Three Knightly Victories of Independent Bosnia Are Not Worth Selling for an EU Carrot: Let's Wake Up, They Are Preparing Our Disappearance!

By: Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

Bosnians and Herzegovinians and the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in whatever form of existence it may have been, have fought great battles throughout history and won them. But three battles and three achieved victories of the modern Bosnian state had to chart the course of its existence.

Bosnia and Herzegovina won the military battle at a time when no one gave it a chance or supported it. Bosnians, Herzegovinians, (Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats loyal to the homeland of Bosnia and Herzegovina) resisted the multiple times stronger armies of neighbors, who launched a double aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina. From the east, Serbia, into whose army one of Europe's strongest military forces, the JNA, was incorporated, and from the west, Croatia, without an embargo and with open possibilities for acquiring weapons by land and sea, and without an embargo.

From the sneakers of neighborhood youths and a courageous Bosnian grandfather, the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina emerged, which only unjust world powers prevented from liberating all occupied parts of the independent and sovereign state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On the wings of military victory, more had to be achieved politically, but we must not forget that the current generations of Bosnians and Herzegovinians also achieved a political victory, preventing the Greater Serbia project from being realized through Republika Srpska Bosnia and Herzegovina with Sarajevo as its capital. At the same time, the creation of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, as well as the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, was prevented. None of that exists today in the form and essence as it was conceived, and therein lies the wrath of the neighbors who have not given up on these goals even today.

In addition to defending themselves with tied hands due to the world's embargo, and having to achieve political victories in the circumstances of post-war unrest, Bosnians and Herzegovinians also faced the struggle for legal determination of facts so that the history of ignoring Bosnian suffering would not be repeated.

The third victory was in The Hague, before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. A large number of educated and persistent Bosnians and Herzegovinians legally proved what the world saw but did not want to stop. With the legal victory before the Court in The Hague, the current generation of Bosnians and Herzegovinians enabled it to be recorded forever that genocide was committed against the Bosniaks of Srebrenica, with life sentences for its creators, while Serbia and Croatia were convicted for a joint criminal enterprise in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This is an honorable legacy – the legacy of the current generation of Bosnians and Herzegovinians (Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats loyal to the homeland), which we should be proud of and not allow to be trampled and alienated.

But we must be vigilant and prepared for all sorts of challenges, because the evil of hegemonism has never abandoned its aggressive plans.

And therefore, ATTENTION BOSNIANS AND HERZEGOVINANS, this is exactly what is happening to us. Through various mechanisms and machinations, they are nullifying the legacy of the best among us. They are trying to nullify, relativize, and present the military, political, and legal victory as a defeat, which is their key ticket to ultimately defeat us more easily.

Undoubtedly, they are doing this and preparing it from abroad. Primarily in Belgrade and Zagreb, and increasingly in other centers of power around the West and East. Likewise, among our ranks, they have found enough immature and conceited individuals and bought them by offering the carrots of illusion while hiding the stick. Because those around us are a force compared to us in every respect. Militarily and technologically, in human resources, economy, and ultimately in open assistance from world centers of power.

Are we allowed to sell three great victories of the independent Bosnian state and throw them to the wind in exchange for promises from those who lied and deceived us when we were fighting military, political, and legal battles. The European Union is an illusion for the disappearance of Bosnia, Bosnians, and Herzegovinians. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we will find our way.

Because we won those victories, especially the military one and the one in The Hague, when everyone was against us. We achieved the political one, but it is still ongoing, and in that field, we must judge correctly so that we are not judged, because we have inflicted defeats on them where it hurts them the most.

Is it then worth ruining everything we have done for the sake of petty gain called "maybe we will open negotiations with the EU in March, maybe not"? And all this while the same European Union agrees to blackmail from policies based on joint criminal enterprises and genocide, allowing them to choose what they want from the European legal acquis, thus agreeing that we join the EU without respecting the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, as well as the ICTY, ICJ.

And finally, when decisive battles for Bosnia and Herzegovina were fought, there were no "Our Parties" or similar political projects to talk to us about compromise. Because compromise in Bosnia and Herzegovina only exists to stifle the political will, thought, and path of those loyal to the homeland. After all, that compromise with the enemy has strengthened the enemy, who now fully controls the institutions and system of the state.

And we have yet to begin that fight, and they continue to tell us that Bosnia and Herzegovina should be built through compromise. That compromise for the sake of the illusion of the European Union has lulled us to sleep, so they have managed to send all our contemporaries who participated in those three key victories to the dock or to prison.

And they are doing it today and will continue to do so until there are no longer Bosnians and Herzegovinians (Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats loyal to the homeland) willing to fight for our survival. Because, from Alagić to Novalić, there were many in between whom we easily handed over to the enemies of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ourselves, and our survival.

Either we will wake up now and stop them from killing us quietly through our institutions, or one morning we will wake up and blush with shame because we have squandered everything we defended! Let's wake up, because when they lure us with the carrots of opening negotiations on the European path, they will again mark us with ribbons and sheets, so that it is known who must disappear!

Think about it!