PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours agoJust need a little dust-up with France to give it legitimacy...lemmy.worldimagemessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up1130arrow-down10
arrow-up1130arrow-down1imageJust need a little dust-up with France to give it legitimacy...lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours agomessage-square6linkfedilink
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 hours agoWell, Bismarck was a little dead by that point. But the headstrong Wilhelm II clashing with Bismarck was what led Bismarck to retire. Bismarck predicted it, though - the next great European war, he said, would come of some damn foolish thing in the Balkans!
minus-squareSergio@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 hours agoNapoleon III surrounds himself with yes-men before the Franco-Prussian War. Result: defeat. Wilhelm II surrounds himself with yes-men before the Great War. Result: defeat. Current US President surrounds himself with yes-men. [YOU ARE HERE].
Well, Bismarck was a little dead by that point. But the headstrong Wilhelm II clashing with Bismarck was what led Bismarck to retire.
Bismarck predicted it, though - the next great European war, he said, would come of some damn foolish thing in the Balkans!
Napoleon III surrounds himself with yes-men before the Franco-Prussian War. Result: defeat.
Wilhelm II surrounds himself with yes-men before the Great War. Result: defeat.
Current US President surrounds himself with yes-men. [YOU ARE HERE].