DODIK: I COME FROM SMALL COMMUNITY DIRECTLY EXPOSED TO NEOLIBERAL GLOBALISTS

MOSCOW, MAY 28 /SRNA/ – SNSD Leader Milorad Dodik said at the International Security Forum in Moscow that he comes from a small community in the heart of the Balkans that is directly exposed to neoliberal globalists.

Dodik pointed out that not long ago, a researcher noted that small states are artists of survival. "Since large and powerful states are mostly capable of taking care of themselves, it is clear that small countries and communities are most interested in the preservation of international security, where much importance is placed on international law, international morality, and impulses of humanity and compassion," Dodik said in his address. In the context of great power confrontations, Dodik stated that the small states siding with one side or another largely depends on the perception of their leaders and public opinion, and on who is perceived to be losing or gaining in such confrontations. "When it comes to the Serb people, what matters to them is which power conducts a consistent and just policy and which, in addition to pursuing its own interests, leaves at least some space for the free existence of small states and for the most basic principles of humanity," Dodik explained. The Serb people, as he emphasized, has a refined sense of right and wrong, moral and immoral, and have acted accordingly in the past. He also referred to events during the Second World War, stating that when Adolf Hitler was the master of Europe, the Serbs prevailed with a sense of justice and decisively said no to the great tyrant in the critical moment of 1941. "The Serb people intuitively understood that, despite temporary tactical moves and alliances in the tradition of the great Russian people, alignment with a cannibalistic ideology and practice was not acceptable, and that sooner or later its immense power would be decisive in breaking that demonic force of the world at that time," Dodik stressed. In his speech, he also referred to NATO and the collective West’s efforts to discipline and dismantle the former Yugoslavia and subordinate the region to the interests of the Western world. He noted that today, as a multipolar worldview is rapidly developing, the eyes of the global public are focused on the behavior of great powers, because credibility and legitimacy of the main centres of power are becoming important again. He assessed that the new structure of power in international politics today is based on great powers that also represent civilizational states, naming Russia, India, China, the United States plus the European Union, Brazil, South Africa, and others. Dodik also expressed support for the efforts of the Russian Federation in the special military operation to achieve its stated goals, and conveyed condolences for those killed in a terrorist act by the Kyiv regime against a college in Starobilsk.