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Is PM Orbán dismantling Bosnia-Hercegovina? Elite Hungarian armed forces’ office opened causing fear and outrage
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Hungary’s Counter-Terrorism Centre (TEK) has opened an office in Banja Luka, the capital of Republika Srpska, at the end of January. The facility was duly inaugurated by the Bosnian Serb interior minister and the TEK’s director. Yet this move may be unconstitutional – a fact of which officials in Budapest are undoubtedly aware. Orbán has long been a staunch supporter of Milorad Dodik, the former Bosnian Serb president who has campaigned for secession for years. Is there a connection?
Dodik’s grand plan: uniting all Serbs
Dodik’s scheme is straightforward: extract the Serb entity from Bosnia-Hercegovina, then join his ally, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, by merging into Serbia. Hungary appears to have been dealt a hand in this plot, even as the much-vaunted Serb-Hungarian bromance coincides with the brutal depletion of the Hungarian minority in Vojvodina (Serbia’s Délvidék region).
Bosnia-Hercegovina remains a unique and fragile entity on Europe’s map, functioning as it does precisely because it was forged in Dayton after the devastating Yugoslav civil war. The key is that each constituent part – the Serb Republic and the Bosniak-Croat Federation, plus the Brčko District – has its own parliament and presidency, as does the country at large. Overseeing it all is the UN High Representative, wielding near-absolute power. That role is currently filled by Christian Schmidt, a lesser-known German CSU politician. He exercises this authority only when the post-1995 order is threatened – for instance, if his rulings are deliberately ignored, as Dodik did when he was president of the Serb entity.
Bosnia-Hercegovina: the fragile state
From the outset, Dodik has fought for greater autonomy, pushing through laws that the High Representative then blocked and ordered rescinded. Dodik refused to comply, and ultimately lost power in the ensuing legal battle.
His spirit, however, endures in Bosnian Serb areas. He remains leader of the governing party and, in that capacity, holds regular talks with Orbán or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Ok, so the German dictator placed on top of Bosnia by the USA can’t keep a lid on the ethnic tensions.
Then Hungary trying to avert an another war breaking out, send resources to stabilize the region, and everyone is outraged.
Almost as if they wanted a war to break out.
Why would they put a German there to be a dictator?
Why would they cobble such a nation together, with all these tensions?
Why violate the Serbs’ rights constantly?
And now, after all that work, Hungary tries to stabilize the situation? And actually succeeding? That’s an outrage. How dare they hinder the USA Neocons’ crusade to end all human life? And worst of all, hinder weapon demand?! Outrage!
A very interesting and excellent comment, as always, Dear Márk!
So – our champion of Hungarian minorities Mr. Orbán backs Serbian nationalists. Who haven’t exactly prioritized minority protections?
Let’s be clear – this positioning serves geopolitical positioning, not Vojvodina Hungarians.
Let’s call a spade a spade and just acknowledge that Orban is working as Putin’s proxy in Bosnia. The Hungarian government is completely infiltrated by Russia and Hungary as it stands is more outside Europe than inside.
‘The Hungarian government is completely infiltrated by Russia.’
If that is so, Dear Larry, I take it you would prefer the Hungarian Government to be completely infiltrated by the English – like Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia.
Or would you prefer it to be infiltrated by the French – like Romania and Moldova?
46 years of Russian occupation was more than enough for Hungary. The Russian bastards went home thank God. Russia is a corrupt mafia shit-hole run by the Siloviki who bring nothing but brutality and subservience to the people. The great thing is that hundreds of Russian invaders die each day in Ukraine. Their bodies are sent home to their families to expand the cemetaries where people can see with their own eyes what Putin has brought to Russia. Their mechanized forces have been so degraded that they are now resorting to “meat assaults” and they are increasingly losing ethnic Russians in greater numbers as a result. All good news. Fuck Russia and Fuck You.
‘Let’s be clear – this positioning serves geopolitical positioning, not Vojvodina Hungarians.’
I agree that it serves geopolitical positioning, Dear Norbert – however there are some other reasons, as well.
Bloomberg now reports that Russian losses in Ukraine exceed recruitment. Russia is failing Dear Mouton. Isn’t that fantastic pretend American? Putin f*ck himself big time going in.