Name a country with worse diplomacy than the post-Bismarck German Empire.
>>2594465
Bosnia
Paraguay. Took on both big neighbors at the same time because diplomacy is for pussies.
>>2594465
America post-Vietnam
>support both sides of the Iran-Iraq War
>end up enemies of both
>support the Taliban in the Soviet-Afghan War
>fight against Saddam Hussein in first Gulf War
>Bashar Al-Assad supports us
>we decide Assad is an enemy anyways
>Serbia was our ally in both world wars
>we side against them in the Yugoslav Wars and create Muslim footholds in Europe
>Our own Afghan war starts
>we could obviously learn from post-Soviet Russia a lot about war in Afghanistan
>instead we alienate them by moving the borders of NATO ever eastward
>worry about Iran's influence in the Middle East
>destabilize Iraq in 2003
>oust Gaddafi out of Libya
>wonder why there are huge hordes of Africans landing in Europe
>"Pivot" to Asia
>China still builds shit in the South China Sea
I'm sure there are other examples, but these are just what I thought of off the top of my head.
>>2594465
third Reich
>>2594851
This. Managed to get into a war with the US, the British Empire, and the USSR.
>>2594465
byzantine
>>2594465
Modern day China
>>2595361
Can you elaborate on that? Like the South China Sea and Dyaiyoo (sp?) stuff?