If yesterday we wondered whether there would be war, from today we must be ready - until separatism and hegemonisms disappear!

Written by: Rasim Belko

For days, months, years. From Dayton to the present, there is hardly a period in which we have not asked ourselves - will there be war? The phenomenon of continuously questioning peace can easily be defined as a consequence of an unfinished war.

Because we live in a country whose system was built by a peace agreement, not by institutional production of decisions that would make this country a state with a civic constitution and structure based on the model of a defined state. The situation in which three warring parties agreed to live under the same roof, side by side, is actually the basic trigger for questioning the possibilities of war.

And when that trigger is coupled with two decades of threats to divide the country, along with the constant strong pressure of the never-stopped hegemonic pretensions of Belgrade and Zagreb, we get a state of collective PTSD that cannot be changed without radical changes to the basic postulates on which this country functions.

So, we live in an imposed de facto state of war, maintained by false compromises and a peace that is more of an imagined form than reality. Because in peace, one thinks about the economy, overall prosperity, culture, sports, and connecting with the world. Here, these are secondary categories that few deal with.

The balance of power in that social entity with collective PTSD is clearly visible. Serbian politics, with the full legality of the masses, openly undermine the state and work towards realizing secessionism. Undoubtedly, every move they make shows that these policies have both strategies and mechanisms for their implementation. With the backing of Serbia, they are the ones dictating the pace in such Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the pace is nothing other than warlike!

The leading policy of Bosnian Croats, with a control mechanism in Zagreb and implementation in Mostar, is sophisticated, but perhaps even more successful, because due to Serbian politics, it achieves its goals much more quietly, with incomparably less resistance.

The third policy represents those who are mostly tried and sentenced. They are tried collectively and unscrupulously. The generation that heroically defended is tried because it defended what was supposed to disappear, and all other generations are tried based on propaganda speculations and prejudices, thus becoming terrorists, jihadists, radical Muslims...

In an atmosphere where every national awakening of patriotic forces is pre-condemned to be propagandistically turned into various forms of "isms," it is difficult to expect the creation of a quality pro-state force that will create strategies and implementation plans for a state of war. And if yesterday we said there would be war, today we should have ready plans, material-technical resources, and personnel to defend the Bosnian land. Because just because yesterday was a false peace does not mean we are not in a real war today.

The Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina arose from a neighborhood guard where there was one armed man and several people with cold weapons or no weapons at all. From that root of determination and courage, an Army was born whose successes are still studied today where leaders are trained in the world's strongest army.

So today we do not need any expertise to assess whether there will be war; today we need synchronization of political, military, and economic elements of pro-Bosnian society. Because if yesterday we said there would be war, from today we must be ready. Not for a few days, but until the threat of internal separatism and regional hegemonism disappears.

The history we wrote in the 1990s teaches us that there is no need to shed tears and write letters to foreigners to save us from Dodik and Vučić, Plenković and Čović. Surely we learned then, and saw now in the example of Gaza, that the world does not save, but uses crises for other purposes.

Only a national awakening in real time and preparation for what we have been talking about for too long can be and is the guarantee of the survival of us Bosnians and Herzegovinians and Bosnia and Herzegovina as a whole.

All other paths, in the event of that "God forbid," certainly lead us to disappearance in the already marked and prepared mass graves of the Serbian world and the Banovina of Croatia.