As it struggles to manage the coronavirus crisis, the White House has begun casting around for policy
victories that could fortify President Trump’s re-election chances. It has set its sights on a corner of the world that
hasn’t topped American news cycles in some two decades—and which, if Trump has
his way, may yet break down into the kind of nationalistic bloodshed that
defined the region in the 1990s.Earlier this month, Serbian President
Aleksandar Vucic—an ultranationalist former propaganda minister in Slobodan Milosevic’s regime—swung through Washington, where he glad-handed with several
of the leading sleazy figures in Trump’s orbit. Vucic’s
Instagram feed showed the Serbian strong-man meeting with …read more
Source:: The New Republic
