>fight each other for a thousand years >become strong allies

>>1649007
They became allies with the Crimean War though

Britain was feeling isolated, and it was that or the Germans, and Kaiser Wilhelm was being a dickhead.

>>1649007

Fachoda

>>1649019
Wilhelm almost sounds like an unwanted adopted brother sometimes.
>w-were both anglos right George??

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>>1649007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entente_Cordiale

>>1649034
He's really a prime example of why monarchy doesn't work.

>have a choice to ally with either the Franco-Russian bloc or the Anglo bloc
>ally with neither of them
>get yourself into a war anyway

>>1649007
Germany stopped being a clusterfuck and they couldn't afford to be rivals anymore

>>1649034
>Wilhelm

I feel sorry for the guy in an odd way

>Wilhelm had seen the interview as an opportunity to promote his views and ideas on Anglo-German friendship, but due to his emotional outbursts during the course of the interview, he ended up further alienating not only the British, but also the French, Russians, and Japanese.

>The Daily Telegraph crisis deeply wounded Wilhelm's previously unimpaired self-confidence, and he soon suffered a severe bout of depression from which he never fully recovered.

>pic related

I cringed

>>1649007

They built up a degree of mutual respect that blossomed into firm friendship in the crucibles of ww1 and ww2. Quite a rare outcome for such a fierce rivalry, imo.

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>>1649056
>I told the Kaiser to violate Belgium's neutrality and start a world war to fight France and he actually did it
>the absolute madman!

>>1649056

To be fair, both those blocs formed to oppose Germany, he really didn't have the option of joining one of them.

>>1649007
Jesus fuck roleplaying Polandballs are such fucking cringe.

>>1649007
Germany happened.

>>1649099
this. They're okay for a quick laugh but the author of that comic is somewhere on the autism spectrum.

>>1649078
Bismarck was able to keep the alliance structure pretty okay until he was kicked upstairs.

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>>1649099
One of the mods on the polandball subb reddit actually said he felt disgust from seeing iseology balls.
>in4 browse plebbit