IS AMERICA WITHOUT A STRATEGY? Mr. Palmer, take your compromise home, leave us a piece of civilization

By Rasim Belko 

The crisis within Bosnian society has not yet reached its finish line, although the international community, initially, is trying to convince us that they are close to something that could calm the newly inflamed passions. 

The scenario, the recipe, the war for stalemate, is an all too familiar strategy in the hands of those who are creating changes in Bosnia and Herzegovina that fundamentally change nothing, but cause political tsunamis and disasters from which we recover for half a decade. 

In the twilight of the saga of Serbian money in American diplomacy, the representative of that diplomacy, Matthew Palmer, the first to be named in the affair, trying to wash away the stain of corruption, emphasizes that there is no American plan for the Bosnian election law, that the parties must agree and, of course, with compromise!

If I hadn't been born in this country, I might have believed the mythomaniacal lie about party agreement and compromise. But it is even harder for me to believe that the democratic administration of the well-informed Joe Biden sent a special envoy for elections to Bosnia and Herzegovina without some plan and solution that should become a de facto state. That's how Democrats from the time when Biden was one of BiH's greatest friends in the world used to do it. What would be different now. 

Either Palmer is not telling the truth, or he is diplomatically muddying the waters with his bosses while fishing in troubled waters. However, let's assume he is telling the truth and that the Americans, led by the Democrats, truly have no plan for electoral reform in BiH. In that case, gentlemen Democrats, Americans, friends, it is time to fix the bugs in the electoral reform, political and diplomatic ones from Ohio, from that year 1995, when you forced my war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina to accept an unacceptable, but necessary peace. 

We don't need compromise or any similar political entanglement. We need what the citizens of developed countries enjoy, laws tailored to the state and the individual. This electoral law too. Instead of compromise, it is time for the American administration to repay the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, regardless of how they identify themselves. 

Otherwise, let it be heard: "Suspend the mission". Because new Holbrooks and new apologies will not be able to convince anyone that the American administration has not failed Bosnia and Herzegovina after all. And after 1995, I don't know if Washington has the right to fail those who want a normal, developed, and organized BiH. 

Therefore, Mr. Palmer, don't talk about compromise. This was an organized country before many who want to organize it today. There is no need to meddle, just help us apply the achievements and values of democracy and developed societies to the institutions of the BiH system, and we will be eternally grateful to you. What you are offering now is roughly at the same level as if I offered you in the USA to allow Black Americans to vote in two-thirds of the states, and ban them in the rest. 

Compromise is a perfect magical form of politics for the masses and peoples, while political elites extend their existence on the same matrices as before. That is why we here are disgusted by compromises and their results all these years. 

Therefore, Mr. Palmer, forget about compromise and magic tricks about how Americans walk the world without plans, and they call them envoys. It is time to first fix the electoral flaws from Ohio, and then implement the judgments of the highest European court with the Europeans in those agreements. That is common sense, unlike compromise with nationalists, secessionists, followers of fascism, crimes, bloodthirsty criminals, and who knows what other scoundrels from our European and Balkan pasts. 

Because, compromise with such people will not bring a final solution for BiH's electoral system, which means that a new crisis knocks on the door before every subsequent election. 

Identical to the fact that has been happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the past year. Aware that international diplomats will offer compromise solutions, our current leaders have taken a stance, a line from which they do not want to move, and on which it will be difficult to agree on anything useful for the citizens and peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Because, if the claims that the USA has no strategy come true, we already know that numerous Europeans are open to cooperation with Russia, the civilizational map that some well-known Americans drew on the chessboard will be gone forever. In such a scenario, Bosnia and Herzegovina will definitively get stuck with the Easterners led by the Russians and Chinese, and then neither elections nor electoral reforms will matter to us, because elections in the East are a little different than in the West.