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Students in Serbia have done more than merely block their universities. For the first time in thirty years, they have lifted the stone beneath which, now fully exposed to public view, a horde of scorpions and reptiles has slithered forth — each one now unmistakably revealed for what it truly is, unable to convincingly deny its nature any longer. Even their much-criticized political neutrality — often dismissed as a harmful stance — cannot be considered a flaw when viewed through the lens of what is genuinely demanded from a true political alternative. After all, what guarantee is there that a new government would behave any differently than Vučić’s regime? Would it, too, have its own cadre of corrupt beneficiaries who, sooner or later, would bring about the collapse of yet another train station? How would it position itself toward the multinational mining giants who remain unyielding in their ambition to turn Serbia — and Bosnia and Herzegovina along with it — into a lithium wasteland? What stance would it take on Kosovo, and toward the remnants of the Serbian people still living there? And what kind of policy would it pursue with regard to Serbia’s kin in historical suffering across the globe — the Palestinians, the Syrian Christians and Druze, the Houthi in Yemen?

At a historical moment when the European Union designates lithium mining in the Jadar region as a strategic project, when the Trump administration is testing the waters for turning Serbia and neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina into dumping grounds for hundreds of thousands of unwanted migrants from the United States, and when........

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