Aleksandar Vucic Wins In Serbia

The MAGA Right has been rendered meaningless (and treasonous) by the new global paradigm that’s emerged this past month. Ditto the Woke Left. What resonance does insane whining like this have anymore? https://t.co/iXkqqcd9IX

— Richard ???? Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) March 20, 2022

Speaking of NATO humanitarian interventions and the misleading, emotionally charged atrocity propaganda used to justify them, old times are not forgotten in Serbia either.

New York Times:

“BUDAPEST — Overshadowed by the war in Ukraine, elections on Sunday in Hungary and Serbia appear to have extended the tenures of Europe’s two most Kremlin-friendly leaders, both populist strongmen fortified by their overwhelming control of the media and cheap energy from Russia.

With more than 60 percent of the votes counted in Hungary, preliminary results indicated that Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister since 2010, and already Europe’s longest serving leader, had won a fourth consecutive term despite accusations by the opposition that he has enabled Russia’s military onslaught by cozying up for years to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

“We won a victory so big that you can perhaps see it from the moon, and certainly from Brussels,” Mr. Orban told a jubilant crowd of supporters late Sunday, taking a dig at the European Union, which he has long accused of pushing L.G.B.T.Q. and migrant rights in defiance of the democratic will of Hungarian voters. …

President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia, also Moscow-friendly, has governed Serbia since 2012, and was expected to win re-election after rallying his nationalist and pro-Russian base by refusing to join the European Union in imposing sanctions on Russia. Serbia hopes to become a member of the European bloc, but its application has stalled.

An unusually high turnout in Serbia of nearly 60 percent forced officials to keep polling stations open late into the evening in some areas. Amid complaints of foul play by the opposition, the central election commission in Belgrade, the capital, said it would not issue results until Monday morning.

But exit polls indicated that Mr. Vucic would win a new term as president and that his Serbian Progressive Party would retain its hold on Parliament, albeit with a reduced majority. The opposition said it had won control of the municipal government in Belgrade. …”

The elections in Hungary and Serbia both had large turnout and in both cases “autocracy” (i.e., opponents of liberals) won a resounding victory at the ballot box.

Liberals have been lecturing us for the last month now that “everything changed” on February 24. We have entered a “new paradigm” and have returned to the Cold War of the 20th century in a renewed global conflict between “democracy” and “autocracy.” And yet, we don’t see much evidence at all that the world has changed whether it is in Joe Biden’s poll numbers, the issues Americans care about or on the world stage. It is more like Twitter sharply pivoted from Fauci to Zelensky thirst.