Croatia looks implicated in serious hybrid warfare against Bosnia - Polidicks

https://www.eurasiareview.com/18032019-croatia-looks-implicated-in-serious-hybrid-warfare-against-bosnia-oped/ If it is proven that Croatian intelligence hatched a plot to plant weapons in Bosnian mosques, Croatia is guilty of inciting terrorism in another country. It might be the biggest scandal since the end of the 1992-5 Bosnian War. The Sarajevo independent outlet Zurnal has claimed that Croatian intelligence agents, aided by Croatian diplomats in Bosnia, tried to discredit Bosnia and Herzegovina as a “land of radical Islamic terrorism”. Croatia has thus been implicated in a serious act of hybrid warfare, information since confirmed by the Bosnian Security Minister, Dragan Mektic. The consequences for the relations of the two countries are still unclear. But if the claims are proven, this affair is on par with Iran-Contra affair. In a story that reads like a script for a B-movie action flick, Zurnal laid out details from documents of Bosnian security agencies, and from conversations with a member of the ultra-conservative Muslim Salafi movement, which reveal a failed plan to plant weapons and explosives in Bosnian mosques. The location of the weapons cache, according to those involved, would be revealed by the same person who planted it. This would then justify the previous statements of top Croatian officials such as President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic that Bosnia is a “hotbed of terrorism” and home to at least “10,000 radicalized persons”. On the wings of conspiracy theories originating in 2016 and widely published in the Croatian media, or since the beginning of the disinformation attack labeling the Bosniaks, or Bosnian Muslims, as linked to terrorism – such as the debunked narrative about terrorist camps – the information published by Zurnal and backed by Minister Mektic points to a carefully planned attempt to delegitimize Bosnia. This marks the second incident this year related to Croatian representatives in Bosnia. In January, Croatian ambassador Ivan Del Vechio was withdrawn from his post after he attended the celebration of the Day of Republika Srpska, where he witnessed a posthumous decoration for Slavko Lisica, a Bosnian Serb sentenced for war crimes committed during the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. There's more in the article. I've only quoted the first few paragraphs. This has being going on for a few days now. But if it turns out to be true, this will further complicate the relations between these two countries. Another older source

Last thing we need is serb war 2.0

If there's one thing we don't need right now, it's more controversies in the Balkan. We've already got the whole situation with Kosovo's 100% tariff on Serbian (and Bosnian, I believe) goods that hasn't settled down at all, and the Christchurch Mosque shooting brought about its own set of complications within the region, whether it be the shooting proper (especially in Serbia - by god, imagine not knowing the context of Remove Kebab, and how it found its way as part of the shooting) or the apparent talk that the shooter had previously traveled to both Bulgaria and several former Yugoslav states (including Serbia). I really hope things don't turn out ugly.

Oh boy, if this end ups true, the EU will impose a huge fucking fine.

that's your first concern?

I could never bring myself to find that meme funny because one of my lifelong best friends is a Serb. I hung out with his parents. I visited his family in Belgrade. In the back of my mind I knew if he saw me on some website where people were laughing at those circumstances and at him - let alone finding it funny myself - he would think so much less of me. Sometime's a meme's a meme but other times they're just dissociation and it's really not a leap of the imagination how shooter identified with something that reductive. Call me a tightass or a white knight or holier-than-thou but facepunch has traded in its own fair share of debasing material over the years. Anyway, this whole thing is sure to upset the pro/anti EU political balance in the rest of the Balkans. Yikes.

Your views on the politics here are... very simple. '90s propaganda, I guess. (As for the entire shooting, here many, like everyone I know, literally treat it as a meme) Basically the problem is: due to the insistence on treating literal shit tier AVNOJ borders as if it was the Bible itself, because changing it would open a whole can of worms for everyone (well guess fucking what boy, the world's going back to 19th century politics anyway, so it was for nothing), Bosnia is extremely dysfunctional. We Serbs fought for our fair share, and got a hybrid solution, that was still a fuckover in numerous ways. Now, due to American meddling, the Bosniak and Croat parts got conjoined, but the presidency and many things are still for all 3. So this worked out sort of until the last election - the favored Croat candidate (who was liked by Serbs as well) had his victory stolen by the slightly more numerous Bosniaks - and the reaction was basically "everyone disliked that". So Croats finally see that they ate a big turd back in the war and are now agitating for the Bosnian Croats to get their own entity a la republika srpska, which of course causes massive butthurt in the Bosniaks (a generally annoying and eternally butthurt group who absolutely nobody likes, by the way), who are royally mad they couldn't finish Tito's job and turn the entire thing majority Bosniak (by the way, Bosnia was plurality Serbian until the '70s. Interesting to think about...) Basically this shit got fucked because of pussyfooting all the way back in WW1, though stuff keeps popping up that show that the entire pussyfooting was the job of foreign influence - who still vehemently support multiethnic (read: guaranteed to fail in 1000% of the cases) solutions, not because of altruism or naivete, but because they know that a bunch of tiny nationalities who can't cooperate are safer for their economies - wouldn't want one group to annihilate the others, suddenly turning the area homogeneous and therefore able to upset the balance of power, no?