Cook
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Abc, you would do better to stay on focus with the subject of you thread, otherwise people will begin to think you are another member with either a scatterbrain or pet peeve.
The subject isn’t in my opinion as outrageous as some members think, but it needs tinkering and assessing of the motivations of various factions of the time.
The Morocco Crisis of the same year indicates that stupid acts, contrary to the best interests of their nation, were not out of the question to various leaders at the time. But they generally occurred without council and on the spur of the moment, and given time were smoothed over by the diplomatic corps of the various great powers.
The motivation of the Kaiser needs to be considered; even he did not want a war of aggression, what he wanted was national security for the Reich. Unfortunately because of his youth and ego he spurned the wise council of Bismarck and never found anyone able to give him equally sound advice, not that he probably would have listened.
So what you need to look for, if you want this to lead to an earlier WW1, is something that causes the train crash to happen nine years earlier.
The subject isn’t in my opinion as outrageous as some members think, but it needs tinkering and assessing of the motivations of various factions of the time.
The Morocco Crisis of the same year indicates that stupid acts, contrary to the best interests of their nation, were not out of the question to various leaders at the time. But they generally occurred without council and on the spur of the moment, and given time were smoothed over by the diplomatic corps of the various great powers.
The motivation of the Kaiser needs to be considered; even he did not want a war of aggression, what he wanted was national security for the Reich. Unfortunately because of his youth and ego he spurned the wise council of Bismarck and never found anyone able to give him equally sound advice, not that he probably would have listened.
So what you need to look for, if you want this to lead to an earlier WW1, is something that causes the train crash to happen nine years earlier.