Montenegro has been target of attacks from the neighboring Serbia for a long time. The highest representatives and leaders of opposition parties are assisted by the media which publish texts against Montenegro every single day. According to serrbian journalist and writer, Mr Tomislav Marković, attacks on Montenegro continue where they stopped before the COVID-19 pandemic, as expected.
In a statement for CdM, Mr Marković points out that this chase has been on for years because official Serbian politics just can’t come to terms with the fact that Montenegro is an independent state.
While religious procession were popular, several tens of thousands of texts with anti-Montenegrin propaganda were published.
“Serbia keeps attacking Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo… Nationalist politics can’t come to terms with the existing borders in the Balkans and sees them as provisional and temporary. Therefore, destabilization of the region is the model of foreign policy of Serbia, which conveniently matches with Russian interests”, Mr Marković said.
Dominant nationalist narrative isn’t aimed against neighbors only, but also against citizens.
“We saw during the epidemic that anyone can become an enemy: returnees from abroad, infected persons, pensioners, pet owners… The world of nationalist paranoia is surrounded by fictitious enemies, always in the state of immediate war danger”, Mr Marković concluded.
