THE DRAGON HUNTERS

Vučić and seven kids

If the mayor of Budva thinks he can be a Montenegrin or Serbian Peter the Great, then he must end this practice. To evil times and evil people

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Photo: Vijesti/Boris Pejović
Photo: Vijesti/Boris Pejović
Disclaimer: The translations are mostly done through AI translator and might not be 100% accurate.

Even though he has been bidding for months to call elections in Serbia, even though it is burning under his feet there, because after Orban's shipwreck, some analysts are announcing a similar scenario in his neighbors, Vučić finds time to deal with the scheduled elections in the "other eye in his head". Just to confirm that nothing has changed even after almost four decades. And that official Belgrade obsessively wants to rule Montenegro. That was the case for decades before Vučić, and that will be the case long after the fall of his corrupt and autocratic regime. With students, professors and honest intelligentsia, over whom the black hand of the retrograde Church and the propaganda-intelligence network will remain hovering.

Although the parliamentary elections in Montenegro will be held in 13 months, Vučić is already campaigning. Not him personally, but his: BIA, SPC, propaganda, political leaders and puppets. Everything is already reminiscent of a scene from a famous fairy tale, where the goats run away without any regard to escaping the infamous little wolf. Or the young wolf. One jumped under the table, the second ran into bed, the third into the stove, the fourth into the kitchen, the fifth into the closet, the sixth under the sink, and the seventh, the smallest kid, hid in the clock box.…And you remember the poignant scene, when the mother returns from the forest and finds a picture that portends the worst: The door was wide open, the table, chairs and bench were overturned, the trough was broken, the blanket and pillows were torn and scattered on the floor. She immediately started looking for her children... She called them by name, looking for them all over the house, but there was no sign of the little goat.

In our reality, no one has been swallowed yet, but, as in the aforementioned fairy tale, it does not bode well. The BIA decided to mark Labor Day with a bang - on May 2, a little wolf, or rather a young and hungry wolf, ominously gaped at Nikola Jovanović, the mayor of Budva. Or even worse, at his minor child, an elementary school student, accusing him of peer violence. For the purposes of the fake news, an unfortunate mother was also hired, who first informed the public about the unpleasant event from January, after an incredible five months, and later softened the accusations, even being willing to apologize. As if that makes any sense after, as Mark Twain would say, A lie has traveled the world and the truth has just put on its shoes.

The fake news was, as expected, placed through the propaganda-sewage system of official Belgrade, which was installed here long ago, by the fraternal embrace of two wolves, one experienced (Milo), and one young and talented (Aleksandra). This time, Pink did not report from reliable sources, neither Prva, nor Adrija, nor RTCG, but the comical "Tender Oglasi" in collaboration with the fraternal "Borba" and Gradski. By reacting to all these "tender portals", Jovanović showed that he also fundamentally differs from Mandić, his main opponent in the upcoming elections, in his view of the media. Because what is a "tender portal" for Jovanović, is "a serious and very influential media outlet" for the head of the Assembly. A similar disagreement as between Vučić and Velja Ilić, which made the region laugh on Labor Day via social media: namely, Vučić claims that the publisher of Informer DJV is "an honorable and decent man, a great journalist", while former minister and mayor of Čačak Ilić says of the same DJV that he is "the worst man" he has ever met in his life, concluding: "He is not a man, he is an animal".

The organized propaganda group (OPG), or tender propaganda of the Vučić regime in Montenegro, covers a much wider range of media than those that were "awakened" in the aforementioned case. And according to the already seen and established system, in the months to come they will be activated from case to case, from "exclusives" to "lies", as needed, and the targets of official Belgrade should prepare for the worst. And that when a little wolf, or a young wolf, swallows chalk and "smoothes" his voice, or when he paints his paw with dough and flour, they do not believe it and do not open the door. Because a little wolf, or a mand, or a young and old wolf, change their fur but not their temper. That is not written in a fairy tale, but it could be the message of the text.

In translation - if the leaders of the Serbian Orthodox Church knock on the door of brother Nikola (Jovanović) tomorrow, with gifts in the form of a ministerial position after the next elections, just to go with Spajić and Mandić, and not with the "Ustaše" and "anti-Serbs", the mayor of Budva should be ready to answer them. Similar to what has already been seen, when on the eve or after the Budva elections, Joanikije personally tried to save "Serbian Budva" from Jovanović's coalition with the DPS! By reconciling him and the leader of Nova Mandić. Fortunately, unsuccessfully. Although there is a phenomenon of Stockholm syndrome in psychoanalysis, one of the main challenges that Jovanović will face in the campaign that he announced these days will be to show how it is possible to be an autonomous Serbian politician in Montenegro, and not a prepaid puppet of Belgrade. That is, of Moscow. And secondly, which follows from the previous one - Jovanović must break away from the legacy of the "time of evil", which was personified by Milošević and Ćosić, and established by the Russian service and the church through their blackshirts in Serbia and Montenegro.

If he thinks he can play a significant role in the June 2027 elections, Jovanović will have to abandon the narrative that destroyed Serbia and turned the country that was, by many parameters, closest to Europe in 1989 into a pariah, the last in the waiting room for EU membership. If he is entering the race just to become a minister tomorrow, then he had better not even start the job. Because with Spajić and Mandić, a minister is not just someone who is in a hurry to catch a train.

The legacy of the evil times is the value framework that gave birth to almost all of today's parties on the political scene. From DPS, through Nova and SNP, to Democrats and PES. And this is best seen in the relationship with the media. And the need to make propaganda bludgeons out of all of them with which to beat political opponents and dissenters. And discipline institutions. It may be strange that Pink or RTCG did not broadcast the "shocking confession of a mother" targeting the innocent son of the mayor of Budva, but the Gradski portal made up for it. Which is owned and maintained by PES. And when necessary, they use Nova and the dying Democrats. The Prime Minister boasts that he allegedly does not control any media, although we all see how he pays for them, or rather finances them. From the state or Podgorica budget. That is, with the money of all citizens, including Nikola Jovanović, who on the first occasion, certainly not the last, falls victim to Spajić's propaganda. Although only Mandić, or until yesterday his counterpart Knežević, occasionally celebrate the takeover of "Vijesti", and Spajić and PES remain silent about it all, it is clear that they are also keeping their fingers crossed for the same epilogue, so that every truth and news could then be controlled and purposefully prepared and broadcast. From "pleasant questions" to the prime minister on RTCG, through the cover-up of the scandal with Mandić's suspected nephew, to the exclusive lie about Nikola Jovanović's violent underage son.

Well, I guess NJ will prove to be more serious. Because Mandić, Bečić, Spajić, Abazović, Milatović, and other liberators from 2020 have been complaining for years about the brutal DPS propaganda, Pink, RTCG, Prva, Gradska, Pobjeda, etc., only to show themselves in the same way when they came to power. All of them, openly or mutedly, publicly or secretly, want to turn every media outlet into "tender ads". Or "informer".

"Vojko and Savle", that was the name of a seemingly banal humorous piece, published back in 1987 in the then famous Politika, the leading daily newspaper in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. On the surface, it was a showdown with two honorable academics of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and in essence, a preparation for a coup at the top of the then communist government in Serbia. That sick joke founded the "time of evil" that continues to this day. With Mandić as, today, the leading propagandist and Jovanović as the latest victim. And of course, the logical conclusion is then - if the mayor of Budva thinks he can be a Montenegrin or Serbian Peter the Hungarian, then he must break with such a practice. An evil time and evil people.

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