To: Cronos
Cleary he was just the Kaiser’s “useful idiot “.
How’d that all work out now? FOR ANYBODY??
2 posted on
06/20/2017 3:48:14 AM PDT by
Flintlock
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To: Flintlock
Kaiser Wilhelm II was an idiot, a raving idiot. He didn't need to go to war in 1914. The Russians were going to collapse sooner or later, while Germany's industrial might was booming. It didn't NEED colonies
If Germany had followed Bismarck's policies and been nice to Russia, it would have:
- Picked up more and more of the industrial capacity of the world
- Picked up German speaking parts of Austria when that Empire collapsed
- Built up a large stock in the former Ottoman Empire
6 posted on
06/20/2017 4:16:06 AM PDT by
Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: Flintlock
Had the Germans won, it would have worked, Lenin would have done all they wanted, but instead the Kaiser abdicated.
8 posted on
06/20/2017 4:27:40 AM PDT by
lavaroise
To: Flintlock
Wilhelm set the nasty Lenin on his cousin Nicky.
Ain’t family wonderful!
12 posted on
06/20/2017 5:24:25 AM PDT by
oldvirginian
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