Look at Đukanović and Vučić, all those pirouettes and raptures. Their states are sinking - they are increasingly visible. Usually, the more visible the politicians, the more invisible the institutions. But that dance won't stop...
There is something of the spirit of the original tango. I wrote somewhere before, maybe in this very place, about the beginnings of tango. My information is, of course, primarily Borgesian: "Evaristo Kariego". I remind you, due to the "chronic lack" of women in Argentina at that time, in the nightlife of Buenos Aires in the XNUMXs and XNUMXs, you couldn't even meet a woman. Tango was created as a dance between two men, that's why the movements are so abrupt, in the original version and vulgar, and this dance often ended with a duel. It was almost an introduction to the duel, a prelude to the final showdown. Then the crystal talent of Carlos Gardel made that game a world sensation - around the nineteen hundred, Europe went crazy for Argentine dance, one of whose "ambassadors" Rudolf Valentino would become, with the film version of the fatal game.
Tango is an association with a public game, some would say, a dance party, behind which these two players can be smiling and satisfied. And as much as their dance - like any dance - is deceptive, some things are all too real. This tango is not devoid of profanity either, but there will certainly be no duels.
Relations between Montenegro and Serbia are at an unworthy low level.
It is increasingly difficult for any sane, normal word to break through the bottomless media dump. Can it happen that a normal person in Serbia believes that the position of Serbs here is worse than in NDH, and the position of the Serbian Church is such that they remember the Ottomans with nostalgia? When such things are said even by a patriarch, whatever he may be, then do not be surprised by those who have less opportunity to know.
On the occasion of the breakup of Yugoslavia, one of the essential objections to Josip Broz was that he did not create a democratic Yugoslavia, that is, ideology, with a limited term, was the only binder of Tito's SFRY. A conquered democracy would certainly preserve some form of the great Yugoslavia. These considerations are interesting in the light of Djukanović's historical choice that democracy is not the most important thing in independent Montenegro. That's a dangerous assessment. Such a state is weak and resistant to historical upheavals. It is unusual that Đukanović, who is a distinct pragmatist, does not understand the fundamental problem we are talking about. Or he belongs to those statesmen who sincerely believe that democracy is good, but that it is not for everyone.
They like to mention Tito, both of them, but...
And then you remember some of those photos, from those parties of theirs, there is one where the two of them, Dju and Vu, are sitting with some rich/problematic Palestinian. They look like two high school students, overgrown... And it's far from that. It's just a look.
When they are alone, without cameras, do they smile sweetly, at all of us? What does that look like? I don't believe that it really goes into details, in the style of: Give it to the bishop, brother, to make a little story, you understand. Or, God forbid: Give some peasant talk in the media, that CG NDH, Turks, can you talk me out... It definitely seems that they understand each other perfectly.
And the more fundamentally they understand each other, the more quarreled Montenegro and Serbia become.
Pretending instead of politics. Balkan tango.
After Vučić's great rants about the pandemic, he is definitely happy to return to classical registers. A precocious lament. National, first of all.
I think Vučić keeps Milo's poster in his room. As he once held Nikola Pašić. Đukanović's experience (model of governance) is a key ingredient in the famous transformation of Alexander V. "I want to rule forever like Milo", Vučić wished, and Serbia got a "new Tito".
Both tango players, in the end, received a valuable gift - "Stalin for personal use", with which they will scare/mobilize their followers just like Broz after 48.
This tango will last.
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