You are reading a daily contextual review of the news that marked the previous weekend.
By Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM observer
Andrej Nikolaidis swallowed tear gas on the streets of Cetinje yesterday morning, and when it became clear in the afternoon, he wrote “Landing in Cetinje: Go and See” – one of his best columns ever.
I am in Zagreb at the Zagreb Security Forum, where the world’s intelligence and security elite have gathered. Before 150 security people from 30 countries, I presented the results of my two-year research and evidence of the interfering of Russia and Serbia, and offered an explanation why yesterday was the culmination of the hybrid warfare to which we have been exposed for a long time. The Church of Serbia is an extended arm of the Church of Russia and the Kremlin. Their actions in Montenegro are not aimed at peace. They want chaos in Montenegro and they want to subdue it. At the same time, I am trying to present to Croatian officials and the media what is really happening in Montenegro, because here Patriarch Porfirije did an incredible diplomatic job and convinced a good part of the Croatian public that some new winds are blowing through the Church of Serbia.
It is obvious that they are bothered by what we are doing, we who do not agree to sweep under the carpet the fact that Montenegro is under occupation, so I see that some government officials are threatening to arrest me, and those structures have already sent someone to follow me in Zagreb, take photos and publishes on troll pages. Fortunately, the people who took the photos and threatened with them were videotaped, and work is already underway to identify them.
Yesterday’s landing in Cetinje is proof that there are no new winds. Just because they are retreating where they are not currently allowed to show their true militant face, does not mean that they cannot behave aggressively where they have been strengthened. And they strengthened in Montenegro.
By acting yesterday, the Montenegrin police deserved to be viewed in the same way as the Serbian gendarmes of the 1920s. That is the level of attitude towards Montenegrins. The smiles of a certain Petar Knezevic from the special police unit while sitting next to the shameful Serbian forcibly-enthroned Metropolitan Joanikije, are proof of the complete obedience of the new government to the interests of Serbia. Yesterday, these people escorted Porfirije and Joanikije to the Monastery under a Kevlar blanket from a helicopter, where Joanikije was falsely enthroned in the presence of people, some of them in camouflage uniforms with Serbian flags.
People had been gathering in Cetinje for several days, and on Saturday they broke through the police cordon and made a blockade at the entrance to Cetinje. They stayed there all night. There were women in the front rows. In the morning, the shameful prime minister justified the use of force with shameful lies about a thrown Molotov cocktail. Later, the even more embarrassing Dritan Abazovic placed lies on Vijesti TV to prove that the story about the thrown Molotov cocktail was true. The same Dritan Abazovic brags that he supported the enthronement of Joanikije.
A little later, the police broke down the barricades, smashed the cars of the people of Cetinje with excavators and poisoned the people of Cetinje with a huge amount of tear gas, which is suspected to have expired 30 years ago. Empty and worn tear gas canisters, which they failed to pick up and hide, because they did it contrary to the rules, had the date of production in 1990 on them. Paradoxically, it was produced in the years when the Cetinje Monastery was occupied by Arkan’s tigers.
Montenegro is in a hybrid war with Serbia and Russia, and Marko Milacic is sitting in the situation room, that is, the crisis headquarters with the Prime Minister, the National Security Agency (ANB) is headed by a Serbian man, while Milan Knezevic is in the National Security Council. Pretty easy for a smart one to figure this all out.
Montenegro is under occupation, that should be clear to everyone. Especially to our neighbors. Because when a neighbor’s house is on fire, then one should come to the rescue, not only because of solidarity but also because of the rational fear that the fire might spread to their house. The fire should be extinguished and then the arsonist should be found and punished. And the serial perpetrator is the same and well known to all our neighbors.
Thank you for your attention. See you tomorrow at the same time, in the same place.
