[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for that observation. When I read your comments, it almost seemed as if the comments you described were addressing some causal effect that contributed to Germany going postal, something that could have been avoided. Did you pick up on that?

[Mr. Silverback]

I actually used to think that WWI could have been avoided, but the more I read on it, the more I realized that it really was all about Germany going insane. The book that clinched it for me was King, Kaiser, Tsar. There were things that could have changed inside the German court, but once Wilhelm was surrounded by Anglophobe syncophants, everything England, France and Russia did to promote peace only caught his attention briefly and every perceived personal slight became huge.

So yeah, I think that if they are seeing it as WWI, they should be seeing it as something that needs to be checked early. Our one ray of light is that there are probably people much saner then Kaiser Bill in charge over there, and they have a lot of wealth that will be flushed down the toilet if they make war on us.