If Dodik is a fascist and a partner of the US administration, are we then insulted by the victims of the 'most important' foreign friend?

By: Rasim Belko

- This city must not allow further Islamization. Stop the stories that we are all the same - we are not of the same faith, we are not the same. We must defend our identity, our way of life, and this city. Nobody lies more and worse than a Turk. We must oppose great Muslim nationalism which has been transformed into what is called political Islam - Dodik said to applause from the stands.

This is how Milorad Dodik, former president of Republika Srpska, now leader of SNSD, expressed himself last night in East Sarajevo with fascist barking about his fellow citizens who are Muslims. And it is completely irrelevant whether Dodik is bluffing with the fascism card or truly believes everything he said about Bosnian Muslims.

The important fact is that the message he sent is maximally raising inter-ethnic and inter-religious tensions, because hardly any Bosnian Muslim, Bosniak, or Bosnian, slept peacefully in the Republika Srpska entity last night after Dodik's outburst of fascism. Especially since problems and attacks on the non-Serb population in Republika Srpska are a regular occurrence without adequate judicial epilogues and punishments.

However, viewed through the prism of events in recent months on the political scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the question arises whether the words we heard from Milorad Dodik last night are actually a message to Bosnian Muslims from the new American partner.

Because, it was precisely the administration in Washington that removed Dodik's judicial mortgage as a destroyer of the constitutional order in BiH, rewarding him for lifting sanctions for annulling anti-constitutional laws that the Constitutional Court of BiH had previously annulled, and even explicitly stated on two occasions that this opened up the possibility of cooperation between the Republika Srpska entity and the USA.

Nothing is coincidental, someone just needs to explain it to the political dwarfs in Sarajevo who call themselves leaders.

Because, Dodik was not acting only from the position of SNSD leader last night, a position he also retained thanks to American influence; last night, our desirable American partner was speaking to us, whose withdrawal of annulled laws was characterized as a move to de-escalate the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In summary, can we in Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially we Muslims, dare to believe that last night's fascist babbling of the American partner Milorad Dodik is actually the new American approach to de-escalating the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina!

Excuse us, friends in Washington, but we neither can nor will!

It's another story that self-proclaimed leaders, and actually politically shaky individuals, tremble before the acting US ambassador or some delegation of lower-ranking Washington bureaucrats.

Such leaders may believe that the United States is the most important foreign policy partner and friend of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Because being the most important partner to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Milorad Dodik is absurd and impossible. They mutually exclude each other completely.

And if we have seen that Dodik has truly become a new American partner, then we must ask ourselves if the self-proclaimed Sarajevo leaders are leading us to ruin and disappearance by forcing the long-repeated mantra of the USA as the most important foreign policy partner and ally.

Because, the silence from the US Embassy in Sarajevo regarding Dodik's severe insults to BiH Muslims and destabilization perhaps says more than any reaction. The truth is that the USA was our most important ally once, but that time of Bob Dole and Joseph Biden is long past.

Today are new times, enemies become friends, only we live in a rosy reality imposed on us by self-proclaimed leaders who have never had a serious compass and strategic approach, but have taught us to be deceived by the story that Washington is protecting us.

If Dodik is Washington's partner, and he asks Orthodox Christians to defend themselves from alleged Islamization, are we then victims of our 'most important' foreign policy partner.

I would say it's time to wake up, but I've repeated it too many times already, and we are still asleep, believing that someone will defend us. And around us are monuments of whiteness as the best witnesses to the truth about who defended us and saved us. And as a signpost of who alone can defend us.

Because, the partner of my enemy is my enemy, whatever the nodding heads in Sarajevo say!