Is “Banjska at the seaside” designed to fail?

Those close to Aleksandar Vučić and his close narcotics-linked circle know that when a charter flight is booked, a passenger list of 87 men must be sent to the Montenegrin border police. They know that the border officer forwards the list to the directorate, which sends an unusual list to the police headquarters, and that it is then checked by the security agency.

They know very well that those being loaded onto the charter will not cross the border, yet they are still equipped with a cloth reading “Serbia wins” and two pieces of communication equipment, turning the whole thing into a possible “hybrid operation.”

That is why the question is not what they intended to do, but who needed it to look like they intended something, but were stopped?

This looks like a rushed copy of Banjska, only at sea. A demonstration of force without real force. An operation designed to be discovered. An incident meant to produce the opposite effect.

Today we know what Banjska served for. After dead people, after weapons, after a large patriotic spectacle, the result was acceptance of reality and the establishment of Kosovo institutions in northern Kosovo. People paid with their lives for Vučić’s inability to properly implement what he had already agreed to.

That is why Solidarity must ask: what was the purpose of Banjska at the seaside? In Vučić’s politics, actions are too often not organized to succeed, but to produce an impression. The question is not whether the operation was clumsy. The question is who benefited from it and what message it was meant to send to all of us.

To show voters that he is still the “protector of Serbs”?

To send a message to Montenegro that destabilization can always be exported there?

To sell himself again to the EU as the only pro-EU actor who can control chaos he himself produces?

Or to the Russians, who still hold a significant part of our energy stability in their hands, and for whom every new instability in the Balkans is convenient?

In Vučić’s case, everything is performance.

Banjska began as a patriotic spectacle and ended in death, defeat, and additional humiliation for Serbia.

“Banjska at the seaside” is a poorly directed production by a man under heavy pressure. Now Vučić, the greatest obstacle to European integration, who recently signed an unknown number of anti-European, internationally binding agreements with China, presents himself publicly as their greatest defender. Only the naive and those who prefer false stability will believe that.