What caused WWI?

German autism

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Germany

Conflicting capitalist interests

>>2291816
/thread

>>2291806
that one serbian guy started the initial shitflinging but germany escalated it

>>2291806
NOT GERMANY

Nationalism and affiliations.

>>2291806
Imperialism.

>>2291843
If Germany came together as one nation earlier like UK or France did, would WWI have occurred?

>>2291806
Changing balances of power pushed over the edge by Germany (and Austria).

>>2291806
Autism

Nationalism played a big part, imperialism also set the stage for the opposing parties. Rudimentary diplomatic channels also played a part. The lack of an organization like the UN where disputing parties could come together and diffuse potentially dangerous disputes. Bilateral requests for arbitration rarely have the same tranquilizing effect as putting a dispute before an entire assembly of nations where the danger of being seen as an aggressor is more acute.

Nationalism and imperialism

>>2291806
Germany should be wiped off the face of the earth.

P.S. And WWI 2.0 ruined nationalism and caused the cuckening of the white race.

>>2291806
Large quantity of pathogens along with Eastern Realm.

>>2291806
The Jews.

>>2291860
You misspelled Austria

Churchill and the jewd

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>>2291866

>>2291899
>Hey Jewd, dont make it bad...

>>2291806
>What caused WWI?

German and Austrial leadership thinking that a little victorious war would magically solve their internal and external problems. Problems caused by their own stupidity.

Also, thinking that anyone would just back down once they rattle their sabers.

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>>2291905
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hohsP-hK1SQ

Extensive networks of alliances, treaties, and colonial expansions coupled with the rise of Germany as a paranoid, upstart nation. A war was coming and everyone knew it, it's why the Germans had an extensive army and a plan of attack right out of the gates. All that was required was someone to pull the light the fuse, fucking Serbs

>>2291893
no I'm pretty sure that is the correct spelling

>>2291923
This thread is about the 1st act of the World War.
>gotta love the butthurt reflex though
>GERMANY?
>Wah wah, poor us.

>>2291926
Not only this, but the war had already tried to start several times in the 20 years leading up to WWI with alliances all over the god damn place.

>>2291926
>A war was coming and everyone knew it

That can't be further from truth. UK, France and Russia didn't want a war and went in lengths to avoid it. France was terrified of widening gap between her and Germany. Russia was preoccupied with her own massive internal problems and UK was almost completely disinterested in European affairs.

They only persons who actually wanted war were the aristocrats in charge of Germany and Austria.

>>2291933
As I said, WWII was just WWI 2.0 and Germany should be wiped off the map.

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>>2291940
Now that's some quality revisionism right here.

>>2291806
Militarism
Autism
Imperialism
Nationalism

>>2291940
>That can't be further from truth
>Entente was set up specifically for the war everyone saw coming in the 1890's
>That can't be further from the truth
You are a fucking retard.

>>2291940

>That can't be further from truth. UK, France and Russia didn't want a war and went in lengths to avoid it. France was terrified of widening gap between her and Germany. Russia was preoccupied with her own massive internal problems and UK was almost completely disinterested in European affairs.

You realize people can not WANT something, but realize its coming anyway, right?

>>2291945

That's not revisionism. No one knew that war was coming.

>>2291943
> do it again Blaskowitz

>>2291940
>UK didn't want war

LMAO

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>>2291950
Now that's some more quality revisionism right here.

>>2291950

Then why was everyone acting as if it was?

>>2291960
there's 3 possibilities
anon is
A) retarded
B) British
C) Polish

>>2291947
The alliances were set up to prevent a war you dolt.

>>2291967
>The alliances were set up to prevent a war you dolt
The Franco-Russian Alliance was specifically set up for the Franco-German War that everyone saw coming in 1877, you lying fuck.

>>2291965
Most likely 2 of these are true

>>2291971
>the Franco-German war
>immediately after the Franco-Prussian war toppled the Second French Empire

?
???
?????

>>2291981
Not that dude, but it's pretty common knowledge that Germany and France didn't like each other post 1871

>>2291985
I'm aware of French Revanchists, but I'm puzzled by the date of 1877 being given as the prime of their power.
France wasn't really in a position to do anything about it until the 80s and 90s.

>>2291806
Boredom and an autistic obsession with colonialism and empire-building.

