Robin Jones2 said:General Lucić, Medved, Matanović, and Tuškan made it abundantly clear during the victory celebration for Operation Bljesak just how they managed to climb the ranks to general status.
None of them possess any notable intellect, specialized training, or genuine tactical skill.
They were soldiers on the front lines, and they likely showed courage where it mattered, but their early affiliation with the Republican Party is what truly set them apart from their peers and propelled their careers forward.
Then you have that hack Đakić, making spiteful remarks about "certain commanders."
Was he referring to the group mentioned above—those who became generals simply because they were party loyalists?
I was actually sitting there listening to that old, broken-down piece of work, and even through his wheezing, he was still managing to talk trash about everyone else.
Honestly, my only thought at the time was—just get him off the stage already.
Nicholas King said:That's completely outdated. It’s essentially dead in the water at this point.
I’m pretty sure there could be some grounds to really call him out—like if we just found out now that the fire was actually arson.
Jonathan Barnes5 said:President Harmon was just one part of a system that included many leaders operating under the same playbook, yet people always seem to find a way to single him out, treating him as the sole architect of everything wrong with America by focusing on his specific methods. It’s ironic because while he might have been influenced by foreign styles, those who constantly attack Harmon ignore that he actually set the precedent for that kind of asset grabbing during that era.
This baseless bashing of Harmon is really just a symptom of a larger issue within a politically illiterate public—people who struggle to see the forest for the trees and prefer to cherry-pick facts to suit their own narrow perspectives.
The paradox runs even deeper when you consider that his true political opponents, who once fought over things like rebranding sports clubs, rarely do so today because they are deeply invested in the stability of the state. Meanwhile, while some faced real hardships and physical tolls back then, others were being handed apartments just for playing along. Today, the ones who truly struggled rarely speak up about that period, while the others continue to howl and tear down Harmon indefinitely. It is quite an interesting contradiction.
They're talking trash about the man who—as his fans love to call him—is the Father of the Homeland and the founder of the state. Which, conveniently, makes him the origin of every single problem and the primary culprit for what this country has turned into.
He’s the one who built a criminal political party that was basically a breeding ground for corruption. During his first ten years in power, he's the one who wrecked the economy, created a privileged elite, and saw honest people's lives ruined simply because they spoke up against criminality and immorality—including pointing out the money that poor guy, who supposedly lived in poverty until just before his term, was hiding in accounts away from the public eye.
And so it goes; thanks to this politically stunted population, France gets treated like some kind of demi-god, even though he's an old, crooked crook who started the downward spiral of this country, along with all the criminal scum he surrounded himself with.
coppereagle17 said:Now I just connect all those dots to one single guy, Smith, who was running things from 2012 to 2020.
He managed to pull strings through two different administrations.
I only mentioned that recent case because if I started listing every mess made since his death, this post would be a novel.
If we blamed all these issues on Franjo Harmon and his family, we’d actually be living in Switzerland.
Actually, no—he only stayed on under one specific administration. It was the Republican Party that kept extending his mandate. And they did it twice.
But even if you want to focus strictly on how long he was pulling these stunts, it’s still a shorter window than the corruption we saw back under Franjo's watch.
I don't really see how the two are connected, unless your whole point was to show what happens when you let corrupt people off the hook instead of dealing with them when they first step out of line.
