I've been to Greece 10 times, and as he said, it basically isn't any different compared to Italy or Spain in terms of being an American lapdog. It has some commercial interests with China, but many EU countries have it too.
The best friend of China in Europe is Serbia without a doubt, and then Hungary, which is also the best friend within the EU. I'm excluding Belarus, I count that as a part of Russia itself already.
The problem is that both Hungary and we are landlocked by 100% pro-US countries. The rest of the West Balkans excluding 49% of the Serb-controlled territory of Bosnia is also the same - not any better (and also in NATO).
Serbs also used to control Montenegro (Mediterranean access) but basically CIA crept up slowly since around two decades ago and the rest is self-explanatory (they made their number one priority to prevent Serbia from having access to the sea, you know why):
Achieving Montenegrin independence formally in 2006, mass brainwashing the entire population with funding NGOs, media control, political party control, intelligence operations, threats, etc.
Still continuing everything mentioned from then to this day. They even managed to throw it in NATO in 2017 despite no referendum being held and a majority of the population being against it at that time.
They are fully occupied 100%, and the politicians there behave like some US hostages. And not just through fear, they certainly have more money to spend there for influence than Serbia to pay all those foreign pro-West agents there.
To be honest, that was already more than 2 decades of development that now can't be washed away in Montenegro anymore. They developed a distinct ethnic identity despite historically, culturally, linguistically, and ethnically always considered to be Serbs in the past.
I think that there is no possibility of Montenegro leaving NATO or becoming fully Serb-controlled, or pro-Russian again soon (they were heavily pro-Russian during history, just like the rest of Serbs), but there have been some positive developments for local Serb interest at least recently.
The previous fascist regime toward Serbs that led to soft genocide against Serbs since 2006 was now replaced with new, milder toward Serbs, but still pro-Western, series of mini-regimes since the 2020 protests (that also include some Serb parties in gov. for the first time since 2006).
There was just a new population census done at the end of 2023 and is expected to be positive for us once official results come out, here are broad estimates. Serb population around 35-40%, Serbian-speaking population around 51%. Serbian Orthodox Church members are also 2/3.
