The specter is circling Bosnia and Herzegovina - the specter of war. Thus, paraphrasing Comrades Marx and Engels, the current situation in our country could be summed up. More precisely, if we were to look at it more specifically, it could be said that the specter of fear of repeating the scenario of the 90s has been haunting this space in recent months. The situation in the region, methanation in Montenegro, Kosovo's collapse in Serbia, and other well-known scenarios that come back here cyclically, have excited all the domestic forces, everyone has rolled up their sleeves, and in a sensitive situation and general anxiety, they are trying to achieve what they are decades-long wet dreams of the same actors of our decline and sinking into the abyss of chaos. Since we are not at all interested in the issue of the pandemic, the virus that kills, and the fact that the death rate in BiH is among the highest in Europe, that we have failed at every step, political leaders mired in their obscurantist operations are again trying to bring us into a state of general danger and they each present their own scarecrows of disintegration. Of course, disintegration implies war, and in order to reach that state, one tries to accumulate new tons and tons of fear, in the already disillusioned fabric of the ethnic people.
Before the wall of warfare
The fact that many today claim that kudika was easier and more airy in the first years after the end of the war, is a truth that shows us that we brought the emperor to his feet. General inaction, emptying this country of people who really had some vision of a normal society, new-old polarization on secession and abolition, announced election laws, which legitimize ethnic division and ethnic cleansing, the destruction of every form of civil society unencumbered by ethno-national signs, caused utter hopelessness. On the one hand, the media bombardment and confabulations create the impression that the conflict is just over the hill and that there is an inevitable grand finale that we did not have at the end of the twentieth century, and on the other hand, confused people who do not know where the beginning and end of all this is. they push us into new manipulations with the fear of vampirizing the rhetoric of war and creating the impression that the red line of exiting the state of peace has already been crossed. Of course, the global acceleration brought about by the pandemic has called a lot of things into question, the world has suddenly changed as if with a hocus-pocus, what we knew until now we no longer know at all and new circumstances necessarily require new answers and new solutions.
But, despite that, fear of war, use of our collective trauma, cementing the status of a permanent threat of war, is an unacceptable category that we must not agree to under any circumstances. In all of this, however, the short social memory and the refusal to recognize well-known forms of manipulation are astonishing. If we take steps back to all the earlier periods of post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, we will easily see that the category of a chorus of returning to the rhetoric of conflict is what is presented to us before every election. A number of times they refused to participate in the government the year before the elections, only to be electrified by threats that year, and then ended in their re-election victory. Homogenization of the national fabric of all three constitutive peoples, with complete disregard for the fact that there are those of us here who do not belong to that constitutive division, is their only possible strategy. Only thanks to that they still exist here, are possible and sustainable. Now that the ground under their feet, after catastrophic failures in the process of fighting the pandemic, theft, destruction and humiliation of life, is slipping away, they once again made a decision to bring us to the wall of war with spinner and service methods of harassment.
Left in the wind
Which is to say, they caught us again in the mousetraps of a blocking fear, the one that prevents us from looking beyond the ethnic, to recognize the level of mockery and finally see for once as a civilized world beyond the division that has been imposed on us. The ease with which we agree to their intimidation, to return to the fold of ethnicized nationalist division, is the most dangerous point of their attack. While we have unsolved murders, in which the system eats other people's children, and sends its own rich people to exotic destinations in the white world, pandemic failures that show that the citizens of this country are completely left to the winds and left to fend for themselves, agreeing to ethnic intimidation means giving up completely on your own humanity. It may seem difficult to resist, but if there is even a shred of reason among the people in this country, it is clear from that shred of reason that this is their last attempt to stay in power. It is up to us, only up to us, what kind of response we will give them.
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