The Balkans is an area of unlimited possibilities. No information is reliable, every action lasts at least a week longer and costs fifty pounds more, no matter how diligently planned.
This was written by the English novelist Graham Greene, who worked briefly in the Balkans for MI6 before the very beginning of World War II. Two recent examples confirm that Green is in the right place - the recent interview of the president of DPS and Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, and the latest developments in the "coup d'etat" case.
Tamara Nikčević, who is still a journalist, awkwardly asks Đukanović "what force is behind the protest" and "who are the ones running the affair" as he said several times before.
Đukanović first finds domestic enemies. These are, of course, "leaders of certain media and NGOs" who "animate the opposition".
Then he looks for something external and asks a rhetorical question - do you believe that the idea of large-state projects is dead in the Balkans, and he literally answers "that we have received a clear message" to that question with the idea of correcting borders according to ethnic criteria. It reminds of the napkins on which borders in the Balkans, monoethnic states and Dobrica Ćosić were drawn at the beginning of the 90s, so that Nikčević stated that "it is a novelty that now some Western countries are behind it".
"We are returning to those disastrous, retrograde ideas from the 90s... Today, this idea, slightly modified, is accepted in certain international centers," Đukanović concludes. This is followed by criticism of Europe, populist and neo-fascist movements, although his host in the European Parliament was Antonio Tajani, who just a few days ago praised Benito Mussolini, and he is also close to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose party he wants to expel part of the European of the people.
In short, Đukanović defends Western values from the West.
Now let's go a little further east.
In retrospect of the relationship between the authorities of Serbia and Montenegro, one should first note the end of one and the entry into a new ice age. It all started with the sudden appearance of Tomislav Nikolić in the DPS headquarters in 2011, which represented indirect support for the upcoming elections in Serbia and Đukanović's call to Serbs, in 2013, from Tom's kanabe, to enter the Government of Montenegro. It ends with the assessment of the head of the DPS from December last year that there is a tightening of Serbia's relations with its neighbors, including Montenegro, and the patriotic urgency of the Minister of Culture Aleksandar Bogdanović to the AEM to react because TV Happy and TV Pink are touching the president and Montenegro.
Meanwhile, relations between Serbia and Montenegro and their two rulers are flourishing, never better in the last two decades, even though Serbia is a safe house for the Marovićs. Or, despite the fact that Serbia allegedly released two key operatives of the GRU to carry out a coup in Montenegro after the visit to Belgrade of the head of all Russian services, Nikolay Petrushev, on October 26, 2016. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić first bit his tongue on October 16 of the same year not to say what he thinks about the coup d'état and then just a week later he would untie and mostly confirm the version of the "coup" by SDT Milivoj Katnić, DPS and the media staff, including the revolving media that are now charging interest - TV Pink and TV Happy .
Then, at a press conference on October 24, after a meeting with the heads of all his services, Vučić said two very important things: "The good news is that in everything we did not come across the involvement of any politician from Serbia, nor from Montenegro" and they who were arrested in Montenegro "were not organized to do the most serious crimes, that's bashibozuk".
And now the witness Saša or Aleksandar Sinđelić says the same thing. First at Milomir Marić's, and then also on the recording that the defense lawyers are waiting for the court to have obtained in accordance with the law - all this was good for you before the Serbian BIA, and now this is not good for you. Another important detail should be added to this puzzle. RTS cameras are in London where they are interviewing Duško Knežević. For such a thing, RTS had to be approved by its editor-in-chief - Vučić.
Two shots from Vučić below the waist to Đukanović.
Now let's sublimate these two stories.
In the interview, Đukanović puts forward the thesis that some larger Balkan country - let's say Serbia or maybe Albania - has the support of some international center - let's say the USA, possibly London or Brussels - for the correction of the borders in the Balkans, while the protesters were naively caught "in that ambush".
Now we are no longer defending ourselves against the Russians, but against some Western center. And Đukanović is again the only pillar of the defense of Montenegro. And visionary predicts the collapse of all the postulates on which NATO and the EU are based, from the inviolability of member borders to all contractual obligations.
During that time, Slavoljub Migo Stijepović is still covering the functions of the General Secretary of the President of the State and a member of the DPS Presidency, Katnić cannot plant any kind of investigation about the first formal million, while Đukanović clumsily explains the connection with the obscenely expensive villa or why he opened an offshore company with hidden ownership in Cyprus.
If we really have to mess with the big ones in our little Balkan stories, I would, however, put things in the following way - some international centers, the Trump administration, maybe Britain or the EU, are working to replace Đukanović.
And he seems to know it.
As, it seems, he also knows that Vučić, with the profile of a successful political parricide, in a complicated situation for himself because of Kosovo, is now offering himself to Western centers. In principle - I can be to Milo what Milo was to Slobo.
Only Vučić cannot say that Đukanović is a superior politician. Both are expiring.
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