>support Austria-Hungary
Did the Germans not realise that it was bound to fall? Why didn't Wilhelm and Nicholas just make a pact to dissolute it?It could've saved Europe WW1
Support Austria-Hungary
Kayden Cooper
Benjamin Campbell
Germany wanted the war. Germany's goal was always to take down Russia so it doesn't become the big boy of europe when they fully industrialize.
Ian Lee
>partition Austria Hungary
>Russia still on the path to industrialising outpacing Germany
>both Germany and Russia are even more overextended and prone to collapsing
>Britain and France realise how good machine guns are so never bother with the assault tactics of before, instead investing in machine guns
Would you see the combined arms of the Brusilov offensive or not because AH would be such a pushover
Also what does Italy do, just take the Adriatic
Logan Hill
why Russia though?
why not go after Britain/France by being more economically powerful than them?
Russia doesn't even have any bad blood against Germans as far as I can remember
Ethan Harris
because russia's potential was scarier, also they germany could expand eastward
Connor Campbell
Because Russia was yet to reach its peak whilst Britain and France were at their peak
Prussia won the Franco-Prussian war because of railways, now imagine a Prussian-Russian war where the steppe is half a day apart from Berlin, Russia would be unstoppable
Gavin Martinez
I feel that people treating A-H like some bizarre, artificial Frankenstein's state similar to Yugoslavia really lack historical perspective and the ability to see things as the people back then would have conceived of them. The Habsburg empire had survived through various incarnations for centuries, it had been a constant major player since essentially forever as far as the other players have been concerned (indeed it's Germany which was a potentially unstable johnny-come-lately).
One does not just get up one morning and decide to just dissolve something like that any more than one decides to just up and dissolve France or Russia. It would take a pretty big war to do it. Perhaps a War to end all Wars.
Gavin Butler
>tfw no greater Catalonia
Zachary Cooper
>tfw catalonian genocide when neo-francoist take over
Ethan Jackson
>eight