WIRE — By: Amb. Alberto M. Fernandez MEMRI.org July 31, 2026 It was a great and subtle statesman almost a century and a half ago that remarked that the Balkans in Europe were not worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.[1] Otto von Bismarcks famous dictum was something a clever man would say, was true in a way, and yet less than thirty years later millions would die in Europe during the Great War because of the Balkans. The 2026 War in Iran is serious business, waged against a vicious, murderous Iranian regime, but it is also, in Read More
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