SERBIA PERSPECTIVE

N1 Serbia headlines with a detail that reveals everything: 'While the war in Iran is ongoing, Hegseth fires the highest officer of the Army -- without giving a reason.' Those last five words are the key. Belgrade, which endured NATO bombings in 1999 without what Serbs consider a satisfactory explanation, is hypersensitive to the arbitrary exercise of power by Western nations. N1's insistence on the absence of justification isn't an editorial footnote -- it's a reflection of the 1999 trauma projected onto American affairs. Serbia, an EU candidate but friend of Russia and China, watches American instability with particular interest: every crack in the Western edifice validates Vucic's thesis that multipolarity is the future. But N1, an independent outlet critical of the government, doesn't say that -- it lets the facts speak.