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It is something I have never really managed to understand fully.

I understand that AH they felt a confrontation with Russia was coming sooner or later and then 1914 was just as good as anything.

Germany? well, it was not necessarily territory, as I understand it. No more of France and it was not about anexation of Russian lands, was it?

Sure they also felt that Russia's railway building was a threat and a confrontation might come in the future, but wasn't Germany more focused on peaceful existence (albeit with a lot of military pomp) with the West than going East? at least at the turn of the century and until 1912 (Balkan wars).

Sure they were competiting with Britain, but not even Der Kaizer was deliberately aiming at a new war, although he liked to portray himself as a "fire-eater".

The thing was of course a muddle and was not called the war that should never have ben for nothing.

So, did anybody really sit down and plan the political war. And determine the exact goals for waging war against all and sundry.

Ivan
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