Economic Apocalypse Directed by Nationalists

By Rasim Belko

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Survivor, live from Earth. Somehow the best description of the struggle for survival that humanity has followed on TV so far, and now lives it under the spotlight in front of cameras of world media.

And we all wonder when this will pass? What about after it passes?

Every answer we each give ourselves to this question is equal to the apocalyptic scenario of science fiction films. You don't need to be a scientist, nor is anything in all of this imaginary. 

An economic apocalypse awaits us. 

As globalized as it is, the world is still bipolar in terms of financial power. The rich have already opened the state coffers called the budget and are saving what can be saved. Among the poor, there are also those who know how to make a move. 

Among us, the poor, geographically located in a triangle divided internally against logic, there are conferences. Every day at every level. One after another, like a film series on New Year's Eve. Only these are all horror films. 

From these conferences, they convince us that it is good for us that we are under house arrest, the youngest and oldest 24 hours, and us in the middle from 6 PM to 5 AM. They tell us stories, quote numbers, boast, promise… 

The COVID-19 disease seems to be playing foreplay at these conferences, and then choosing where to appear. 

However, the scenario that awaits us after the disease is more dangerous than the disease itself, which has no cure. Our officials who hold conferences will hardly find a solution to save the economy brought to its knees during the epidemic. 

cronies in positions, capable people in quarantine wondering how to get their unemployment books stamped. The elitist groups of nationalist parties, which rule this country, do not inspire hope that we will survive the economic devastation after the quarantine.

On the other hand, the numbers that businessmen predict are chilling. Ejub Kučuk, owner and director of MITA Group, said on N1 this morning that we can expect hundreds of thousands more to be unemployed. Restaurateurs are already announcing 10,000 at the beginning of April. 

Without state aid, companies will disappear, and with them, taxes and other levies that the state lives on. The authorities in this country will have to understand that without these companies, the entire system will collapse. 

In the years past, nationalist parties have created a system incapable of reacting to the smallest, let alone global challenges. Prominent figures of these parties promise help, but businessmen respond to them with "we won't do it, we'll do it tomorrow, it will be" rather than immediately. 

The only two sectors in which nationalist autocracies have employed people were administration/public enterprises and Germany. Some of these nationalist leaders, like Bakir Izetbegović, promised hundreds of thousands of jobs, and most of those who were promised jobs were welcomed by Angela Merkel. 

Today, in the prelude to chaos, the protectors of false vital interests have hidden from public view. Dragan Čović (HDZ) and Bakir Izetbegović (SDA) have been missing for two weeks. 

Poverty is a vital problem for all of us, regardless of which pens they have herded us into. We are poor now, and we bitterly think about what awaits us. 

Somehow, it seems to me that due to this ethno/national policy, we will be returned to the post-war state. At that time, state-owned companies were destroyed; in this case, the real sector, small and medium-sized enterprises, will suffer. 

We know, gentlemen, that you are most interested in employees in institutions and companies on the budget. We know, gentlemen nationalists, that these are your strongest voting machines. 

But we remind you, oligarchy, if the real sector collapses like a house of cards, your elitist status will collapse along with the voting machine. 

Therefore, get serious, if you don't know how, call those who do and create a system that will save us in the days after the illness. 

Otherwise, leave, it's better now than when you destroy the last hope. 

Because hunger, gentlemen, is worse than death.