Serbia Announces Massive Boost to Defence Spending As Tensions With Kosovo Grow

It was a trend that was already in motion, but made much worse after Russia launched its attack on Ukraine. The Balkans is witnessing a mini arms race, where several countries are boosting their arsenals at record pace. Serbia is the latest to flex its military ambitions, announcing its largest investment ever in ammunition. Serbia's President Aleksander Vucic said the buildup is in response to US plans to sell Javelin anti-tank missiles to Kosovo. The two neighbors saw a string of violent clashes last year, with both countries fortfying their border. Adama Munu explains.
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  • @GetBuk86
    @GetBuk865 ай бұрын

    The West should never have allowed Kosovo to be conquered by the Albanians. At some point the Serbs will take their country back, no matter how long they have to wait.

  • @billybob-vy4sw

    @billybob-vy4sw

    5 ай бұрын

    They will never take back a land that is 90% Albanian grow up and move on

  • @EuroBuci

    @EuroBuci

    5 ай бұрын

    Serbs are sllavic refugees from asia

  • @dcjkl8088

    @dcjkl8088

    5 ай бұрын

    their country? its never theirs they just ruled once and claim it now they are not even native here

  • @user-xu6vx7bh4b

    @user-xu6vx7bh4b

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@user-rs4bx3yx6m One night we will come you won't be ready. This time America can't help you.

  • @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    5 ай бұрын

    Mara Brankovic 🥰 Sultan Murad 🇹🇷❤️🇷🇸🦧👉🏾👌🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

  • @Mr820121
    @Mr8201215 ай бұрын

    Since this video was made Serbia has ordered and is in the process of delivery of a division of HQ17 sam system. Has recieved Repellent EW system. Has ordered 80 Lazar 3M with 30mm turrets. 224 Milos M16 vehichles with 12.7 and 20mm turrets 12 additional Nora B52 M21 SPGs. In the process of finalizing Zastava M12 30mm and 57 mm turrets. The 57 mm will enter into serial production in the fall for the Lazanski IFV. The 30mm has already entered military testing. More and precise info will be presented on the 15 of February in Nis for Army Day. There are surprises to be presented to the public according to Vucic. 🙂🇷🇸

  • @VB-FightingSystem

    @VB-FightingSystem

    5 ай бұрын

    Nothing will happen. All this show of and marketing so sheeps like you will continue voting for him and his party, while people with brains potesting on the streets. And while the others with brains are leaving the country for a normal life in western countries..

  • @dovla2656
    @dovla26565 ай бұрын

    Doveli ovog ustasu da komentariše, mrs

  • @ivanspasov9831
    @ivanspasov98315 ай бұрын

    Serbia will return Kosovo back, salute my brothers from 🇲🇰

  • @nonenja7775

    @nonenja7775

    5 ай бұрын

    ivan

  • @orhideakusari5770

    @orhideakusari5770

    4 ай бұрын

    Are you stupid??? We are ethnic to OUR land!!!!!!!!

  • @nashbridges-cu6dy

    @nashbridges-cu6dy

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@nonenja7775nonenja 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤭🤭🤭

  • @drilonb5213

    @drilonb5213

    4 ай бұрын

    They returned and runs like rabbits 🤣

  • @nicktozie6685

    @nicktozie6685

    4 ай бұрын

    One day

  • @user-zg7bn4ly4b
    @user-zg7bn4ly4b5 ай бұрын

    Живела Небеска Непобедива Србска Армија

  • @mariadamedecoeur
    @mariadamedecoeur6 ай бұрын

    Why still wanting to integrate the EU when it's falling apart in front of everyone who wants to see it?

  • @Samaa-os7hx

    @Samaa-os7hx

    6 ай бұрын

    It's insane

  • @VB-FightingSystem

    @VB-FightingSystem

    5 ай бұрын

    How is it falling apart? It is the second largest economy in the world in nominal terms, after the United States and the third one in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, after China and the United States. The European Union's GDP estimated to be around $19.35 trillion (nominal) in 2024 representing around one sixth of the global economy. Living standards is highest in the world. There has never been a event, in history, where an empire or nation falls apart while having strong economy balanced with strong living standard. So tell me how is it falling apart?

