Will the political 'prdibabe' from our neighborhoods allow 'sneakers' to be advertised on CNN again because of Bosnia?

Written by: Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

With the first darkness of summer days, a kind of flying monsters would appear, 'attacking' from all sides. As children, we called them prdibabe, I have no idea what that insect is really called. I know that when they would rush at us, we would slap them to the ground, and then collect them in plastic bottles.

The prdibabe would hit the walls of the bottle with full force of their wings and bodies, but there was no theoretical possibility for them to get out. We would release them, and so often in the twilight we played with these insects.

If we were to translate that children's game into the adult world, the prdibabe would correspond in absolute proportion to the people from our streets and neighborhoods whom we unjustly call politicians, leaders….

Observing the recent actions of the Sarajevo political chorus, it is incredible how much they resemble prdibabe. When they speak, if you listen without knowing the balance of power in the country, you would think that serious defensive and offensive power is concentrated in their hands, with which they can fight for the state.

Yet, if you know the strength of their power, they act like prdibabe that take a long time to prepare, then rush with all their might, bounce off the first obstacle and wait for a new day or help from the side.

Because political power does not lie in expensive suits, multiple properties across the country, expensive vehicles and well-groomed heads. The problem is that no serious person has managed to reach the Sarajevo political chorus to explain to them that press releases, reactions, statements in the media are not any kind of strength or mechanism for solving political issues.

The problem is that the Sarajevo political chorus cannot understand that in three decades of Bosnia and Herzegovina's independence, these and those have failed to secure even a single effective mechanism that could serve as a weapon in the fight for the state.

The Sarajevo prdibabe have wasted a third of a century, flying in from all cities to the capital of BiH, waiting for the international community from Washington to Moscow to create a state without separatism, so that they would have enough space to devote themselves to corruption and crime.

And precisely in the desire to keep the criminal-corrupt settings of their almost only political obsession untouched and functional, they agreed to compromises, pacts with devils, and were completely without a vision of what could happen to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

These days, an almost encouraging illumination of the absolute powerlessness of the Sarajevo political chorus has occurred for the state and its patriots. Milorad Dodik, a separatist who worked for two decades on a single idea, stealing along the way unhindered, has these days come close to realizing that idea. And it doesn't matter how he will end up, but in comparison of his strength and that of the Sarajevo chorus, he is a bumblebee that the prdibabe dare not even approach.

Because, while Dodik was building his network of institutional strength in depth and breadth, necessary for what he is doing today, from Sarajevo only this was heard: 'compromise', 'Dayton', 'OHR', 'international community', 'EUFOR', 'NATO', 'UN'...

Now throw everything in quotation marks into the trash and you will realize that the Sarajevo chorus has been buzzing in vain for three decades. Unless you are their relative or friend, so you enjoy the benefits of their corruption and crime.

At the same time, this shows that Bosnia and Herzegovina is an absolutely unprotected state, which, from disintegration after hard-won independence and integrity, is still guarded by dear God and guardians, patriots who have no dilemma whether to respond to the call of the homeland..

And imagine if, instead of prdibabe, we elected politicians who would primarily ensure a sharp edge so that in case of any attempt to undermine the state, Dodik and his ilk could be pointed out and deterred.

So, for pro-state politics to have power, it must have a mechanism to permanently punish those who attack the state.

And it could have been done, there is no dilemma there. But, instead of working, it was justified that at the state level Dodik and Čović don't allow it, at all levels the international community, Martians, Edo Maajka, God, who knows who all.

All those excuses were false. Because, for example, using the strength of the existing defense industry, others could have been developed and existing ones modernized. Drones could have been developed as early as 2010. In every city under the control of the Army and the MUP of RBiH, five shooting clubs could have been organized and young and old encouraged to come. And they would come, no doubt.

And through the civil protection system, much more could have been done, for example by forming and strengthening rescue, mountaineering and similar teams and their massification.

For example, Dodik could have been responded to when he created the SAJ of the MUP of Rs, and in cantons under the control of patriotic forces, similar units could have been built, only more numerous and better equipped. The production of combat vehicles could also have been started.

The list of opportunities that the prdibabe of the Sarajevo political chorus did not use is long. Their priority was to hope that some world has an obligation to protect both us and our state, because we are victims of genocide and war crimes. As if the world, organized on the animal model of 'the rule of the stronger', ever cared about victims.

That is why today, aware of missed opportunities, in fear for accumulated wealth, half-groggy like prdibabe, they hit the walls of the bottle into which the bumblebee Milorad Dodik has too easily sucked them.

And that is not difficult for him, because people whose politics have no idea, education, vision, have no possibility of developing strategic directions of movement to avoid traps and dangers to the state.

And for all the above, there is neither time nor reason to wait for the political chorus of prdibabe headquartered in Sarajevo to preserve the state. Patriots, take note, it seems that 'sneakers' will be advertised on CNN again!