For unionists, Milo is an Ustasha, and for sovereignists, Mandić is a Chetnik. For the former, Milo is an American mercenary, and for the latter, Mandić is Vučić's puppet. In the latest editions of his fans, Milo is a comita and Mandić is a duke. The non-aligned or third, civil group that sees Montenegro in the West, as a democratic, just and rich country, with a zero rate of corruption and crime, perceives both Milo and Mandić as ghosts of the past, whom they would rather meet in nightmarish dreams than in political and social reality. .
Both are based on the AB revolution and the politics of crime that destroyed a country and gave birth to a value system that continues to this day, surviving all their political changes and twists. Public lynching of dissidents, abuse of the media and institutions, false patriotism and kitsch, divisions and strife, are just some of the attributes of social reality that neither the Hague Tribunal, nor the war with the NATO alliance, nor the independence of Kosovo, nor the referendum, nor European integration, nor their brotherhood with Vučić.
Until today, Milo and Mandić, DPS and DF, have been the best partners who feed each other with hatred, cursing, stones, cursing, lies and innuendos, which they direct more often to the common enemy, the polite and civil part of society, than they exchange them. between themselves. If instead of Krivokapić's mandate, Jesus Christ himself, and in the place of the 12 ministers of all 12 New Testament apostles, Milo and Mandić, DPS and DF, their MPs, spokespersons, tabloids and bots, would be ready to jump on them immediately and throw them into the jaws of the lowest passions from which then give birth to various conspiracy theories about suspicious persons and foreign mercenaries working for the head of their people.
For both Milo and Mandić, there are Montenegrins and there are Serbs - for the former they are two ethnically different groups, for the latter one and the same. They are so concerned about the calculation on this issue that Milo would gladly make the Serbs a national minority, while Mandić would return the Montenegrins to Đilas "who invented them". Both of them identified their fate with the fate of the people in whose name they speak, without asking the subjects how they are doing under their leadership. Even though the first acts in the name of Montenegrins and the second in the name of Serbs, even though Milo is wrapped in a red flag and Mandić in a tricolor, even though the first scares us with Bidon and the second with Pipun, there is something that unites them - the defense of the state and the nation. That, obviously, is their profession, not their mission.
Who still remembers Milo Đukanović who, after three lost wars and after one visit to Washington, in March 1997, concluded that Milosevic was an outmatched politician. That he would announce it publicly upon his return to the country. This is how we met the split of DPS as the most significant democratic event in Montenegro after the introduction of multi-party system. Overnight, Milo changed hair and started protecting minorities, promoting regional cooperation and advocating Euro-Atlantic integration. They will betray Milošević, and thus Mandić, later Putin, and finally Sveta Marović.
Mandic almost followed in his footsteps. As a real politician, after the referendum, he estimated that Montenegrins or Serbs who voted NO in May 2006 needed new and modern leadership. He even advocated that the national designation be removed from the name of the party and that it be simply called New Democracy. Mandić knew then that he should go to the American embassy and confide in them that he could not support Montenegro's accession to NATO because of its membership, but that he would not start a revolution over it. When he decided to call Miodrag Lekić and offer him the presidential candidacy, his current boss Aleksandar Vučić realized that the devil had played a joke. So he also followed in Mandić's footsteps - to Europe. Which meant parting ways with Seselj. But when Mandić failed to defeat Milo on the wave of awakened Europeanism, when America stood behind the stolen elections and the false president Vujanović, the DF leader gave up. He betrayed the West, Lekić, reconciliation, another Montenegro and returned to the nineties. What Milo was most happy about. While in Serbia Đukanović pushed Vučić with his hat and fist, and eventually brought him to power, and that on the platform of pro-European and pro-Western Serbia, here he made Mandić into Šešelj, a scarecrow with which he will defend his private and corrupt state.
Milo and Mandić are brothers according to Vučić. Alexander of Serbia played both of them. Milo turned from a humble servant into a rude and powerful neighbor, a celebrant after the election on August 30, and Mandić, from a jailer for the alleged coup d'état, became a ruthless master and commander in the process of forming a new government. Both leaders, Milo and Mandic, now depend on Vučić - the former resists it, the latter enjoys it. AV will not overthrow the new government because that would be helping Milo, but he will keep it unstable until the moment when Ipsos informs him that his puppets with Mandić at the head have a majority. If that ever happens. On the other hand, Milo will be powerless, from the position of Queen of England and without formal authority, to resist such a scenario, especially if he decides to formally or informally lead the DPS. Which seems certain considering that "patriotic" enthusiasm does not leave the politics of that party.
It turns out that Montenegro could become a normal and prosperous country only when it gets a different DPS and DF. With this kind of leadership, the state is held hostage by the two parties that currently have the most representatives in the Parliament. That's why Milo and Mandic feed off each other so terribly. And they don't give up. Because they know that by withdrawing they would lose their personal privileges, fearing both imprisonment and oblivion. Instead of patriotically retiring and letting the Montenegrins, Serbs and minority peoples agree on a common future in their own country. Which will be built on law, justice, wealth, dialogue, truth and not on anthem, flag, fraud, nepotism, lies and force. If Milo and Mandić do not accept that they have been spent and do not release leading party positions to some new faces, then Montenegro is in big trouble.
And the end of patriotic games is not in sight. What will Alexander of Serbia look forward to the most?
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