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Zagreb: "I am afraid of a new conflict in the Balkans." This is a serious warning from former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia William Montgomery. He stated no problem in the region has ever been solved or settled since the breakup of Yugoslavia began in 1991 when Croatia announced its independence and with its crooked-twisted boundary cut off both Bosnia and Serbia from the Adriatic Sea forcing both regions into war. And before the year ended Berlin was the first to embrace the division as a sign its hatred of the Balkans was still very much part of its consciousness as most NATO and European Union governments followed in 1992 and did Washington.

It seems these governments led themselves to believe it would be a grand crisis, which Russia also joined for a while, and assumed the disputes could be resolved with a series of highly publicized, glorious gatherings in almost every European capital, especially Vienna, but they underestimated the impact of weapons dealers. They easily ignored NATO's arms embargo on Bosnia, a mainly Muslim region, with even Pakistan-Malaysia sending assistance. Then in 1992 Teheran established full relations with Croatia's capital Zagreb and announced Croatia was Iran's entry into Central Europe. Before the 1990's ended Berlin sent Poland the Leopard tank and Washington sent Poland the F-16.

NATO offensives against Serbia reached their height with a 78 day air offensive in 1999 but since then in 2006 both Greece-Iran signed security agreements with Serbia. Then in 2017 the Turkish news service Hurriyet Daily News reported the meeting in Ankara between the Turkey-Iran Army Chiefs of Staff. Serbia is obviously no longer alone. The region is an avenue of invasion for Iran escorted by Athens-Ankara. Greece-Turkey both realized these offensives directed at Serbia were in reality directed at the entire Balkan region. As soon as these disputes, some of them quite ancient, broke out news out of Europe began to sound like the 19th century.

Or perhaps the 14th.