US, UK and EU see the problem but look the other way: Are Dodik and Čović tentacles of hegemonism or part of the solution to the Bosnian question!?

Written by: Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

Will we join the European Union, will they give us negotiations, is the question these days asked by news vendors and bakers alike, as well as ladies in shopping centers. And everyone knows that we have always been Europe and that we will never be the European Union forever. Not because we are against joining the European Union, but because the scenario of our development to the level of capability for EU membership, created by the US and the EU itself, has no chance of success.

Time passes quickly here, and events change even faster. Thus, two events that raised the decibels of reactions in the BiH public have already been somewhat forgotten. Blinken wrote to the head of BiH diplomacy, Elmedin Konaković, because Dragan Čović (HDZ leader) is obstructing the Southern Gas Interconnection project of strategic interest to Washington. New York Times journalists also came, but they did not distinguish themselves with their research due to projected nonsense and untruths in the text. Before the journalists, O'Brien also came and said: “Čović is against reconciliation, which is contrary to BiH's European perspective.”

So, that the problems “in the south of BiH” are enormous is clear to the entire US administration. Just as they have been observing for too long the clearly visible problems from the area that Nenad Čanak quite correctly sees as northern Bosnia, and the US administration has given it the name Republika Srpska.

And everything is completely clear to the Westerners (EU, US, along with Great Britain) when it comes to the functioning of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose system they themselves created. But, despite the fact that they are clear from which areas the winds of secession and nationalism blow, driven by the generators of hegemonism in Belgrade and Zagreb, they still view the problem of Bosnia and Herzegovina and try to act on it as a whole.

And that problem has never been and will never be able to be viewed or solved as a whole. The American and European administrations absolutely understand that from the area where free citizens live, which was liberated by the Army of BiH in the defensive-liberation war, a minimal percentage of problems is created. Especially when it comes to Euro-Atlantic integrations, because in that free region live citizens who exclusively advocate for those integrations and the integrity of the state. On the territory controlled by the successor policies of aggression, UZP and genocide are the sources of the biggest problems in the functioning of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

And here we come to the key question - why then does the West see the problem across the entire territory of BiH, even though institutions of that West, such as the US Congress and State Department, the parliaments of Great Britain and the European Union, continuously highlight problems and detect that they are created by Milorad Dodik and Dragan Čović.

In this putting of fingers over the eyes of Western administrations and distorting the facts about the real sources of problems in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one can largely seek the cause of the problem that keeps Bosnia and Herzegovina in the backwoods of integration processes.

And that they are viewing things incorrectly is also shown by the role that Western embassies and the OHR played through electoral and post-electoral engineering. At that time, they targeted SDA, the party chosen by the people and eliminated by the West, as the biggest problem for the functioning and progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Instead of SDA, a political project better known as the Troika (SDP, NiP, NS) was created, which was chosen to represent free citizens from the liberated part of BiH, even though those citizens did not elect them. And instead of moving forward, there was a complete breakdown of institutions, both state ones and those in lower administrative units.

With this project, the West punished the only state-building segment of BiH society (Bosniaks, Bosnians and Herzegovinians) by nullifying their electoral will. In the FBiH entity, a political mixture of Croatian nationalism and Sarajevo Euro-communism was imposed, which led to complete chaos in the area that functioned quite well for our conditions before the elections. And at the state level, secessionist forces of Serbian nationalism were added to this mixture, ultimately creating a clearly visible picture of the likely disintegration of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

And as this picture became more visible, panic also developed, because the US administration in disarray and the European one on the eve of elections absolutely cannot afford the possibility of new conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

At that moment, they try to keep us together with a new glaze on the rotten story about our future within the safe framework of the European Union. They forget, meanwhile, that we are not exactly as they portray us in jokes. Especially after the 1990s, we know perfectly well who they are and on what project the policies that the West sees as progressive pro-European forces are working.

In the end, we are left only with the dilemma: is this West putting its fingers over its eyes so as not to see the problems created by hegemonic political tentacles because it is powerless to solve them, or are these political tentacles accepted in the West as part of solving the Bosnian question!

Based on everything the West does, one could conclude that it is the latter.