If France wasn't a republic this bullshit war would have never happened. They had no loyalty to royal houses of Europe.
What went wrong?
Connor Williams
Jayden Long
It always comes back to the French Revolution. Every problem of the modern era. All from that one mistake.
Brayden King
That's correct. Russia was catching up pretty fast which made German High Command very nervous. After all, the military had a lot of influence over Kaiser Willy. Personally he may had opposed the war. However, his generals were looking for an excuse to pick a bone with Russia sooner rather than later. The prospect of railroads spanning from the Far East up to the Congress Poland was pretty terrifying for the German High Command. Imagine moving men and material from the Siberian frontier to European battlefields in a matter of weeks instead of months. For Germany to dominate the European affairs and emerging as the leading superpower the United Kingdom had to be isolated, France had to be greatly weakened and Russia had to be dismantled into a couple of constantly bickering, smaller and easier to control nations. Hence why, German government was very interested in promoting Belorussian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian national identities.
Christian Martin
And they did again in the 90's by promoting Croatian identity to destroy Heksagonale because it left germany out of the role of being a major geopolitical player
And now they're doing that again with attempts to destroy the intermarium
Alexander Morris
Modernization is what screwed them. They became a lucrative place for rootless exploiters AFTER they boosted their industry and introduced degenerate social practices like shaving their beards.
It's the same as every war on balkans.
1. Someone in Serbia did something bad, or is said to have done so.
2. An offended foreign power asked complete control over the country so it can place military troops everywhere and capture the culprit.
3. Serbia thought that was a Big Ask^ and counterproposed a joint investigation giving foreign investigators every cooperation.
4. Then they get destroyed in a war while valiantly fighting for their sovereignty.
Because Serbs thought the big ask was a Big Ask^, when in reality it was just the prelude for an invasion. The first thread to manufacture a cassus belli, and the invasion had absolutely fuck all to do with Serbia.
Austria and Germany wanted to contrive a reason to capture all the formerly Ottoman held territory. Who knows, maybe if they had their coal and oil, it would have given them the edge they needed to win the inevitable WWII as well.
Compare in 1990s, every Euro power was kicking out American bases because the cold war was over, and the deep state despots wanted a place to put their bases in Europe. Omg y u hurt dose muslims!
^ Big ask is the opening to a negotiation, when one side makes a ridiculous request. The other side then makes a more realistic request, and they haggle.
Kevin Ward
Read this.
Rome and China were civilisation in the sense Spenger uses the word. That is, a formless mass of people with a dead culture, ruled over by an imperial bureaucratic machine. Of course there is nothing but red tape and stagnation. Western Europe and the USA are already in this process, but it's not yet complete. I think Russia's bureaucrats were close to Japanese samurai once the later became glorified bureaucrats. That is, they were reliable servants "bred" for this purpose.
Are you high? The last thing Austria-Hungary needed was even more Slavs, and Germany was more interested both in Mitteleuropa and more overseas colonies. AH was worried because Russia clearly wanted to Balkans for herself, and did everything to stop them. It's not even an exaggregation to say that Serbia in that time was a Russian puppet.
Eli Perez
Austria already moved to take territories formerly belonging to Ottomans. The Hapsburgs thought these territories "belonged" to them because they single handedly vanquished the turks, or something silly like that.
Look at that map. Russia would have to go through Romania to get to territory it wanted. Were there any overtures made to Romania or Bulgaria or Greece or fucking anyone? Meanwhile we know for a fact that Austria made overtures to Bulgaria and the Turks, and Serbia was in the fucking way.
But your statement bothers me for more reason than just being incorrect. For example if Russia actually wanted to form a union with Serbia…. So what? Why would that worry Austria if they didn't want it? Austria and Germany already had massive borders with Russia, why the hell would having an extra few miles of borders with a Russian ally worry them?? In terms of borders it's like America getting mad because Canada wants to conquer Cuba.
Jacob Torres
What territories, other than Bosnia? True what is true, they together with Italy created Albania, but it was still more of an Italian project. As for Bosina, it was all about cockblocking the Russians.
It sounds like you aren't familiar with this subject at all. Their only claim was for the kingdom of Hungary, because they managed to get the throne in the 16th century. And it is a whole separate subject on its own, as it is the history of Hungary. I know about no serious claims for any lands in the Balkans by the Habsburgs.
First of all, they already annex a part of what will later turn into Romania:
en.wikipedia.org
And adding the rest of those territories wouldn't have been a problem for Russia, as it was already quite the multiculti place. But even without those lands, they have access to the Black Sea, and sailing up in the Danube to Serbia is a trivial feat. Not to mention that direct annexation isn't even needed, as Serbians were more than willing to further Russian interests as it was.
What the hell do you mean by overtures in this context?
How is it incorrect?
That's a rather passive-aggressive and feminine tone. In other words, you type like an angry bitch. But to answer your question: Russia clearly had imperial ambitions, and Panslavism and the "defence" of orthodox Christianity were two of their main idegologic justifications for them. Austira-Hungary had lots of Slavic populations of various sizes and faiths, just compare the map of that "empire" with the map of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The Balkans might not have been a particularly rich place, but it was full of relatively reliable people living in an easily-defensible area. Therefore I'd say the fears of AH weren't unjustified.
Caleb Green
As the only actual knower here I'll answer: literally everything. The empire was overburdened with most of the geographical, economical, ethnic, social problems you could ever imagine.
William Lewis
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