The Bridge That Europe Left Closed

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kosovo's Mitrovica Bridge stands as a damning symbol of Western betrayal and their capitulation to Kremlin-aligned Serbia's autocratic loyalties.

On this day, November 9, the world marks 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall—a day that resonated as a triumph of freedom, democracy, and human resilience. The Berlin Wall, erected in 1961, stood as a stark symbol of division, separating families, stifling dissent, and representing the ideological chasm of the Cold War between the capitalist West and the communist East. For 28 years, this concrete barrier, laced with barbed wire and watched over by armed guards, was a physical manifestation of the Iron Curtain.

It was on November 9, 1989, after mounting pressure from persistent civic movements and the unraveling of the Soviet Union’s grip, that the gates were finally opened, and the Wall fell. The images of Berliners tearing down the Wall, embracing one another, and pouring through the checkpoints were broadcast globally, celebrated as a definitive moment of liberation and the end of Germany’s division. In its aftermath, the Wall’s fall set the stage for German reunification in …