The US flew two F-16 fighter jets over Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday as a show of force meant as a threat to Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodnik, who wants independence for the Serb-majority area of the country he controls.
Dodnik is the president of the Republika Srpska, a semi-autonomous Serb republic within the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina that’s separate from the other part of the country that’s mainly populated by Bosniak Muslims and Croats, known as the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The boundaries were set by the 1995 Dayton Accords, which were negotiated following a US and NATO intervention against the Serbs in the ethnic conflict in the area. The US Embassy in Sarajevo said the F-16 fighter jets flew over Bosnia to show US support for the country’s “territorial integrity.”
“This bilateral training is an example of advanced military-to-military cooperation that contributes to peace and security in the Western Balkans as well as demonstrates the United States’ commitment to ensuring the territorial integrity of BiH (Bosnia-Herzegovina) in the face of anti-Dayton and secessionist activity,” the statement said, according to The Associated Press.
“The United States has underscored that the BiH (Bosnia-Herzegovina) Constitution provides no right of secession, and it will act if anyone tries to change this basic element,” the statement added.
Dodnik recently told AP that he will continue to pursue Serb interests despite threats from the US. “I am not irrational, I know that America’s response will be to use force … but I have no reason to be frightened by that into sacrificing (Serb) national interests,” he said.
James O’Brien, the US assistant secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, recently threatened that the US will “act” if anyone threatens the terms of the Dayton Accords and said nobody in the country has the right to “secession.”
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them,” no such dissolution shall be permitted unless and until the Noble Leaders of the Indispensable Nation approve and grant permission.
Of course the US is dictating to a small region with no military industrial base and no way to protect itself.
If the US can’t win in Afghanistan or Ukraine then Joey Biden will foment war in any small corner of the world he can threaten.
Add up US Government wars;
Russia, Palestine, China, Iran Korea, Serbia, Venezuela, Africa, Puerto Rico, and Haiti.
US: “People deserve the right to self determination, like Kosovo.”
Also US: “Yeah, sorry Bosnian Serbs / Croats, you don’t get to have an independent state or join with your greater state.”
I feel sympathy for them, Bosnia had always been a mountainous autonomous border region where neither Croat nor Serb nobility or the bishoprics were able to enact much long lasting influence. However I also get tired of the nationalist types who are willing to go to war for this and that and how easily they are manipulated by certain actors. We didn’t always all hate each as much as we do now.
God, we are a disgusting piece of shit.
i do not know what you are referring to but damnit man this poor world is drowning in plastic
what
I’d say “Authoritarianism is soooo 2021” but evidently it just oscillates between the Left or the Right doing it.
The division of Bosnia into two parts is the craziest map in existence
US ….. said no one has the right to ‘secession’
tell that to George Washington.
anyway, if you are Taiwan we will help you to secede.
Taiwan can’t secede because it has nothing to secede from. It is not and never has been part of the People’s Republic of China.
Until recently China was never part of the People’s Republic of China either but it sure is now. It shall be thus with Taiwan – one way or the other.
I’m only hoping it doesn’t happen at the cost our 7th Fleet.
There might indeed come a time when the PRC regime has both the ability to, and perceives a need to, invade, conquer, occupy, and annex Taiwan.
There might also indeed come a time when enough Taiwanese desire unification for it to happen peacefully.
But neither of those times seems to be here yet.
While I’d like to see the 7th Fleet go away, it’s a lot more likely to be slowly decommissioned, replaced, and auctioned off for scrap, than sunk by a navy whose own masters have been quite clear that they are working toward a long-term goal of being able to compete with it.
damnit Knapp i honestly thought that i was being clever.
i hate being proven wrong but when i am proven wrong i am at least man enough to admit to telling everybody around me to suck it.
so hey man, you and everybody else around me can suck it.
wait, what?
what
Pay attention to this up-and-coming conflict. The US has attempted another color revolution against the Serbian government just two weeks ago (https://countercurrents.org/2023/12/attempted-color-revolution-foiled-in-serbia/ , and https://thepressunited.com/updates/color-revolution-attempt-in-serbia-what-we-know-so-far/ ).
There was a previous color revolution in 2000, in then-Yugoslavia, one of the first in a series of such US-engineered revolts around the Mediterranean (https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/06/15/color-revolution-serbia/).
The US empire is going down but it is not going down quietly. Buckle up, turbulence ahead.
The pathetic point is, humiliated in Ukraine, the Neocon-nazis feel the need to display their manhood by beating up on another tiny country … “military equivalent of clubbing baby seals” (Col McGregor)
Life can be tough, but it’s even tougher if you happen to be an Orthodox Slav or Shia Muslim, where genocide is the order of the day..