A plan devised: Vučić agreed on a Russian loan for aircraft and missile systems 2.5 years ago

The story of Serbia's arms purchase has a far deeper background and message than what has been discussed so far. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, this trade is not fully understood, but it is precisely interpreted from the perspective of a country that has already suffered from Serbian politics and weapons. Probably, after the announcement by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić of such a large purchase of Russian weapons, concern arose in the West, writes the Patria news agency.

With this, Vučić ends the story of Serbia's possible neutrality and its political and military turn towards Moscow. Ultimately, the definitive purchase of Russian weapons was agreed upon by Aleksandar Vučić himself.

In March 2011, the first preliminary negotiations on a possible loan for weapons from Russia took place. The then government, with some hesitation, postponed talks on this loan. Allegedly, Serbia was offered a framework of 10 billion dollars, with three billion intended for Russian weapons.

Somewhat later, there was talk of a 7 billion commodity loan in military equipment. It was even mentioned in the media that the proposal came directly from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Somewhat later, on May 23 and 24, 2013, in Moscow, Defense Ministers Sergei Shoigu and Aleksandar Vučić met and definitively agreed on a commodity loan in the form of Russian weapons. The only question is the amount of that loan: either three or seven billion dollars?

At that time, the purchase of "MiG-29M2" and "Su-30" was agreed upon, and the "Buk" missile system was offered. In subsequent constant talks between Russian and Serbian partners, things returned to about twenty "Su-30" aircraft and a larger number of modern "S-300" missile systems.

Thus, Vučić had already agreed on all the details of this loan two and a half years ago. Today he states: "Ask the countries in the region what we need this weapon for." Vučić admits that all countries in the region are in NATO, and only Serbia is not.

Why would an argument of confrontation even be needed, if Serbia's neutrality is in question? Therefore, after this commodity loan, Serbia is no longer neutral.

Many will say that this Russian commodity loan is just a continuation of the soap opera about NATO in the Balkans, which began with demonstrations on the streets of Podgorica.