Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik is Defiant in the Face of Prosecution
Shane Trejo
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Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska, was recently sentenced to one year in prison and a six-year ban on running for political office at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the vague charges of separatism.
Still, the Bosnian-Serb leader remains in good spirits, telling his supporters there is “no reason to worry” as the Draconian repression only proves their cause for national unity is righteous.
Dodik has called for the liberation of his nation’s majority Serb region, freeing Republika Srpska from a weak and ineffective national government that connects Dodik’s country with the Federation of Croats and Bosniaks in an untenable alliance. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban considers Dodik’s detention to be an outrage.
“The political witch hunt against President [Dodik] is a sad example of the weaponization of the legal system aimed at a democratically elected leader,” Orban wrote in an X post responding to the court’s edict. “If we want to safeguard stability in the Western Balkans, this is not the way forward!”
Russia and Serbia also released statements in opposition to the verdict.
“The prosecution of Milorad Dodik is purely political in its nature, inspired from the West,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in an official statement sent through the Russian embassy in Sarajevo. “This will be a strike on the stability in the Balkan region as a whole.”
“I am going to Banja Luka after the shameful verdict against Milorad Dodik—unlawful, anti-democratic, aimed at undermining Republika Srpska and weakening the position of the Serbian people,” said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in an official statement.
Dodik faced charges after running afoul of Christian Schmidt, a foreign bureaucrat from Germany who has been appointed to lord over the region as part of a globalist “peace agreement.” Schmidt unilaterally declared that Dodik’s calls for secession were illegal, but Dodik refused to be silenced because of Schmidt’s dictate. As a result, Dodik was charged and eventually convicted for these Orwellian thought crimes.
Dodik is refusing to comply with the orders and does not expect them to be enforced.
“There is no more Bosnia-Herzegovina as of today,” Dodik said to his supporters. “I need the support of the people and I will go to the end.”
The repression against populism and nationalism, as was also seen in Romania with dubious charges against presidential frontrunner Calin Georgescu, will backfire. The fire rises, and the globalists will be consumed by its purifying blaze regardless of any desperate last-ditch efforts to suppress the revolution toward order and decency.
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