Are American sanctions magic mushrooms for Bosniaks and direct aid to Dodik in creating the 'Serb world'?

By: Rasim Belko

One of the solutions is the disintegration of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is what Milorad Dodik, then and now president of the RS entity, said in Washington in October 2011. From then until today, Dodik has been working, and the international community, led by the United States of America, has been helping him dismantle Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Therefore, the latest sanctions imposed on the top leadership of Bosnian Serb politics should be viewed as serious aid to the separatism of the RS entity. Like all previous ones, yesterday's sanctions will not have a direct impact on the behavior of separatist forces that, even after Dayton, continued the policy of aggression against BiH that was carried out with weapons before Dayton.

However, Bosnia and Herzegovina could somehow cope with those forces, but it is almost impossible to cope with the 'incompetence' of American diplomacy in solving the Bosnian knot into which it got tangled when it gifted Milošević 49 percent of BiH territory.

And so we come to the conclusion that American diplomacy is actually the biggest sponsor of the creation, strengthening, and final secession of Republika Srpska. Because they did not allow the Army of the Republic of BiH to liberate the country, they sent the creators of the entity, which is based on the war crimes and genocide of Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić, and their entourage, to prison for life, but they left their misdeed to threaten the peace and survival of BiH.

Everything has been identical from Dayton to today, including sanctions. Given that American diplomacy is the only one that functionally controls Bosniak politics in BiH, Bosniaks on blacklists are the only ones punished. Just as the liberating Army of RBiH was the only one punished in the past war when it set out to liberate Bosnia and Herzegovina. Today, Bosniak cadres, who are also placed on lists for patriotic behavior, are punished just like the Army of RBiH.

On the other hand, ineffective American sanctions against Serb and Croat politicians have only strengthened their power within those nations. Because those Serb and Croat politicians were sacrificial lambs on the path to creating new states in the Balkans - Greater Serbia and Croatia.

Thus, today, new sanctions are being imposed on Dodik and his team, which will certainly not force him to abandon laws that have extinguished the jurisdiction of the BiH Constitutional Court on 49 percent of BiH territory, nor some earlier decisions that undermined the state and Dayton. Even the fact that sanctions are being imposed for undermining Dayton, and not for destroying state institutions, says enough.

With the policy of ineffective sanctions, American diplomacy, more consciously than unconsciously, is pushing RS towards Putin, who is eagerly awaiting an opportunity to strengthen his strategic presence in the Western Balkans. RS is certainly the best option for him, given the unquestionable loyalty of Dodik, as well as the entire leadership of RS, including the opposition.

American diplomacy is the absolute creator of the order and political relations in the Western Balkans. Therefore, it is impossible that Washington is unaware of the problematic relations, especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for which they created a crazy constitutional and political system, and then allowed a separatist scheme to develop, due to which Bosnia and Herzegovina is currently struggling for air.

At the same time, American diplomacy, contrary to the Vienna Convention, has directly interfered in the implementation of the last elections in BiH, creating some new pact that is not only dysfunctional but has brought the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the brink of an abyss and a new war.

Therefore, it is not that they do not know, but Americans and their allies are consciously creating such policies, so the only question is whether their goal is the final division of Bosnia and Herzegovina so that Bosniaks (majority Muslims) are not a political nation and do not have a say in a European country, or if everything they are doing is aimed at realizing some agreements that American envoys made with Milošević and Tuđman.

In any case, sanctions are magic mushrooms for Bosniaks, intended to pacify them, thereby freeing up new space for the executors of hegemonic works in Bosnia and Herzegovina to complete their work.

Because it is hard to believe that Americans cannot remove Dodik. After all, they removed much stronger and more popular figures when they brought Dodik in on tanks and appointed him Prime Minister of RS. If we look at American actions in the broader region where they have hanged and sentenced to death without trial, it is clear that Dodik is easily dealt with.

The answer to why they are not dealing with him holds the key to solving the Bosnian knot that the Americans themselves tied. And only that key can help in the lasting stabilization of Bosnia and the entire Balkans.

Everything else is a labyrinth in which Bosniaks get lost, Bosnia disappears, and Serbia and Croatia rub their hands until they realize Karađorđevo.

Holbrooke stopped Dudaković's advance towards Banja Luka, captured Alija, saved Milošević and almost Karadžić, so it is hard to believe that the colorful lies that Americans call sanctions are friendly assistance to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

It is even harder to believe that the world's leading power, which is contending with China and Russia, is unable to remove its pawn in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“Come to your senses, Bosniaks,” as Reis-ul-ulema Husein ef. Kavazović would say, because a foreign hand has never scratched an itch, nor built a country!”