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   From: keithwillshaw@gmail.com   
      
   On 29/05/2023 20:23, a425couple wrote:   
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   > Why was Kaiser Wilhelm II blamed for WWI?   
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   > Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last emperor of Germany and the king of   
   > Prussia from 1888 to 1918. He was also one of the most controversial   
   > figures in history, as he is widely blamed for starting World War I by   
   > his aggressive and reckless foreign policy. But was he really the main   
   > culprit, or was he just a convenient scapegoat for a complex and   
   > inevitable conflict? I will argue that Kaiser Wilhelm II was indeed   
   > responsible for WWI, but not solely or directly. Rather, he contributed   
   > to the war by creating a climate of tension, mistrust and rivalry among   
   > the European powers, by alienating his allies and provoking his enemies,   
   > and by failing to control his own military and political advisers.   
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   All true but at the end of the day when it all goes wrong the boss gets   
   the blame. The reality was that without the German invasion of Belgium   
   the UK would never have got involved but Britain was a guarantor of   
   Belgian nutreality and felt morally and legally obliged to act.   
      
   Wilhelm had no real power, that lay with Hindeburg and Ludendorff who   
   effectively ran Germany as a military dictatorship.   
      
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