What was going through Bulgaria's mind when they declared this war?

What was going through Bulgaria's mind when they declared this war?

they chimped out because serbia backed out on its promise to gice them Macedonia. serbia and greece had a mutual defense pack signed and then the turks and romanians joined for easy pickongs. 1v1 the bulgarians cpuld sumo slam the serbs or greeks.

>muh united and indivisible Macedonia

Bulgars are Turkic

They migrated to the Balkans around 600 AD and threw out the inferior Thracians.

butthurt

>opt out clause pointing disputes are to be arbitrated by the russian tsar
>russia doesn't back bulgaria
>bulgaria declares war anyway

only the Macedonian Bulgarians fought for that, Sofia was more than happy to just get Vardar Macedonia. They knew Greece was going to get Aegean Macedonia with Bulgaria fighting the Turks in the east. Serbia also went east and got Vardar Macedonia, they also invaded Albania with Montenegro. But when Austria cucked Serbia of its Adriatic access they decided to keep Macedonia instead which triggered the Bulgars. If it wasnt for those damn Austrians there would be no Albanians or turks and ww1 probably wouldnt have happened. at least there would have been peace in the balkans.

Balkans gonna balk.

Bolghars are Altaic, though Bulgarians desperately want to present them as an Indo-European tribe, to distinct them from turkroaches. They even use persian loan words ,that came to them during ottoman times, as proof of their aryan origins kek.

But Bulgars are slavic, or rather a mixture of people who became culturally slav

They're east Iranian, actually, names like Ulamir, Asparukh and Divan are hardly Turkic.

Substantially less wars were fought in the Balkans, especially when compared to Western Europe.

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is this supposed to be Greater Bulgaria? I thought pic related encapsulated bularian ambitions

reminds me of germany, just on a smaller scale

the way they fought all their neighbors

More like Athen desu senpai
>Bulgaria is Athens
>Turkey is Persia
>Serbia is Sparta

Ferdinand the First is essentially our Willy, he had tha autistic urge to fordge a Neo-Byzantine Empire, with his mad ass at the top of it, so he chimped out when the Serbs backstabbed us. His son is incredibly based, though.

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Because they were strong enough take on the greeks and serbs. Ferdinand was also extremely butthurt and ignore the fact that Romania and Turkey would immediately attack them.

They defeated the bulk of the Ottoman forces on east, while Serbia and Greece occupied the lands on west with almost no resistance. When peace was signed, they didn't get any of the promised land.

Bulgarians are thracian. The romans beat them and their government ran north, then some time later it moved back south and regained its territory.
The "slavs" in Thrace were also just thracians. They became "slavs" when they started writing in the church language, called slavonic.

>encapsulated bulgarian ambitions

No planet big enough.

Bulgaria only declared on Serbia, whom she could easily defeat at the time.
Greece joined because of the same contract that they would excuse themselves from during WWI, so it wasn't a sure deal, nor was the contract known.
Romania joined against Russia's will, to gain land Russia had promised her, but didn't deliver on.
Ottomans joined by breaking a truce, and in any other situation this would've had Austria jumping in to slap their shit.

Basically a perfect storm was brewin, and it wasn't at all obvious how it would unfold to the people at the time.
Similar case to operation Barbarosa, who any sane person then would've thought an easy victory, the Soviets losing to Japan, Germany and Poland in the last few decades, barely defeating Finland, going through a hard civil war, and being an agrarian shithole for the most part.
Don't bring hindsight into the equation when judging political decisions.

>Only two moreta
shit tier map friend

>Basically a perfect storm was brewin, and it wasn't at all obvious how it would unfold to the people at the time.

Russia literally communicated that exact scenario to the Bulgarians; that in the event that they started a war in the west both the Ottomans and Romania would likely invade and that Bulgaria would have no Russian support if they did.

Bulgaria could just have accepted Russian arbitration over Vardar Macedonia, that would have gotten Bulgaria like half of it and preserved southern Dobruja and eastern Thrace.

Russian arbitration wasn't asked for, and wasn't waited for. Russian didn't communicate anything, because nobody waited for that to happen, things unfolded too fast.

Also relationships between Bulgaria and Russia were sour, because
1. Bulgaria wanted to take Istanbul, which Russia wanted for itself.
2. Bulgaria didn't give Romania the fortress port of Silistra, which Russia had promised it in exchange for aiding the first war.
3. Britain insisted that their puppet Greece join the war or they would back the Ottomans, which caused the original land division to be useless, and thus Bulgaria, Serbia and Russia had no actual plan on how to divide the spoils, since obviously Greece would occupy and demand some of it.

Again, its complicated. Way more than people give it credit for. Austria, Russia and Britain are important to the events, and even Italy, which engaged the Ottoman army and fleet at the time, and since they were about to sign peace the war had to start fast without time to properly do the paperwork between the partners. It was rushed, in bad diplomatic conditions, and it was a mess.

Predominately "Thracian" in terms of genetics, yes but they're almost completely "Slavic" in terms language, history and culture.

The word slavic wasn't invented until much later, when a croatian nationalist proposed pan-slavism, and the russian emperors adopted it as a good reason to fight turks for land.
Find a historical source of that word. You will more often find that words like scythians or thracians or goths are translated as "slavs" from the original sources.