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There is a lot of corruption in Serbia, just like there is in every country in a similar position. Many of the protesters have genuine grievances while others have simply been brainwashed, much like the Ukrainians and Georgians, into buying the whole "we must become part of liberal Europe and join the EU, then we will all live rich and comfortable like the western Europeans" lie.

But that is basically irrelevant because corruption doesn't go away if there is a regime change and an even more EU aligned government takes over. If anything that just entrenches the corruption, makes it systemic and integrated into the much bigger network of corruption emanating out from Brussels like a spider web.

The questions to ask are: who is actually behind these protests, who is financing them (because no protest of this magnitude is ever really grassroots, there is always some NGO with money, organization and logistics behind them) and what is their real agenda?

There are certain things you can keep an eye out for, if you see such names as Open Society Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy or any of their subsidiaries, USAID, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Germany's version of the NED and an arm of the Green party), Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, any of these are an immediate red flag. Many of these were also extremely active in Ukraine prior to the Maidan coup.

Some of the lesser known ones that are frequently active in this region include European Fund for the Balkans, Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability, The German Marshall Fund, The Balkan Trust for Democracy, and the Robert Bosch Foundation.

There are dozens if not hundreds of these things and it's very hard to keep track of. Oftentimes they work like shell companies trying to maintain an illusion of autonomy but if you can follow the money it usually goes back to the same sources. Here's a handy list for reference: https://swprs.org/organizations-funded-by-the-ned/

Also anything that leads back to the EU and Brussels, European governments, EU parliamentarians suddenly showing up, etc., same as if you see US politicians suddenly taking about the protests, another huge indicator that the protests have been or are about to be hijacked. Also if you hear keywords like "European values", "civil society", "freedom and democracy"... The usual cliches.

EU politicians and technocrats are aggressively pursuing EU enlargement by any means, the EU has official positions where this is basically the job description, and when it comes to these sorts of protests and the NGOs behind them they openly admit that most of these NGOs, and i quote "could not survive without EU funding" (said by the "European commissioner for enlargement" in 2024). This essentially makes them openly declared foreign interference vectors.