DISINFO: After a coup in 2000, the US, UK and the EU took control of Serbia's security, defence services
SUMMARY
After the coup d'ètat in Serbia in 2000 the US, the UK and their EU slaves have taken control over Serbia's security services and defence sector, colonising the country. Serbia has become a Western colony because of traitors in the state apparatus and NGOs who have been brainwashed and paid by the West.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the EU and US presence in Europe.
There was no coup d'ètat in Serbia in 2000. On October 5, 2000, ten days after the presidential elections won by Vojislav Kostunica, the regime of President Slobodan Milošević, who had just passed a law specifically designed to guarantee him a further term in office, fell. Despite being defeated by the multi-party democratic coalition, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) largely supported by public opinion, the government-controlled Federal Electoral Committee claimed that no candidate won over 50% of the votes and that a second round between Koštunica and Milošević would take place.
The peaceful street protests organised by the winning opposition, later called the Bulldozer Revolution, brought more than 200,000 protesters onto the streets in Belgrade alone. After days of demonstrations and protests, with students in the forefront, the Milošević regime fell.
Furthermore, Serbia has not been “colonised” by the West: it remains a sovereign nation that maintains diplomatic and commercial relations with the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. There is no evidence to support the article’s claim that the Anglo-Americans and the EU have taken control of the Serbian security and defence forces since 2000.
Relations between the European Union and Serbia have been characterised since 2000 by economic aid and diplomatic work that has seen Europe support Serbia in its democratic transition and the start of the process of Serbia's entry into the European Union. But Serbia maintains an independent policy line.
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