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To: Fai Mao
LOL. But the Franco-Prussian war was the final set-up by Bismarck to stampede the German states into unifying. If the Germans had simply insisted on reparations because the French declared war first instead annexing so much territory, there might not have been a Great War at all.

And everything might have been different if the Archduke Ferdinand's driver had not made a wrong turn.

44 posted on 03/24/2021 7:41:02 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: pierrem15

Britain and France couldn’t handle having a new kid on the block.


47 posted on 03/24/2021 7:56:50 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: pierrem15
And everything might have been different if the Archduke Ferdinand's driver had not made a wrong turn.

Something was going to set it off, it was only a matter of time.

48 posted on 03/24/2021 7:57:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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