What if Bosnia-Hercegovina is placed under a foreign protectorate?
In that case it is hard to predict how long it would last and what its goals would be. There is already a de facto protectorate, and a legal protectorate, if introduced, would be the best solution for all three peoples, although the Serbs would be unbelievably angry. Croats would be a bit less angry and we Muslims wouldn’t be angry at all. In my opinion Bosnia-Hercegovina can only survive under some sort of de facto or legal protectorate. When was Bosnia-Hercegovina whole while left to itself? Never. The Ottomans held it in their hands, Austria-Hungary as well. As soon as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes arrived Bosnia-Hercegovina begun to break into regions and split into two parts in 1939. One part drifted towards Serbia and the other towards Croatia. Therefore, under the rule of its own people, Bosnia-Hercegovina must break up. That is inevitable. Socialism held Bosnia forcefully in its hands. Doesn’t the political existence of the medieval Bosnian state contradict you? Med
