SERBIA PERSPECTIVE

Belgrade reads the NATO crisis through the prism of 1999. N1 Serbia covers the summit in Serbian, revealing that the subject touches a deep nerve in a country that endured 78 days of NATO bombing 27 years ago. For Serbia, balancing between the EU and Russia, a NATO weakening is both a historical satisfaction and a strategic risk: the Alliance's dissolution could leave the Balkans without a security framework, reviving regional tensions NATO helped freeze. Belgrade does not jubilate openly like Moscow, but the neutral tone masks a deep interest: if NATO collapses, Serbia recovers strategic room it lost in 1999.