Who couldn't contain his idiotic massive ego

If it wasn’t for Taft

Austria had a legitimate grievance over Serbia

" dragged into a war"

"Wilhem 2 was too much of a fucking retard"

you can tell this guy learned eveything he knows about WW1 from youtube

not enough to justify war

No idea. @Danacrag

And Serbia didn’t agree to all the demands by Austria which included not being allowed to investigate their princes murder by Austrian police

@Ethreen42 excuse me then I'll need to step aside for other cyber-historians like yourself

Ok then

Teddy Rpsevelt would have handed the Krauts a cann full of American grade Woop Ass if he was President during WW1

Teddy wanted to go in straight away. He would have caused more american deaths and caused a wave of cynicism to sweep across America like it did europe.

Alright, Wilhelm 2 totally didn't fire Bismark

@Andrew Popa 2.0 yeah it didn’t last as long because it lost a world war

Wilhelm 2 totally didn't abandon Realpolitik

What do you think would happen?

@Nathan James 123 thanks tard

my guy Bismark died like 7 years later

even if he was still alive it wouldn't of made much difference

the war escalated because of the Russians threatening Austria hungry 🏃‍♂️💨

plus he died, what, 17 years before ww1 started? give or take

Would honestly be interesting to see how teddy Roosevelt would’ve interacted with Churchill if it was during ww2

The germans were just doing a pretty standard eastern European land grab. France and britain intervention in it was stupid

Wilhelm 2 totally didn't antagonize Germany's potential rivals by pursuing an aggressive arms and colonial race with Britain and France

WW1 was an expression of failed European imperialism.

Naaaah dude

He dindu nuffin

well he wasn't the cause of the war lol

Yeah building a strong military for his country

He’s so evil

What a fucking idiot

It should have just been the ruso-German war instead of a world war

Trying to promote the country and make it a world power

Right cause the treaty system and Serbia shooting the Austrian prince had no effect on the war actually happening and the scale it went to.

Nope none at all

It was a safe assumption to make, that the July crisis would have the same result as the 1913 crisis

i.e, a a diplomatic settlement

well they did invade Belgium

Pursuing an arms race, that's fucking idiotic because it literally implies that Britain and France are going to be Germany's enemies

Who cares about Belgium?

It doesn't come down to "hehe army big cannon goes boom boom"

And these regional powers aren’t rivals? And or potential enemies?