In March, Serbian activist Aleksandar Jovanović reported that the Serbian government was poised to hand over the site of the General Staff Building in Belgrade — famously bombed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1999 — to a company headed by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Minister for Construction and Infrastructure Goran Vesić subsequently confirmed that the Serbian government had authorized him to sign a ninety-nine-year lease on the site to Affinity Partners, Kushner’s firm.

Thus, it is more than apparent that the alignment of two far-right forces — Kushner as representative of MAGA, and Aleksandar Vučić, president of Serbia currently teasing friendship with Vladimir Putin’s Russia — is not rooted in any meaningful defiance of “globalism.” Instead, the alliance seems to be about a series of multinational capitalist deals, with architecture as the result. Kushner has already circulated a series of renderings from Studio Genesis via his X/Twitter account.

The hypocrisy of both Kushner and Vučić is obvious. They are prepared to demolish the sections of the General Staff Building, also known as the Yugoslav Ministry of Defense Building, that were bombed by NATO on April 20, 1999, in response to the Serbian nationalist-led genocide in Kosovo. NATO’s bombing, supported strongly by the United States under President Bill Clinton, mostly killed civilians and arrived after a truly meaningful difference in the war could ever have come.