This nervousness proves the importance of communication for contemporary political regimes. Accordingly, those who control communication hope to be able to control the populace. As for the 'world,' it is wrong, evil, and anti-Serb. The siege mentality which has gripped the country since 1987, has finally claimed total victory. Serbia has started a hyperreal war both against the world, and against itself.
People are afraid.
The accuracy of US 'Tomahawks' is widely discussed, as well as the likelihood of possible casualties. Most people believe that the urban centers will be 'cruised', and official propaganda does as much as possible to support this belief. Indeed, civilian casualties would be a tremendous boost for the Serbian government's propaganda war against the rest of the world. This strange cynicism of 'relativism' provides very fertile psychological ground for the government authorities to reinforce their reign of fear. Fear in the rump Yugoslavia is a direct consequence of the wars that led to the break-up of the previous Yugoslavia.