Crossfire War=Rapid Fire News-Southeast Europe Theatre: Serbs in Bosnia Vote to Leave Institutions

Banja Luka: This announcement from the German news service DW was to be expected. For the past ten years, at least, the Bosnian-Serb leader Milorad Dodik has been threatening to do so. I suspect this timing was in anticipation of Serbia being ready for a new armed conflict with governments still marching with Brussels and what is left of NATO. Since the 78 day air offensive against Serbia in 1999 Serbia has re-armed with Russia's assistance and in 2006 Greece-Iran signed security agreements with Belgrade, Serbia's capital.

War in this regional theatre began 1991 when Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia and with Croatia's crooked-twisted boundary severed both Bosnia and Serbia from the Adriatic Sea forcing them into war. Berlin was the first to recognize Croatia even before 1991 had ended with most governments in NATO following the next year. Continuing this destabilizing trend Czechoslovakia voted to divide itself in into the Czech-Slovak Republic prompting a British observer to war Eastern-Central Europe was in danger of descending into tribalism the most primitive of all identities as this was threatening the very existence and concept of the European nation state.

But also in 1992 Teheran established full relations with Croatia's capital Zagreb with Iran announcing Croatia was Iran's entry into Central Europe. Before the decade was half over Berlin sent to Poland Leopard tanks and the U.S. sent Poland some F-16's. 2017 the Turkish news service Hurriyet Daily News reported the meeting in Ankara between the Army Chiefs of Staff of Iran-Turkey. Athens-Ankara had realized the Brussels led offensives against Serbia were actually being directed at the entire Balkan region.

There is such a thing as regional identity. When these divisions took place more than Yugoslavia was being divided. It divided not only Yugoslavia but also NATO and Europe as news from the entire continent began to sound like the 19th century or perhaps the 15th. We have actually been witnessing another Thirty Years War 1618-1648. The location has only slightly shifted and it has opened up the door for Iran which is prepared to use the region for an avenue of invasion into Europe.

George F. Kennan, a former senior U.S. statesmen, warned right after World War II had ended in 1945 that the greatest threat to the West was the West itself.