As reported by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and other news outlets, “An appeals court in Bosnia-Herzegovina has confirmed a prison sentence for Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik for disregarding the decisions of an international peace envoy, a charge the pro-Russia nationalist politician has dismissed as politically motivated.
Dodik was appealing a sentence handed to him in February for defying the Constitutional Court as well as the peace envoy. It included a one-year prison term that under Bosnia’s legal system may be exchanged for a fine, as well as a six-year ban on political activities.
‘I do not accept the verdict,’ Dodik told reporters. ‘I will seek help from Russia, and I will write a letter to the US administration’.“
Maybe Mr. Dodik can find a sympathetic ear and a shoulder to cry on with Marine Le Pen.
“I express my full support for Marine Le Pen. I commend her steadfast commitment to reinforcing the sovereignty of nations and peoples. I also support her dedication to preserving traditional Christian and family values. I stand with her because she is among the leaders who derive their strength from the will and support of the people. I support her opposition to globalism. For these reasons, I unequivocally condemn the politicisation of the judiciary as a means of silencing political opponents. I place my trust in the strength of Marine Le Pen’s leadership and in the certainty of her ultimate victory.” Dodik wrote.
Both Le Pen and Dodik received support from a former convict Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor, who was pardoned in February by President Donald Trump, now employed as a lobbyist on behalf of the Republic of Srpska: “VP Vance’s recent speech in Munich got it right. Left-wing weaponized prosecutors, courts, & high representatives are trying to jail populist conservative leaders elected by the people & bar them from holding office. What they are doing to LePen in France, the left-wing High Representative in Bosnia has been doing to Dodik, the pro-Trump, pro-Israel, duly elected President of the Republic of Srpska.“
Thick as thieves, huh? But wait, there’s more.
“Hungary gives financial support to the Bosnian Serbs and opposes sanctions against their leader, Milorad Dodik, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in response to a question from BIRN at a three-hour-long press conference in Budapest, a rare occasion on which he took critical questions,” BIRN reports.
This contagious support thing has got to stop somewhere, right?
“Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said that his country’s National Security Council will meet after the Court in Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced the president of the Republika Srpska (RS) entity, Milorad Dodik, with a final verdict.
According to Vučić, after this decision made by the judiciary in Bosnia, Serbia has not been in a “such a difficult” situation and has not faced “such great pressure” since 2008.” Gazeta Express writes. Yup, Dodik’s court cases, you know, a guy from another country, are like The Worst Thing Ever for Serbia. For a good reason.
The Serbian world, territories with “Serbian speakers” outside Serbia’s borders, is a reservoir of fake Serbian citizens with auxiliary voting privileges, bused around Serbia to attend rallies and vote “the patriotic way”. They’ve been loyal to the alt-right front in power in Belgrade, but are now getting cosy up with the alt-right protesters in Serbia, who don’t hide that they hold the same nationalist values about Serbian expansionism. A bus full of auxiliary Serbs from Kosovo, Bosnia, or Croatia will never be met with any questions or hostility from a common person in Serbia. It is considered a right and privilege for our “brothers” from other parts of the Serbian world to vote in elections that have nothing to do with them, because they “suffered through life” and need some extra cash. There are those who don’t agree with such a notion, but they generally keep their mouth shut out of cowardice and conformism.
You better believe that the Hungarian population that lives in the Serbian northern province of Vojvodina does the same for Fidesz by bolstering Orban’s electorate during election time.
A merry-go-round of support! Dodik to Le Pen, MAGA to Dodik and Le Pen and AfD, Dodik to Putin, Vučić to Dodik, Orban to Dodik and Le Pen, round and round they go.
These gatherings of supposedly particularist politicians aren’t a new phenomenon in Europe.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine’s father, visited Belgrade back in 1997 during his magnum opus of unifying the European far-right. His host was Vojislav Šešelj, the leader of the Serbian Radical Party. There’s young Aleksandar Vučič there at the press conference, standing behind Le Pen.
You probably didn’t miss the news about the announcement by the Serbian and Hungarian governments that they plan to build a pipeline between Hungary and Serbia.
Telegraf.rs: “Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto stated on Monday that his country is “moving forward, with Serbian and Russian partners, to build a new oil pipeline between Hungary and Serbia.” “While Brussels is banning Russian energy, cutting links and blocking routes, we need more sources, more routes. Hungary won’t fall victim to these disastrous decisions,” Szijjarto added in a post on X.“
That’s after the Hungary and Serbia agreement on strategic cooperation in defense in April this year. Which didn’t help much when the Ukrainian security services dismantled the Hungarian spy network in Ukraine, prompting Orban to cry about the Ukrainian smear campaign against Hungary and meddling in Hungary’s internal affairs.
The welfare queen of the EU, Hungary, is having some trouble with the European bloc.
“The money currently frozen combines around €8.4 billion in cohesion funds and €9.5 billion in COVID-19 recovery funds.
Hungary is nowhere near unblocking the €18 billion in cohesion and recovery funds that Brussels keeps frozen due to persisting concerns about democratic backsliding, according to the new edition of the Rule of Law Report, released by the European Commission on Tuesday.“, Euronews reports.
While Denmark pushes to suspend Hungary’s EU voting rights. And yet, Orban is still making grandstanding claims about possibly leaving the EU. “Threathening with an empty gun” seems to be an appropriate Serbian proverb to describe Orban’s posture.
So it’s only natural that a group of crim… oops, I mean anti-globalist patriots across the European continent, who can’t seem to handle money, and are very chummy with the Felon in Chief across the Atlantic Ocean, stick together. United they stand, divided they fall, like a fasces.
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