>>2291981
Germany and France had several war scares in the mid to late 1870s. Multiple in every decade between the Franco-Prussian War and WWI, actually. Hell, the Fashoda Crisis almost saw an Anglo-German Alliance going to war against France and Russia thanks to the Dreyfus Affair occurring at the same time.

>>2292009
Er re-entering public sentiment at the same time as the Fashoda Crisis*

>>2291806
>>2291806
>What caused WWI?
Serbian terrorism.

>>2292020
>freedom fighting
>terrorism

>>2292026
>Serbian terrorists in Bosnia that were controlled and funded by the Serbian government
>Freedom fighters
It was blatant irredentism on the part of Serbia.

>>2292026

What is killing the son of the reigning monarch going to do in your struggle for freedom?

>>2292026
They certainly fought freedom with that move, and any chance of peace in the 20th century, too.

>>2292036
Not even his son, his grand-nephew he didn't even like.

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>>2291806
>What caused WWI?

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>>2292174
This so very much. The lacking of Poland which created a vacuum in central Europe.

>>2292174
>>2292433
samefag

>>2292433

There was no vacuum. If anything, there was a power vacuum before the partitions as the Polish state was failing

>>2291806
the treaty of Versailles

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>>2292759

>>2291823

WWI and WWII are the same war.

>NOT GERMANY

The war-hungry European powers striving for military greatness acaused the first conflict years including Germany who was amongst most war-hungry. Germany caused the second conflict which was due to unresolved terms of the first.

>STOP saying Germany didn't cause the Great Wars, it's a meme

>>2291909
the worst part is the the archduke is driving

>>2292610
Nope.
>>2292673
>there was a power vacuum before the partitions as the Polish state was failing
Exactly.

>>2292765
I wonder how many russian dicks filled that cunt.

>>2291816
>>2291817

Marxists cucks detected.

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>>2292673
> the Polish state was failing

It was in no way failing, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a strong and stable state that was the bread basket of Europe and flush with wealth, it’s nobility lived better then kings and unlike it’s neighbors, the people weren’t subjected to continual sectarian violence.

"It is certain had we in England but a third part of their liberty,
we could not live together without cutting one another's throats."
-- Bernard O'Connor (1666–98) doctor to King Jan III Sobieski --

But the Pol-Lith-Comm was under constant pressure from the Germans and Russians (and Turks) for those very reasons and the Polish nobility was so drunk on their “Golden Liberty”, that they essentially cut their own throats and allowed their neighbors to partition them into non-existence for 120 years.

>>2291806
Conrad von Hötzendorf

>>2293714
That picture's from not-WWI anon.

>>2293970
Conrad couldn't have done what he did without Moltke.

>>2291806
Some damn fool thing in the Balkans

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>>2291950
Literally everyone knew a war was coming. From the Moroccan crises, German fears of Russia modernising, the sick man of Europe leaving a power vacuum, and the fact that France had a vendetta against Germany, EVERYONE knew a war was coming.

>>2294410
The sad thing is that revanchism was declining in France.

>>2292026
>the only guy that wants to improve the position of minorities by federalizing the empire
>lmao better kill him

Serbshits, everyone!

>>2291806
French revanchism, Russia's pan-Slavic ambitions, the Eternal Anglo and his struggle to keep Europe divided... the Germans were too pure for this world.

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>>2291806
Sufferagettes

So I had an American lecturer when I spend a few months in a meme university, his course was the most interesting

Now he isn't a historian and I don't study history, I do IR, but he wrote a book looking at WW1 to debunk methods of thinking in IR

He said to me in one office hour meeting that "well they (European historians) call it a war that no one really wanted. But, clearly at some point, everyone wanted it, and for me that's the outcome of the 'July Crisis'.

Is he right?

>>2291806
It started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry.

>>2291816
I would argue that it wasn't just Capitalist interests but also Imperialistic interests, perhaps to a greater extent even. The cause of WW1 was the meddling at the Balkans by Russia and Austria-Hungary.

It happened because of useless statesmen like Willy and Nicky who drove them into war.

>>2291806
If the Archduke wasn't killed, what would have been the next casus belli?

Probably some autistic shit like the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in China.

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>>2293747
>he blames Capitalism
>Automatically a Marxist

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Serbia

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>>2291806
literally everyone and everything, it was a cluster fuck bomb

Assassination
Militarism
Nationalism
Alliances
Imperialism

>>2291806
A Serbian with a gun