German bros, or people who know german history bros, how much of a idiot was Wilhelm II? I don't know much about him

German bros, or people who know german history bros, how much of a idiot was Wilhelm II? I don't know much about him

Half German, half British.

He could have allied with Britain, but he mocked him

A complete idiot. Literally the cause of the first World War 1.

He was a colossal retard and diplomatic disaster.

The Rasputin of the piece was Baron von Oppenheim, a man of protean hatreds, not only towards the entente powers (the British, French and Russians), but most notably towards himself. A self-loathing Jew of pathological proportions, every word of his title was a lie: he was neither a baron, a "von", nor in the dynastic or religious sense an Oppenheim. The wealthy grandson of Salomon Oppenheim, founder of the great bank, he lived as a harem-keeping Arab and filled the emperor's ear with anti-British and antisemitic bile, and chaotic dreams of empire.

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>what do you get when you cross an anglo with an german?

He's what happens when an armchair general actually has control of a country.

The man had legit autism.

What the fuck did he expect when he invaded Belgium? For the Brits to just let him take over Belgium and France?

He had his cousins on the throne of britain and russia?
How can you be so dense to start with that and end up being at war with both of them and france?
Imagine a german-russian pakt
Russia gives oil and resources, Germany helps with industrialization and fuels its own industry.

Thats why the brits and frogs were scared
Willy pretty much saved their asses by being such an autist

M-muh scrap of paper tho

Very similar to trump with his PR blunders. Popular among the petty bourgeois and midde classesreading their tabloid magazines and masturbating about muh glory of the fatherland, but not gaining a cent from it. Not saying its all bad either because the off the cuff style can make one seem more genuine but what came to willys mouth made a lot of people cringe or jist plain outraged as the whole anglo bation felt after the daily telegraph affair

You mean trump is burger willy?
Makes a lot of sense actually

He was not an idiot at all. He was correct about almost everything. However, he let Moltke fuck with the Schlieffen plan and the rest is history.

Literally yes. Though the Germans told the british they would not make any annexations on the western front.

>ignores French Revanchism and the encircling French Russian Alliance
>Ignores Serbian nationalist aggrivations
>ignores Paleologue pressuring Russia to go to war
>ignores Russia Mobilizing against AH
>Ignores British making secreat treaties with France ot protect the northern French border with its navy against Germany
>ignores the dead Habsburg prince
>ignores Serbia constantly pushing for the end of AH
>Ignores all the balkan wars

Really makes you think

He was a fucking idiot. He wanted to make an alliance with Britain, then decided he could help that along by attempting to beat Britain in a naval Arms race because he read that was a good idea in a book. He knew encirclement was killer to his country's existence, but he still was fine with pissing off Russia when he knew France would never ally with them. He turned away every ally he had, and the only reason Austria-Hungary kept with them was because they thought Germany would help them put down any Slavic rebellions. He abandoned Bismark's plan so thoroughly that he drove the British to become allies with the fucking French, for God's sake. Britain's historical nemesis, who at the time had dedicated their entire political policy to "Get revenge on Germany," in an extremely open fashion, and were clearly jonesing for a new war with Germany, were more appealing to British sensibilities than Wilhelm's government.

Not to mention how idiotic the man was in military matters, to the point where it was tradition that any command Wilhelm had, no matter how badly he fucked up, would automatically win in war games.

Wilhelm was, no doubt, one of the largest causes of the alienation of Germany to the rest of the Western World. Before the Second, Germany was on the way to becoming the greatest European nation. After the Second, Germany was an embittered, broken nation hated worldwide as the bringer of hell on Earth and the end of European domination.

His biggest mistake way allying with Austria-Hungary. They were bloated corpse who dropped the ball at every stage of the war. Germany was within their rights to defend their ally, but they should never have put themselves in that position. It may have been wiser to turn their back on A-H earlier on .

Yes. Whenever we discuss historical precedents for trump willy is usually brought up among others

And what Great Power would Germany ally itself than? And lets not forget that although Austria-Hungary's war performance was mediocre at best, they were involved in wearing down the Russians war effort. A good example of this is the Brusilov offensive, in which AH lost the majority of its fighting strength, but was a tremendous blow to the Russians as well.

>>ignores French Revanchism and the encircling French Russian Alliance
In all honesty, that's because French revanchism is an over-hyped même.

France had Britain as much more reviled enemy by the end of the XIXth enemy, and didn't even consider avenging themselves until Russia fell into their hands for them to fund and ally with.

Also, if he'd stayed allied with Russia, it would've been Austria-Hungary that would've been swayed to France's side so he didn't have much of a choice.

I like him as the best German Kaiser ideologilly and lovd his Rhetoric the first patriot as king.But Diplomaticly he was a retard

He made emotional diplomatic statement and actions but didn't see things in money and resources the way the British and the western allies did.

British cabinets didn't care about bloodline or tradition. They wanted security in their imperial financial structure. Willy thought a strong navy would appeal to them as a good ally because it would help defend and also made a nice artistic romantic parallel.

They only saw it as a potential threat because they didn't need a naval ally as nobody could challenge them.

Willy ignored practical reasoning and British politicians ignored Willys earnest emotional reasoning.

If Germany had won the war wed all be talking about the retard Asquith and Grey and muh free hand.

There was never a meeting of the minds where the other understood what was wanted of them.

That would have been much better, with resources from Russia, Germany would be able to wage war against France indefinitly.
And Russia + Germany coul deafeat AH pretty quickly, Germany gets Austria and Russia gets the slavic states