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Let’s have a WWI discussion. Which country is most at fault for it?
Posted on 4/4/19 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 4/4/19 at 2:51 pm
Germany is usually everybody’s #1 country to place the blame.
What about Austria-Hungary?
Russia?
Serbia?
France?
Britain?
Discuss
Eta: I think there is blame enough to go around but I don’t think Russia and Britain get enough blame a lot of the time.
What about Austria-Hungary?
Russia?
Serbia?
France?
Britain?
Discuss
Eta: I think there is blame enough to go around but I don’t think Russia and Britain get enough blame a lot of the time.
This post was edited on 4/4/19 at 2:58 pm
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Posted on 4/4/19 at 2:53 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Whatever country Trump’s ancestors were living in...that country is to blame.
Posted on 4/4/19 at 2:53 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
If Britain would have stayed out, a lot of innocent men wouldn’t have died for nothing
Posted on 4/4/19 at 2:54 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Where’s Bosnia-Herzegovina ????
Posted on 4/4/19 at 2:55 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
The Banks that financed both sides
Posted on 4/4/19 at 2:57 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
i blame the french
Posted on 4/4/19 at 2:58 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
quote:Because it is the #1 country to blame. The Kaiser felt looked down upon by his cousins in the English and Russian royal families, Germany was an upstart empire that saw an opening in Europe to rack up points and shot their shot. The fact that the Schlieffen Plan existed long before is proof. And then they chose to be the country to violate Belgium's sovereignty.
Germany is usually everybody’s #1 country to place the blame.
Posted on 4/4/19 at 2:59 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
I don't think you can blame just one country. It was just a perfect storm of awful from a few different areas that fueled it.
Posted on 4/4/19 at 2:59 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Serbia and Austria Hungary for lighting the fuse
Germany and Russia for the amount of dead. They shouldnt have invaded Belgium and shouldnt have went after France. Germany having little dick syndrome and moving west is the problem. Russia shouldnt have rushed to help Serbia. The world should have let Austria Hungary and Serbia Duke it out.
Germany and Russia for the amount of dead. They shouldnt have invaded Belgium and shouldnt have went after France. Germany having little dick syndrome and moving west is the problem. Russia shouldnt have rushed to help Serbia. The world should have let Austria Hungary and Serbia Duke it out.
This post was edited on 4/4/19 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 4/4/19 at 2:59 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
I'd argue it was ethnonationalism and the alliance system that was to blame.
Posted on 4/4/19 at 2:59 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Germany - The Kaiser was itching for a fight
Posted on 4/4/19 at 3:00 pm to Topwater Trout
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i blame the french
Treaty of Versailles plays heavily into it all.
ETA (not changing the original post above)...old guy reads post title as "WWII"...jumps into post without really reading other posts...posts something stupid...
This post was edited on 4/4/19 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 4/4/19 at 3:01 pm to madmaxvol
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Treaty of Versailles plays heavily into it all.
Treaty of Versailles ended the war dummy
This post was edited on 4/4/19 at 3:02 pm
Posted on 4/4/19 at 3:03 pm to Ancient Astronaut
If World War One was a bar fight
I've always enjoyed that story.
But seriously, Germany and Austria were itching for a fight. The upstarts wanted to become major world (colonial) powers like their neighbors.
Dan Carlin's hardcore history podcast on WWI goes into it in pretty good detail.
Also, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is kind of a hilarious story. Earlier that day, they someone else tried and failed to assassinate him. If at first you don't succeed...
I've always enjoyed that story.
But seriously, Germany and Austria were itching for a fight. The upstarts wanted to become major world (colonial) powers like their neighbors.
Dan Carlin's hardcore history podcast on WWI goes into it in pretty good detail.
Also, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is kind of a hilarious story. Earlier that day, they someone else tried and failed to assassinate him. If at first you don't succeed...
Posted on 4/4/19 at 3:05 pm to jdutto3
Posted on 4/4/19 at 3:05 pm to 14&Counting
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Germany - The Kaiser was itching for a fight
France and Russia both were too.
Posted on 4/4/19 at 3:06 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Belgium. If they had just let Germany through then Britain wouldn’t have declared war and Germany would have knocked France out before Russia could mobilize, and the whole war might have taken a few months with minimal carnage and destruction and simply resulted in some territory changing hands
Posted on 4/4/19 at 3:06 pm to 14&Counting
And was the primary cause of all the strife/discord which fueled WW2
Posted on 4/4/19 at 3:07 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
You can come up with incidents or policies here and there to debate otherwise in who started the WWs. But in the end it always comes back to the Huns.
They started ‘em. Uncle Sam finished ‘em.
They started ‘em. Uncle Sam finished ‘em.
This post was edited on 4/4/19 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 4/4/19 at 3:09 pm to upgrayedd
this is hilarious
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