Konaković's plans and reality are a serious problem: We will remember him as a political Speed, short-ranged and short-lived!

By: Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

Recently, a young man walked through the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whom I initially thought was a migrant being exploited. Only later did I find out that he was a person called Speed, followed by about 40 million people, that he is a streamer, and that Sarajevo was honored by his visit. He was previously in Belgrade, and the mania that arose around his arrival in the virtual world shows that the real world has long gone to hell.

No, I don't intend to analyze this phenomenon, because in today's world, everything is from today to tomorrow, and the more virtual, stupid, and bizarre something is, the more important, closer, and interesting it is to modern man.

What has not surprised me in the last seven days, because I wrote long ago that it is enough to listen to what Elmedin Konaković says and not get lost in the way he interprets it, is the fact that anyone even slightly literate will understand that among the selection of bad foreign ministers we have had so far, he is the absolute MVP.

He's not Speed, but Konaković acts exactly like that. He completely lost himself after realizing the political powerlessness of him and his party, to the point that he started appearing to me in that virtual world as much as this streamer.

He defends himself, complains, accuses, insults, and attacks everyone. And when someone who leads a political entity in power and is also the head of diplomacy of his country feels the need to act this way, then there should be no doubt that his political path is at its twilight, and he is aware of this fact at all times.

In the case of the MVP, the culprit is usually in the mirror. Because no one forced Konaković, nor did anyone announce a political turnaround on the unstable BiH scene like Konaković did. And this is not just in the time of trying to fight Milorad Dodik; it has been the case for him since the pre-election campaign when the US ambassador clearly announced to him that he would be in power, and Konaković became arrogant. He then announced that he would be the broom that would sweep away those before him - SDA and all others. He announced zero tolerance for corruption, the European future of BiH, a better standard of living…

Two years later, he is defending himself from his own lies and false promises, and attacking everyone who mentions those lies to him. And as our psychologist Isa Pašalić would say - only confronting trauma leads to healing. The fact that Konaković doesn't like healing, because it means political downfall, is his problem, not the problem of the media, police, or prosecutor's offices. Because none of those he attacks contributed to the anti-corruption broom becoming the target of investigations related to cartels, dirty money, and all his promises scattering under the pressure of reality and the passage of time.

He is nervous, and that is completely justified. Allies are turning their backs on him, and the eraser and excavator he prepared for Milorad Dodik have become a boomerang, which is why he is still somewhere in the world today seeking explanations.

And the fact that the degree of nervousness is quite high is shown by the fact that these days he has gone so far as to insult his own people with the derogatory word "balije" while insulting his opponents, and all this in the context of the military-fascist formations of the Ustaše and Chetniks.

He got lost in his own mire and finds it difficult to find a way out. This situation is certainly influenced by the fact that Konaković knows, and the public knows, that the SDP, under the leadership of Nermin Nikšić, is preparing to go hand in hand with the SDA next year. And that is his biggest problem. Because the harmonious coalition we call the Troika, led by Michael Murphy (former US ambassador), and which Elmedin thought was his achievement, has become tight and started to crack under the pressure of the political dilettantism of three prominent figures.

Edin Forto will resign, and everyone asked so far has been running away from the position of the first man of Our Party. Nikšić survived a charade of a party congress, but he is surrounded by business hawks pushing him towards a green-red coalition with the SDA.

This is what bothers Konaković, so he frantically attacks everyone around him on other topics. Because without the Troika, and with Murphy long gone, NiP will end up in the basket with those parties that may manage to cross the census, but no one serious takes them seriously. Elmedin Konaković knows this, which is why he spews salvos of insults at everyone around him.

Therefore, it is no wonder that his public appearances no longer contain politics - only panic. Plans have disappeared, strategies have disappeared, only noise remains. His rhetoric has been reduced to naked emotion, an almost childish need to be right, even when it is evident that he is not. And when emotion leads politics, the result is chaos. Thus, today we see how Konaković, from a man who was supposed to symbolize the new face of politics, is becoming the personification of political self-destruction.

Instead of a broom, he is left alone in the dust of his own slogans, separated from the people, allies, and even reality. There are no more grand speeches, only social media statuses, written in affect, and media appearances that resemble outbursts more than statements from a party president and head of diplomacy. He is tired of his own promises, because everyday life confronts him with a mirror - and in that mirror, he no longer sees a leader or a reformer, but a tired man desperately clinging to a position that has long since slipped away from him.

In the end, only silence remains behind the shouting. And when that silence settles, the question is - will anyone still listen to what he has to say? Or will we remember him only as a political Speed - a phenomenon that passed through Sarajevo, caused brief confusion, and then disappeared in its own absurdity!