Jasmin MujanovićVerified account

An astute but disturbing assessment of Macron's view of contemporary European affairs, which echoes similar observations myself and numerous Balkan colleagues have made over the last few weeks. Again I say, he is not a vulgarian but he's certainly a xenophobe.https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1192523851915284484…

Between Macron, Trump, Brexit, and Nordstream I’m surprised Putin hasn’t already invaded the Baltics. Western governments tripping over themselves to deliver gifts to the Kremlin. Incredible, infuriating.https://twitter.com/afp/status/1192497414965465094…

France's allies would do well to take a sober look at who Macron is disparaging and who he is coddling, in the Balkans and in general. Increasingly clear that to preserve European stability and security, his govt's illiberal sympathies and unilateralism must be opposed. /xxx

His claims in this landmark interview viz. Balkans, and Bosnia specifically, are thus at fundamentally misinformed by also clearly malign. They are not true, and are the product of Macron's growing ties to right-wing & illiberal regional govts, his disturbing proximity to Moscow.

I labeled Macron a “less vulgar Trump” after his blockade of North Macedonia and Albania’s accession talks and this really clinches it. He has the same provincial worldview of global politics in which he confuses his own arrogance for wisdom.https://twitter.com/thomaswright08/status/1192403094149173250…

It’s clear the @NobelPrize folks chose to ignore and/or did not care to know about Handke’s relationship w/ Milosevic and/or his revolting apologia. But this will remain as great a stain on their record as the decision not to strip Aung San Suu Kyi of her 1991 Peace Prize.

All manner of Western “useful idiots” carried water for Milosevic. Noam Chomsky, Ed Herman, Tariq Ali, John Pilger, Lewis MacKenzie etc. But actually receiving a passport and citizenship from a pariah state still then under international sanctions?! I’m honestly floored.

Let’s be clear: the official policy of the Serbian state viz. the wars in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo is revisionism and denialism. This not a marginal event. This is “The State” rewriting history, to advance the contemporary political objectives of the Vucic regime.https://twitter.com/birn_btj/status/1192000163134525440…

Dodik really going old school, as his SNSD has now begun referring to East Sarajevo by the Karadzic-era name “Serb Sarajevo”, a term tossed out by Bosnia’s Constitutional Court. The rhetoric of revisionism and obstructionism.https://twitter.com/snsddodik/status/1192088293569159169…

Sen. Paul, the self-declared libertarian and constitutionalist, named after a Soviet emigre, bending over backwards to provide political cover for a President widely understood to be both undermining the rule of law in the U.S. and carrying water for the Kremlin. Top notch.https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1191848918226784258…

New GOP line of defense: Trump doesn’t actually speak Latin so can’t be impeached over such activities. Air tight argument.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1191786531205320706…

Amb. Yovanovitch’s testimony paints a remarkable picture of the state of the U.S. foreign service in the Trump era; it’s an account not befitting a constitutional republic but a illiberal, captured state. And that’s a concern not just for all Americans but all of U.S. allies.

I confess, I did not fully appreciate the extent to which the end of EU enlargement would become an extended seminar on competing political historiographies of “Rumelia” but, alas, here we are.

“I kissed a [post-Soviet autocrat] and I liked it, the taste of [his kleptocratic-revanchist regime]. I kissed a [post-Soviet autocrat], I hope [vulnerable (South)East European and Central Asian polities and civil society] don’t mind it”. - @katyperry, 2008.https://twitter.com/euhomeaffairs/status/1191360938462416896…

Rama is trying to “work with” the radicalization of mainstream EU political discourse, popular far-right demands for “preservation” of “Christian Europe” but that’s the wrong play. It’s a kind of auto-liquidation that indulges fascist fantasies about a imagined past.

Historical revisionism here by Albania’s Rama but bold politics. He’s playing w/ latent fear of the Balkans’ Muslim pop by West Europeans to turn their prejudices on their head, make renewed appeal for enlargement. It’s likely to backfire tho and make “the quiet part loud.”https://twitter.com/valeriein140/status/1191258387998269440…

Comes a time in every man’s life when you take stock — of your accomplishments, of your failures, of the people who have made you, and made all of this toil and trouble worth the struggle, and then you realize, my God, it’s all just a footnote to the 1878 Congress of Berlin.

Of all the terrible 90s reboots making the rounds presently, a UN plan to facilitate forced population transfers and ethnic cleansing in Syria in the style of what occurred in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995 is certainly the worst.https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1191093280311824384…

You're seeing true political implications of the emigration crisis in the Balkans & Bosnia especially, coming into view in this clip. There is seething, furious rage bubbling under the surface of these polities (cf. 2014 protests). And it will boil over, sooner rather than later.