West for Čović, Čović for Dodik, Dodik for the Serbian World - AND ALL AGAINST BOSNIA!

By: Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

It's January 9th again. Followers of policies that have committed mass crimes, including genocide, in Bosnia and Herzegovina are parading today. Those who have been convicted of the most monstrous crimes Europe has seen since World War II by international criminal courts are being celebrated and glorified.

And all this under the slogan “symbol of freedom” in a space that constitutes an administrative unit of Republika Srpska, where a dictatorial regime reigns, whose citizens are not guaranteed even safety or the right to life, let alone any other rights from the European Convention on Human Rights. Because, freedom in the vocabulary of Greater Serbianism and holiness of saints implies only Serbs in an ethnically pure Serbian world.

However, “symbol of freedom” as a slogan under which the symbol of the beginning of crimes is celebrated today might gain meaning if viewed from another angle. From the civilizational one. Because, the representatives of the international community, who come to BiH as missionaries of Western values, have done nothing to prevent the anti-civilizational rampage of policies stuck in the darkness of long-gone times.

And it is not just a hypocritical mockery of the victims who were promised never again, and it has happened again in peace and in an equally severe form as in the act of genocide itself. It is not helplessness either, let's not lie, because these missionaries from the West easily show power in Bosnia and Herzegovina when it suits them and obviously their political favorites.

Therefore, Christian Schmidt, as High Representative, is institutionally dead from today. A year ago, he promised that the January 9th parades would not happen again. And today, just like a year ago, he writes statements that are a joy to a madman and dead letters on paper. The January 9th parade of evil must therefore mark the beginning of an era in which those who politically follow the path of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina will clearly give the OHR a choice between remaining on the principles of tasks and powers they have for the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or they will leave, and let whatever must be, be.

The fact that Milorad Dodik and his socio-political entourage are parading today must also influence the discourse of relations between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United States of America. Because, that power created Dayton and, in Dayton, Republika Srpska. That power has controlled processes in recent decades, and still does, so it is primarily responsible for leading the diplomatic corps in resolving the crisis that leads nowhere else but to a new armed conflict.

And let them not be misled by the fact that some public figures with overstrained brain cells classify daily statements as aggressive reactions. Neither that, nor airplanes are enough, because Dodik's dissolution is something we can feel today, and the January 9th parades are a show of force. The United States of America, the stance of witnesses to crimes, politics, and public opinion must be different; they must resolve the crisis they failed to resolve when they imposed the peace agreement as an end to the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina.

After all, the OHR, the US Embassy, and the UK Embassy have created the current political scene in which Milorad Dodik has a clear path ahead of him, because the project of the aforementioned representatives of the international community in the form of SDP-NiP-NS has proven to be politically inferior and not mature enough to counter Dodik's dismantling of Bosnia and undermining of peace in any way. That Troika ultimately turned out to be a political bloc of individuals of interest, for whom the international intervention in 2022 and 2023 only allowed them to enjoy the benefits of life on a high budget. Everything else is a complete failure that is pushing Bosnia and Herzegovina into arguably the worst post-war crisis.

Or, ultimately, all those representatives of the international community have the opportunity to admit failure and leave Bosnia and Herzegovina to internal or some other international factors. Because, it is evident that the international community from the West has significantly broken its credibility in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

If they continue with the policy of the West for Čović, Čović for Dodik, all against Bosnia, it is not impossible that in a relatively short time they will face the very fear they have been afraid of all this time. Because, the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is escalating day by day, and only the structure that politically follows the military path of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is keeping it from erupting.

But that too has its price, because the policy that fights to prevent escalation from becoming a conflagration has less and less strength, and it has been further disempowered precisely by Western factors. And the moment such a policy decides to return more aggressively to the political space of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the escalation will very likely be called war.

And the culprits will, no matter how much they invest in propaganda, be clearly identifiable in Washington, London, and Brussels. However, if the escalation becomes a conflagration, it will no longer matter, because if an armed conflict occurs in a space where evil and hatred have been accumulating for too long, where wounds are continuously salted, and oppression is masked as compromise, no one in Europe will sleep peacefully anymore.

And perhaps that is someone's goal!