OTL the original intent of the German risk fleet was to force British friendship, not a diabolic plan of world conquest.
When did I say that Germany had some diabolic plan of world conquest?
Really? Would you like to provide a reference to support this fiction? Let me guess, perhaps the Kaiser wrote some bad things about the British in the margins while he was in a bad mood? Historically the closest the Germans ever got with Russia was a non-aggression pact, which is a long way from the conspiracy theory you are stitching together.
Nothing to do with what the Kaiser wrote. And I fail to see what the Kaiser has to do with deciding French and Russian policy or what the Kaiser had to do with popular opinion anywhere.
And I am going off of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy and a history book on France which is buried in a box so I can't check either the author or the title for you. I know, frustrating answer.
but because the Germans calculated an understanding between Britain and Germany was inevitable and Germany should not sell itself short.
Now this is interesting. Do you know any sources that go into this in more detail?
The need to do so arose from British (mis)calculations that the Franco-Russian alliance represented more of a threat than Germany i.e. the British foreign office was pursuing a policy of appeasement.
OK, I've never heard this before. What's your source?
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