tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220576471648313696.post5688275300059772024..comments2022-11-24T15:09:02.086-08:00Comments on The Serbian Roundup: ''Springing'' Dodik and Serb Republic's SurvivalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220576471648313696.post-50742278631223276582013-02-15T06:24:00.567-08:002013-02-15T06:24:00.567-08:00Thanks for the comment and the support, Barry.
Dod...Thanks for the comment and the support, Barry.<br />Dodik, if he's smart, will adjust or he will go down. I emphasize that thin line between orchestrated revolt and the revolt people take over and take ownership of. A small group of paid professionals orchestrated the revolt against Milosevic and polarized Serbia along the line of being pro- or against him. If enough loud drums beat against Dodik and if he keeps responding in a uncontrolled way, as he has, the same can happen and the outraged people will be forced to choose.<br />There are elections and it is the arena in which the bad should go down and the better should rise up. <br />My main problem with bringing down Dodik in any other way is the experience of having anti-Serbian interests being behind ousting Serbian leaders.<br />Srbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06954978311211803253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220576471648313696.post-4185293448672771552013-02-06T14:33:13.181-08:002013-02-06T14:33:13.181-08:00Well written post Srbo!
I certainly agree with yo...Well written post Srbo!<br /><br />I certainly agree with your arguments that anyone in favor of a spring/violence in the Serb Republic is arguing against the interests of the Serb people. In fact, this can be extended to any country that is generally opposed to Western interests like Russia, Iran, Libya etc - anything or anyone that the West supports tend to be opposed to the people's interest as a whole... <br /><br />I'm not sure I can imagine a color revolution in the Serb Republic, simply because of the overwhelming support for the ruling SDS/SNSD parties. If the "international community" could have pulled something off along those lines, they would have done it years ago.<br /><br />But you're right in arguing that Dodik's support is waning, particularly because of the negative economic situation in both of Bosnia's entities. This might make him vulnerable to external attempts to undermine him, or simply to media campaigns demonizing him... <br /><br />I wholeheartedly agree - if the Serb Republic and Serbs from the north of Kosovo have shown anything, it's that passive resistance can be VERY effective in the face of Western imperial might!Barrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220576471648313696.post-80222907623197560202013-01-17T12:33:08.413-08:002013-01-17T12:33:08.413-08:00I said it long ago: imperialism doesn't impose...I said it long ago: imperialism doesn't impose borders to its expansion, the resistance to it does. <br />Yes, provided there is merit to Dodik's claims, we can argue these points. Not for nothing, the early Twitter community in any society is an indicator of political leanings of its best technologically equipped and savvy population. Well, there was a TV debate on Banja Luka's ATV between Dodik and Bosic last night and it followed by Twitter activism reminding of the best Alinsky ridicule advice. Now, ridiculing Dodik is neither hard not unexpected, but to not have any supporters in this community is weird. Not that Bosic had any either, but I made the point of not showing expectations from SDS to cooperate with the Imperialist clandestine efforts against Dodik. The most technologically advanced groups, for some reason, are close to PDP, like the ones in Serbia tend to be close to Dinkic.<br />Not that Twitter activity is an indicator of a plan, but it can be an indicator of a mood and of certain hopes.<br />Regardless of the prospects, I hope you are right in your last sentence. Srbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06954978311211803253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220576471648313696.post-50159492286104984632013-01-12T06:05:05.816-08:002013-01-12T06:05:05.816-08:00Providing there is substance to these fears this w...Providing there is substance to these fears this would be an indication of how low the foreign meddlers gunning for a unitarian BiH have really fallen. <br /><br />Supposedly they have all the power needed to remove Dodik as it is. All they need to do is snap their fingers, exercise their "Bonn powers", and strip him of the position he has been elected to. As they in fact did with Nikola Poplašen who occupied the office in 1999. In theory no such complicated, and logistically demanding undertaking as a color revolution is needed to take Dodik down.<br /><br />If instead of the "Bonn powers" the biggest worry of Dodik is the prospect of a color revolution it shows how frightened the self-imposed supervisors from abroad are to exercise the powers they have claimed for themselves. I would say this shows the way forward (eg for Serbia). <br /><br />Imperials and Europeanists may think themselves endowed with the right to exercise power over peoples in the region, but at least nowadays, in the face of a courageous front they are too unsure of themselves to actually exercise it. <br /><br />They are only confident enough to slap around those who accept their right to do so. Challenge it instead and they're left pathetic and immobile. The Hero of Crappy Townhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08240189996638383467noreply@blogger.com