President Donald Trump stands before a supreme geopolitical opportunity in the Balkans. Decades of State Department bureaucratic inertia have locked American foreign policy into a failed, artificial construct known as the Dayton Accords. This obsolete framework sacrifices American strategic flexibility on the altar of “Democratic” diplomatic nostalgia.

Rather than propping up a dysfunctional Bosnian state that serves as a Trojan horse for European supranationalists, the White House must embrace the realpolitik reality of a sovereign, independent Republika Srpska. Sclerotic institutions in Brussels will object, but Washington must prioritize American survival over diplomatic politeness.