First, the good thing about everything - my impression is that the MP and university professor is honestly ashamed of what he said today. That he is really not happy that this sentence has become a public value. Authorized misery.
It is truly bizarre - a young politician and university professor, in a conversation with a businessman who, by all accounts, is skilled in other things, comments on the political situation in Montenegro at the time. Actually, that is already embarrassing enough.
He goes a step further - he says at one point - that "we need to Željko Ivanović". The person who needs to be skinned is the head of a media outlet, so he is neither the leader of an opposing party nor the head of a paramilitary formation, or a mafia clan.
If he were to say this to, say, a retired professor who has spent his entire life only on academic topics, it could be "written off" as some kind of heightened verbal expression or excessive passion. But he is not talking to an honorary emeritus, nor to a doctoral mentor, but to a man who is in big business and close to various layers of very specific employees - police officers and criminals, and as we know in Montenegro, this is not always easy to distinguish.
And why, according to the young professor, should Ž. I. be “skinned”?
Because it is Vucic guest on TV Vijesti?
Let us remind you - Vučić was not brought to Montenegro by Vijesti, but rather he was trying to "sneak in" at the funeral of the metropolitan, to use the death of his archenemy to show who is boss, which fortunately he is not allowed to do, but ignoring such an event (and such a person) was neither professional nor smart.
After that guest appearance, Ivanovic wrote a text that to this day remains one of the best warnings about Vučić's political malignancy.
We should also keep in mind the time context: they had just lost the elections, and maturely, as only they know how, they are looking for the culprit everywhere but in their own work. In such a calculation, Vijesti played a particularly important role, being a favorite address for projecting (their own) guilt.
The aforementioned TV appearance is problematic for people from the party that literally created Vučić.
And that, frankly, is one of the Djukanovic's pearl-action.
To get rid of the dumb one Boris Tadić he made a monster out of Vučić. It's not that unusual - history is full of such calculations that backfire on those who believe they are the master of the game...
In any case, along with the famous "founding of a church" (which already exists, by the way), this is one of the stupidest political ideas he has put forth in his Ramsesian career.
In the end, long before his defeat in the 2020 elections, Đukanović gave Vučić and his followers much that should not have been given.
And in the end - “We need to skin Ž. I.”
A truly unique and uniquely perverse way of thinking. This explains why the DPS failed so gloriously - for them, Đukanović is not only a moral burden, but, in those very years, they were ruined by his political stupidity and lack of direction.
The professor says he meant to criticize, that "to peel" actually meant to criticize. There's no doubt that he chose the right person for that kind of nuance. (They once handed Željko such a criticism on the street, after midnight, so I wouldn't say that that criticism session yielded any results.)
I began and ended with a somewhat pedagogical tone. It would be good if future generations of young politicians could learn something from this bizarre story. Namely, no matter how intoxicating power makes you, no matter how much your current position “gives you wings,” protect yourself from such challenges. That way you will help others and yourself. I guess Ivan knows that today.
How much better would a young person feel today? Vukovic If he had had the guts to say, instead of what he said, "Djukanovic should be removed." Today, he would be seen as a visionary. That would have helped his party and his country much more.
After all, that's the job of an intellectual - not to court half the world stylistically and semantically, but to not hesitate to say what they're all talking about...
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