comment: >
  
  Pretty much. Bismarck knew how the game was played and Wilhelm 2 dismissing him was idiotic.
context: Serbian here, let me explain. 
  Yesterday a huge chemical truck flipped over and dangerous chemicals got into a Nišava river in southern Serbia. This same water is used for drinking and other stuff.
  Government is using this to cover up real problems. Don’t worry, these “tensions” happen every few months
  Edit update: some reports say 51 person in hospital with symptoms of poisoning already >
  
  
  Don’t worry, these “tensions” happen every few months
  
  Every few months every single year ever since the Ottomans gtfo'ed 104 years ago.. >
  
  It's been an on and off thing since Kosovo was first being juggled around by East Rome, Bulgaria and Serbia starting in the 11th century. >
  
  The region has been at each other's throats since the Greeks and Romans fought the Gepids and Thracians, then the Dacians, then the Huns and the Ostrogoths, then the Slavic peoples migrated in, took on some local flavor and diverged into separate nationalities/ ethnic groups, and fought each other ever since. >
  
  Honestly the region just sounds super cursed. >
  
  Nothing that happens in the Balkans is worth the bones of a single Pomeranian Grenadier.
  
  Bismarck. >
  
  I was just thinking about him. Didn’t he sort of half-predict the next conflict would come about due to shenanigans in the Balkans, and advised his emperor to ignore all of it?