  • @mariadamedecoeur

    @mariadamedecoeur

    5 ай бұрын

    @@VB-FightingSystem hahahahaha, you are funny

  • @CitsVariants

    @CitsVariants

    27 күн бұрын

    @@mariadamedecoeur serbia is more funny

  • @mudristefamon2338
    @mudristefamon23385 ай бұрын

    Not only is Kosovo not a state according to international law and resolution 1244, but no army may be present on Kosovo expect NATO "peackepers" until Serbia requests the fulfillment of act 4 from resolution 1244 (which it requested last year but was rejected, which should not be ) so the question arises, to whom do the Americans sell their weapons?

  • @NS-mz8gq

    @NS-mz8gq

    5 ай бұрын

    Who cares

  • @mudristefamon2338

    @mudristefamon2338

    5 ай бұрын

    @@NS-mz8gq Brother, you are not interested in anything until 2 planes crash into the building, only then will you start thinking about who you were arming.

  • @gtrdxz

    @gtrdxz

    5 ай бұрын

    @@mudristefamon2338 🤣 who said hes american, say no to Islam

  • @NS-mz8gq

    @NS-mz8gq

    5 ай бұрын

    @@mudristefamon2338 I am guessing you are a Serb and a Russian lover and you are threatening us,good luck with that

  • @user-xt3sd5kf5c

    @user-xt3sd5kf5c

    5 ай бұрын

    Kosovo is Srbian land, Macedonians like me know this all of us do, its a shame nato made us accpt it but half of the world dosent and it will never be in UN and it will never be a real country, Kosovo i Metohia is Srbija

  • @Animusche
    @Animusche5 ай бұрын

    Presenter said "between two countries" meaning on Serbia and Kosovo*. Why doesn't she respect UN and International law, Kosovo i Metohija is integral part of Serbia. Temporary occupied US protectorate, yes, but nothing more than that.

  • @milandavidovic4499
    @milandavidovic44995 ай бұрын

    F USA

  • @nonenja7775

    @nonenja7775

    5 ай бұрын

    f u m

  • @tanksandairsupport4575
    @tanksandairsupport45754 ай бұрын

    Flexing bro 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸

  • @zrnov1934
    @zrnov19345 ай бұрын

    you made a mistake in the report the 2:50 was about the baltics but Joe being Joe miss spoke.

  • @SaddamHussein-dq9bf
    @SaddamHussein-dq9bf6 ай бұрын

    Kosovo is Serbia🇷🇸

  • @glblock

    @glblock

    6 ай бұрын

    Kosovo is your mama

  • @turkish3112

    @turkish3112

    5 ай бұрын

    Kosova is 🇦🇱🇽🇰 serbia is 🇹🇷🇦🇱🇽🇰 russia is 🇺🇸🇬🇧 iraq is 🇺🇸

  • @turkish3112

    @turkish3112

    5 ай бұрын

    ​​​​​​@GeorgeFromfnafSB serbia je 🇭🇺🇦🇱🇭🇷🇹🇷🇧🇦

  • @glblock

    @glblock

    5 ай бұрын

    @GeorgeFromfnafSB s c r e w y o u

  • @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    5 ай бұрын

    Who was the wife of Sultan Murad 2nd 😜😜😜?? 🇹🇷❤️🇷🇸🦧👉🏾👌🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

  • @andrejparunovic6888
    @andrejparunovic68885 ай бұрын

    Hell yea!

  • @asus1201n
    @asus1201n6 ай бұрын

    yes and turkey sells massive weapons to serbia

  • @BOZ_11

    @BOZ_11

    6 ай бұрын

    The biggest arms exporters are USA and Russia, by far

  • @Samaa-os7hx

    @Samaa-os7hx

    6 ай бұрын

    And? So? Many countries sell weapons.

  • @BOZ_11

    @BOZ_11

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Samaa-os7hx u talking to me?

  • @Samaa-os7hx

    @Samaa-os7hx

    6 ай бұрын

    @@BOZ_11 no

  • @VB-FightingSystem

    @VB-FightingSystem

    5 ай бұрын

    Exactly. Tukey love money more than anything

  • @miroslavmitrovic6201
    @miroslavmitrovic62015 ай бұрын

    Serbia have 1244 reasons to do this. We not forgot NATO attack 1999. Where 14 serbian MIG 29 fought against 500 airplans from NATO. So if you EU dont need Serbia in EU, following legal ruls like for others, Serbia will waite... And nothing was forgotten....Finaly please find some normal indpendent military journalist...

