Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual press conference in Moscow.
Doesn’t this headline sound a bit odd?
Actually, not just a bit odd—it seems completely false. A pathetic fabrication, even. How can Putin possibly be concerned about what Russia is doing if, in essence, he is Russia?
It’s so easy to spot falsehoods in someone else’s backyard, isn’t it?
Yet, yesterday, this sentence was published across all major Bosnian media outlets:
“Western embassies declared on Wednesday that they are concerned about the constitutional order in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
And guess what? There wasn’t a single, I mean not one, reaction from the so-called great Bosnian peoples, the renowned intellectuals of Bosnia’s thousand-year legacy, or even a murmur from our dear planet Earth. Not even Žižek has spoken up.
Let’s ask the obvious question: who exactly destroyed the constitutional order in Bosnia? Was it aliens? No. Local “savages”? Also no.
If it makes things easier, the ones who ruined Bosnia’s constitutional order are the same people who today express their “concern” about its collapse.
Bosnia doesn’t have a constitutional order. The Dayton Constitution was dismantled in 2001 when the Office of the High Representative (OHR)—an institution without the authority to destroy constitutions—did precisely that. The Austrian Wolfgang Petritsch was at the helm. What’s in force now is the Bonn Constitution because Dayton is long gone.
This is akin to Austria’s actions in 1878, when it had no mandate to occupy or annex Bosnia and Herzegovina, yet did so anyway—illegally and through aggression—claiming it was for our own good. And those who resisted, like Gavrilo Princip, were branded terrorists and imprisoned.
There is no such thing as a “Dayton constitutional order.” Just like there’s no Nord Stream pipeline anymore. Just like there’s no Iraq, nor the 500,000 Iraqi children who perished. But there are new Gavrilos, whom they aim to imprison.
Let’s repeat the sentence once more:
“Western embassies declared on Wednesday that they are concerned about the constitutional order in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
We in Bosnia and Herzegovina are also concerned—concerned for the survival of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. We condemn all Bosnians and Herzegovinians working against its preservation. It’s crucial that the monarchy endures, that our king in Vienna remains healthy, and that his princes thrive. Please extend our regards and Christmas wishes to them on our behalf.
Let this sentence:
“Western embassies declared on Wednesday that they are concerned about the constitutional order in Bosnia and Herzegovina,”
enter the annals of Western diplomacy as one of its Top 10 hypocrisies.
And yes, we are sincerely worried about the mental health of these diplomats—at the very least, their dignity, morals, lucidity, and good intentions. And this sentence, unlike theirs, is not ironic.
/Poskok/