How come he was literally right about everything?
>>1379828
Based Iron chancellor.
Daily reminder that Wilhelm II ruined everything
>create a system that only you can run
>stop running it
>Europe crashes with no survivors
I may be some sort of contrarian with this, but didn't his treaty of Berlin forever alienate Russia from Germany?
>>1379857
You mean the treaty of 1884?
I thought that treaty was just about ending the scramble for Africa.
>>1379857
>treaty of Berlin
not necessarily, the Ottomans are traditional enemies of the Russians, and although they did lose a lot of potential ambition in the balkans, the ottomans would never recover from the Bulgarian Crisis.
>>1379857
Yes it did to be honest. But under Bismarck or any other competent man the russians could've been calmed in the long run preventing a total antagonism.
>>1379882
1878, it was about not letting Russia become too powerful after basically expulsing the Ottomans out of the Balkans.
>>1379882
Youre thinking of the Berlin Conference
>>1379914
Either way, better to alienate someone because you Don't want them to become far too powerful than because you try to build a navy you Don't even need and won't use when you actually do.
>Bismarck contrives to send Wilhelm II to a Prussian Military academy and instill him full of obedient martial values
>backfires on him when Wilhelm becomes obsessed with the pomp & glory of militarism instead of being the liberal reformer that his dad Fredrick wanted him to be
Ya fucked up Bismarck. You thought you could manipulate Wilhelm II like he was a pawn in your game and you ended up screwing everyone over.
>>1379978
Military academies are frauds. Huge waste of money that creates maybe one good politician or two out of a class.
>>1379856
same for Tito, was Tito as based?
>>1380025
Tito was pretty based
>>1380025
>implying a dude like this could be anything but based
>>1380949
Show me your friends, they say.
>>1380950
More of Tito's friends.
>>1380952
Titoboat
>>1380025
>revisionist bourgeois traitor of the revolution
>based
>>1380025
So was Diocletian, Atatürk, Genghis Khan, Louis XIV, and any other halfway decent despot
>"if someone else is doing it right, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG"
also
>"Après-moi, le déluge"
>>1379856
isn't like if his system was so complicated. His successor only needed not fight with every neighbour they got.
>>1379828
His greatest mistake: not realizing that bloodthirsty imperialists didn't mind letting scores of white people die too.
>>1379856
Same for Friedrich II, Pilsudski, Tito, and Metternich; are you insinuating that great men should be faulted for their greatness?
"Charlemagne introduced Jewish Christianity into Germany. He destroyed the ancient Teutonic faith in Wodan. Behind all our troubles lie Charlemagne and the Pope."
- General Erich Ludendorff
>>1382450
Wasn't he the cunt who asked the Entente for peace and then blamed it on the civil government?