  • @orhideakusari5770

    @orhideakusari5770

    4 ай бұрын

    Did you forget the massacres Serbs committed in Kosovo?

  • @dragan3290

    @dragan3290

    4 ай бұрын

    Did you know that an independent UN investigation revealed that there were Serbian civilians in Kosovo burnt to a crisp in mass graves?​@@orhideakusari5770

  • @nicktozie6685

    @nicktozie6685

    4 ай бұрын

    Did you forget Kosovo terrorists assaults.

  • @miroslavmitrovic6201

    @miroslavmitrovic6201

    4 ай бұрын

    No. Deeply respect for all innocents victims. Especially for shiptars victims. But. We not forgotten massacres, terrorism, kidnapped persons, organ trades, ... that the Shiptars committed in Kosovo and Metohia. And what are we we going to do now?

  • @dragan3290

    @dragan3290

    4 ай бұрын

    @orhideakusari5770 an independent UN investigation revealed that there were Serbian civilians in Kosovo burnt to a crisp in mass graves!

  • @tzoa4443
    @tzoa44435 ай бұрын

    We're gonna look at 1b for military in Serbia and ignore 800b for USA? 😂

  • @nikolalegend4868

    @nikolalegend4868

    5 ай бұрын

    Imagine needing America to fight instead of your own country 😒🇦🇱

  • @tzoa4443

    @tzoa4443

    5 ай бұрын

    @@nikolalegend4868 And you fought for us when? You bombarded us foo'... Take at leist 400 b of that military budget and put it in education, y'all obviously need it.

  • @bojangbg

    @bojangbg

    5 ай бұрын

    800b while the f35 took 750b until it had it's first flight... and btw...night Vision goggles Cost 40.000 each... China has the same for 900 each. the spendings dont portrait the real picture of your force. dont forget that serbia has its own arms industry...

  • @nikolalegend4868

    @nikolalegend4868

    4 ай бұрын

    @@tzoa4443 my bad brate I thought you were some shiptar saying that America has a higher military budget than Serbia sorry for the friendly fire

  • @johnwayne781
    @johnwayne7813 ай бұрын

    We are not neighbors, Kosovo is Serbia!!!

  • @adrianuk8102
    @adrianuk81024 ай бұрын

    Greetings to the Republic of Kosovo, 😃 🇬🇧 🇽🇰

  • @latviabalkanumuzika1514
    @latviabalkanumuzika15145 ай бұрын

    Support to Kosovo 🇦🇱 Pērshēndtje nga Letonia 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻

  • @Gman095

    @Gman095

    5 ай бұрын

    Some albanian drug dealer f**cked you in Munich and now you love them 😂

  • @VasiliusPapadulis1

    @VasiliusPapadulis1

    4 ай бұрын

    lol latvia is russia

  • @latviabalkanumuzika1514

    @latviabalkanumuzika1514

    4 ай бұрын

    @@VasiliusPapadulis1 Latvija 🇱🇻🇱🇻 ir neatkarīga valsts, bet Kipra ir Turcija 🇹🇷

  • @VasiliusPapadulis1

    @VasiliusPapadulis1

    4 ай бұрын

    hypocrite, you just exposed yourself@@latviabalkanumuzika1514

  • @cinoeye

    @cinoeye

    4 ай бұрын

    Latvia is Russia:)

  • @dragan3290
    @dragan32904 ай бұрын

    Serbia imported so much fire-power from Russia how much more do they need? 😆

  • @kosovokosovo479
    @kosovokosovo4793 ай бұрын

    Koliko sam čeznuo za novim ratom sa Srbima, da plate za ono što su nam učinili.

  • @gggfga

    @gggfga

    3 ай бұрын

    Ускоро, ускоро😉

  • @Samaa-os7hx
    @Samaa-os7hx6 ай бұрын

    US needs to get out of Kosovo, and Kosovo must be returned to Serbia, everything else you talk about is bs.

  • @glblock

    @glblock

    6 ай бұрын

    In your granny’s dreams

  • @Samaa-os7hx

    @Samaa-os7hx

    6 ай бұрын

    @@glblock grannies passed away some sixy years ago.

  • @petritzeka

    @petritzeka

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Samaa-os7hx Kosovo (Dardania) was inhabited a long time before the south slavs even took a step into the balkan peninsula. Illyria !

  • @Samaa-os7hx

    @Samaa-os7hx

    6 ай бұрын

    @@petritzeka still belongs to Serbia and should eject the largest US military base in Europe from occupying its territory.

