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To: Bonemaker

Eh... Germany gets the proximate direct cause by propping up Austro-Hungary with the Blank Check promise - but it is true that even with that promise, the hugely entangled web of treaties and intrigue would likely have set something off anyway.


209 posted on 09/01/2024 3:09:58 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

Kaiser Wilhelm gave the ‘blank check’ assuming Russia wouldn’t fight. That was his biggest mistake, and his biggest contribution to the catastrophe that was WWI. And when he finally got around to reading Serbia’s response to the Austria-Hungarian ultimatum, he thought it was satisfactory and a “victory” for A-H, without the necessity to go to war. But by then, it was too late.


212 posted on 09/01/2024 3:20:18 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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