By Andrej Nikolaidis, CdM columnist
Sometimes it seems that there is no history here – certainly not history that anyone remembers. This country is Groundhog Day: when you wake up, it’s as if nothing happened before that morning.
That is why it is possible that the man who gave a foreign country graves, churches, monasteries, and, for God’s sake, beautiful plots on the first line of the sea, today shouts: we will not give the beach. That is why it is possible that the man who first offered the same beach will not give the beach to the man who would now build hotels there.
That is why it is possible that the man who was a minister in the government that incited the masses to “liberate” the hotel beach in Budva, now as prime minister, advocates hotel beaches in Ulcinj. Populism is great, until it starts working against you, huh? The story that Milo is going to build coffee shops in churches leads you to vast, but you are bothered by the story that Alabbar is going to change the ethnic image of Ulcinj. We Won’t Give Up Sanctuaries, is great, but We Won’t Give Up Sanctuaries 2.0 really gets on your nerves: a man banging his fist on the forehead.
That is why it is possible that the Parliament Speaker, who was against every DPS investment, including, of course, Porto Montenegro, expresses regret not only for the political, but also for the economic divisions in which he participated, and now supports Porto and Alabbar.
That is why it is possible that the DPS, which promoted Trigranit’s megahotels at Long Beach, and also the construction on Saltworks, will be against the hotel on Long Beach.
That is why it is possible that the external support of religious processions, heroines of the resistance who recognized the “emancipatory potential of the SPC”, keeps the bank in the defense of the beach. They brought these new ones to power, even though we all knew what that meant – disaster. Now they explain to us that the new government is like a priest’s hero: bad, miserable. They brought them to power, helped to cement that power, in fact arm it, spat on us who warned about what was going to happen, and now they want to play opposition to their own wrongdoing. They played a bit of Doctor Frankenstein: they created a monster, brought it to life, and here they are now with torches in hand, leading the nighttime pursuit of the monster.
Who in the statement for N1 had a positive view of the political role of the SPC? Who said: “In the end, they came out so strongly on the political scene and somehow for the first time shook the thirty-year rule and undisputed position of the leader of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic”? Heroine of Resistance: Although not of resistance to religious processions.
There is more: “However, there were statements that angered a part of the Montenegrins and were not well received by the national minorities.
“During the war in Bosnia, around those difficult days of the 1990s, when there were major disagreements between Amfilohije Radovic and, so to speak, anti-war Montenegro.” There were harsh statements when it comes to the Montenegrin nation, the Montenegrin state, but it seems that all that has been forgotten these days.”
Here, if you didn’t know: if there were any disagreements with Amfilohije, “all that is forgotten these days” because he overthrew Milo.
Just because everything is being forgotten here, it is possible that the person who urged the religious-procession-government to be constituted as soon as possible is now leading the criticism of that religious-procession-government. Here: https://mina.news/vijesti-iz-crne-gore/tadic-mijovic-politicki-dijalog-voditi-u-institucijama-sistema/
There is no one in this country who does not know that the new Montenegrin government was installed by Belgrade. And if you asked the white wethers, while they were coming down K\the omovi, they would tell you that Belgrade is pulling the strings here. But our heroine of the resistance stoically minimised Serbia’s control over the government, in the installation of which she participated with her own hands. This is how we find out:
Asked to comment on the influence of official Belgrade on the negotiations, she said that other centers also play a role.
“We can’t talk only about the influence of Belgrade, there are many different factors influencing here. Although the influence of Belgrade is the most visible”.
And not only that: “According to her words, DPS propaganda usually takes a negative view of Belgrade’s interference”. No, we should all look favorably on that together. And give them a hand, she said.
There’s more. “She assessed that it is most important to concentrate on the issues and tasks that Brussels has set, since Montenegro is in the process of European integration. And not on the tasks that Belgrade, Tirana, or Sarajevo would set here.”
Our heroine was doing work for Serbia when she equated the interference of Belgrade, which was destroying Montenegro, with the influence of Tirana and the alleged interference of the unfortunate Sarajevo. Yes, we were completely fucked by Sarajevo. It was not Sarajevo that interfered in the affairs of Montenegro, but the other way around – reservists from Montenegro slaughtered and set fire to Bosnia, which was aggressed by the country of which Montenegro was a part. From which it would not even have come out, if the aggression had succeeded.
Who better than our heroine of the resistance, an expert on the question “why the influence of Belgrade is not quite as malignant as that of the DPS”, could today suppress the malignant influence of the Emirates?
But: let’s continue… That’s why it is here, and only here, that parties sitting in the government can lead anti-government protests. How to understand it: as self-criticism? If you think the government is making disastrous decisions, wouldn’t the first and most basic move be to leave that government? Or, at least, to blink twice, so that we know that the government is holding you by force, as hostages.
In an atmosphere of universal hypocrisy, in which no one acts for selfish reasons, but only for lofty reasons, nationalists who are unable to hide their chauvinism act refreshingly: for example, the one who sees the hotels on Long Beach as a barrier to the creation of Greater Albania. That reason – “let there be a black Devil, just let it not be Albanian” – is, if nothing else, The Devil We Know – the Devil we know well. But everything, as I said, is forgotten: everything is forgotten.
(Columnists’ opinions and views are not necessarily those of the CdM editorial staff)