  • @albanianunion7615

    @albanianunion7615

    6 ай бұрын

    Why don't you become politician if you think you're so smart

  • @jozefbisak4398
    @jozefbisak43985 ай бұрын

    Kosovo is not country is part of serbia

  • @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    5 ай бұрын

    And just like Israel, Kosovo also exists 🤗

  • @orhideakusari5770

    @orhideakusari5770

    4 ай бұрын

    Kosovo is definitely a country 🇽🇰🇽🇰🇽🇰🇽🇰 recognized by a lot of countries

  • @dragon2695
    @dragon26955 ай бұрын

    Turkey didn't succeed to convert Serbia under Ottomans . They didn't give up yet. Attaching from Albania and Bosnia. Terrible

  • @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    5 ай бұрын

    That’s because Serbs gave sultans their women for harem 🇹🇷❤️🇷🇸🦧👉🏾👌🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾. Mara Brankovic 😜

  • @dragon2695

    @dragon2695

    5 ай бұрын

    @@user-irj1nxa3cof2z I understood that Mara was the real boss there.

  • @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    5 ай бұрын

    @@dragon2695 The boss of HAREM 🇹🇷❤️🇷🇸🦧👉🏾👌🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

  • @nashbridges-cu6dy

    @nashbridges-cu6dy

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@user-rs4bx3yx6mserbs stayed what they are, serbs stayed christians, converted serbs or turks serbs, are nowdays bosnians.. also albanians became turks too by converting to islam. Serbs are good guys at Balkan others are just anti-serbs.

  • @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    5 ай бұрын

    Serbs are a product of Turkish Harem 🇹🇷❤️🇷🇸🦧👉🏾👌🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

  • @Enriki11
    @Enriki113 ай бұрын

    ivan shut up!!

  • @eisernes-regiment
    @eisernes-regiment5 ай бұрын

    Kosovo is serbia!

  • @user-ol7yi4lk5t
    @user-ol7yi4lk5t5 ай бұрын

    Kosovo is Serbia

  • @djehankidd4128
    @djehankidd41286 ай бұрын

    OMG if USA walks away we might lose a muslim country in the middle of christian Europe? OMG this is unacceptable we need more Islam in Europe.

  • @mudristefamon2338

    @mudristefamon2338

    5 ай бұрын

    What's worse, the Albanians will no longer have two states, but only one, that must not be allowed!!!!

  • @djehankidd4128

    @djehankidd4128

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@mudristefamon2338 Albania must have the weakest submissive men on the continent, pretty much the only ones who submitted to an invasion of Islam.

  • @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    5 ай бұрын

    Who was the wife of Sultan Murad 2nd?? 🥰🥰🥰 🇹🇷❤️🇷🇸🦧👉🏾👌🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

  • @orhideakusari5770

    @orhideakusari5770

    4 ай бұрын

    Shut your mouth it’s not about Muslims there are many Catholics in Kosovo and Kosovo is our land

  • @ZlatnaHordaGT
    @ZlatnaHordaGT3 ай бұрын

    Nije nikakav problem, znam ja i bez vase USA - NATO propagande da ce da bude rata, samo sto cemo sada da igramo drugo poluvreme, i pravda ce biti zadovoljena. Slava Rusiji.

  • @user-xt3sd5kf5c
    @user-xt3sd5kf5c5 ай бұрын

    Hello from Macedonia Kosovo is not a country its an open air zoo pretending to be a country, its not in NATO its not in EU but worst of all its not in the UN, you cant call yourself a country if your not in the United Nations, its like calling your self a doctor but without going to doctor school, North Korea is there but kosovo is not

  • @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    5 ай бұрын

    Avarage Slav coping

  • @VasiliusPapadulis1

    @VasiliusPapadulis1

    4 ай бұрын

    learn english@@user-irj1nxa3cof2z

  • @pedjaalbijanic7259
    @pedjaalbijanic72594 ай бұрын

    Alaj lažete. Op TRT gevezn zajn. 😂

  • @user-wb3cn7fb9b
    @user-wb3cn7fb9b5 ай бұрын

    Well obviously when Turks & US are arming the Albanians in southern Serbia.

