Posted on 02/02/2020 10:33:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
There was plenty of damfoolness to go around, as the Euromonarchies entered the final act. Q Victoria's peace plan was a piece plan -- married off her daughters to the greatest of the royal houses of Europe. Y'know, because dynastic squabbles over who's more qualified to rule have always amounted to a hill of beans. :^D Particularly in England. /jk
True that. Hapsburgs and Romanovs come to mind.
And the military strategists? Never heard of a tactic other than frontal assault? How could two generals be so incompetent as to fight 12 Battles of the Isonzo and nobody won any of them?
The Austrians and Germans generally fought in the west and south using whomever they had available, and that was typically not a lot of manpower. If the Central Powers (in particular, Germany) had sustained the losses of the French and British -- to this day the fake histories say they did -- Germany wouldn't have been able to fight WWII. The Italians were suckered into joining the Entente, and the claim used was that the Central Powers were "running out of men". It was quite the other way. Once the Italians ran into defensible terrain, they didn't know any better than to make frontal assaults on dug-in troops and fortifications, while steadily under superior artillery fire. Same goes for the British and French.
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True.
What is interesting is until the “national awakenings” of the 19th century (triggered by the French revolution creating nationalism), the Ottoman rulers distanced themselves from “Turks’ — they spoke Farsi in the courts and called Turks the nomads or agriculturalists in the east.
Only in the 1800s did they consciously take on the nationalism of “turk” - as emphasized in the Tanzimat reforms
Regarding “they lost the Arab countries because of WWI” — that is de-jure true as in the Arabs would never have been able to get independence otherwise, BUT, they were already unhappy with the Turks from the 1800s onwards - triggered by Wahabbism.
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