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🇧🇦 - There are growing reports of frustration in Sarajevo over the lack of support from the EU and EUFOR in efforts to arrest Serb leader Milorad Dodik.

Apart from that, there's not much to say about Bosnia, Srpska and Dodik.

We have reached the limit between pacifist and violent solutions. On the legal front, it's a dead end, and the High Representative has been keeping a low profile in recent weeks. The EU can't even coordinate to impose sanctions, and Dodik continues to travel abroad. On the military front, EUFOR does not seem to be intervening. Interpol refused to get involved.

As I predicted, Sarajevo quickly lost confidence in the EU's ability to help. Entire columns of trucks and armed vehicles have crossed the continent to arrive in Bosnia, with thousands of soldiers in all, helicopters and planes for probably nothing. Apart from sending a very bad signal to a country that has just been granted candidate status for EU membership, this inaction is bound to backfire.

US-sponsored conferences, assessments and reports were circulated on "Russia's growing influence in the Western Balkans" or "How ethnic tensions could be rising again". Bosnian politicians went from declaring that they didn't want to ask EUFOR to intervene because it wasn't its job, to sending letters to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, imploring him to act. EU diplomats essentially told Bosnia to clean up the mess itself.

The situation is therefore the same as it was at the start of this chapter a month ago: deadlocked. However, what is sure, is that Dodik proved that he can take strong measures without much consequences.

@gloriatransit bro, what do you think about this?

Situation on the ground has not changed for 30 years -- no one cares. Radovan Karadžić was chilling for a decade. What makes anyone think this would be any different?

It's why he's allowed to run around free. No one cares that Sarajevo isn't enforcing anything because the Federation is just as corrupt and inept as RS.

Dodik hasn't proven anything except that he is a hypocrite, a murderer and a thief. (Honorary Jew)

He's been clamoring for secession for almost 3 decades. He's been undermining centralization of government just as long. Sarajevo has nothing to prove by arresting him. They risk making him a martyr.

There is no alternative, that's the actual problem -- on one hand you have Hillary Clinton and on the other you have Kamala Harris. Both options are highly disliked and power bases are miniscule. It's why the RS has to beg foreigners (Russia, Serbia, Israel, Hungary) the same way the Fed has to beg the EU and Turkey.

"Please sir! Please, may I have some mo' I iz so poo'!"

If it were up to me, I'd hang every last one of these politicians for treason from Mostar to Banja Luka to Tuzla to Sarajevo.

To highlight how much people care about these two great and fabulous entities and the splendid results they have given us:

"A 2021 UNFPA survey found that 47% of Bosnians aged 18–29 were considering emigration, with 23,000 (about 4% of the youth population) having taken concrete steps to leave within the following year."

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