  • @Gmmmw13
    @Gmmmw135 ай бұрын

    Kosovo is serbia

  • @highnizam
    @highnizam6 ай бұрын

    🤑🤑🤑

  • @xzxxx-km4vy
    @xzxxx-km4vy6 ай бұрын

    My dad is a war criminal, you should try to convict him No one has the balls to take him to court Moj je tata zločinac iz rata!

  • @svetlanaradosavljevic2328
    @svetlanaradosavljevic23285 ай бұрын

    kosovo je srpsko

  • @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    @user-irj1nxa3cof2z

    5 ай бұрын

    Who was the wife of Sultan Murad 2nd 😜😜😜 ?? 🇹🇷❤️🇷🇸🦧👉🏾👌🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

  • @dragan3290

    @dragan3290

    4 ай бұрын

    Kosovo če uvek biti Srpsko!

  • @VasiliusPapadulis1

    @VasiliusPapadulis1

    4 ай бұрын

    lol seljuk go back to mongolia@@user-irj1nxa3cof2z

  • @goransukovic8703
    @goransukovic87035 ай бұрын

    Serbia will take Kosovo back. Montenegro will join . Macedonia as well. Republic Srpska in BiH , as well. Than, we shall see with what part of coast Croatia will pay Serbia for peace. Just sit and watch.

  • @gimmi547

    @gimmi547

    5 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @goransukovic8703

    @goransukovic8703

    5 ай бұрын

    @@gimmi547 ah, forgot that temporary peace of crap " Albania ". That, too.

  • @orhideakusari5770

    @orhideakusari5770

    4 ай бұрын

    You guys are just dumb why do you want a country that was never yours?????? It’s always been ours

  • @Tyrach.

    @Tyrach.

    2 ай бұрын

    Lol sit and dream on, serb!tch

  • @coconutcrab03
    @coconutcrab034 ай бұрын

    Serbia will never be able to capture Kosovo and Albanians again, and if they try, they will pay like 25 years ago 🇱🇹🇽🇰🇱🇹🇽🇰🇱🇹🇽🇰🇱🇹🇽🇰 Shqiptar 💪💪💪

  • @izil1fe
    @izil1fe5 ай бұрын

    Kosovo is not a country.

  • @orhideakusari5770

    @orhideakusari5770

    4 ай бұрын

    It is 🇽🇰🇽🇰🇽🇰🇽🇰🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

  • @VasiliusPapadulis1

    @VasiliusPapadulis1

    4 ай бұрын

    history and geopolitics would like to disagree@@orhideakusari5770

  • @PajaPatak_
    @PajaPatak_4 ай бұрын

    Kosovo is Serbia 🇷🇸

  • @mitchzec9007
    @mitchzec90072 ай бұрын

    Kosovo will always be a part of Serbia always was...

  • @billybob-vy4sw
    @billybob-vy4sw6 ай бұрын

    Serbia was always a threat to stability in the Balkans.

  • @bgdabg6769

    @bgdabg6769

    6 ай бұрын

    Serbia treath? Funny statement 😂😂😂😂

  • @Samaa-os7hx

    @Samaa-os7hx

    6 ай бұрын

    Nonsense

  • @BOZ_11

    @BOZ_11

    6 ай бұрын

    @@bgdabg6769 it's true. The Serbians started WWI (the black hand terror group murdering Archduke Franz Ferdinand) and committed the Bosnian genocide in the 90s (Slobodan Milosevic). If Israelis were Slavs, they'd be Serbian (ironically, the Israelis are more Slav than J3w)

  • @bgdabg6769

    @bgdabg6769

    6 ай бұрын

    @@BOZ_11 That's just stupid. They've murdered invader. What Bosnian genocides they committed when Serbs are Bosnians. Apparently you believe everything you hear but what would your definition of genocide would be? Serbs are rear bright spot of todays Europe and their contribution to human kind is tremendous. You must be very confused

  • @bgdabg6769

    @bgdabg6769

    6 ай бұрын

    @@BOZ_11 Bosnian guy killed occupant of Bosnia... There can't be much things in this world to be more honourable than that. Anyway, that didn't started ww1. You know literarily nothing about it

  • @citizen_adamus
    @citizen_adamus3 ай бұрын

    Kosovo is n ot a country. its a region in Serbia currently occupied by nato.

  • @sandornyari4148
    @sandornyari41485 ай бұрын

    ☝️🇦🇱 kosovo newer serbia ⚠️

  • @user-xt3sd5kf5c

    @user-xt3sd5kf5c

    5 ай бұрын

    Kosovo always srbia

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