[AHC] Wilhelm II Ruins Everything

So Wilhelm II is pretty famous for being quite a jackass-arrogant and blustering while also being an insecure people pleaser. He got himself in hot water with a bloodthirsty speech to the troops he shipped off to the boxer rebellion, alienated Nicholas II with endless patronization, and got his own government to exclude him from foreign affairs by giving a rambling, emotional speech to a British reporter in 1908.

He gave the blank check to AH, and was such a fuckup, he almost looped back around to competence by trying to stop WW1 after the Serbian capitulation to most of Austria's ultimatum!

My challenge is: how could Willy Ruin Everything even more than he did OTL? Alienate AH and go to war alone? Insist on an even more ambitious navy that beggars both Germany and Britain in the arms race before the war starts? Become fascinated with chemical/biological warfare and add smallpox shells to the devil's brew of WW1?

I'm interested to hear people's ideas.
 
It's often forgotten that the German naval build-up was aimed against Britain and against America. The German Empire and the US found themselves at loggerheads on more than one occasion, and many people in both countries talked about the inevitability of a war in the future.

So, have Wilhelm pursue his colonial ambitions in South America with more vigor and consistency, and completely alienate the US leadership and the US public opinion. As a result, America starts gearing up to join WWI from day one, and is probably in it before the end of 1915...
 

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Kaiser Willy decides to make a summer vacation trip to Mexico in august 1914 and uses his usual diplomatic skills in a series of speeches and declarations to Yankee journalists..
 
It's often forgotten that the German naval build-up was aimed against Britain and against America. The German Empire and the US found themselves at loggerheads on more than one occasion, and many people in both countries talked about the inevitability of a war in the future.

So, have Wilhelm pursue his colonial ambitions in South America with more vigor and consistency, and completely alienate the US leadership and the US public opinion. As a result, America starts gearing up to join WWI from day one, and is probably in it before the end of 1915...

I'm curious about this one. What colonial ambitions could Germany have in South America? Trying to subvert governments like the French did in Mexico when we were busy with the civil war? Flooding them with immigrants and maybe a few civilian filibusters?

Or, perhaps, patronize one S. America country while it invades its neighbors in exchange for territorial concessions from the defeated nations?
 
I'm curious about this one. What colonial ambitions could Germany have in South America? Trying to subvert governments like the French did in Mexico when we were busy with the civil war? Flooding them with immigrants and maybe a few civilian filibusters?

Or, perhaps, patronize one S. America country while it invades its neighbors in exchange for territorial concessions from the defeated nations?

Well a lot of these plans were pretty vague, like extending German influence in Venezuela but there were enough of them to attract American attention and things like the "Bravo Panther" telegram after the German gunboat Panther sank the Haitian gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot in 1902 did not help.
 
I'm curious about this one. What colonial ambitions could Germany have in South America? Trying to subvert governments like the French did in Mexico when we were busy with the civil war? Flooding them with immigrants and maybe a few civilian filibusters?

Or, perhaps, patronize one S. America country while it invades its neighbors in exchange for territorial concessions from the defeated nations?

Lots of different stuff. Trying to enforce German influence on Venezuela via "gunboat diplomacy", trying to acquire a port in the Carribean, trying to settle German immigrants into south Brazil and use them as a springboard for economic and political expansion...
 
Making things boil over during his infamous visit to Morocco in 1905 (though granted that was partially the Foreign Office's idea.) Or maybe by trying to enact Operational Plan Three (which would go about as well as you'd expect.) Or maybe he tries to meddle even further in the Anglo-Boer War.
 
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