OAna Kristina Popa is a historian by profession. Her biography is quite impressive, especially when you consider the universities where she was educated. As for her published works, they are mostly about international relations. She was a diplomat in Croatia and Serbia, and now she is the EU ambassador in Montenegro. Someone would say that she knows the Balkans well, but there is a catch, she came to Montenegro, the country with the most self-proclaimed historians and diplomats per capita!
It would be far more beneficial for her to be a psychiatrist. Because we don't need diplomats or historians, we need a diagnosis. Because, for sure, every time she comes to Montenegro, she comes back with several versions of the same event. Whoever he meets, they probably all tell different stories, convinced that only they are right. That is why Oana Kristina Popa deserves an order, but such an order has not yet been introduced or invented, because it would be an order for tolerance. It seems that no matter how tensed and schizophrenic our politicians are, Popa doesn't change her facial expression, doesn't fall out of line, seems like she understands everything, even though nothing makes sense. You need to have the nerve to listen to all that cacophony and participate as an arbiter in that general race-mongering of Montenegrin politics.
Maybe Popa has more understanding for Montenegro than other diplomats, maybe because he comes from Romania, a country that is more organized than Montenegro, but far from being completely organized.
Popa is on target these days. Mostly, on Twitter. Failed diplomats teach her diplomacy, quasi-historians teach her history. They tag her and call her names, then get angry when she blocks them, as if they don't see that the profile says: PERSONAL account. Opinions my own. (PRIVATE account). So, this PERSONAL is written in capital letters, and that is not a coincidence.
There was a fuss about Popa locking her profile. Those who want to participate in the polemic with the ambassador, to pretend to be important and to have an opinion, are angry.
It is clear, whoever he sees himself with, he will make a mistake. Whatever he says, he will be met with disapproval from at least one side. There is no middle ground in Montenegro, there is no third way, everyone is pushed to choose a side, just theirs. "There is no but, there is only either-or", as he finely writes Dusan Kovačević in the drama.
She acts like a person who doesn't need teaching, explaining and a course on Balkan (dis)opportunities. No matter how special Montenegro thinks it is, when it comes to politics, it can be special because it has the most politicians who think that they are God's day for everyone and that they are right about everything, only they and no one else in the world!
Who knows if that will ever happen, and if she has ambitions for such a thing, but sometime when Popa retires, it would be interesting if she wrote a book about Montenegro and our politics and politicians. What a read that would be! Of course, if that ever happens, it will be when the current politicians are no longer on stage, so we would read about them and our opportunities as if they were characters in a novel. It would be worthwhile for someone to write such a book. Let's see how they see us from a different angle, because we have already said everything about ourselves, megalomaniacally, in the superlative, of course.
Politics is a complicated business, but it seems that it is somewhat more complicated in Montenegro than it is in other countries. There is hardly any other place with less state and more politics.
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