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What about Donald Trump? “We had a very good relationship,” Vučić said, recalling a long evening he spent conferring with the former U.S. president’s national security adviser and other officials in the White House. “It was not always easy, but those people were very diligent, very dedicated, hardworking people.”
So who does he want to see in the White House next? “I do have some preferences, but I don’t speak about it loudly,” said Vučić, adding that he’d only met Vice President Kamala Harris once “for two minutes.”
‘Me, a Russian puppet?’
What’s remarkable is that the Serb has managed to woo the most powerful men in the world (and at least one woman: former Chancellor Angela Merkel was also a fan), not by rolling over, but by playing hard to get, a tactic that appears to have made the nearly 2-meter-tall nationalist even more attractive to his suitors.
Consider his position on Russia, a country with which Serbia has deep historic and cultural ties. Even as Vučić maintains Serbia is committed to joining the EU, he has steadfastly refused to join the bloc in imposing sanctions on Moscow for invading Ukraine. At the same time, Vučić has been willing to sell ammunition to Western countries, knowing full well that they turn around and ship the supplies to Ukraine.
That may explain why suggestions by his European counterparts that he’s in Putin’s pocket enrage him.
“They were saying he’s a Russian puppet, he’s a Russian agent,” recalled Vučić, who says he has met the Russian leader about 20 times and knows him “quite well.”
