German troops back to Bosnia as fear of instability grows

https://www.channelnewsasia.com ^ | 17 Aug 2022 05:02AM | cna

[RomanSoldier19]

BERLIN: Germany has deployed troops with the European Union's peacekeeping mission in Bosnia for the first time in a decade as concerns mount instability from the Ukraine war could spread to the Western Balkans.

On Tuesday, the first German troops to return to the country were greeted in a ceremony at the Sarajevo headquarters of the EUFOR force that marked the start of their mission, a German military spokesman said.

Germany will deploy some 30 troops in total to Bosnia by mid-September, returning to the force that it had left at the end of 2012.

Bosnia is hundreds of miles from the fighting in Ukraine but faces an increasingly assertive Bosnian Serb separatist movement that analysts say has at least tacit support from Moscow.

NATO and senior EU officials have warned that instability from the war in Ukraine could spread to the Western Balkans.

[RomanSoldier19]

[EEGator]

This sounds like nonsense.

[BenLurkin]

[CatHerd]

Whoopdedoodle. 30 troops. That oughtta show those pesky Serbs. (eye roll).

[BenLurkin]

Bosnians:

[dfwgator]

This was what I was afraid of. It doesn’t take much to get the Balkans going.

[DesertRhino]

I really hope the Germans can come up with some kind of final solution to the problems there in Eastern Europe...

[RomanSoldier19]

[CatHerd]

Most people don’t know about that.

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[Leaning Right]

> Germany will deploy some 30 troops in total to Bosnia... <

All this fuss over 30 soldiers?

[fortes fortuna juvat]

I really hope the Germans can come up with some kind of final solution to the problems there in Eastern Europe...
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I see what you did there!

[dfwgator]

I don’t like the sound of ‘ese ‘ere ‘Boncentration Bamps’.

[CatHerd]

To this day, it's still a mystery why Izetbegovic ascended to the presidency of BiH when Fikret Abdic was the duly elected president. Here's a picture of Izetbegovic during WWII when he served in the genocidal Handzar Dvision:

[dfwgator]

Holy crap that looks like Putin.

[CatHerd]

Oops! My #13 was supposed to be in reply to you, but I goofed.

[CatHerd]

Yeah, kinda does, but these forehead is all wrong for Putin. It’s Alia alright, though.

[MGunny]

30 troops. That’s half the German Army. That’s some commitment!

[Long Jon No Silver]

albanian self determination =good. Serbian self determination=bad. Get stuffed Nato.

[GOPJ]

Germany will deploy some 30 troops in total to Bosnia by mid-September, returning to the force that it had left at the end of 2012.

Thirty troops? They can ride in one bus with room left over for local kids to get to school.

[DesertRhino]

Sure does… I thought it was a meme at first.