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No Serb tanks about to roll into Bosnia or Croat and Bosniak fighter jets about to do CAP over Sarajevo. No NATO security councils or UN emergency meetings, but those will come in time, unless well-calculated steps to avoiding the conflict are taken.
Republika Srpska, an autonomous region of ethnic Serbs in Bosnia, voted to keep an outlawed national holiday - the day celebrating its "independence" from Bosnia, thus sparking the 92-95 war - this afternoon. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the holiday, thus practically guaranteeing that the 2018 secessionist vote will come to term.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bosnian-serbs-vote-referendum-banned-top-court-083450971.html
Putin was in Srpska this weekend to meet with its president. I'm sure he was there encouraging the president not to allow the referendum to pass and not to pursue its secession referendum, I say in my best keyboard sarcasm.
The one wildcard this time around will be the fact that some of these folks are now NATO members, unlike in the past. Croatia and Slovenia are members, with Montenegro potentially joining in 2017. The accession of Bosnia to NATO has been in the negotiations process since 2010.
The next decade is going to strain any American president. He or She will have to proceed wisely. The margin for error previous presidents enjoyed will be highly diminished.
Republika Srpska, an autonomous region of ethnic Serbs in Bosnia, voted to keep an outlawed national holiday - the day celebrating its "independence" from Bosnia, thus sparking the 92-95 war - this afternoon. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the holiday, thus practically guaranteeing that the 2018 secessionist vote will come to term.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bosnian-serbs-vote-referendum-banned-top-court-083450971.html
Putin was in Srpska this weekend to meet with its president. I'm sure he was there encouraging the president not to allow the referendum to pass and not to pursue its secession referendum, I say in my best keyboard sarcasm.
The one wildcard this time around will be the fact that some of these folks are now NATO members, unlike in the past. Croatia and Slovenia are members, with Montenegro potentially joining in 2017. The accession of Bosnia to NATO has been in the negotiations process since 2010.
The next decade is going to strain any American president. He or She will have to proceed wisely. The margin for error previous presidents enjoyed will be highly diminished.