‘Angel’ from Heliodrom became prey: The jackals from Washington have dollars as their only legitimate interest

By: Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

Fear makes eyes wide, and thoughts wander through the expanses of imagination in an attempt to overcome panic. Because the game Dragan Čović has been playing for too long had to be paid for. And it is close to being paid, perhaps not in the form citizens of BiH wish for, but certainly enough to scare the leader of the Croatian Democratic Union. The untouchable Falcon, who has been fishing in troubled waters for decades, carrying the self-imposed title of leader of BiH's European path, has now become prey.

And none other than American. And those Americans will allow people worldwide to be slaughtered, ethnically cleansed, raped, robbed, even for their children to die in vain, but they will never, I repeat, never allow their economic interests to be threatened. Much bigger heads than Čović's have fallen for straying into the offside of American interests, and the Mostar slave owner is aware of this. He is aware that Merkel and her policies collapsed due to the Americans, and she is just an example.

In the panic that has befallen him, the long-untouchable Čović has mixed up all the images in his head. However, he remained composed enough to try to play the card his last serious political partner is playing. Čović has become Dodik. So, caught between Blinken's letter and Plenković's undoubted call, he steps into Milorad Dodik's shoes and chastely appeals to the entire public in the south of Bosnia, shouting, “I am a white angel, not a black bird of ill omen.” And to be clear, only in that paranoia can Čović and an angel be in the same sentence. Because, Čović is actually playing the famous “Dodik's move” that any action against him is inevitably an attack on the vulnerable Croats. Čović no longer tries to speak between the lines but very directly says that he blocked the southern gas interconnector so that Sarajevo would not block gas to Posušje. Of course, that is just a mantra, because the gas comes through Croatia and the south, but for Čović now, every straw is like a firefighter's ladder of salvation.

And why Čović is a black bird of ill omen known as the Mostar Falcon, and not and cannot be a white angel.

Let's start with Heliodrom, a wartime camp where Croatian separatists held Bosniak civilians captive. There, Čović, as the director of Sokol, found slaves as labor. A document testifying to this was created on June 22, 1993, in which the director of Sokol requested prisoners to work at Sokol. From the dark depths of bygone times, Čović thus brought back slavery and was never held accountable for it.
And from a legal standpoint, as has been widely written, he undoubtedly committed a war crime by taking civilian prisoners for forced labor. Clearly, someone protected the black Falcon from judicial prosecution.

Just as someone protected him from judicial prosecution for crime and corruption. Because, we remind you, Čović was arrested and crucial evidence in his case allegedly disappeared during transport over a few kilometers.

It is clear that he has been slipping through the cracks for too long, and his protectors no longer have patience. And they had too much of it, because his activity on the political scene of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a continuous undermining of all solutions that would make Bosnia and Herzegovina an organized state.

Everything he could, and he could do a lot because with the favor of the international community and those very Americans, he is the only constant in BiH politics, Čović destroyed for the sake of interests established with HZHB, for which UZP was committed. And based on UZP policies, Čović has insisted for the last ten or more years that a third of Bosnia and Herzegovina be Croatian, with a Croatian broadcaster, legitimate Croatian representatives, and informal special ties with Zagreb.

Nothing else could pass through the UZP filter of the black Falcon. I remember back in 2012/13, European and American delegations came to negotiate the election law and legitimate representation. And to this day, an agreement has not been reached, because Čović's UZP filter is nothing more than the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the political neutralization of 51 percent of the citizens of this country who declare themselves Bosniaks. Heliodrom was small, so the murder of one nation for the sake of a Croatian piece of BiH is being attempted through a political agenda.

Čović has gone too far to back down now, not only on the issue of legitimacy in electoral legislation but also on the issue of the Southern Gas Interconnector. He has put his entire political life on the platter for policies from Croatia that dream of a banovina, and if he backs down now, he will politically die like that cuckoo bird, and everyone, at least in the south, knew him as the Falcon, and that's why he ravaged that area.

Therefore, he is left to persevere, just as he announced today. He has the scheme; his friend from Laktaši has surely given it to him. The only question is whether he has what Dodik has, I mean – does he have the courage to tell Murphy that he is a stench and America that it is anti-Croatian.

That would be the culmination of all the performances we have been watching for over a decade, and a twist that no thriller author could write. But whether he is a Falcon or a cuckoo, playing Dodik's or some other scheme, Čović must know one thing. In Washington, there are no angels or birds, only jackals and dollars. And the former eat birds and their political children because of the latter. Because the dollar is the only currency and value of their policy, so let him prepare!