The Student List movement began after the collapse of a canopy on a public building project in 2024. It is described as a "leaderless movement" aimed at getting rid of Vucic who was blamed for presiding over corruption in these public projects. By the same standard FFG could be overthrown by a similar movement in Ireland due to the National Children's Hospital fiasco or the funnelling of billions to cronies through IPAS or other public contracts but this will never happen. And Why? Because they are in alignment with the Atlanticist ruling establishment and Vucic, whatever his faults and failings, was a problem for them. That is the only reason the Student List movement was allowed to gain momentum and it is the only reason that every Atlanticist is celebrating this victory today.

Leftists will insist that Soros is simply a bogey man for the right wing whilst declaring that other billionaires like Musk are controlling politics through their money. The root of this error is found in late nineteenth and early twentieth century definitions of imperialism as a political takeover of government by private capital interests. The problem with this thesis is that it ignores the role of institutions and the pursuit of geopolitical objectives outside of personal enrichment. Even the actions of nineteenth century imperialists were as much ideological and geopolitical as the were economic. Some anti-imperialists such as Leonard Woolf came to recognise this later in life. When leftists insist that Soros and his father are merely bogey men it ignores the context of their philanthropy and their membership of a Western ruling class with objectives beyond economics that stretches across many categories of institution. They are working towards goals that are not fully comprehendible through the narrow lenses that most Western critics have been trained to consider history and politics.