German troops to protect NATO’s eastern flank. Unifier of Germany and its first Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck once famously said: “The great questions of our time will not be settled by resolutions and by majority votes […] but by blood and iron.” Ever since the days of the ‘Iron Chancellor’, and especially after World War 2, German militarism has become a scary thought to many across Europe. Now, eighty years after the end of the Nazi nightmare, the Teutonic leaders are ready for their first international military adventure. Today (1), Germany officially launched a permanent foreign troop deployment – a 5,000-strong armored brigade in Lithuania. Berlin’s move is seen as a maneuver ‘to bolster NATO’s eastern flank’ in response to the Old Continent’s new bogeyman:…
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