Note: For those unaware, the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) "represents" the interests of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to the great misfortune of those same Croats.

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🇧🇦 Significant Surge in Bosnia and Herzegovina's Arms Exports 🚀

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s defense industry has seen an astonishing 400% growth in exports over the past decade. 📈

🔹 In 2014, exports of weapons, ammunition, explosives, and related products totaled 112.1 million BAM, while in 2023, they skyrocketed to 561.5 million BAM.

💥 Main Export Products:
✅ 65% - Ammunition & explosives
✅ 27% - Gunpowder & detonating cords
✅ 7% - Military weapons & parts

🛠️ Military analyst Djuro Kozar highlights major advancements in ammunition production, particularly in Konjic, which supplies both Eastern (Kalashnikov) and Western (M16) firearms.

🔺 Economist Igor Gavran points out that despite years of neglect, BiH’s defense sector is now thriving—and with the EU investing €800 billion in military procurement, further growth is expected.

📌 The Foreign Trade Chamber of BiH reports full production capacity across the sector, emphasizing the need for investment in expansion to meet rising global demand.

You have to admire Donald Trump; he somehow fooled an entire nation into believing that he, a rich man, cared for the working class and the average citizen. Happy Liberation Day to the Global South—corporate greed is killing the empire, and now Americans will understand what it feels like to be an African. 🎉🥳

(To earse confusion, I'm not looking down upon Africa- I'm saying the Americans will experience what it feels like to have your wealth stolen from you by corporations.)

Gazi Husrev-Bey mosque in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, was built in 1532 as the central object of the Bey's endowment. Gazi Husrev-Bey mosque was the first mosque in the world to receive electricity and electric illumination in 1898. 🇧🇦☪

Trade War Tariff Aura 🗿🇧🇦⚔🇺🇸🤡

Bosnian Maqam 🇧🇦☪

April in Sarajevo ✨

You know maybe I should focus more on these sorts of videos

Nationalism in the Balkans, unlike in other parts of the world such as Africa or Latin America, has always been a tool for the imperial powers of Europe. It served one and only one purpose: to harm the then-ruler of the Balkans, Rumelia—the Ottoman Caliphate—and to further the interests of other European empires. If Europe was a chessboard, then the Balkan nation-states were pawns. In the case of the majority of the Balkans, it was the barbaric Russian Empire that launched a wave of violence which surpassed even the savagery of Attila the Hun and engineered the creation of these Orthodox crusader states, intended to serve as Moscow’s foot soldiers in future wars. The histories of these states were distorted into fictitious narratives serving political purposes—explaining why, in our time, there are Balkan nationalist volunteers heading off to fight for Russia in Ukraine. Their nationalism was always meant to serve that very purpose. (Part 1)

🇧🇦 On This Day in 1992, the Longest Siege of a Capital City Began – The Siege of Sarajevo

The siege of Sarajevo lasted 1,425 days — from April 5, 1992, to February 29, 1996.
During that time, an average of 329 shells fell on the city every day.

120 mortars and 250 tanks were stationed in the hills, first by the Yugoslav People's Army, later taken over by the Army of Republika Srpska.
Their goal: to starve, terrify, and break the spirit of the civilian population.

One of the most horrific massacres: Markale Market, February 1994 — 68 civilians killed.
Another in August 1995 claimed 43 lives.
Suada Dilberović and Olga Sučić were the first victims, shot by a sniper on Vrbanja Bridge.

In total, 11,541 people were killed, including 1,601 children.
Over 50,000 tons of shells were fired on the city.
Children were killed while playing, fetching water, or standing in line for bread.

Cultural and historical landmarks were destroyed: the National Library, Olympic Hall Zetra, the Maternity Hospital, the Main Post Office, and more.
Even bread and water lines were targets.

Electricity and water were nearly non-existent. Winters were brutal — trees were cut down for firewood, and families burned furniture, clothes, and books to stay warm.

Despite it all, the people of Sarajevo showed resilience, courage, and creativity in the face of terror.

The International Criminal Tribunal confirmed: civilians were deliberately targeted as part of a campaign of terror by the Army of Republika Srpska.

