As primary architect of #Bosnia's present dysfunction, Dodik knows no peaceful dissolution possible. This rhetoric is prep for eventual violence. He'll claim all "peaceful" options exhausted. Why he's now militarizing police, recruiting RUS paramilitaries. ba.n1info.com/a278799/Englis…
After all, someone who believes peaceful dissolution is possible would not be rapidly militarizing local police, coordinating w Russian & Serbian security services, attempting to acquire heavy weapons/armor & everything else reported in this @FPRI brief. fpri.org/article/2018/0…
This rhetoric is not new, Dodik has claimed for yrs that BiH is a "failed state", while looting its public coffers to keep his private fief, the RS, afloat. As the poorest region in Europe, the RS has no viable prospects outside BiH. But this is a political not economic project.
Dodik, like Vucic, is committed only to his own personal power. He has concluded, like Vucic, that in light of the crises in the US, UK, & EU now is the time to explicitly reboot Milosevic's "Greater Serbia". Nothing cements you in power like conflict, after all.
And if you, dear novice Balkan politics follower, feel like you've heard me explain this countless times: precisely. All of this is quite transparent. It's just that so few folks in the relevant capitals seem to care. So I'm just giving you play-by-play of the coming chaos. /xxx
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
