International official: Bosnia is in danger of breaking up

[The Huskar Social Union]

Don't know if its known here yet, but apparently Srpska has voted to separate its institutions from the rest of Bosnia, which will begin to take place in 6 months.

Lets hope they dont start murdering one another in another war.

[Slavuja]

Lets hope they dont start murdering one another in another war.

Respectfully, F off. You of all people should know how annoying it is to get stupid comments/questions that only treat where you're from as a violent powderkeg.
Yes, there are actual morons running the show in Bosnia. But think to yourself, would you be willing to make the exact same mistakes as 25 years ago or do you think that average regular people would want any part in creating the same hell as last time? It's not like the damn country has been frozen in time.

[Salus Maior]

Lets hope they dont start murdering one another in another war.

Respectfully, F off. You of all people should know how annoying it is to get stupid comments/questions that only treat where you're from as a violent powderkeg.
Yes, there are actual morons running the show in Bosnia. But think to yourself, would you be willing to make the exact same mistakes as 25 years ago or do you think that average regular people would want any part in creating the same hell as last time? It's not like the damn country has been frozen in time.

I mean, we keep hoping we learn from our mistakes, but history tends to show otherwise.

That being said, I am hoping that if Bosnia does dissolve it does so peacefully.

[HISPIDA]

Respectfully, F off. You of all people should know how annoying it is to get stupid comments/questions that only treat where you're from as a violent powderkeg.
Yes, there are actual morons running the show in Bosnia. But think to yourself, would you be willing to make the exact same mistakes as 25 years ago or do you think that average regular people would want any part in creating the same hell as last time? It's not like the damn country has been frozen in time.

I mean, we keep hoping we learn from our mistakes, but history tends to show otherwise.

That being said, I am hoping that if Bosnia does dissolve it does so peacefully.

even if an official war doesn't break out i wouldn't be surprised to see paramilitary groups, state-sponsored or otherwise, gain a bit of steam. it happens in every war -- the american civil war had the KKK in reconstruction, WW2 had the soviet partisans as informal paramilitaries and the black brigades as formal paramilitaries, and yugoslavia itself had groups like the SDG and KLA.

[Slavuja]

even if an official war doesn't break out i wouldn't be surprised to see paramilitary groups, state-sponsored or otherwise, gain a bit of steam. it happens in every war -- the american civil war had the KKK in reconstruction, WW2 had the soviet partisans as informal paramilitaries and the black brigades as formal paramilitaries, and yugoslavia itself had groups like the SDG and KLA.

That's a fair point, though I'd argue in Yugoslavia all the paramilitary groups got their funding from some sort of government. The Serb volunteers gained traction because the Milošević regime supported them, the KLA wouldn't have got anywhere without US support, etc. Nowadays I don't think any government (except Russia) would be willing to fund any terrorist/paramilitary group like that. Serbian president Vučić has the entire West breathing down his neck (rightfully so!) and the West will definitely be reluctant to let another Bosnian war happen (to keep their credibility intact).

The problem with Srpska and Dodik is that they seem to be more loyal to Russia than to Serbia. Serbia's doing the good ol' balancing act between the East and West, while Srspka is a lot more 'controllable' from the perspective of Russia because they have ZERO ambition to join the EU. Even with that in mind, the reason why I don't think there will be anything big is simply because all the military aged men and women in the region grew up in the aftermath of the 90s and the average person would much much rather emigrate than stay during peacetime, let alone join the military and fight. One of the reasons why the 90s went so badly is because barely anybody realized what was going on until it was too late, Yugoslavia was still locally regarded as 'the final form' of the western Balkans right up until it went off the deep end in 1991.

When it comes to Bosnia breaking up, there is such a bureaucratic mess that prevents anything from happening that I personally cannot see that happening completely violence-free, so I agree with you there. The best-case scenario would have been if the reforms were passed 15 years ago and they somehow got into the EU by now, but not even the simplest legislation can make it through that quagmire of a government. Likewise, there is no possible way for Srpska to join Serbia simply because the West has invested too much time, effort, and money into the status quo. So what we're left with is either another case of the usual Dodik blowing off steam to increase his approval ratings, or hypothetically a Transnistria situation where Srpska separates with Russian backing but then becomes yet another dead-end rump state.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Lets hope they dont start murdering one another in another war.

Respectfully, F off. You of all people should know how annoying it is to get stupid comments/questions that only treat where you're from as a violent powderkeg.
Yes, there are actual morons running the show in Bosnia. But think to yourself, would you be willing to make the exact same mistakes as 25 years ago or do you think that average regular people would want any part in creating the same hell as last time? It's not like the damn country has been frozen in time.

Fair enough i apologise

[Risottia]

Don't know if its known here yet, but apparently Srpska has voted to separate its institutions from the rest of Bosnia, which will begin to take place in 6 months.

Lets hope they dont start murdering one another in another war.

I entirely expect the Croat-Bosniak Federation to jump at the throat of the Srpska Republic because Croat-Bosniak separatism good, Serbian separatism bad, and guess who will side with Croat-Bosniaks and who with Srpska. (yep, NATO and Russia respectively)

[Lamoni]

Lets hope they dont start murdering one another in another war.

Respectfully, F off. You of all people should know how annoying it is to get stupid comments/questions that only treat where you're from as a violent powderkeg.
Yes, there are actual morons running the show in Bosnia. But think to yourself, would you be willing to make the exact same mistakes as 25 years ago or do you think that average regular people would want any part in creating the same hell as last time? It's not like the damn country has been frozen in time.

*** Warning for flaming ***
How about we not insult our fellow posters?

[Ayytaly]

The breakup of Yugoslavia was far more damaging than what many would admit.

[Sungoldy-China]

Another gunpowder keg that can detonate Europe,

My suggestion is to maintain the status quo first, until finally give Europe a big surprise, haha

[-Astoria-]

Another gunpowder keg that can detonate Europe,

My suggestion is to maintain the status quo first, until finally give Europe a big surprise, haha

"a big surprise"?

Explain more.