pearl harbor is an instructive example. the japanese assumed this would bloody america's nose and dissuade us from pursuing a long and costly war, when in fact it assured the exact opposite and led to the total destruction of the japanese regime. whoops!
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This whole "Better not fuck with me or you'll have to fight Germany" thing can only go on so long before Germany actually does have to fight someone, and if it takes TOO long then suddenly he has to fight everyone
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Yeah that sounds about accurate. And is unfortunately very similar to Trump's stated foreign policy.
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Ha - definitely true in part! But there was a similar dynamic between France and Russia, or at least, Russia believed there was because of the bellicose French ambassador being at least moderately dishonest about what he heard from Paris.
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There's also a really weird thing where the individuals most likely to have stopped a war in each country - France, Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary - had been knocked out of politics by four separate misfortunes in the past year or so.
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