The well-known American analyst Daniel Serwer has accused the new Government of Serbia of including in its ranks the ministers sanctioned by the US for corruption and pro-Russia, while for the new prime minister he recalled that he led the Ministry of Defense of Serbia when it was a collaborator in the terrorist attack in Banjska. Serwer in an op-ed in Peacefare has said that the new Government of Serbia represents a further turn towards the ethno-nationalist, anti-EU right, including ministers that the US has already sanctioned for corruption, as well as pro-Russian. He pointed out that Prime Minister Miloš Vučević led Serbia's Ministry of Defense last year, when it was complicit in a terrorist attack in northern Kosovo, the kidnapping of Kosovo policemen and riots against NATO-led peacekeepers. "He has already reiterated Serbia's desire for good relations with Russia and its refusal to join the EU sanctions against Moscow," the American analyst wrote. Server has accused President Aleksandar Vuçiq continues his meetings with the would-be dictators of Hungary and Azerbaijan, as well as the very real authoritarians who rule Belarus, Russia, and China. "Vuçiq he is making no secret of his ambition to extend his authority to 49% of Serb-controlled Bosnia and Herzegovina, all of Montenegro and Serb-majority northern Kosovo. Vuçiq also presided in December over a grotesquely unfair national election and a fraudulent municipal election in Belgrade, which have prompted Freedom House to continue downgrading Serbia's democracy scores," writes Serwer. He says officials in the US and Europe are prepared to tolerate and reward him Vuçiq. "Some fear that any alternative could be worse. Others do not want to admit the failure of three years of easy walking Vuçiq. Still others imagine that the crumbs he scatters in the western direction – Serbs using Kosovo license plates and identity documents – may portend improvement on larger issues. The shells and bullets that Serbia allows to reach Ukraine may affect some, although similar amounts – if not more – are likely to reach Russia. But self-deception is a big part of this story. Vuçiq has made it clear that it will not implement agreements that the US and EU consider legally binding. Belgrade has opposed Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe. This despite his qualifications and the benefits that Kosovo Serbs can have from them. Surely intelligent Americans and Europeans understand that Serbian participation in NATO exercises generates a significant intelligence flow to Russia. But doing something about Serbia's wrongdoing requires heavy political lifting. "Why accept that if no one above your pay grade objects to a 'see no evil' policy," Serwer said.