Sarajevo must get rid of the illusion of global friends, while internal enemies divide the country!

By: Rasim Belko

“The idea of some inevitable path towards harmonization, a united Europe or global governance is dead. The return of national sovereignty and ideas rooted in natural law is not a consequence of great marketing, money, or some secret background plan. The reason is that the globalist project has failed”.

This is what James Jay Carafano, a representative of the Heritage Foundation at TradFest, which will be held in Zagreb, said in an interview with Večernji list. The experience Carafano possesses and the position he and his organization hold in the current power structure in the USA give us the right to believe that globalism as an idea has failed and that the story about it, if not over, is nearing its end.

However, in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, politics struggles to read, and even harder to understand, messages that are not tailored to their political imagination. That is why, even today, when it is completely clear that sovereignty has taken precedence, as Carafano also claims, Sarajevo politics behaves according to the globalist matrix. Because of this, Sarajevo is witnessing a continuation of self-destructive policies relying on international law, the global order, and some international friends, even though the whole world is returning to previous states where everyone looks out for their own interests.

In Sarajevo, they are unable to grasp that the right-wing populist political structure has long taken over a good part of Europe and that this trend will continue until the whole of Europe is to the right of the center. And that, in translation, means that the standards and rules set earlier will no longer be in effect.

In relation to us in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this means redefining the rules and ways of approaching the European Union, which will change itself in accordance with socio-political changes. We in BiH also have another problem, as American policy is slowly, in line with changes, redefining its priorities and approaches.

And therefore, it is high time for the Sarajevo political milieu to redefine its approach, goals, and directions of action. Telling stories and posing for pictures with Western political figures is no longer a message, because with the evident decline of globalism, forces will be redistributed on the geopolitical map of the world.

I wrote long ago that 2030 will be crucial for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and what we are reading and seeing today is a serious preparation of the ground for that decisive time. Our problem is that we cannot define our own vision at the internal level, and consequently, neither the roadmap for its realization, and that we believe that imaginary global friends will solve some of our problems.

Because of such an approach from the Sarajevo basin, politicians from the RS act like diplomats of a neighboring country, not politicians from a part of the integral state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the same way, the area of the former "Herceg-Bosna" has been turned into an area of Croatian political domination.

And here we come to the famous 23 percent. And I was honestly, naively, and for too long, surprised by this Serbian-Croatian mockery of the Bosniak 23 percent. But, realistically speaking, these 23 percent are today the space from which we operate with the premeditation that we have a state. Formally or declaratively we have it, but essentially we do not control almost 80 percent of that space. I don't just mean political control, but the definition of "those over there" when talking about the RS. Something similar will soon happen for HZHB.

And when you add to all this that these days there is talk of Bosniaks closing mosques on the orders of Croatian politics, that some other Bosniaks are again negotiating about a third, "Herceg-Bosna" entity, and that we have Bosniaks who ignore attacks on Herzegovinian Bosniaks as if they were happening in Mogadishu, and not in Stolac and Mostar, then it is clear how close Bosnia and Herzegovina is to a final solution.

A solution that will mean its division!

Because the disintegration of a disintegrated state, with a seriously present narrative that defines internal divisions and virtual borders, can lead to nothing other than the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina into three ethno-territorial sanjaks.

In that direction, we are sent a message by the former Croatian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vesna Pusić, whom they still love in Sarajevo as if she were Vesna Pisarović ("down on your knees"), but Carafano also sends us the same messages. To this, we can also add those from Europe who sent us these messages 10 years ago.

In such a situation, the question arises as to who will and how will define the defense lines against the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Who has the legitimacy and interest to define the front and methods of struggle, because the enemy has crossed the river, and among us are many who carry towels for him to wipe his feet.

Whether to first address the narrative leaning on globalism, internal enemies, or create a front against the plans for division is for all of us to define, because there is no time, and even less space!