Sarajevo - A black cauldron

History does not repeat itself but it sure rhymes 🇧🇦☪🇵🇸

Umihana Čuvidina – Bosnia’s First Poetess and the Woman Who Loved Forever 🇧🇦⚜

In the early 19th century, Sarajevo witnessed a love story so powerful that it left a mark on Bosnian literature and collective memory. Umihana Čuvidina, born around 1794 in the Sarajevo neighborhood of Hrid, is remembered as the first known Bosnian Muslim poetess, but also as a woman whose life was shaped by unwavering love and immense loss.

In 1813, her fiancé, Čamdži Mujo, a standard-bearer in the Bosnian army, was killed in the battle near Loznica during the uprising against Serbian rebels. When Umihana received the news that autumn, she made a decision that would define the rest of her life—she would never marry, choosing instead to mourn her beloved and immortalize him through poetry.

Her most famous poem, “Sarajevans Go to War Against Serbia” (Sarajlije iđu na vojsku protiv Srbije), is an epic of 79 verses written in Bosnian using the Arabic noscript. This poem not only captured a historical moment but also stood as a quiet tribute to her fallen fiancé—Mujo’s name never appears, but his absence is powerfully felt in the final verses, when the warriors return and he is missing.

Umihana’s love was so deep, so melancholic, that she gave herself the name Sevda—a reflection of sevdah, the untranslatable word that captures the essence of longing, love, and soulful sorrow in Bosnian culture. In one of her poems, she describes three years of mourning: one year without washing her face, one without smiling, and one without braiding her hair. In the fourth, she cuts her hair and sends it to her uncle, a public declaration that she had given up all hope of love or joy in this life.

She never appears in court records. She never married, never founded an endowment, never left a will, and didn’t die a martyr—all the conditions required for official recognition. Yet, her memory endured.

Her poems, passed down orally, became part of the city’s folklore. In old Sarajevo, people would say, “He loves like Sevda,” a tribute to the woman who lived and died for love. Though many of her poems were later considered anonymous folk songs, researchers agree that at least three can be confidently attributed to her:

Sarajlije iđu na vojsku protiv Srbije

Pogibija aga Sarajlija pod Loznicom 1813

Čamdži Mujo i lijepa Uma

Her story is both heartbreaking and inspiring. In an era where women were expected to move on, remarry, and forget, Umihana defied all conventions. She turned personal grief into literary legacy, and from her sorrow, Bosnia gained its first female poetic voice.

Even today, the exact place of her grave remains unknown, likely unmarked, as was common for unmarried, poor women at the time. But her true monument was built from words, not stone.

As Bosnian poetess Džemila Hanumica Zekić wrote in her tribute poem to Umihana:

No one knows your grave, beautiful Umihana,
So no monument can be raised to you,
To show you were a poetess,
In old, hard, wartime days,
When even girls knew of bloody knives.

Umihana Čuvidina lives on—in verses, in songs, in the soul of Sarajevo.

Bosnia Studio Ghibli version ❤️

Note: I am well aware that real artists hate this and I don't support it but you know- in case the AI take over I need some clout

Bosnian father is carrying his baby while crossing the infamous sniper alley in Sarajevo during the Siege

The Balkans have gone too far, Erdoğan launch the nukes 😭😂

Top 10 reasons why Yugoslavia should not return

Muezzins from Turkey recite the Adhan for the Noon prayer in the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque 🇧🇦❤🇹🇷

Note: We just need an Albanian Imam in order to get the team back together 😁

🇧🇦🇹🇷🇵🇸 I have to say I am very proud of my Turkish brothers and sisters who boycotted these western companies/corporations, I really am. It's good for the Palestinians and it's good for the Turks themselves because you don't want to have these western wolves rummaging around your country, because they are vicious and will kill their hosts for profit. Some of my subscribers might be a little confused by these posts because sometimes they aren't really centred around Bosnia or Bosniaks, but you have to understand that we are Muslims, and if you don't understand Muslims, well then you'll never understand us.

Bonds are upheld, they are not broken. Palestine means a lot to us — not for some humanist reasons, this is not a humanitarian issue for us, it's a Muslim issue, and Bosniaks have fought against that wretched American settler colony since 1948. We see ourselves in the Palestinians, and despite our unique forms of cynicism and fatigue about the world, we marched out in huge numbers for them. We don't even protest that much for ourselves, and we are not a culture that protests. We understand that protesting doesn't have a direct impact on the situation, but it's good to know where your collective heart is — that it's alive, that it isn't dead. If they are happy, then we are happy. If they are a little bit more free, then we are a lot bit more free, and they inspire us, they do.