WI: Willhelm II without his fleet obsession?

[Aphrodite]

Well... ok

That nevee occured to me.

So he is a pacifist who likes football and cars and civilian aircraft and has money that IOTL would be spent on army...

Germany should certainly become the world leader in aviation

The Kaiser was a pacifist. Nicholas said it best:. To know him like I do,, how much he hates war .

Or his last telegram to the Tsar: something neither of us want will happen

The warmonger was Franz Joseph. Everyone else got sucked into it

 

[Aghasverov]

How about with something less warlike? Like sports cars or football teams.

I think that was his son, the Crown Prince... well, at least with the football teams, not so sure about the sports cars

 

[Otto Kretschmer]

The Kaiser was a pacifist. Nicholas said it best:. To know him like I do,, how much he hates war .

Or his last telegram to the Tsar: something neither of us want will happen

The warmonger was Franz Joseph. Everyone else got sucked into it

Someone as obsessed as him in creating a colonial empire and beating Britain can hardly be called a pacifist

 

[SpicyJuan]

Why would we do that?

Because the British also had no interest in seeing the Russians and French dominate the continent. Historically there was a period of detente between Germany and Britain in 1913-1914 and Bethmann-Hollweg and Tyrell were working on an understanding of sorts.