Every time they mention dissolution and confederalism, we should be ready to move out with tanks!

By: Rasim Belko

The danger of the proposal for a confederation of the FBiH with the EU is the acceleration of the division of BiH, i.e., motivating the secession of RS from BiH. However, experiences from the Washington and Dayton Agreements speak to the contrary. In that two-step process, the state of BiH was established. Three decades after the war, it may be possible, with the same recipe, to establish a European BiH in peace.

If nothing else, in this way, half of BiH, i.e., the Croat-Bosniak Federation, could quickly become part of the European family. Especially if those two (or rather three) peoples find a recipe for sincere mutual cooperation. America could help in establishing a confederation of a Balkan and European state with an acceptable, modernized Washington Agreement and the original Dayton Agreement.

This is how Jozo Pavković concluded the text “Instead of a confederation of the Federation with the Republic of Croatia, establish a confederation of the FBiH with the EU” on Večernji list, for whom confederation with the Republic of Croatia is actually the essence, and the story about the EU is a disguise that naive Bosniaks should fall for.

And before I start dissecting this thesis and its impossibility, let me mention one thing. To all of us who follow socio-political trends deeper than our politicians and the demagogues who advise them superficially, the warning from Zlatan Begić, a Member of Parliament of the Democratic Front, stood out when reading this text.

And Begić warned us at the time about a non-paper he received from Germany, which highlighted precisely this idea that Pavković is pushing to Bosniaks as salvation from the pages of Večernji.

“After the Election Law and state property, the plan is to let RS go. Such a situation would cause a disturbance of peace and security, and then NATO would have to enter the territory of the Federation. The legal basis for such an action is the Washington Peace Agreement and a certain form of connection between Croatia and the Federation, with the provision that, as stated in the non-paper, the Muslim factor would not be positioned to have all rights, but self-governing units would be established for Muslim elements. These elements would deal with local matters. I am conveying what I read,” Begić said at the time.

Therefore, Pavković is actually directly referring to what Begić mentioned as the German non-paper. It is clear, therefore, that certain signals for a possible division of Bosnia and Herzegovina are being sent from Berlin. Christian Schmidt has already been sent from Berlin, who has already deprived Bosniaks of real decision-making capabilities. Now the Croats, certainly emboldened by Berlin's traditional and unquestionable support, are embarking on openly proposing the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina. And pushing the Federation into a confederation with Croatia.

Because a confederation with the European Union is simply not possible. Such a system does not exist and will not exist. The European Union has problems with much more serious member states, so it is undoubtedly that they do not need a complicated entity along the lines of the Cyprus model in any form of confederalism.

The Croatian side knows this, but masks it with a project that naive Bosniaks would latch onto, especially those from the projected bloc of parties around the SDP. However, any politician from Sarajevo or the so-called pro-Bosnian political spectrum who would agree to this must disappear from the scene within 24 hours. Because the confederation of the Federation of BiH with Croatia is the realization of Tuđman's Banovina, which he drew in Karađorđevo.

Pavković mantras that, following the example of the combination of the Washington and Dayton Agreements, RS would also join this confederation, thereby creating a European-ordered state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, imagine that. It seems like kindergarten politics, but these are Croats, so every mention of confederation and similar Tuđman-esque ideas should be answered fiercely so that they don't get tempted to try that model.

However, Bosnian Croats and Serbs, i.e., their leaders and ideologues, are increasingly and more openly bringing their war aims into the negotiation-media space, and the Bosniak charity political establishment is waiting for the Americans, British, Germans, and whoever else to defend the country from the final realization of Karađorđevo.

We paid for this country with blood, and any silence on the plans for its division awakens a chilling sense of the possibility that someone in Sarajevo will sign the unification of parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina with Serbia and Croatia, leaving enclaves for Muslims. And we have seen how stories about enclaves and Muslims end.

Therefore, it is expected that charity patriots, politicians, and wiseacres, instead of cowardly lamenting to the world for help, finally say: “If Serbs and Croats continue like this, we will buy hundreds of tanks and drones and move towards the borders.” Because that is what those whose stomachs turn due to the feeling of powerlessness and frustration into which charity politicians have pushed us say.

Non-paper, napkin, or Karađorđevo, who cares anymore. After the latest statements from the RS and Serbian politics, after Pavković presented what Croatian politics dreams of, it is completely clear that there can be no compromise.

And therefore, if among us who love this country in its constitutional and essential form, we must organize ourselves and clearly outline our visions and plans. Outline them so clearly and highly that the Americans, the British, and the Europeans alike will have their hair stand on end.

Once and for all, we need to show them the plan for the final liberation of Bosnia. So they understand that every time a Serbian politician mentions dissolution or a Croatian confederation, we are ready to mount tanks and return the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina to be as it was during the war, from the Sava to the Drina, from the Una to the sea!

Are there any of you, or are you all charity politicians?