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Everyone in Bosnia and Herzegovina is aware that things in the country are not going well at all.

As elsewhere, however, no one likes being blamed by others for his own state even when it is as bad as it can get. That is why many Bosnians find themselves more annoyed than frightened by recent simultaneous warnings of a possible new conflict in Bosnia, expressed particularly by US officials, institutions and media.

Following US Vice President Joe Biden's warning to Bosnian politicians against falling back into “old patterns and ancient animosities,” which has brought no tangible effects since his visit to Sarajevo at the beginning of summer, the US-based Foreign Affairs magazine wrote in its last issue that “the country now stands on the brink of...