How come he was literally right about everything?

How come he was literally right about everything?

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?

You mean the treaty of 1884?

I thought that treaty was just about ending the scramble for Africa.

>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.

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.

1878, it was about not letting Russia become too powerful after basically expulsing the Ottomans out of the Balkans.

Youre thinking of the Berlin Conference

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.