Smart take from @DanielSerwer re: BiH: "The West should not wait until Dodik gets the legislative approval he seeks or acts on his own. Prevention will be far better than cure when it comes to secession. Prevention requires a military move." peacefare.net/2021/10/25/bos…
When it's @DanielSerwer writing like this - whoa!: "RS withdrawal from [BiH's] institutions would leave the country in constitutional and legal limbo...only real options at that point would be reversion to the constitution of the Republic of BiH". peacefare.net/2021/10/25/bos…
Dan's reasoning here is part of why the RS oppo so nervous about Dodik's activities. Any unilateral withdrawal from the DPA would, legally, most jeopardize the RS, not BiH, which only exists as a legal category w/in BiH while the latter has full international character...
...and legal mechanism to revert to previous constitutional regime both. In this respect, "continuation" clause of the Dayton constitution is critical bc it means decisions by RBiH parliament remain legally valid. To be clear, what Dan describes is still a chaotic, dangerous... 
...but it's important, all the same, to game out the legal and political framework of such incidents. And it's clear, as leading officials within RS themselves recognize, dismantling the DPA is an act of legal and political self-immolation for the entity.
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