Bosnia and Herzegovina is slowly falling apart. Aggressive diplomatic action as well as defense is urgent in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to address secession threats by Bosnia’s Serb President Milorad Dodik. Dodik, the Serb member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, pushed the country’s biggest political and security crisis in 26 years with the announcement that the Republika Srpska entity will withdraw from key state institutions – including the armed forces – and set up Serb-only bodies in its place, in violation of the Dayton peace agreement. This leads to creating conflict with others because obviously none will give up their country.

This had not happened in many years and now it is starting to unravel like it did in the 1990s. The US-brokered Dayton accords signed in December 1995 in Paris officially ended the war in Bosnia, but they split the country into two administrative entities: the Serb-run entity Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat dominated Federation entity. Christian Schmidt said that “the prospects of further division and conflict are very real” if the international community does not step in and take action. For Bosnia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Bisera Turkovic, it is important for Bosnia to join NATO as soon as possible to ensure peace and security. Evidence has shown that Russia has been undermining Bosnia’s stability in an attempt to keep the country out of NATO.

We need to put Bosnia in NATO and put sanction on Dodik. This is the only way to save Bosnia and if the United States or European Union do not attempt to do something, war will definitely occur. Milorad Dodik may suggest that there will be no war but would you really believe that coming from someone who cooperates with war criminals? Would the United States let someone take a part of its country? What would this create? Exactly, this is what I am talking about. Sanctions are needed ASAP and Bosnia and Herzegovina deserves to be in NATO. Bosnia is a bit weak as well. Back in the 1900s Bosnia had an embargo on their weapons. Bosnia to this day still does not have as much weapons. This is not fair and the United States as well as the European Union need to think deeply about this because a large number of their citizens come from Bosnia.