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Originally Posted by bobtodrick
Kos, did you not take history in school...or did you just sleep through it?
From the 1890's onward Germany had aspirations to global domination. As Wilhelm II said in a speech in 1893 he forsaw the day when the sun would never set on the German Empire as it had been with Britian.
Weltpolitik...Germany's plan for a world empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltpolitik
But you just go on believing in your pacifist drivel. |
Actually, everybody was striving for a place in the sun, Britain, Germany, Russia, France, Austria plus a few more. Everybody had alliances including some secret ones to cover their backs. A war was expected and they all believed they'd come out ahead. When it came it was an an accident. The man who started it by assassinating the Austrian arch duke and his wife couldn't understand how a couple of pistol shots escalated to a world wide conflict.
Grizz