(June 7, 2013 at 3:45 am)ideologue08 Wrote: the French didn't even want a war for god's sake, it offered to withdraw its troops from the borders, but the Germans still went in anyway.
That's not my understanding of history. The Germans used their Schlieflan Plan to knock out France quickly and prevent a two-front war. France wasn't directly part of the Serbian conflict and so Germany had no motive to start a war with them except for a W Bush style pre-emptive-war-with-them-before-they-attack-us (another reason I see parallels between Kaiser W and W Bush).
Anyway, my understanding is that the Germans asked the French if they would stay out of the war with Russia and received only a nebulous reply of "we'll consider our best interests". France had an alliance with Russia and so Germany assumed a war with Russia would be a war with France as well.
As for Russia, it was Russia who threw the first punch in its war with Germany, invading both East Prussia and Austria-Hungary's province of Galecia.
Now Germany's pre-emptive war with France was an act of aggression and arguably foolish, as was our war of aggression in Iraq based on the same pre-emptive rationale. Such foreign policy is dangerous to pursue.
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