It's not worth crying over spilled milk, but I believe that Dritan would give up Ada, scrubbing, bachelor life, he would also give up extraordinary press conferences and Twitter announcements, he would even agree to the worst, if, for example, Raško and Draginja were his coalition partners in the next elections, if only he could take the film back to last November. At that time, he was the most desirable bride around whom many suitors are falling on their faces, from the so-called parliamentary majority and from the newly minted opposition. Neither the lights of Washington, nor the reception at the highest level in the State Department, nor the relationships of trust built with Escobar, can be taken as a serious explanation for Abazović's empathy and generosity towards the executed Đukanović and the satellites to whom he will offer the greatest concessions at the end of the year, without asking for any concessions in return. and guarantees.
And that's exactly what happened. Seeing that he had nothing more to ask for with his clerical comrades in the government and puppet partners in the parliamentary majority, he started cutting princes, the likes of which Montenegro has not seen in the past three decades of multi-party rule. In a few days, the heads of the prime minister and the announcer, Krivokapić and Bečić, were beheaded, there was an outcry bigger than the one over the recognized Kosovo, and when Abazović thought that the worst was over, because the narrative of the Reds and Blacks about betrayal and electoral will quickly died out, the biggest problems for the young leader and his Ura.
First, he waited for the SNP to break his brain, and then he entered the scissors of the so-called patriots from Belvedere, who, from the helpless and disoriented opposition members, suddenly raised their heads and some more and started hitting Abazović on the ears.
If Dritan were to return in November, or even December, when the interpellation of Milo Đ. and Raška K. fell like Putin in front of Kiev, when both DPS and SDP were ready to sign both the Basic Agreement and the Open Balkans and the list, and to give SNP half of the Government, and even to support AV in the elections in Serbia more strongly than Dado Šćekić and Milan K. just to see the back of Krivokapić and Bečić, and thus bring themselves back to life - if Dritan were to go back to the factory settings, would he change anything in the steps that led him into a vicious circle instead of the government negotiations in which most partners tell him one thing, think another, and do the third.
Those who have morals should go to church, said the long-deceased Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić. From what it follows - whoever is interested in politics should not believe the word of honor of Đukanović, the extended hand of Konjević or the tears of Šehović and the company from Ramada.
But, since the Most High does not exist or because of the invasion of Ukraine, he missed what was happening in a fateless country, who can therefore know or claim what would have happened if Abazović had demanded, for example, that the head of the DPS, for the large concessions he delivered to the opposition withdraw from the leadership of the party, for the SDP to accept the Basic Agreement and the Open Balkans, and for Šehović to sign that he will vote for the new Government, even if the new SDT arrests the recently corrupt leader on the eve of his declaration in the Assembly?! On the contrary, Dritan could have said: neither I nor Ura is bothered by the current position in the Government, no matter how often we have to hold our nose or swallow a dumpling at the various inactions of the Prime Minister, Ministers Mitrović, Stijović or Bratić, we can wait. Because Ura's position was almost ideal, even though society was sinking into ever-increasing clerical darkness. But who among those Abazović met is more interested in the general interest than the partial, that is, the party interest?! Nobody!
If he chose a public house instead of a place of worship, because politics is a whore, the old men said, Dritan had to know who he was dealing with and which way to go towards the realization of the mission. Even if we ignore the aforementioned character of politicians and their fickleness, it is clear that such a large and complex process required a more thorough approach by Ura and its leader. A lot had to be put on paper and worked out, predicted or foreseen, so that it would not later slide like a car on a track full of oil.
And Dritan will turn out to be a car after all, the only question is in what sense, because the miraculous language gives many words, depending on the context, completely opposite meanings. If he forms a government, with the SNP, of course, and succeeds in making that cabinet effective, in unblocking EU integration, saving the season and the budget, and preparing a fair next election, then he will turn out to be a character from Formula 1, which he dreamed of as a kid, similar to one Hamilton or Sena. And mostly because the partnership with the SNP would pave the way to the reconciliation of Montenegro and bridging the huge gap in the Orthodox population that has been dividing the country for decades and preventing any reforms. If Abazović succeeds in his planned mission, then after the next elections we could see Marta Šćepanović and her fellow citizen Martinović, two Bogdanovićs, Boris and Aleksandar, embraced in a grand coalition of the Octopus and the Reds. Or Migo and Milan, brothers from Zeta, that is, Milo and Mandić, Vučić's puppets, past and present, in an even bigger coalition of DF and DPS. And there is a reconciled and happy Montenegro, ready for major changes and upheavals.
If Dritan turns out to be a car, so not the one who drives but the one they exported, then nothing. Montenegro will be even more cemented in pre-referendum divisions, waiting for early elections in a deafening cacophony of oaths and curses on the subject of patriots and traitors, whites and greens, partisans and Chetniks.
Dritan will then say - my intentions were the best, Bečić and Spajić will rejoice that they were right when they begged him not to leave their ship, while Milo and Raško will calculate how much money they need to buy votes in order to "defend the state ". Because they cannot defend it in any other way. And yes they will. DF would be in a similar position, especially after the convincing victory of the hosts from Belgrade, hoping that at least now the money from the Serbian capital will not be lacking. For any "special operation", as their brother Putin would say. Just not to be exactly like this one of his in Ukraine.
Dritan can console himself with a paraphrase of the famous saying that it is better to live a day like a lion than a whole life like Aleksa Bečić, but that cannot be his justification for a poorly played game. If there is such an epilogue. However, regardless of the outcome, the Ura leader still has time to, say, look at some of the causes of the political shipwreck of Slavko Perović and Nebojša Medojević. Because no matter how incomparable the two are in many ways, from education and charisma to their contribution to the emancipation and freedom of Montenegro, Slavko and Medeni have one thing in common - they both lost in the political arena not only because of objective circumstances and pressure from the regime, but also because of their personality, self-infatuation and belief that their own intelligence is enough for success and victory. And in every business, even in politics, the best team wins, not the best individual.
The old Latins wrote a long time ago that the most difficult thing is to defeat oneself (Est difficillium se ipsum vincere) so that, if he wants to avoid the mistakes of his predecessors, regardless of the epilogue of this chess game, Dritan will have to draw a line and upgrade the concept and way of acting. Because, as Churchill said: success is not final, failure is not fatal - what matters is the courage to continue.
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