DBWI: No negotiated solution to the Serbian crisis

As we know after the Archduke of Austria-Hungry was assassinated the Austrians wanted to really push Serbia to the wall and more or less take over the country. The Germans got nervous over the Russian reaction and A-H settled for heavy reparations, oversight on the investigation of the archduke and mass arrests of the Black Hundred and other government supported terrorist groups. How bad could it have gotten if there wasn't a settlement?
 
Why shoudlit have become wores- a bunch af youths on a killing mission. Nothing to speak about.

All of Europe knew that it were serbian nationalists, so A-H had every right too get compensated.

If this happened 10 years early when russia was in trouble (after the Russo Japanese war and the Revolution) - Russia might have mobilized and tried to get a war going, but not 1914

Maybe 1912 Austria might have jumped on Serbia at the beginning of the Balkan wars - that could have ended in war, but not 1914 - this was only a terrorist action and not a case of war.

Even Wilhelm II the Peaceful (as he was later known) said - We were inclined to give Austria-hungary a Blanco Cheque for action against Serbia, but when we thought of our friendship to the ArchDuke and his conviction that peace should prevail - that he even lobbied for peace during the 1912-1913 crisis - we decided to honor him by offering to mediate an agreement that boths ides could live with.
 
As we know after the Archduke of Austria-Hungry was assassinated the Austrians wanted to really push Serbia to the wall and more or less take over the country.

The Hungarians had forbidden "taking over the country", so that outcome was not going to occur.
 
Why shoudlit have become wores- a bunch af youths on a killing mission. Nothing to speak about.

It was a mission to murder a arguably pro-Slavic man and got his Bohemian wife as well, with the whole thing backed by top officials in the Serbian military and police forces. The Serbian King seemed more than happy to remove this people though, who were as likely to overthrow him as anything else. Considering what later happened with Albania, Montenegro, Herzovigina, and the former territory of the Republic of Ragusa, it all generall turned out in Serbia's favor.
 
The Hungarians had forbidden "taking over the country", so that outcome was not going to occur.

Of course they did, it would naturally have lumped Banat, Croatia, and Slavonia together with Bosnia and Herzogvina in one group. The Magyars would have had trouble dealing with that. All they wanted was Bosnia and Dalmatia.
 
Technically no, but Serbia wanted complete control over the Serbian police which would have reduced Serbia to a puppet state.

The Austrians demanded they be able to dismiss Serbian army officers formenting unrest, but made no demands of Serbian police. They made no demands about appointing replacement officials, so the Serbians would be free to replace dismissed officers with whomever they chose.
 
It was a mission to murder a arguably pro-Slavic man and got his Bohemian wife as well, with the whole thing backed by top officials in the Serbian military and police forces. The Serbian King seemed more than happy to remove this people though, who were as likely to overthrow him as anything else. Considering what later happened with Albania, Montenegro, Herzovigina, and the former territory of the Republic of Ragusa, it all generall turned out in Serbia's favor.

No no - everytime that myth that the official Serbia ordered the assassination. it really was only Dimitrijevic and his group, but not the Pasic government - the only thing you can hold against Pasic that he knew that an assassination was planned and that he had not stopped it. Partly because he feared "Apis" and Partly he thought that the "rightful" Austrian reaction would demand Dimitrijevics head on a silver platter - and that was something Pasic would gladly do. Unfortunately for Pasic Apis had some men near him. So in the end both turned up dead.
 
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