to the Final War.”)
And we maintain our forecast that if not assassinated—or minus a nuclear strike or major false flag event—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will lose support from the West and will have to negotiate a peace deal with Russia.
Jews Albright and Clark had NATO bomb Serbia so the IMF Jews could make loans for rebuilding and get control of Serbian iridium assets . . . while Saudi non-profit NGOs kept the KLA terrorists well fed and well-armed . . . Just like ISIS in Syria . . . their Zionist bedfellows on Wall Street want Ukraine for GMO grain crops . . . Monsanto (now Bayer), Genentech, ADM, etc., are all buying land with the help of the Jews at the IMF by giving the Ukrainian “Dill” idiots debt relief . . . IMF = Israeli Military Fund