[BlueLancer]

I would guess that one could get a feel for Chancellor Bismarck's attitude to the Balkans by the following quote:

The starting point for our geopolitical analysis is the famous comment by Otto von Bismarck, the 19th century German chancellor at the time of the Congress of Berlin (1878), who dismissed the Balkans as "not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier".

[dfwgator]

Bismarck was a wise man, sadly Wilhelm wasn’t.