President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik has been obsessively warning the Coalition of the Three lately that the International Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is not their friend. His latest statement is similar, where he warns them that the United States (U.S.) will sell them “just as they bought them when the time comes.”
In the beginning, Dodik addressed the Prime Minister of the Federation of BiH (FBiH), Nermin Niksic, with a message that “as someone who has been in politics for a long time, he should know that there is no chance that in these circumstances the final word will belong to some swindler like Schmidt.”
Then, he emphasized the domestic agreement and in a way threatened that support for U.S. intervention is “playing with fire for FBiH.”
“The FBiH, by its attitude towards the person representing himself as the High Representative, has brought about a serious crisis in BiH, which we managed to unravel by sitting down and agreeing on important issues. Any support for Schmidt, who is a false and illegal High Representative, and support for U.S. intervention in judicial institutions is playing with fire for the FBiH,” he said.
Dodik’s political projections on the fate of the Coalition of the Three
At the end of his announcement on X, he warns them that there will be days when even the Coalition of the Three will not be able to deliver everything that the U.S. and the International Community demand from them, and that will be their end.
Although the majority of people following the political situation in BiH understand the parallel between the current coalition of the Three governments and Dodik’s takeover of power in 1998, let’s explain it to those less familiar. The Coalition of the Three came to power in the FBiH last year after High Representative Christian Schmidt annulled the legally necessary vote of one of the members of the FBiH leadership, specifically the deputy president from the Bosniak people, Refik Lendo. In this way, Schmidt enabled the appointment and confirmation of the FBiH Government with the coalition of the Three, which Lendo opposed and, in simple terms, brought them to power.
Similarly, Milorad Dodik was favored 25 years earlier when, with the help of the International Community (political and military), he was appointed head of the RS Government. Following the “purge” of SDS cadres and the election of a new government in 1998, the Stabilisation Force in BiH (SFOR) brought Franjo Majdandzic, a key and decisive figure, to the session of the National Assembly of the RS (NARS), thereby ensuring the necessary quorum for Dodik’s election.
“There will be days when even the ‘Coalition of the Three’ will not be able to deliver everything that the U.S. demands. Maybe then they will honestly say what they think about the current processes. The real question is who among them will need clemency in the judicial mess where processes are carried out according to the wishes of part of the West. There are rumors that many are already afraid. Just as they bought them, they will sell them when the time comes,” Dodik concluded.
This unmistakably reminds us that the U.S. and Europe are now pressuring Dodik to “calm things down” regarding unrealistic political demands that are undermining BiH. Dodik even claims that the U.S. and the West are setting him up for a judicial ruling. The same ones who crowned him with the title of “a breath of fresh wind in the Balkans.”, Klix.ba writes.
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