[Burkeman1]

Well- thats a bit of a false argument isn't it? Are you saying that WWI wasn't the result of "true Monarchism" much like leftists say that "real communism" wasn't Stalinism? Communists in the Gulags used to blame their arrest and torture on "ministers" as well and would moan "if only Stalin knew what was going on!"

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

War, unlike tango, does not require two. It only requires one who is sufficiently pushy. That would be the French. They invaded Germany in 1870 and got their heads handed to them. As a result, they lost two provinces that had been stolen by Napoleon in the first place. So they wanted to get even, and enlisted the Tsar's government in their scheme.

In a supporting role, perfidious Albion, which hasn't been a proper monarchy since the Stuarts went away.