I don't remember that the days leading up to the Olympic Games looked like this year's, pre-Tokyo... Even in the gloomy Cold War era, the start of the Olympic Games was a reason for a kind of planetary understanding and universal joy.
This was not changed by political influences during the frequent boycotts (76, 80, 84, 88), nor by the monstrous massacre in Munich, when the very foundation of the idea of Olympic brotherhood was attacked.
Admittedly, I live in Montenegro and I know that everything can turn into - something else. What a mess. And victories in sports as well as those in politics...
Glitch, new and old, glitz that flows...
One of the media choruses this week was the important (and logical) decision on Solana and the decision to ban the storage of cigarettes in the Port of Bar. These two decisions could be the foundation for serious blows to organized crime and the whole party-business darkness created by the DPS during its uncontrolled power.
Dritan's public astonishment - that citizens are so obsessed with the moves of the Ministry of Education, when such important and big things are happening - should certainly have been absent.
First of all, it does not belong to a politician, especially not a modern and smart one, to explain to the citizens what should excite them and how they should observe what. Because, after a statement like this, after pointing out this way of looking at things, one might think that the move regarding smuggling, no matter how important it was, should have covered other mistakes of this government, specifically of Minister Vesna Bratić. Which the Deputy Prime Minister defends in an extremely unusual way: if "many people in her team are working against her", she is certainly not for this job. As it was mostly clear even before this "defense".
In fact, let people see everything - both the moves and the glitches, without selection. It's time to stop looking at things here as fans - either/or, because there is no complete picture of our reality without the aforementioned and all other details. Which, let's be clear, in Montenegro do not start with this government.
When it comes to smuggling, the record is that most people don't even realize what happened. Dismantling the smuggling paradigm that characterized Montenegro in the past decades would be a feat worthy of the greatest political works. However, be aware: these are likely - layers and layers of smuggling heritage. That is, that work has yet to be done.
Here, the majority of citizens, who are criticized for not being happy enough about the "abolition of smuggling", have a rather ambivalent attitude towards smuggling. To put it mildly. The official narrative about "salvation" at the time of sanctions, payment of pensions and the like, made many people perceive smuggling, if not exactly as a patriotic act, at least as a necessary evil. That is why it is somewhat hypocritical to be surprised by Ambassador Montgomery's new statements. He did not say anything about smuggling and Đukanović that almost every adult citizen of Montenegro has not known for a long time. But that was the main point of fascination for people in relation to Đukanović's rule.
Despite the strong rhetoric about reconciliation and swearing that there will be no revanchism, it is hard to escape the impression that, at least when it comes to education, this is exactly what is happening. In the obsessive preoccupation of Minister Bratić to ensure that no one in education remains in the leadership position, we have seen that even the dead are being replaced.
Wasn't it a good opportunity for this government to show that they are different from their predecessors? If they are. Why replace those who work well at any cost? And there were, no doubt, those. Didn't someone think that it was an opportunity to show that the pre-election messages were not empty talk? Admittedly, it would probably not be possible to pay "personnel tribute" to DF and the insatiable appetites of this team. Vučić's all ready kerbers.
DF's personnel attack on the institutions continues unhindered, while the Government, which approves and signs their "landing in depth", is frantically attacked. It is not easy to find your way in Montenegro.
And what is our future? We saw that in the Faroe Islands…
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