29 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGaqIPhCtY0

5. sep 2025.
The US government admittedly overthrew the government of Serbia in 2000 through secret funding and meetings between the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Serbian opposition leaders.

Today, the same network of NED-funded organizations are promoting protests across Serbia, citing legitimate criticism of the current government to mobilize crowds, incite violence, and divide and destroy the country again.

Regardless of what one's opinion is of the current Serbian government, and how deeply one believes the US-EU has supported it in the past, for whatever the US government is determined to target and undermine it today to replace it with either a more obedient client regime, or greater sociopolitical dysfunction and division than before.

To determine a protest's legitimacy, one must go beyond slogans and superficial conclusions drawn about either the opposition or the targeted government, and instead, name organizations involved, and trace their money back both to their true donors, and the true purpose of the protests themselves.

References:

NYT - Who Really Brought Down Milosevic? (2000):
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/26/ma...
Guardian - Serbia cannot accept violent street protests (Aug. 29, 2025):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
Guardian - The Guardian view on protests in Serbia: a battle for democracy that the EU must not ignore (Aug. 25, 2025): https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
National Endowment for Democracy - Homepage (accessed September 2025):
https://www.ned.org/
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) - Grant Listings FY24, Europe:
https://www.ned.org/wp-content/upload...
NED - NED’s Duty of Care and Public Disclosure Policies (Apr. 2025):
https://www.ned.org/ned-policy/
Center for Investigative Journalism in Serbia - About Us:
https://www.cins.rs/en/about-us/
Global Investigative Journalism Network - Sponsors and Supporters:
https://gijn.org/about-us/sponsors-an...
BIRN - Donors and Partners:
https://birnsrbija.rs/donatori-i-part...
Danas - Homepage:
https://www.danas.rs/
KRIK - News:
https://www.krik.rs/en/news/